Margaret McQueen

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery · University of Edinburgh · company speakers →

Professor Margaret McQueen graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1977 and also underwent her orthopaedic surgical training in Edinburgh. She was appointed as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the University in 1987. In 1994 she was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon to the first full-time orthopaedic trauma post in Scotland. She was the first woman in the UK to be awarded a chair in orthopaedic surgery in 2015. Professor McQueen’s professional life has been dominated by the promotion of evidence-based medicine in orthopaedic trauma. In 1995 she was awarded an MD with distinction from the University of Edinburgh for her research into acute compartment syndrome. For this work she is the only non-American to have received the Edwin G. Bovill Award for outstanding clinical research by the American Orthopaedic Trauma Association. She has pioneered new techniques of management of distal radial fractures and her continuing work on the common osteoporotic fractures influences their management both nationally and internationally. With collaborators she is exploring the use of artificial intelligence in the prediction of fracture outcome. Professor McQueen is a prolific contributor to peer-reviewed orthopaedic journals, has written four books and is the first female editor of Rockwood and Green’s “Fractures in Adults”.

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