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Senior Clinical LecturerHelen Ignoe image

MBBS, MD, MSc, PGCert, FRCS Eng Tr+Orth

Email helen.Ingoe@otago.ac.nz

Professional interests

  • Shoulder and Elbow
  • Acromioclavicular joint
  • Orthopaedic trauma

Research interests

Helen’s research roles have included:

  • Research Careers Fellow Health Education England North-East and Clinical Research Network Appointment May 2019–2022
  • Associate Surgical Specialty Lead (SSL) Orthopaedics – RCSEng - Appointment October 2017–2019
  • Chief Investigator – A prospective multi-centre observational cohort study of ACJ Injuries
  • Organisation committee member for the National Research Collaboratives Meeting 2019
  • Orthopaedic Research UK Research Fellow and MD student at Hull York Medical School (2017–2019)
  • CORNET Research Collaborative Vice Chair (2015–2017)

Helen’s Shoulder Fellowships were completed in Christchurch and the Australian Shoulder Research Institute in conjunction with the Queensland University of Technology. During this time, Helen completed multiple projects that focused on shoulder pathology. These include:

  • Massive Rotator Cuff Tears: Validating the use of the Goutallier classification at the medial scapular border as a method of determining repairability
  • Australian National Joint Registry - Reverse shoulder arthroplasty in the young and preoperative glenoid morphology and CT scanning in reverse shoulder arthroplasty
  • National Joint Registry UK - Perioperative complications in revision shoulder arthroplasty
  • Glenoid Bone and Humeral Bone loss in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
  • Acromioclavicular Joint reconstruction techniques
  • Use of planning software in reverse shoulder arthroplasty to predict clinical range of motion
  • Core Outcomes in Acromioclavicular Joint Surgery – Chief investigator of an international Delphi study to develop a core outcome set for ACJ trials
  • Surgical rib fracture fixation: systematic review of effectiveness, assessment of current UK practice, and development of a core outcome set

Awards and distinctions

Funding

  • AOUK Trauma Research grant £9000, AOUK Trauma 2022
  • Wishbone research grant $5000, NZOA Wishbone 2022
  • BESS Pump Priming Grant £5000, 2016
  • ORUK Research Fellow 2016–2018

Awards

  • NHS Communication Initiative of the Year Health Service Journal 2021
  • Digital Communications and Engagement Award NHS Communicate 2021
  • Leadership in Practice ILM 5 18-month leadership programme
  • Healthcare Education and Training Emerging Leader Award – Health Education England
    (Nomination) 2020
  • Orthopaedic Engineering MSc Distinction Cardiff University, 2011–2014
  • Best oral poster presentation ICSES Conference, Rome 2023
  • Poster Walk Special Mention 18th EFORT Conference, Vienna 2017
  • AOTrauma Best Surgical Plan AOTrauma – Leeds 2013

Publications

Jomaa, M. N., Branni, M., Ingoe, H., Pareyon, R., Italia, K., Launay, M., … Gupta, A. (2024). Does forearm referencing using a retroversion guide achieve the targeted retroversion of the humeral component in reverse shoulder arthroplasty? Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery, 33(7), 1555-1562. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2023.10.038 Journal - Research Article

Ingoe, H., Italia, K., Gilliland, L., Kang, H. W., Karel, M., Maharaj, J., … Gupta, A. (2024). The use of glenoid structural allografts for glenoid bone defects in reverse shoulder arthroplasty. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(7), 2008. doi: 10.3390/jcm13072008 Journal - Research Article

Branni, M., Ingoe, H., Salhi, A., Italia, K., Gilliland, L., Launay, M., … Gupta, A. (2024). Comparison of range of motion between 2-year clinical outcomes and predictions of a static scapula preoperative planning software for reverse shoulder arthroplasty. Seminars in Arthroplasty. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1053/j.sart.2024.05.001 Journal - Research Article

QUASAR Collaborative, including Ingoe, H. (2024). Medial Scapular Body (MSB) Goutallier classification: MRI based reliability and validity of evaluation of the Goutallier classification for grading fatty infiltration of the rotator cuff. Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2024.05.013 Journal - Research Article

Pareyon, R., Ingoe, H., Jomaa, M. N., Italia, K., Maharaj, J., Whitehouse, S. L., … Gupta, A. (2024). The hybrid humerus reverse shoulder arthroplasty: A prospective study of bone grafting and metaphyseal fixation with undersized stem in the assessment of proximal humeral stress shielding and associated clinical outcome. Seminars in Arthroplasty. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1053/j.sart.2024.05.004 Journal - Research Article

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