Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.Xavier is Chief Investigator for NIHR randomised clinical trials and has also received commercially funded grants. His research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions.
Xavier has several Research Committee appointments including, but not limited to; Cochrane, Arthritis UK and British Orthopaedic Association.
Xavier serves in the Reserve Forces and believes that his military training has provided him with transferable skills enabling him to enhance his medical and research career.
My major research interest are in epidemiology, effectiveness research and innovation.
I lead a research portfolio >£7m, which includes nationwide collaborative cohorts, clinical trials and innovation projects involving device development and computer vision (AI). My love is to involve patients, integrate research into routine care and to do things big – doing the simple things that weren’t that possible before good tech!