Date: Monday 07 November 2022
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Why is failure essential for success?
Strategies on how to fail successfully from a life as an orthopaedic surgeon
Professor Caroline Hing
Professor of Orthopaedics
Curve Lecture Theatre (Hunter Wing, Level 0)
A surgical career from medical student to professorship involves failure just as much as success. Professor Caroline Hing's inaugural lecture will focus on examples of failure through history and how her own personal failures have helped build resilience and creativity.
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About Professor Hing
Caroline trained in Medicine at University College London with an intercalated BSc in Anatomy & Developmental Biology. She completed her Orthopaedic and Trauma training on the Pott Rotation based at Barts and The London Hospitals, with a further period of training at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital whilst completing an MD with a doctoral thesis on patellofemoral instability. Her fellowships included pelvic reconstruction with major trauma at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and knee surgery at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals in London.
She has subspecialty interests in knee surgery, especially patellofemoral instability and in trauma. Caroline is a Professor of Orthopaedics at St George’s, University London with research interests in osteoarthritis and trauma. She is the clinical director for corporate outpatients and she leads for research in orthopaedics in the trust. She is co-editor in chief of The Knee Journal, and supports equality and diversity within her role as trustee for the British Orthopaedic Association. In her spare time Caroline rock climbs, ice climbs and free-dives.
About our Inaugural Lectures
St George's newly arrived or promoted professors are invited to give an Inaugural Lecture to mark this milestone in their academic careers.
Professors use the opportunity to introduce themselves, update colleagues on current and future research plans and share their research with wider audiences. It is also a chance to celebrate the support from friends and family, and from colleagues, mentors, and collaborators past and present.
The Inaugural Lecture Series culminates in an annual celebration of research excellence at St George’s on Research Day, which will be held on 7 December 2022.
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