Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
| Degrees & Employment |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bioengineering, Stanford University (2003-2006) |
| Research Associate, Human Movement & Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia (2000-2003) |
| Ph.D. Human Movement & Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia (2000) |
| B.PhEd. (hons), Physical Education Dept, The University of Otago (1995) |
| Research Interests |
| Mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and disease - in particular: non-contact ACL injury, patellofemoral pain and knee joint osteoarthritis. |
| Neuromusculoskeletal modelling, joint mechanics, Finite Elements, real-time magnetic resonance imaging |
Dr. Besier joined the Stanford Sports Medicine Center as the Director of Human Performance in September 2006. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the department of Bioengineering at Stanford University, working with Drs Gary Beaupre, Scott Delp and Garry Gold to develop subject-specific musculoskeletal and finite element models of the patellofemoral joint to estimate in-vivo cartilage stress. As Director of the newly formed Human Performance Lab, Dr. Besier is responsible for interacting with Stanford Athletics to develop their sport science programme. He is also actively involved in biomechanics research to understand joint injury and disease, with particular focus on developing techniques to estimate in vivo joint and tissue loads. |
| Dr. Besier has received several awards for his research, including: Lauterbur Award for best MRI paper SCBTMR Conference (2006-co-author); ASICS Best Paper in Injury Prevention and Health Promotion, Sports Medicine Australia (2003-co-author); Young Investigator at the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport (2001); Young Investigator at the Sports Medicine Australia Conference (1999); and the Prince de Merode award for best scientific paper at the IOC Sport Science Congress (1999). |
| Selected Publications |
| 1. Draper, C. E., Besier, T. F., Gold, G. E., Fredericson, M., Fiene, A., Beaupré, G. S. & Delp, S. L. Effects of gender and patellofemoral pain on cartilage thickness at the patellofemoral joint. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. pdf. |
| 2. Pinnington, H.C., Lloyd, D.G., Besier, T.F. & Dawson, B. (2005). Kinematic and electromyographic differences when running on a firm surface compared to soft dry sand. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 94, 242-253.pdf |
| 3. Rubenson, J., Lloyd, D. G., Besier, T. F., Heliams, D. B. & Fournier, P. A. Running in ostriches (Struthio camelus): three-dimensional joint axes alignment and joint kinematics. Journal of Experimental Biology (In review). |
| 4. Fukashiro, S., Besier, T. F., Barrett, R., Cochrane, J., Nagano, A., & Lloyd, D. G. (2005). Direction control in standing horizontal and vertical jumps. International Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 3, 1-8. pdf |
| 5. Besier, T. F., Gold, G. E., Beaupré, G. S. & Delp, S. L. (2005). Subject specific modeling to estimate patellofemoral joint cartilage stress. Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise , 37, 1924-1930. pdf |
| 6. Lloyd, D. G., Buchanan, T. S. & Besier, T. F. (2005). Neuromuscular biomechanical modelling to understand knee ligament loading in static and dynamic tasks. Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, 37, 1939-1947. pdf |
| 7. Buchanan, T. S., Lloyd, D. G., Manal, K. & Besier, T. F. (2005). Estimation of muscle forces and joint moments using a forward-inverse dynamics model. Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, 37, 1911-1916. pdf |
| 8. Jindrich, D. L., Besier, T. F. & Lloyd, D. G. (2005). A hypothesis for the function of braking forces during running turns. Journal of Biomechanics. (In Press). pdf |
| 9. Buchanan, T. S., Lloyd, D. G., Manal, K. & Besier, T. F. (2004). Neuromusculoskeletal modeling: estimation of muscle forces and joint moments and movements from measurements of neural command. Journal of Applied Biomechanics. 20, 367-395. pdf |
| 10. Besier, T. F., Draper, C. E., Gold, G. E., Beaupré, G. S. & Delp, S. L. (2005). Patellofemoral joint contact area increases with knee flexion and weight bearing. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 23, 345-350. pdf |
| 11. Gold, G. E., Besier, T. F., Draper, C. E., Asakawa, D. S., Delp, S. L. & Beaupré, G. S. (2004). Weight-bearing MRI of patellofemoral joint cartilage contact area. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 20, 526-30. pdf |
| 12. Besier, T. F., Sturnieks, D. L., Alderson, J. & Lloyd, D. G. (2003). Repeatability of a marker cluster model using optimized joint centres. Journal of Biomechanics. 36(8), 1159-1168. pdf |
| 13. Besier, T. F., Lloyd, D. G. & Ackland, T. R. (2003). Muscle activation strategies at the knee during running and cutting manoeuvres. Medicine in Science and Sports and Exercise. 35(1), 119-12. pdf |
| 14. Lloyd, D. G. & Besier, T. F. (2003). A dynamic EMG-Driven musculoskeletal model to estimate knee joint torque and soft tissue loads. Journal of Biomechanics. 36(6), 765-776. pdf |
| 15. Besier, T. F., Lloyd, D. G., Ackland, T. R. & Cochrane, J. L. (2001) External loading of the knee joint during running and cutting manoeuvres. Medicine in Science and Sports and Exercise. 33:7, 1168-1175. pdf |
| 16. Besier, T. F., Lloyd, D. G., Ackland, T. R. & Cochrane, J. L. (2001) Anticipatory effects on knee joint loading during running and cutting manoeuvres. Medicine in Science and Sports and Exercise. 33:7, 1176-1181. pdf |
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