Research Interests
Mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and disease - in particular: non-contact ACL injury, patellofemoral pain and knee joint osteoarthritis.

Neuromusculoskeletal modelling, Finite Elements, Real-time magnetic resonance imaging

Degrees
Ph.D. The University of Western Australia, 2000
B.PhEd. (hons) The University of Otago, 1995

Honors and Awards
Stanford Medical Training Fellowship in Regenerative Medicine

Young Investigator: International Society of Biomechanics in Sport, 2001

Young Investigator: Sports Medicine Australia, 1999

Prince de Merode Award for Best Scientific Paper at the IOC Sport Science Congress, 1999

Representative Publications
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).

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.

Jindrich, D. L., Besier, T. F. & Lloyd, D. G. (2006). A hypothesis for the function of braking forces during running turns. Journal of Biomechanics, 39, 1611-1620.

Draper, C. E., Besier, T. F., Gold, G. E., Fredericson, M., Fiene, A., Beaupré, G. S. & Delp, S. L. (2006). Is cartilage thickness different in young subjects with and without patellofemoral pain? Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, In Press.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hobbies
Windsurfing, Surfing, Cycling, Rock Climbing, Tramping (that's kiwi slang for hiking), Snowboarding, anythingtodowiththeoutdoors, shopping at REI, collecting small electronic gadgets and remote controls, French cuisine (especially the wine part), Painting (not the house), playing Carcassonne (best board game in the world), watching test match cricket and rugby, and watching re-runs of British television comedy (Red Dwarf, Black Adder, the Young Ones and the Goodies to name a few).

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