CurriculumVitae

Personalia

Prof. Marc Martens A.C.
Varenberg 3
3360 Lovenjoel

Mobile: 0032 475 263985
Fax nr: 0032 3 2402223
E-mail: martens.marc@kneesurgery.be

Married and father of four children.

• Graduated in medicine: July 1965 University of Louvain, Belgium
• Orthopaedic surgeon: graduated at University of Louvain, Belgium

Fellowship

Fellow in Biomechanics at case Western Reserve University, Cleveland USA
Graduated July 1970

Previous Function

Associate surgeon-in-chief, orthopaedic departement University Hospital Louvain, Belgium.
In charge of pathology at the knee and sport lesions.
Lector at the faculty of medicine at the University of Louvain.

Publications

Over 100 publications in international journals and magazines related to knee pathology, sports lesions and biomechanics & biomaterial research.

Teaching activities

• Lectures at numerous international meetings and chairman of international meetings.
• Scientific videocassettes in Flemish, French and English on various sports lesions.
• Guest surgeon at many orthopaedic centres in Europe and Middle East.

P.H.D. Thesis

• "Mechanical properties of Bone" University of Louvain Belgium, 1985.
• "The future of knee arthroplasty"

Consultant for development of total knee prosthesis at Howmedica International.
Research on a porous coating for orthopaedic implants and development of a knee implant allowing maximal flexion.

Membership

• International Society of the Knee and Sports Medicine
• International Society of the Arthroscopy
• International Society of Biomechanics and Biomaterials
• Belgian Orthopaedic Society
• Former President of the Belgian Arthroscopy Association