PhD Defense Successfully Completed by Arash Ghaffari

The Interdisciplinary Orthopaedics is pleased to announce that Arash Ghaffari, MD has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled:

“Thigh-Mounted Accelerometry for Tracking Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Validity, Diagnostics, and Home-Based Monitoring.”

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the supervisors for their guidance and support throughout the PhD project:
- Søren Kold, MD, PhD — Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
- Ole Rahbek, MD, PhD — Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
- John Rasmussen, PhD — Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Andreas Kappel, MD, PhD — Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital / Capio Aalborg Private Hospital, Denmark

We also thank the assessment committee for their time, expertise, and valuable contributions:
- Strahinja Dosen, PhD (Chair) — Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Per-Henrik Randsborg, MD, PhD — Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
- Bernd Grimm, PhD, MEng, FIOR — Department of Precision Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg