About the Author

Nikos Athanasou was born in Perth in 1953. Athanasou qualified in medicine from the University of Sydney. He carried out research and trained in pathology at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London , where he completed his PhD, and in Oxford, where he was Arthritis Research UK's Fellow in Osteoarticular Pathology before being appointed Consultant Histopathologist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 1992. He is now Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology, University of Oxford (Honorary Consultant Histopathologist).