Nicola Maffulli, MD, MS, PhD, FRCS(Orth)
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Career Timeline (Verified)
- Earliest PubMed-indexed papers 1987-1989, while based in the UK: ultrasound diagnosis of Achilles tendon pathology in runners (PMID 3325127, Br J Sports Med 1987) and intensive-training controversies in young athletes (PMID 3060027, Arch Dis Child 1988).
- On Study 2 (2007): Department of Musculoskeletal Disorders, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Keele University, School of Medicine, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, UK (affiliation string on PMID 16636345, 2006, the same hyperthermia collaboration).
- Currently Professor of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Mile End Hospital, Queen Mary University of London (affiliation strings on 2026 papers, e.g., PMIDs 41065184, 40888957, 40445091).
- Maintains concurrent Italian affiliations in recent papers: Department of Health Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza; Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, San Carlo Hospital, Basilicata; Sapienza University of Rome (PMID 41065184).
- Caveat: the years of his medical degree and FRCS award are not stated in any machine-fetchable source - unverified - omitted. The FRCS(Orth) and higher-doctorate letters in his bylines are supported by his long-standing consultant-surgeon and professorial record, but the specific award years are unverified - omitted.
Achievements and Standing (Verified)
- One of the most-published orthopaedic surgeons in the world. OpenAlex (as of 2026-09-03): 2,574 indexed works, over 96,000 citations, h-index 142. PubMed corpus: 1,853 papers. ORCID lists 467 work groups.
- Prolific in exactly this study's territory: tendon injury and tendinopathy (Achilles, patellar, rotator cuff), and sports-injury surgery and its conservative alternatives.
- Senior-author benchmark papers in the study's co-author web, all with Giombini and Di Cesare: short-term effectiveness of hyperthermia for supraspinatus tendinopathy (PMID 16636345, Am J Sports Med 2006); calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff managed conservatively with 434 MHz local microwave diathermy (PMID 18608369, Disabil Rehabil 2008); asymptomatic Achilles/patellar/quadriceps tendinopathy longitudinal study (PMID 22092963, Scand J Med Sci Sports 2013).
- Continued high activity through 2026 (multiple 2026 papers, e.g., bracing for nonsurgical management of acute ACL tears, PMID 41292051, Clin J Sport Med).
Role in Study 2
Co-author of Study 2, final-listed and most senior author. See Study 2: Hyperthermia Induced by Microwave Diathermy (British Medical Bulletin, 2007).
Identifiers
ORCID: 0000-0002-5327-3702
Sources
OpenAlex author record · ORCID record · PubMed author corpus · Study 2 on PubMed (PMID 17942453)
Profile verified as of 2026-09-03; annual re-verification scheduled. Every statement is traceable to the sources above; facts that could not be verified are omitted.