Scientific Advisory Board

Paul H. Wooley, Ph.D.

Paul H. Wooley, Ph.D., is Director of the Orthopaedic Research Institute (Wichita, Kansas), Chief Operating Officer of the National Center of Innovation for Biomaterials in Orthopaedic Research (nCIBOR), Professor of Biology (Wichita State University) and Research Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery (University of Kansas Medical School). Dr. Wooley also holds the position of Eminent Scholar in Biomaterials from the Kansas Bioscience Authority, and is a Research Specialist for the Robert Dole Veterans Administration Medical Center. Prior to moving to ORI in 2007, he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Immunology & Microbiology, and Biomedical Engineering, and Director of Research for Orthopaedic Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Wooley received his Ph.D. from Guys Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1980 and was an Arthritis Foundation Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic until 1985. Dr. Wooley served as Section Head of Arthritis Research for Ayerst Laboratories from 1985-88 and was Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.

Dr. Wooley has extensive experience consulting for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and is a patent holder on the use of Lodine in joint ankylosis. His laboratory offers a variety of pre-clinical evaluations for drugs and devices, and provides a service to orthopaedic surgeons to evaluate patients at risk for sensitivity to metal alloys and orthopaedic polymers. He directs biomedical engineering studies and teaches courses on Biocompatibility and the FDA Approval Process. He serves on several Scientific Advisory Boards and Grant Review committees for NIH and other funding agencies, is an Editor or Reviewer for numerous Journals, and the National Organization of Women’s scientific spokesperson on silicone breast implants.

Dr. Wooley has published over one hundred and twenty peer-review manuscripts in leading journals, and is the author of Chapters on the structure and function of the synovial joint, and on animal models of arthritis in leading Rheumatology textbooks.