Prof. Gina M Allen
BM DCH MRCGP MRCP FRCR MFSEM DipESSR MScSEM
Soft Tissue Injuries
Current
Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist and Director at St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd
Teaching Associate and Student Advisor at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Member of the International Skeletal Society
Run MSK US training courses including intervention with St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd
Section editor European Journal of Radiology
Section editor Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
MSK Editor for Acta Radiologica
Editorial Board Member Hellenic Journal of Radiology
International Advisory Board member La Radiologia Medica (RAME)
Member of ESSR subcommittees on Ultrasound, Intervention, Sports Imaging.
Diploma in Wine and Spirits
Previous
General Practitioner
Fellow in Orthopaedic Radiology at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
Honorary Consultant at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport as a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force (now retired)
Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and University Hospitals, Birmingham
Involved in the London Olympic Games 2012 organising committee and volunteering
Lead Clinician for Oxford Soft Tissue Injury Clinic
Consultant Radiologist Oxford University Hospitals
Chair of the ESSR Ultrasound Subcommittee
MSc Research in Autologous blood and other injections for Achilles and Patellar tendinosis
Research in Elastography, Ankle Sprains, Shoulder Injections and Rheumatology US.
Additionally
Publications
Author of over 60 publications on musculoskeletal radiology including:
Ultrasound-Guided Musculoskeletal Injections Book
(G Allen, D Wilson) Elsevier – published Sept 2017
Allen GM (Editors Russell RCG, Williams NS, Bulstrode JK).
Sports Medicine Chapter in Bailey & Loves Short Practice of Surgery 27th Edition 2018
Dr Allen has had Chapters in the last 4 editions of this book which is the largest selling book for surgery worldwide.
Talonavicular ligament: prevalence of injury in ankle sprains, histological analysis and hypothesis of its biomechanical function. DeDea M, Loizou C L, Allen G M, Wilson D J, Athanasou N, Yoshinobu U, Cooke P, Cosker T. BJR 2017 90 1071-1079 (Dr DeDea was our fellow at St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd in 2016)
Clinical indications for image-guided interventional procedures in the musculoskeletal system: a Delphi-based consensus paper from the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology
(ESSR)—part I to part VII Eur Radiol.2019 to 2022
Extremity CT and ultrasound in the assessment of ankle injuries: occult fractures and ligament injuries G. M. Allen, D. J. Wilson S. A. Bullock, M. S. Watson, BJR Dec 2019
ECR Vienna March 2016
Scientific paper
Do we need image guidance for subacromial subdeltoid bursal injections?
(Presented by G M Allen)
Won the ECR 2016 best MSK scientific paper presentation out of 250 presentations
ECR Vienna March 2019
Lumbar nerve root blocks using MR: the effectiveness and safety of ultrasound/MRI fusion image guidance (presented by D. J. Wilson)
Won the ECR 2019 best MSK scientific paper presentation out of 250 presentations