An interview with Nicola Maffulli, section editor for the musculoskeletal regenerative medicine section of BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation

Professor Nicola Maffulli is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Sports Injury Surgeon and has published over 800 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals and 12 books on Orthopaedic Surgery and in Sports Medicine. Professor Maffulli has a particular scientific interest in the physiopathology of sports injuries, including anterior cruciate ligament and tendon injuries, and great expertise in arthroscopic techniques of the knee and foot and ankle. He was Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Keele University School of Medicine (2001– 2008), Centre Lead and Professor of Sports and Exercise Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, Barts, and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London (2008–2013), and has now taken up the Chair in Musculoskeletal Disorders in Salerno University School of Medicine, Italy, while maintaining an Honorary Chair at Queen Mary University of London. A keen athlete in his younger days, his boyhood dream of going to the Olympic Games eventually came true as in London 2013 he was the Field of Play doctor for the Olympic Wrestling Tournament, and led a group of seven orthopaedic surgeons to administer the Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle care for both the Olympics and the Paralympics. He is one of small handful of surgeons to have been awarded the FRCP (Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians). He is the Immediate Past President of the Sport and Exercise Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and the President of the European Federation of the National Societies of Orthopaedic Sports Trauma (EFOST) for