Peter Cripton

ASSOCIATE FACULTY MEMBER, UBC ORTHOPAEDICS

PROFESSOR, UBC SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Division:
Orthopaedic Research

Hospital Site:
Vancouver – Blusson Spinal Cord Centre

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Dr. Cripton is co-Director of the UBC Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group. He is a Professor and directs the undergraduate program in the School of Biomedical Engineering, an Associate Faculty Member in the Departments of Orthopaedics and Mechanical Engineering and a Principal Investigator at ICORD, the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at UBC. He obtained his PhD from Queen’s University, with postdoctoral work at Yale University. Prior to coming to UBC in 2003 he worked as a consulting engineer at Exponent, Failure Analysis Associates in Philadelphia, PA. At UBC he established the UBC Injury Biomechanics Laboratory. This laboratory was merged into the Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics lab in 2009. Dr. Cripton is a member of the American Society for Testing Materials, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the International Society of Biomechanics, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact (IRCOBI) council and the Orthopaedic Research Society. Dr. Cripton’s research interests include impact biomechanics and injury prevention of the spine, spinal cord, brain and hip. In addition to developing a helmet to prevent spinal cord injuries during head first impacts in sports and transportation, Dr. Cripton and colleagues perform research focused on preventing hip fractures. Other specific projects focus on improving bicycle helmet performance, developing improved mechanical surrogates for injury experiments (i.e. crash test dummy necks and physical models of the spinal cord), and using advanced MRI imaging techniques to better understand seat belt efficacy and sex differences in seat belt performance.