Who are we? - well, there is a very small team behind the day-to-day operations of the KNEEguru website, but there is a huge community of people involved in other ways - both participating in learning and in helping others.

Dr Sheila Strover (BScHons MBBCh MBA) is a Director and responsible for key strategy and the development of the static content on the site. She is a medical practitioner, with many years' experience working with the knee surgeons and physiotherapists at the Droitwich Knee Clinic and The Knee Foundation in the UK.

Miss Kijika Rolle-Rowan is a Director with occasional involvement in strategic planning and operations.

Mrs Leah Davies is the technical person in the team and she handles all the systems that support interaction on the site, the site security and general server-side issues.

The Bulletin Board Community play an essential role in supporting newcomers to find answers to their questions, and their requests guide the production of new content on the site.

Special Advisors support our work by helping with the production of the authoritative resources on the site - tutorials, in-depth insights, and commentaries.

Site concept - the KNEEguru website is a learning resource, where the standard is high but the language is accessible to the general public.

At the core of the site is the bulletin board, where a dedicated group of people have stayed faithful to the site and its ethos. They help newcomers to build up their understanding of anatomy and knee vocabulary, and then direct them to resources - both internal and external - where they should be able to better inform themselves about their own knee problem.

Resources include a dictionary, anatomical illustrations, lists of common conditions and symptoms, basic information on special topics, in-depth insights on selected topics, and sophisticated tutorials by experts in the field.

Site ethos - this site is run by a medical professional, and professional standards apply.

Although the content may be couched in lay terminology as far as possible, the material is sufficiently educational to be relevant even to medical professionals themselves.

There is no skew of content due to pressure from sponsors. Every attempt is made to be honest with opinions.

Specialist support - the website works closely with surgical and rehabilitation specialists to build authoritative resources for our readers.

These take the form of tutorials in several parts, standalone papers, or short commentaries.

The tutorials are of a very high standard and are of benefit also to medical professionals and students.

Funding - currently the site has no direct commercial sponsors.

The site is owned by ftmg Associates Ltd.

The site has a key philanthropist who wishes to remain anonymous, and who has a special interest in building the KNEEguru into a quality information resource for patients.

We hope in time to attract academic funding from offering the site with its vibrant bulletin board as a fieldsite for academic study.