Dr Sheila Strover
Editorial Volunteer
Degrees: BSc (Hons), MB BCh, MBA
Particular expertise: clinical editing, online publishing, patient advocacy, KNEEguru Founder
Location: Newquay, CON, TR7 1HU, United Kingdom
Dr Sheila Strover is the Founder and previous Clinical Editor of the KNEEguru website. She now offers her time to The Knee Foundation charity as a volunteer editor.
Her medical studies were completed at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa - BSc(Hons) (1968) and MBBCh (1974). She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1983 and worked as an anaesthetist (anaesthesiologist) until 1989 when she left practice to work in a managerial position at the Droitwich Knee Clinic, which she co-founded with her knee surgeon ex-husband, Angus Strover.
There she was involved with the establishment of The Knee Foundation (an academic trust) and helped to design the content of their academic courses, as well as designing and bringing to production a 3-dimensional arthroscopic training model of the knee.
A sabbatical in at Warwick University 1973-1974 earned her an MBA (1994), and at this stage she also established the KNEEguru company and website and , with help from the shareholders, she started to build the site content which continues to grow.
Dr Strover resigned from the Clinic in 2002, and has concentrated her energies on creating within the KNEEguru website a successful venue for the collaboration of Patients, Clinical Practitioners and Industry in the knee field.
She retired from all executive roles in 2025, but retains the position of Volunteer Editor for the KNEEguru.
Contributions
Mobile Surgical Skills Labs – a new training concept in Europe
Surgeons in the UK and Europe now have access to a mobile unit in which they can develop their surgical skills using both models and cadaveric knees.
2013 - Acrylic bone cement: current concept review
An interpretation by the editor of a paper published in the medical literature in 2013.
2012 - Primary traumatic patellar dislocation
Easy-to-read interpretation of a 2012 medical article on primary traumatic patellar dislocation.
2012 - Decision making in professional athletes with cartilage lesions
An interpretation of an article published in the orthopaedic literature in 2012.
2011 - Drivers of heterotopic ossification in idiopathic arthrofibrosis after total knee arthroplasty
An 'interpretation' of a medical article published in the medical journals in 2011, discussing what it is that triggers soft tissues around a knee replacement to transform into bony tissue.