Christopher Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

chris.chen@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (1996)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Mechanical Engineering (1991)
UndergraduateNational Taiwan University - Taiwan (1986)

Research Interests

Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Connective Tissue Repair
Mechanotransduction
Posttraumatic Osteoarthitis
Soft Tissue Imaging

Publications

Featured
Time, stress, and location dependent chondrocyte death and collagen damage in cyclically loaded articular cartilage

Chen CT, Bhargava M, Lin PM, Torzilli PA. , J Orthop Res , September 2003; (21(5)):888-98

Featured
Matrix fixed-charge density as determined by magnetic resonance microscopy of bioreactor-derived hyaline cartilage correlates with biochemical and biomechanical properties

Chen CT, Fishbein KW, Torzilli PA, Hilger A, Spencer RG, Horton WE Jr. , Arthritis Rheum. , April 2003; (48 (4)):1047-56

Featured
Chondrocyte necrosis and apoptosis in impact damaged articular cartilage

Chen CT, Burton-Wurster N, Borden C, Hueffer K, Bloom SE, Lust G. , J Orthop Res. 2001 , July 2001; (19(4)):703-11

Full-thickness supraspinatus tears are associated with more synovial inflammation and tissue degeneration than partial-thickness tears

MK Shindle, CT Chen, C Robertson, AE DiTullio, MC Paulus, CM Clinton, FA Cordasco, SA Rodeo, RF. Warren , J Shoulder & Elbow Surgery , 2011; ((In press))

Mechanical load inhibits IL-1 induced matrix degradation in articular cartilage

Torzilli PA, Bhargava M, Park S, Chen C.T. , Osteoarthritis and Cartilage , January 2010; (18(1)):97-105

Chondrocyte death and cartilage degradation after autologous osteochondral transplantation surgery in a rabbit model

Gulotta LV, Rudzki JR, Kovacevic D, Chen CC, Milentijevic D, Williams RJ 3rd. , Am J Sports Med , July 2009; (37(7)):1324-33

Material properties of fresh cold-stored allografts for osteochondral defects at 1 year

Ranawat AS, Vidal AF, Chen CT, Zelken JA, Turner AS, Williams RJ 3rd. , Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research , August 2008; (466(8)):1826-36

Biochemical and biomechanical properties of lesion and peri-lesion tissue after cartilage repair with genetically modified chondrocytes in an equine model.

Strauss E., Hidaka C., Chen C.T., Goodrich L., Nixon A , Am. J. Sport Medicine , 2006; (33):1647-53

Honors/Awards

Eastern Orthopaedic Society Founder’s Award

(2007)

Fellow of National Arthritis Research Foundation

National Arthritis Research Foundation (2004)

Herodicus Award, Herodicus Society

American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (2003)

MSRC Biomechanics Award in Bone/Orthopedics

American Society of Biomechanics (1999)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Society of Biomechanics

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Orthopaedic Research Society

Osteoarthritis Research Society International