PhD Asbjørn Årøen is researcher at the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center. He is a consultant at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Oslo University Hospital Ullevål. Asbjørn is a specialist in general surgery and orthopaedic surgery and his clinical practice is focusing knee and shoulder injuries.
In 1997 he spent one year as a research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh with Professor Freddie H. FU where he focused his research on cartilage and PCL injuries additional to clinical work.
Asbjørn served as a team physician for a local soccer club during a two years period with special attention to prevention of injuries.
He has published sixteen research papers concerning the topic cartilage injuries, Achilles tendon ruptures, posterior cruciate ligament, posterolateral corner of the knee and ankle problems. Asbjørn has published additional two review papers about cartilage injuries additional to instructional courses and DVD.
His PhD degree, "Cartilage Injuries and the Repair Process", considering the prevalence, injury mechanisms and treatment options for cartilage was defended by the University of Oslo in October 2005.
Asbjørn was one of four selections for the ESSKA-ASIAN-PACIFIC FELLOWSHIP; March-April 2008, and at the moment, he serves as the Esska member at large (Norway) and as a KSSTA Editorial Member. From 2010, Asbjørn has been a reviewer in four orthopaedic journals.
He is supervising three PhD students focusing diagnosis and treatment of cartilage injuries and fracture care and prevention in children.
His new projects are related to the natural history of the combination of cartilage injury and anterior cruciate ligament rupture and the use of mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of cartilage injury in the knee.