Current

Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist and Director at St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd

Teaching Associate and Student Advisor at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

Member of the International Skeletal Society

Run MSK US training courses including intervention with St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd

Section editor European Journal of Radiology

Section editor Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

MSK Editor for Acta Radiologica

Editorial Board Member Hellenic Journal of Radiology

International Advisory Board member La Radiologia Medica (RAME)

Member of ESSR subcommittees on Ultrasound, Intervention, Sports Imaging.

Diploma in Wine and Spirits

Previous

General Practitioner

Fellow in Orthopaedic Radiology at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Honorary Consultant at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport as a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force (now retired)

Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and University Hospitals, Birmingham

Involved in the London Olympic Games 2012 organising committee and volunteering

Lead Clinician for Oxford Soft Tissue Injury Clinic

Consultant Radiologist Oxford University Hospitals

Chair of the ESSR Ultrasound Subcommittee

MSc Research in Autologous blood and other injections for Achilles and Patellar tendinosis

Research in Elastography, Ankle Sprains, Shoulder Injections and Rheumatology US.

Additionally

Publications 

Author of over 60 publications on musculoskeletal radiology including:

Ultrasound-Guided Musculoskeletal Injections Book 

(G Allen, D Wilson)                              Elsevier – published Sept 2017

Allen GM (Editors Russell RCG, Williams NS, Bulstrode JK). 

Sports Medicine Chapter in Bailey & Loves Short Practice of Surgery 27th Edition 2018 

Dr Allen has had Chapters in the last 4 editions of this book which is the largest selling book for surgery worldwide.

Talonavicular ligament: prevalence of injury in ankle sprains, histological analysis and hypothesis of its biomechanical function. DeDea M, Loizou C L, Allen G M, Wilson D J, Athanasou N, Yoshinobu U, Cooke P, Cosker T. BJR 2017 90 1071-1079 (Dr DeDea was our fellow at St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd in 2016)

Clinical indications for image-guided interventional procedures in the musculoskeletal system: a Delphi-based consensus paper from the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology

(ESSR)—part I to part VII Eur Radiol.2019 to 2022

Extremity CT and ultrasound in the assessment of ankle injuries: occult fractures and ligament injuries G. M. Allen, D. J. Wilson S. A. Bullock, M. S. Watson, BJR Dec 2019

ECR Vienna March 2016

Scientific paper

Do we need image guidance for subacromial subdeltoid bursal injections?

(Presented by G M Allen)

Won the ECR 2016 best MSK scientific paper presentation out of 250 presentations

ECR Vienna March 2019

Lumbar nerve root blocks using MR: the effectiveness and safety of ultrasound/MRI fusion image guidance (presented by D. J. Wilson)

Won the ECR 2019 best MSK scientific paper presentation out of 250 presentations