BOA Annual Congress 2025

Tony Andrade

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Berkshire Hospital

Mr Tony Andrade is a fellowship trained consultant Orthopaedic, Hip and Knee surgeon with a special interest in Hip preservation surgery and arthroscopic hip surgery.

He set up the hip preservation service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2002 and it rapidly evolved into a tertiary referral centre. He has been at the forefront of the evolving surgical techniques in arthroscopic and other hip preservation procedures. This led to establishing a visiting surgeon program where surgeons from the UK and across the world were able to join him to learn these surgical techniques. He also then later established a hip arthroscopy fellowship program in 2016. He has also been fellowship director for a lower limb arthroplasty fellowship at the Royal Berkshire Hospital since 2004.

He is current chair of the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR) user group for the British Hip Society. This registry captures outcomes from hip preservation surgery nationally. 

He has been a member of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA) since it was founded in 2008, and was the 2020-21 president, of what is now known as ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society. 

Alison Armstrong

Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon , University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

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Elizabeth Ashby

Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Elizabeth Ashby is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant. She attended medical school in Cambridge, did her orthopaedic training in London and completed a fellowship in Montreal, Canada. She worked as a consultant at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital before returning to where she started – Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She is Clinical Lead for Paediatric Orthopaedics and regional lead for children with clubfeet. Elizabeth enjoys all aspects of Paediatric Orthopaedics with a particular interest in limb and foot deformity.

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Ravi Badge

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

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Morgan Bailey

Morgan Bailey completed a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at University Hospital Southampton. She also completed a research fellowship for the British Association for Surgery on the Knee, with a focus on patellofemoral pathology, for which she was awarded the BASK President's Award. She works between University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites.

She is the Hampshire ambassador for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play, as well as sitting on a national working group for injury prevention. She is the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women, and gender parity in the diagnosis and management of ACL injuries.

Leela Biant

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester University Hospitals

Leela Biant is Academic Head of Dept Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester University Hospitals. She is lead Clinician for Cartilage Repair and Regeneration and the incoming President of BASK.

Leela trained in London and completed specialist fellowships in Sydney and London. She was Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon in Edinburgh for 8 years before moving to Manchester. Her thesis was entitled ‘Articular Cartilage Injury and Repair in the Young Adult Knee’ and her research focus includes biological regenerative surgery and advanced joint replacement. She has won multiple awards for research, and now leads a strong research team that includes academic clinicians, biomedical engineers, materials scientists and cell biologists.

Leela is an elected ICRS Senior Fellow, and founded the ICRS Global patient registry. She is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the UK Biological Knee Society in recognition of her work in this field. She has won awards for teaching, and is a clinician advisor to NICE. She was an ABC Travelling Fellow in 2010 and BASK Travelling Fellow in 2014.

Her lecture "Regenerating Damaged Joints; from bench to bedside to theatre and round again" will be a celebration of progress, an acknowledgement of the joy and vexations of orthopaedic research and an appreciation of what we don't yet know for sure.

Katy Boland

Specialist Physiotherapist

Katy is a Specialist Physiotherapist working with people with complex shoulder and elbow conditions at Wrightington Hospital, in Northwest England. Having just completed an NIHR funded Pre-Doctoral (PCAF) fellowship, Katy is in the early stages of a clinical academic career. Her research interests include supporting patients to self-manage their musculoskeletal health, including optimising information provision and supporting shared decision making. Her PCAF research project used interviews to explore the information needs of people with elbow osteoarthritis.

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Hayley Carter

Research Chair/Global Health Advocate, ATOCP committee

Dr Hayley Carter is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. She has recently completed her PhD exploring patient management following an Anterior Cruciate Ligament rupture, co-developing a theory- and evidence-based shared decision-making intervention. She is interested in ​interventional research targeting MSK and orthopaedic conditions and has expertise in complex intervention development, mixed methods research, implementation science theory and knowledge mobilisation. 

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Nick Clement

Orthopaedic Consultant, NHS Lothian Hospital Trust

Mr Nick Clement is an orthopaedic consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (UK), and his clinical practice focuses on hip and knee arthroplasty.

He has been awarded a PhD for his work looking at the outcome of total knee arthroplasty, and an MD for his research defining fracture epidemiology and outcomes in elderly and super-elderly patients.

He has recently been appointed as the Clinical Lead for orthopaedics for the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland, and is Chair for research for the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma (SCOT). In these positions he hopes to help to promote and support research projects across Scotland, and to establish national and international collaborations.

He is the author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters, and believes that only through collaboration can true orthopaedic science progress.

His recent publications in relation to robotic assisted surgery suggest that patient outcomes following hip and knee arthroplasty may be improved with the adoption of such technology. Whether this is a cost effective intervention in the NHS is however not clear.

 

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Matthew Costa

Orthopaedic Consultant & Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, University of Oxford & John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Matthew Costa PhD, FRCS, FMedSci. Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions. He is Lead Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). His work has been cited widely and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Matt is the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Trauma and Emergency Care and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is also Associate Editor for Trauma and Research Methods at The Bone & Joint Journal.
Matt is past President of the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society and past President of the Global Fragility Fracture Network.
 

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Sir Paul Curran

Chair, National Joint Registry

Professor Sir Paul Curran

Sir Paul was appointed Chair of the National Joint Registry in May 2022.  President of City, University of London from 2010 to 2021, he served previously as Vice-Chancellor of Bournemouth University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton.  A former academic at the Universities of Sheffield, Reading and Swansea, a NASA research scientist at Ames California and advisor to the European Space Agency, his research on environmental Earth observation has focused on climate change.

He is Chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, a Director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme and President of the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society.  He was Chair of the national Review Body on Doctors’ & Dentists’ Remuneration, Universities & Colleges Employers Association and The Conversation UK and was also a Member of the Natural Environment Research Council, Quality Assurance Agency, London Higher and Universities UK.

Sir Paul holds the degrees of BSc (Sheffield), MBA (Southampton), PhD and DSc (Bristol), Honorary DSc (Grand École ESCP, Paris & Peter the Great University, St Petersburg) and was Knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours for ‘services to higher education’.

Edward Davis

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Matt Dennies

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Ashtin Doorgakant

Consultant T&O surgeon

Ashtin is a consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics with a subspecialist interest in foot and ankle surgery.

He has spent 2 years as VSO volunteer in Malawi 2010-2012 and been actively involved with WOC UK since. He was BOTA linkman, then trainee representative and now is chairman of WOC UK. He is an alumni of BOA Future Leaders Programme. He has run a yearly surgical camp in Malawi for the past 3 years under the banner of Feet First. He has trained LMIC surgeons with AO alliance and observed the COSECSA fellowship exams.

He is enthusiastic about teaching and training. He is engaged with BOFAS through their mentorship programme and as international education committee member. He is the current education and governance lead for his department. He is past president Mersey 58 society for regional trainees.

Ashtin loves spending time with his family and is an avid sportsman.

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Holly Doyle

Clinical Specialist MSK Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead Young Adult Hip Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Clinical Lecturer UCL

Holly Soper-Doyle is the clinical lead Physio for the Young Adult Hip team at Cambridge University Hospitals, where she works as an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist. She previously worked for 8 years at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital-Stanmore as a Specialist hip physio. She has extensive experience comprising of 13 years NHS service, military rehabilitation at Headley court dealing with complex trauma injuries, and sports physiotherapy for premiership hockey, rugby, cricket and football teams, including both Chelsea football club and Queens Park Rangers football club. Her clinical interests include: hip dysplasia and young adult hip conditions, metal on metal hip replacements and rehabilitation post-hip surgery.

Holly is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer on the ‘Physical Therapy in Musculoskeletal Healthcare and Rehabilitation’ Msc at University College London. She has contributed to the writing of “Early Rehabilitation in Conflicts and Disasters Field Handbook”, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, Humanity and Inclusion and AO Foundation and in 2022 she co-authored a chapter on Hip Dysplasia in the book: HIP AND KNEE PAIN DISORDERS: Integrating manual therapy and exercise.

In 2018, she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Veterinary Physiotherapy from the University of Liverpool gaining a distinction.

As well as working for the NHS, Holly has her own veterinary and human physiotherapy business ‘Integrum Physiotherapy’ based in North London. She has a website dedicated to hip dysplasia and enjoys mentoring and lecturing on hip dysplasia rehabilitation and treating patients from all over the world.

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Andrew Duckworth

Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Andrew Duckworth is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in Edinburgh Orthopaedics at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.  Following completion of his training in Edinburgh, he was an Upper Limb Fellow at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit.  His clinical interests are in trauma and upper limb surgery, with a focus on injuries around the elbow, wrist and hand.  His current research includes clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, large data and patient reported outcome measures.  He is a Co-CI, co-app and PI on NIHR funded clinical trials.  He is an Editorial Board Member for the Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ), Bone and Joint Research (BJR) and Bone & Joint360, and is on the Research Committees of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS).  He is a co-director of the world-renowned Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium.  

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Deborah Eastwood

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Immediate Past BOA President, Great Ormond St Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Deborah Eastwood is an Associate Professor of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, UCL. She works at Great Ormond St Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Deborah works in the generality of paediatric orthopaedic surgery but has a particular interest in children with overgrowth syndromes, metabolic bone diseases and those with neurological problems. She is also the surgeon for the GOSH Ponseti service. 

Deborah is the Immediate Past President of the British Orthopaedic Association, a past president of EPOS (European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society) and a past board member of BSCOS (British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery and the Council of Management for the Bone and Joint Journal .

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Peter Eckersley

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Andreas Fontalis

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James Fountain

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Liverpool Hospital

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Lennard Funk

Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder Surgeon, Wrightington Hospital

Professor Lennard Funk is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in shoulder surgery. After qualifying in medicine in 1990, Professor Funk pursued specialist orthopaedic training in clinics across the north of England, and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons in Glasgow in 1995. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wrightington Hospital in 2006.

Professor Funk regularly works with professional athletes and rugby players in particular. In addition to his surgical qualifications, he is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine UK and holds a BSc in Sports Physiology and an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering. He lectures nationally and internationally on shoulder surgery and sports injuries, established the most popular shoulder injury website in the UK, and holds Honorary Professorships at Salford University and the University of Bolton.

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Adam Galloway

Advanced Practice Clinical Academic Physiotherapist, Children’s Orthopaedics, University of Leeds/Leeds Children’s Hospital

Adam is a Clinical Academic Physiotherapist in Children's Orthopaedics in Leeds. He has recently completed a HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF)(now DCAF) on a rare hip disease in children called Perthes’ Disease. He has a clinical base at Leeds Children's Hospital as part of the Children's Orthopaedics team and an academic base at Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds. During this PhD Adam has developed a digital self-management intervention for the non-surgical treatment of Perthes’ Disease (The NON-STOP app). Children with Perthes’ Disease and their families are using The NON-STOP app to manage their condition in the first randomised clinical trial for Perthes’ Disease called the Op NON-STOP study ran out of the University of Oxford and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. As well as this, Adam has used the PhD to develop the skills necessary to conduct high-quality, research and progress as a clinical academic leader.

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Dr Anthony Gilbert

; Postdoctoral Clinical Research Physiotherapist

Dr Anthony Gilbert has developed expertise as a clinical researcher over the last decade  whilst working as a Physiotherapist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH). Dr Gilbert was awarded his NIHR funded PhD in 2022 which investigated patient preferences for remote consultations. Anthony has developed a specific interest into the ways healthcare systems are organized and how this influences patient access to healthcare. Anthony continues to develop a programme of research around musculoskeletal health and was recently awarded funding by NIHR SPCR to investigate the challenges people from deprived communities face around accessing primary MSK Care. 

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Simon Graham

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Simon is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma at the University of Oxford and a Limb Reconstruction Consultant Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust.

Simon's research focuses on advancing higher standards of care in musculoskeletal trauma in low- and middle-income countries. He completed a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research PhD Fellowship at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh. His project investigated fracture healing in HIV positive patients and was awarded the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Professorship and Syme Medal. He also holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Leeds.

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Michael Grevitt

CONSULTANT SPINAL SURGEON

Mike has been involved in leadership roles since graduating. He has seen examples of great leadership whilst a serving office in the British Army and as a trainee on the South East Thames orthopaedic rotation. Conversely he has dealt with failures of individual and corporate leadership as an invited College assessor, external SUI/RCA expert and a National Clinical Assessment Service supervisor.  His own leadership journey has included roles as head of service, clinical lead of East Midlands Spinal Network, secretary UK Spine Societies Board and global chair of AOSpine Community Development and Education Commissions. He is currently a Specialist Advisor in spinal surgery for GIRFT.  

He has been trained in coaching and mentorship skills.

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Xavier Griffin

Chair Trauma & Orthopaedic Research Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at Queen Mary and Barts Health, having joined in August 2020 as the inaugural chair of Bone and Joint Health.

Xavier’s vision is for world class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations.

Xavier is a NIHR Clinician Scientist and has been awarded over £10m of research funding and over 80 peer reviewed publications.

He is driven by having a meaningful impact on patient care; his research is focused on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new and existing treatments to improve bone and joint health and has been cited by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. He has a passion for developing methodologies that harness the speed, power, and efficiency of routinely-collected data but are coupled with the great advantages of randomisation.

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Fares Haddad

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery, University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital

Fares Haddad is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery at University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital in London, UK. He is Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCH, Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London, past president of the British Hip Society and of the British Sports Trauma Association. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Bone & Joint Journal.

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Lisa Hadfield-Law

Future Leaders Programme Course Conveyor, BOA

Having spent 20 years in clinical practice and 20 years in surgical education, Lisa has been immersed in both cultures and is, therefore, in a unique position to provide educational support.  She has managed an orthopaedic/trauma service of a teaching hospital, and has insight into the circumstances and challenges facing surgical teams.

• Surgical educator since 1992
• Trained over 15,000 surgeons in 68 countries of Europe, N America, Latin America & Asia.
• Previously 20 years of trauma nursing experience in the UK and abroad
• Trained as a virtual teacher in 2016

Current Position

• Consultant surgical educator UK and abroad
• Education Advisor to AOUKI
• Lead for Future Leaders Programme 
  • British Orthopaedic Association & 
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
• Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers - the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Faculty of Surgical Trainers Advisory Board

Website  https://hadfield-law.co.uk

Twitter @lisahadfieldlaw

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Zaid Hamoodi

Mr Zaid Hamoodi is a Trauma and Orthopaedics Specialty Registrar (ST8) in the Northwest (Mersey) Deanery with a specialist interest in upper limb surgery. He is a former NJR/RCSEng Research Fellow and a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, where his research explores the predictors of failure in total elbow replacement.

 

He led the NJR Data Quality Audit (NJRDQA) for elbow arthroplasty alongside Professor Adam C Watts. This was a national collaborative initiative involving the NJR, BOTA, BOA, BESS, and RCSEng. This work improved the completeness and accuracy of elbow data within the registry, and involved engaging with orthopaedic trainees across the UK to drive meaningful improvements in national data quality.

 

E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @Zaidahamoodi

 

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Georgina Hooper

ATOCP Regional Lead Chair

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Adrian Hughes

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant , Royal Devon & Exeter, Exeter

Tom Jacobs

Tom has worked at different teaching hospitals in the south, including the RBH and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He has also spent time at Wasps Rugby DPP and with independent athletes at grassroots and elite level at athlete development centres in Abingdon and Bisham Abbey. He has worked as a consultant to local independent schools now for the past 10 years and has pioneered an injury triage service to diagnose and treat sports injuries early. He has also established a diagnostic MSK service for different GP practices in the Vale area in recent years, which he still helps operate. Tom is a speaker at orthopaedic events such as The International Kids Knee Conference, Association of Trauma and Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists and the British Orthopaedic Association conferences. He's a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University for both the MSc and BSc Physiotherapy programmes and he also teaches trainee GPs in MSK examination and management in the Oxford Deanery.

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Neil Jain

Consultant Orthopaedic Sports Surgeon, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Neil Jain is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and the founder of UK Sports Medicine, a private practice focused on the prevention and treatment of sports injuries through innovation. He is able to offer keyhole surgery for a wide range of knee, shoulder and elbow injuries, in addition to administering non-operative treatments such as injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP).

Mr Jain originally graduated from the University of Southampton before undergoing basic surgical training in Plymouth. After graduating from a sports injuries and reconstructive arthroscopy fellowship at the world-renowned University of British Columbia in Canada, Mr Jain was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mr Jain is widely published in peer reviewed journals and medical textbooks, and has given over 100 presentations at national and international conferences. He has worked with a number of sports clubs and associations including Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, Barrow Raiders RLFC, Bury FC, University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, Vancouver Canadians (Baseball), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (American Football) and Vancouver Canucks (Ice Hockey). Mr Jain is actively involved in teaching and is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Salford. He is the current treasurer for BOSTAA

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Muthu Jeyam

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

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Mark Johnston

Consultant Geriatrician , Royal Liverpool Hospital

Mark is a busy geriatrician and clinical lead for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Gerontology Service.

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Rebecca Kearney

Professor and Director of Bristol Trials Centre, University of Bristol

Rebecca is Professor and Director of Bristol Trials Centre, within Bristol Medical School. She is a NIHR Senior Investigator and academic physiotherapist leading in the design and delivery of clinical trials. Her primary focus is pragmatic multi centre randomised controlled trials that evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in the area of trauma and orthopaedics. To ensure that patients and public members are at the heart of her programmes of research she has also been a member of four ‘James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships’.

Rebecca is currently co-chair for NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research and has previously been regional chair for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (2021-2023). She has also previously been a committee member on NIHR Health Technology Assessment (2018-2022), NIHR ICA Doctoral Fellowships (2017-2021) and NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (2016-2019).

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Sean Kelly

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Dr Erik Lenguerrand

Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Quantitative Epidemiology, University of Bristol

Erik is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Quantitative Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, Translational Health Sciences, Musculoskeletal Research Unit lead by Professor Michael Whitehouse. He joined the University of Bristol in 2012 following medical statistician positions at the Medical Research Council and French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks.

Erik has a particular interest in orthopaedic research to improve outcomes following joint replacement and is a contributor to the content development of the NJR Annual Report.  He has produced over 100 manuscripts aiming to provide robust evidence that should inform best clinical practice https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

@LenguerrandErik

Rachel Lis

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Tash Maher

Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner

Natasha Maher is an advanced physiotherapist and NIHR predoctoral fellow at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, with a specialist interest in shared decision-making (SDM) in orthopaedic care. She co-leads national and international SDM initiatives, including literature syntheses, interview studies and developing teaching aids for NIHR funded trials. As a BESS Travelling Fellow, she presented at the 2024 Sports Congress in Denmark. Natasha has co-authored national guidelines, supported NIHR applicants, and helped to build AHP research capacity. Her research focuses on reducing decision regret in shoulder surgery through inclusive, patient-centred approaches that improve outcomes and empower choice.

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Surg Cdr Steve Mannion

Head of the Department of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine, St George’s, University of London

Steve Mannion, MA MChir DTM&H DMCC FRCS (Tr & Orth) RD is Head of the Department of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine at St George’s, University of London, combining this with a part time appointments as an NHS consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Blackpool and Preston. For up to 6 months a year he also undertakes orthopaedic education and training projects in the less developed world and has extensive experience in humanitarian surgical projects in conflict areas, including Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has established clubfoot treatment projects in many less developed countries and is Medical Director of the Global Clubfoot Initiative. Steve is a lead clinician in the UK response to International Disasters and past Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern (UK).

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Valsamis Markos

Markos completed his medical studies at the University of Cambridge and entered specialty training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in Oxford. His DPhil at the University of Oxford was titled “Improving outcomes for patients having shoulder replacements: guiding patient selection, evaluating cost-effectiveness and informing NHS provision” and was funded by an NIHR Doctoral Fellowship.

 

Andrew Metcalfe

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Katrina Mitchell

ATOCP Co-Chair

I have been a physiotherapist for over 20 years, and a clinical specialist in trauma and orthopaedics since 2008. I have completed my Orthopaedic diploma and an MSc in Musculoskeletal Science. I have worked alongside Mr Goldberg and published a systematic review on the use of mesenchymal stem cells, and more recently been part of the stakeholder group working on weight bearing terminology and the NAFF pathway.

 I am currently the Clinical Services Manager for community therapies, a challenge I sought after completing a secondment as the AHP Faculty Lead in the HIOW ICB. In these roles I have a focus on workforce and service development and have used my networks and skills to enhance the experience our patients receive.

 I am the current co- chair of the CSP South Central Regional Branch and the co-Chair and treasurer of the physio professional network, Association of Trauma and Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists.

 In my spare time I support my 2 boys with their sports clubs, taking on the admin role within their cricket teams and run director of the local junior park run, "if you can't beat them join them".

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Chris Morgan

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Rishi Navarsi

Consultant Physiotherapist

Mr Rishi Navsaria qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2003/4 and completed his core rotational training in orthopaedics, musculoskeletal, neurological and medical respiratory at the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital, and Imperial College Healthcare Trust. In 2013 he began his Advanced Orthopaedic Practitioner role within Spinal Orthopaedic Surgery at Imperial College Healthcare, assessing patients with acute spinal trauma and those with degenerative spinal conditions. Since then, Mr Navsaria has gone on to take Advanced Practitioner roles in primary and community care, delivering point of care diagnostic ultrasound and guided injection procedures in the community, improving early patient management and reducing unnecessary waits for radiology diagnostics. He won the prestigious National Health Service Journal award for innovation for the work in this area. He is now one of only a handful of Consultant Physiotherapists in Spinal Orthopaedics with speciality skills working across primary, secondary and tertiary care in order to deliver expert care earlier in a patient’s journey to avoid the development of chronic long term spinal orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions. He is the Clinical Lead for the new RNOH MSK Hub in Enfield, one of the first such hubs in the country, which looks to deliver the RNOH expertise to local regions by having RNOH multi-professional expert clinicians under one roof based in the community. Mr Navsaria also carries a part time permanent academic role within the Health and Social Care Faculty at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the Lead Tutor for the Masters Level First Contact Practitioner Programme. Mr Navsaria’s current research interests include metabolic syndrome, MSK Health Inequalities and Spinal orthopaedic care.

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Gabriella Noblet

Consultant OrthoGeriatrician

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Sam Oussedik

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department at the UK’s leading teaching hospital, University College London Hospitals

 

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department at the UK’s leading teaching hospital, University College London Hospitals. 

Director of surgical education at UCLH.

Speciality editor for knee surgery for the Bone & Joint Journal, the UK’s leading orthopaedic Journal.

Editorial Board member for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.

Member of ISAKOS’ arthroplasty committee.

Member of EFORT’s Orthopaedic Education Group.

Founder member British PatelloFemoral Society

Founder member International Knee Society

Member AORecon Knee taskforce

 

Research interests include revision total knee replacement; prosthetic alignment in primary knee arthroplasty; robotic assisted surgery; ACL reconstruction; patellar stabilisaton.

You can find more at www.samoussedik.com

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Rish Parmar

Consultant Trauma and Upper Limb Surgeon , University of Liverpool Hospitals NHS Trust

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Derek Pegg

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Chair, NJR Data Quality Committee

Derek Pegg is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Leighton Hospital, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Crewe. Appointed in 1996, Derek developed a specialist interest in both hip and knee replacement surgery and (until very recently) their revision. He joined the NJR as a regional clinical coordinator (RCC) for the Northwest in 2012, becoming the deputy chair in 2017 and was appointed Chair of the RCC Committee in January 2021. He is also a member of the NJR Board, Executive Committee and Chair of the NJR Data Quality Committee.

Daniel Perry

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Ricci Plastow

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University College Hospital

Ricci Plastow is a consultant in hip and knee surgery at University College London Hospital. He studied medicine in Manchester and finished Orthopaedic training in 2019. He completed a fellowship in Vancouver before returning to London for fellowship in arthroplasty and robotic surgery at UCLH. He is a member of the RCS Trainee RADAR group and MSK Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) Working Group. He is the trainee lead for the MSK RAS group and is driving future training opportunities in robotic and digital surgery.

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Ganesh Prasad

Consultant Trauma and Upper Limb Surgeon , Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Dr Tom Roberts

Tom’s main clinical interests are emergency anaesthesia and high-risk pre-operative assessment. He was previously responsible for Enhanced Recovery across the health board, worked as a surgical services reviewer for Health Inspectorate Wales, and undertook prize-winning research into point of care coagulation testing. He is currently coordinates the Orthopaedic Frailty Pathway, and is Deputy Clinical Director for Theatres in Cardiff and Vale UHB.

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Alex Schade

Alex is a trauma and orthopaedic registrar in the West Midlands deanery. After conducting his undergraduate at King’s College London (2010), he undertook his medical degree at the University of Bristol (2015). During this time, he volunteered in trauma centres in Uganda and Cambodia. He then completed his academic foundation programme and academic clinical fellowship in the West Midlands. More recently, he gained his masters in Public Heath from the University of Warwick (2020) and has spent 3 years at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust conducting his PhD on open tibia fractures in Malawi. His research focuses on establishing trauma networks in low-income countries to deal with the rising burden from road traffic injuries

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Chloe Scott

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon , Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Chloe Scott is a consultant hip, knee & trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and an NHS Research Scotland Clinician. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic surgery, finite element analysis and knee biomechanics. She serves on the editorial board of the BJJ where she is associate editor for knowledge translation and was awarded the Hunter Doig medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020.

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Nashat Siddiqui

Consultant Trauma and Upper Limb Surgeon , Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

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Lucy Silvester

ATOCP Stakeholder Chair

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Professor Dawn Skelton

Dawn Skelton (FRCP Edin, Hon FCSP, M.D.h.c) is an exercise physiologist and is
currently Professor in Ageing and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is an
academic with a strong interest in exercise programme implementation (dose, fidelity,
motivation, adherence, choice) and in the development of apps with older people.
She was a coauthor on the World Falls Guidelines and received the British Geriatrics
Society Marjory Warren Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in translating falls
prevention research into practice. She has chaired the Older Adults Panel of the Chief
Medical Officers Physical Activity for Health Guidelines and the Royal Osteoporosis
Society’s Consensus Statement on Exercise for Osteoporosis. She is also a Director of
Later Life Training, a not-for profit training company.

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Amol Tambe

Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon , University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Hon Consultant Assistant Professor University of Nottingham

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Hiro Tanaka

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Hiro Tanaka is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Newport, South Wales.  He is passionate about improving the quality of surgical training and promoting clinical leadership in the NHS.  He designed the BOFAS Principles Course on behalf of the Education Committee in 2010 and continues to be a member of the committee.  He is Chairman of the Education and Revalidation Committee of the BOA and is an examiner for the FRCS (Orth).

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Daniel Thomas

Consultant OrthoGeriatrician , Aintree University Hospital

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John Timperley

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Alison Troughton

Alison trained as an Occupational Therapist in Northern Ireland, working in the Royal Victoria Hospital before moving to London to continue her career. Alison completed her NHS rotations where she went on to specialise in treating individuals following complex trauma at St George’s hospital, one of the London’s Major Trauma Centre’s. Alison's transition into the rehab environment was influenced by the desire to help individuals on their journey to recovery. She was inspired by the resilience and determination shown by those who had experienced a life changing event yet remained highly motivated to conquer new challenges and rediscover the things they love doing. Alison has varied experience working across trauma and has developed a particular interest in amputee rehabilitation, polytrauma rehabilitation and scar management.

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Graham Tytherleigh-Strong

Consultant Shoulder/Elbow and Sports Surgeon , Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Farokh Wadia

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton Children's Hospital

Farokh Wadia is a fellowship trained Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon working at Southampton Children's Hospital. He has completed Paediatric Orthopaedic fellowship from Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. His special interests include paediatric and adolescent knee disorders, with a special interest in patellofemoral disorders. His research interests include MPFL reconstruction using Fibre-tape and PF instability in Downs syndrome. He has worked as a team doctor for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier league cricket.

Peter Wall

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

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Michael Whitehouse

Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University of Bristol

Mike is a Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the treatment of osteoarthritis, outcomes of joint replacement, adverse events such as the treatment of PJI, hip fracture, open fractures and cartilage damage. He employs a wide range of research methodologies including multicentre randomised controlled trials, first-in-human trials, analysis of large routinely collected healthcare datasets, evidence synthesis, qualitative methods and health economics. He leads the NJR lot 2 contract for Statistical Analysis, Support and Associated Services and a range of NIHR funded studies investigating bearings in THR, optimisation for surgery, intra-articular injections, novel devices and treatments for cartilage damage and infection. Mike has published over 250 peer reviewed papers, 9 NJR annual reports, and obtained grant funding of £5.9 million as lead and a further £16.4 million as co-applicant. He sits on the British Orthopaedic Association and British Hip Society research committees.

Mark Wilkinson

Professor of Orthopaedics, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Chair, NJR Research Committee

Professor Wilkinson's principal research interests are in the genetic and metabolic aspects of joint replacement, osteoarthritis, and other associated diseases. Professor Wilkinson is a key clinical collaborator in the Genetics of Osteoarthritis initiative. He and his collaborators have been instrumental in determining our current understanding of the genetic architecture of osteoarthritis. He conducted the first genome-wide scan into hip dysplasia, and into osteolysis and heterotopic ossification after hip replacement, He published the first study in humans to show that bisphosphonates may suppress bone loss after hip replacement and the first clinical trial to show that the human monoclonal antibody denosumab can inhibit osteolysis lesion activity. Other areas of research include exploration of the molecular mechanisms that underpin osteoarthritis development and identifying potential novel pharmacological strategies for its treatment. He has worked on the genetics of osteoarthritis has uncovered novel gene associations with severity and pattern of hip and knee OA, bone remodelling responses to disease, and hip shape. He also studied the systemic health effects of metal ion exposure after hip resurfacing has demonstrated effects on bone cells, cardiovascular, and other systems.

Professor Wilkinson’s principal funding sources are Versus Arthritis, NIHR, Wellcome, MRC, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Cavendish Foundation, John Charnley Trust and industry.

Andy Williams

Founder of Fortius Clinic

Knee surgeon at, and founder of Fortius Clinic, London; and Reader at Imperial College, London.

Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Peters Myers / McMeniman. Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore ’97-00 then 15 years at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Exclusively ‘sports knee’ surgery now. 90% of patients are professional athletes- he is the usual knee surgeon for many teams including the majority of English Premier League football and rugby clubs. He undertakes approximately 100 ACL reconstructions per year and a multi-ligament reconstruction every 2-3 weeks. This latter work represents one of the World’s largest experiences.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles: some award-winning, as well as many other publications. A study of knee motion employing weight-bearing, ‘dynamic’ MRI was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2005-2006. Current focus is on the MCL after a period of work on the anterolateral soft tissues with relevance to ACL injury, and published improved clinical outcomes in elite athletes by applying the lessons learned in the Andrew Amis lab at Imperial College. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. A cadaveric study on ramp lesions of the medial meniscus is the 11th most cited meniscus research article per year 1976 – 2019, and another on chondral treatment techniques is 35th  most cited publication ever in orthopaedic knee research. His h-index is 46.

He sits on the Board of Directors of ISAKOS and serves on their finance and knee: sports and preservation committees. He is second vice-president of The ACL Study Group and so will be president in 2030. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal, as well as The ESSKA Sports Committee.  He was previously on the executive of The British Association for Surgery of The Knee. In 2002 he was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship. He was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper in 2011. He is the first UK member of The Herodicus Society, a U.S.-based sports surgery society.

He lectures nationally and internationally and delivered the inaugural Werner Müller lecture at ESSKA 2021.

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Chloe Willoughby

No bio provided

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Tim Wilton

Chair, Medical Director, NJR

Tim Wilton trained at Oxford and at UCH medical school and in Orthopaedics at Nottingham, Harlow Wood, Derby and South Wales with travelling fellowships in N America, Strasbourg, Bern and Ljubljana. He has an entirely elective practice in lower limb arthroplasty and has specialised in knee replacement and knee revision surgery for the last 30 years. He has a lifetime personal experience of over 2500 hip and 3500 knee replacements.

Tim teaches widely on technical aspects of knee replacement and has been invited lecturer throughout the world and at the major European, North American and International Knee Surgery organisations.

Tim has been President of the BOA and of BASK, and Chairman of the Bone and Joint Journal.

He is NJR Medical Director and Vice Chair, NJR Board.                                                                

Jo Winton

Physiotherapist

No bio provided

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