BOA Annual Congress 2026

Naomi Assame

Deputy Director of Safety and Learning, NHS Resolution

Naomi joined NHS Resolution in December 2019 and is the Deputy Director of Safety and Learning.

Having graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2000 with a BSc Hons in Human Movement Science and Physical Education she went on to qualify as a nurse in 2003. Naomi started her nursing career in General Surgery at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds where she later became a Surgical Nurse Practitioner based within the hospital’s Emergency Department.

Naomi qualified as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in 2011 and has worked in both General Surgery at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the King Street Walk-in-Centre in Wakefield.

Prior to joining NHS Resolution, Naomi was the Clinical Governance Lead for Local Care Direct, a community owned provider which delivered the Out of Hours GP service for West Yorkshire as well as three Urgent Treatment Centre’s, a Walk-in-Centre and Emergency Department Streaming.

Naomi has always had a passion for patient safety whether it be through development of the workforce, service improvement or extracting learning from patient safety events. Between 2012 and 2022, Naomi taught on the MBChB programme at Leeds University and played a key role in delivering the patient safety strand of the curriculum. Education and research remain Naomi’s special interests. Naomi is currently assisting Loughborough University with the delivery of the patient safety syllabus training and is undertaking a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Professor Stella Vig

Deputy National Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality: National Clinical Director for Elective Care, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Stella brings over 30 years of NHS experience, with a career spanning clinical practice, strategic leadership, and system-wide transformation. As a consultant in vascular and general surgery at Croydon University Hospital since 2006, she has consistently driven service improvement and operational excellence. 

In her national roles as Deputy National Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality, and National Clinical Director for Elective Care at NHS England, Stella leads initiatives to improve patient safety, streamline elective care, and enhance clinical pathways through data-driven decision-making. 

Most recently, Stella serves as Joint Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Southwest London ICB, shaping long-term clinical strategy and optimising service delivery. Stella also continues to champion the Croydon Elective Centre, ensuring continuity of planned care even during peak demand. 

Across all her roles, Stella is recognised for her collaborative leadership and ability to deliver scalable, impactful improvements in healthcare quality and efficiency. 

Alwyn Abraham

Training Programme Director T&O, Consultant (Adult Trauma / Paediatric Orthopaedics), University Hospitals of Leicester

Alwyn has spent 17 years on the Trauma and Orthopaedics front line as a Consultant. The highs and lows of working in the NHS notwithstanding he remains a committed clinician, HST TPD for T&O, trainer and FRCS examiner. Clinically, he particularly enjoys the challenge of salvaging infected, traumatised, and deformed limbs in his chosen field of Limb Reconstruction. Unusually for an orthopod, he is committed to quality communication and the acceptance of human factors in medical teams. He lists an eclectic mix of influences in this regard such as Nobel Laureate, Daniel Kahneman's Masterpiece Thinking, Fast and Slow, but equally, The Perfect Puppy by Gwen Bailey. His support of the marginalised has driven his enthusiasm for several interesting projects. This has included his advocacy of CSTs as Training Programme Director, the genesis of a Trust Foundation Doctors Programme for Internationals Medical Graduates and the creation of a Trust registrar programme in Trauma and Orthopaedics culminating in CESR. Alwyn is particularly proud of his role as the co-founder of the Leicester Gondar Orthopaedic Partnership, conceived in 2017. This is a partnership between University Hospitals of Leicester, University of Leicester, and the University of Gondar (Northern Ethiopia). In collaboration with Rotary International USD 200k was raised and has led to a partnership to develop orthopaedic infrastructure in Northern Ethiopia where up to 7 million people are without the very basics of orthopaedic care.Alwyn has spent 17 years on the Trauma and Orthopaedics front line as a Consultant. The highs and lows of working in the NHS notwithstanding he remains a committed clinician, HST TPD for T&O, trainer and FRCS examiner. Clinically, he particularly enjoys the challenge of salvaging infected, traumatised, and deformed limbs in his chosen field of Limb Reconstruction. Unusually for an orthopod, he is committed to quality communication and the acceptance of human factors in medical teams. He lists an eclectic mix of influences in this regard such as Nobel Laureate, Daniel Kahneman's Masterpiece Thinking, Fast and Slow, but equally, The Perfect Puppy by Gwen Bailey. His support of the marginalised has driven his enthusiasm for several interesting projects. This has included his advocacy of CSTs as Training Programme Director, the genesis of a Trust Foundation Doctors Programme for Internationals Medical Graduates and the creation of a Trust registrar programme in Trauma and Orthopaedics culminating in CESR. Alwyn is particularly proud of his role as the co-founder of the Leicester Gondar Orthopaedic Partnership, conceived in 2017. This is a partnership between University Hospitals of Leicester, University of Leicester, and the University of Gondar (Northern Ethiopia). In collaboration with Rotary International USD 200k was raised and has led to a partnership to develop orthopaedic infrastructure in Northern Ethiopia where up to 7 million people are without the very basics of orthopaedic care.

Nate Ahearn

Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant, Knee Surgery, South Devon and Torbay NHS Trust

Nathanael Ahearn is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Torbay Hospital. His practice encompasses general orthopaedic trauma, with an interest in periarticular and periprosthetic fractures around the knee, and an elective practice focused exclusively in all aspects of knee surgery. He balances a predominantly joint preservation soft tissue knee practice with primary arthroplasty.  
 
He is a keen trainer with an interest in medical education, having completed a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals, and is a member of the Academy of Medical Educators. He is currently the OTS Education Committee Chair. 
 
After medical school at Imperial College, he completed surgical training in the Severn Deanery. Having completed fellowship in Sydney he enjoys maximising the outdoor lifestyle and work life balance achieved by living in the South West. 

Muhammad Adeel Akhtar

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, NHS Fife

Oday Al-Dadah

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, South Tyneside Hospital & Newcastle University

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. 

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant and cartilage transplant surgery of the knee. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as medial collateral ligament and postero-lateral corner reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies including high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. He performs a high number of partial knee joint replacements using minimally invasive techniques encompassing medial and lateral uni-compartmental knee replacement, patello-femoral joint replacement and segmental bi-compartmental knee replacement. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction, tibial tuberosity transfer and trochleoplasty. 

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and privileged to be an executive board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK). 

Fazal Ali

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chesterfield Royal Hospital & Sheffield Children’s Hospital

Fazal Ali did his Orthopaedic training in Sheffield, UK with a Knee Fellowship in Newcastle and a short Trauma Fellowship in New York. He has a special interest in sports injuries to the knee, both in adults and in children. He is a consultant at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital where he has helped set up a national referral service for knee problems in children which is the premier service in the UK that regularly manages sporting injuries and  congenital knee disorders. He co-convenes the biennial International Kids Knee conference which brings together surgeons form all over the world. 

He is a former OrthopaedicTraining Programme Director (TPD) for South Yorkshire and is presently the President of BOSTAA (Britsh Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association).  

He has published more than 70 scientific papers and chapters and given numerous invited lectures on training issues and knee surgery both nationally and internationally. He has edited ‘Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics’ (Cambridge University Press) which is a best-selling orthopaedic text in its 3rd edition and was recently published in Chinese. He is co-editing two further textbooks, ‘Postgraduate Orthopaedic Clinics’ (CRC Press), due to be released in 2026 and ‘Child and Adolescent Knee Surgery’ (Springer) which is in progress. 

Fazal Ali was voted ‘Trainer of the Year’ on six occasions across 2 training rotations. As such, he was given a life-time award for training by South Yorkshire in 2014. In 2017 he was again honoured by the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation with the creation of an annual award: The ‘Fazal Ali Award for Academic Excellence’.  

He serves as a senior examiner and assessor for the FRCS(Tr&Orth) examination. He is past-Chair of  Section 1 exam of all ten surgical specialities and sits on the JCIE and T&O Boards. He is also Chair of the International FRCS exam and serves on the board of examiners in multiple developing world countries with the view that this would help advance the standard of orthopaedic training and care in those countries.

Abtin Alvand

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC)

Abtin is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford (NDORMS). He graduated from University of London (Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine). After completing basic surgical training on the prestigious Hammersmith surgical rotation, he began higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics on the Oxford programme in 2008. He took three years out of programme to undertake a PhD (DPhil) as the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit Fellow at the University of Oxford. His DPhil was titled “Improving Surgical Learning and Performance at Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty”. Abtin was appointed as NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2015, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2017. He undertook two post-CCT sub-specialist clinical fellowships focusing on complex hip and knee surgery in Oxford and Stanmore (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital). He was then appointed in Oxford as a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon. Clinically, he has a specialist interest in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty, revision knee arthroplasty, and peri-prosthetic joint infection.

Annunziato (Ned) Amendola

President, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

Ned Amendola, MD, is currently the Virginia Flowers Baker Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief of the Sports Medicine Division, and Executive Director of the James R. Urbaniak Sports Sciences Institute at Duke University. In addition, he is the Head Team physician and Chief Medical Officer for Duke Athletics.

Dr Amendola earned his medical degree and completed his orthopedic residency at the Western University in London, Ontario. He completed post-graduate fellowships in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Foot and Ankle, and Hand Surgery. Dr Amendola is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He began his career on faculty where he trained at Western University in London Canada, where he became Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University Hospital, moved to the University of Iowa in 2001 as Director of Sports Medicine, and was a tenured Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery until 2015. While at Iowa, Dr. Amendola received the Kim and John Callaghan Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine in 2009. He has been a tenured Professor of Orthopaedic surgery at Duke University since 2015.

Dr. Amendola has been involved as a member and a leader in many orthopedic and sports medicine organizations, currently the immediate Past President of the American Academy of Orthopedic surgeons (AAOS). He is Past President for the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of OREF, AAOS, ABOS, AOSSM, AANA, ISAKOS, and Past President of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr Amendola has focused on improving the quality of orthopedic care through clinical practice, education, and research. He has always appreciated teaching and learning from many students, residents, and fellows over his career. He has received numerous peer-reviewed grants, and published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, as well as authored an extensive number of book chapters and editor of 8 textbooks in sports medicine, foot and ankle, and arthroscopy. Dr Amendola has participated as a member of the MOON and MARS multicenter research groups. Dr. Amendola has earned numerous research related awards including Kappa Delta Award from the AAOS in 2012 and 2019 and Excellence in Research Award, Cabaud and O’Donohue awards from the AOSSM; The Roger Mann and Leonard Goldner Awards form AOFAS ; ISAKOS Achilles Sports medicine Research Award. In 2025 he was inducted into the AOSSM Sports Medicine Hall of Fame .

Sanjeev Anand

Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Anand is a Consultant knee surgeon with a tertiary referral practice at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.  

He is a founder member and Executive Director of the International Society for Knowledge for Surgeons on Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty (ISKSAA), and serves as Executive Editor of the Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery. He is currently Academic Secretary for BOSTAA, and an Executive Member of the British Patellofemoral Society (BPFS). He is immediate Past-President of BIOS. 

He has played a leading role in developing national guidelines for ACL reconstruction and has contributed to guidance on patellofemoral disorders and arthroscopic meniscal surgery.

Antonio J (Tony) Andrade

Consultant Orthopaedic Hip and Knee Surgeon, The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation

Elizabeth Ashby

Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Anouska Ayub

Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health

Anouska is a Paediatric T&O Consultant at the Royal London Hospital.  She has a particular interest in education, with an MSc (MedEd) and is on the BSCOS Education Committee.

Morgan Bailey

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton Children's Hospital

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 a Trustee 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. 

Emily Baird

Consultant in trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgery, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh.

Emily Baird is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, with an interest in paediatric trauma, and congenital conditions of the hip and foot. She trained primarily in the West of Scotland with Fellowships in Edinburgh and Toronto.

Emily is passionate about increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce and broadening access to orthopaedics through mentorship and medical education. She is heavily involved in providing medical student education as an Undergraduate Lead, and Post Graduate Education as Training Programme Director for Orthopaedic Trainees in South East Scotland and examining for FRCS Tr & Orth.

She is the Chair of the Education Committee of The British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery, a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, Faculty Member for Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons and Tutor for the MSc in Patient Safety and Human Factors.

She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two young boys, and likes to dance and run!

Meg Baker

ST4 South Yorkshire; Publicity Secretary

Meg is an ST5 in South Yorkshire and the current BOTA President. She has a keen interest in Medical Education having set up the Future Orthopaedic Surgeons of South Yorkshire Association and the Yorkshire Educational Surgeons Collaborative. Both aiming to support aspiring surgeons to further their careers and improve the quality of surgical training.

Paul Banaszkiewicz

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead

Paul Banaszkiewicz is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, specialising in hip and knee arthroplasty. He graduated from University of Glasgow, completed basic surgical training in the Merseyside Deanery, and undertook specialist registrar training on the North East of Scotland training programme.

He is currently a Trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and Chair of the BOA Education and Careers (EdCar) Committee, leading initiatives focused on professional development, mentoring, workforce support, and equity of opportunity across orthopaedics. He has helped develop national educational programmes including the BOA–BODS Clinical Directors course, UKITE, Ortho Update and Extended Clinical Team initiatives at BOA Congress.

Paul is Editor of the Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics (JTO) and co-leads the TENDON study evaluating musculoskeletal education within UK medical schools. He has a particular interest in differential attainment, widening participation, and improving access to mentorship and career development within surgical training.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, and holds a Master’s degree in Medical Education from Newcastle University. He also serves as an Advisory Appointments Committee (AAC) member and Quality Assurance Assessor for the RCSEng.

As Visiting Professor at Northumbria University, Paul helps bridge academic research with practical clinical orthopaedic practice. He has supported the BOA Futures Leadership Programme, BOA Travelling Fellowships, and the educational activities of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA). He is also lead editor and author of three internationally recognised FRCS (Tr & Orth) textbooks, which have received several BMA Book Awards.

Paul has undertaken humanitarian orthopaedic work in Northern Iraq and remains committed to international collaboration, diversity, and inclusion within orthopaedics. Outside work, he enjoys running, skiing, gardening, and supporting Burnley F.C..

Joanne Banks

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, Mersey Deanery Training Programme Director

Jo is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with specialist interests in sports knee surgery and complex lower limb trauma. She trained at Liverpool University Medical School and completed her surgical training in the Mersey region. She has also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering from the University of Cardiff. She works at the Liverpool University Hospitals, a large city centre teaching hospital, MTC and tertiary referral centre.

She is passionate about education and is an Honorary Lecturer with the University of Liverpool. She is a regular faculty member on national and international courses and is the Training Programme Director and Education Director for the Mersey Orthopaedic and Trauma Training Programme. Outside of work Jo loves most sports, enjoys being out in the fells and is an avid Newcastle United fan. She is the Chief Medical Officer for British Judo, travelling with the squad to competitions all over the World. She is looking forward to being part of Team GB for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, where Judo will be coming home.

Robin Bannerjee

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry

Robin Banerjee is a fellowship-trained Consultant Lower Limb Arthroplasty Surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital. He specialises in primary and complex revision hip and knee surgery, with particular interest in infection and femoral reconstruction. He is Assistant Director of Clinical Studies at RJAH, an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and is the Chair of the British Hip Society Education Committee.

Dan Barnabas Inja

Associate Professor Orthopaedic Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Professor David Beard

Professor of Musculoskeletal and Surgical Sciences, NDORMS, University of Oxford

David Beard is an internationally recognised expert in the evaluation of surgical innovation, holding roles as Professor of Musculoskeletal and Surgical Sciences, and Rosetrees RCS Eng Oxford (Surgical Trials Centre) Chair at the University of Oxford, and Professor and Director of Research Partnerships at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, with a specialist role as Surgical & Complex Intervention Trials Lead. He is Co-Chief Investigator of the NIHR REINFORCE study, a large-scale evaluation of the safety, effectiveness, implementation and health economics of robotic surgery across multiple specialties. 

Rebecca Beesley

Patient Representative and Co-Chair, NJR Board & Patient Network

Rebecca Beesley is a Patient Representative on the NJR Board and also co-Chair of the NJR Patient Network. She brings her own lived experience into the work of the NJR, having been a patient who has undergone hip replacement surgery.

Having had Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) for most of her life, Rebecca co-founded the charity ‘Juvenile Arthritis Research’, which supports many families affected by the condition, where she is the lead on family support and communications. She is passionate about patient involvement and has been involved in projects including the JIA Learn quality improvement project - a British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) and Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) funded project - and the BSR’s Pain in Inflammatory Arthritis Guideline working group. She has delivered over 20 publications and conference presentations to date.

Rebecca has a background in Financial Services and Market Research having graduated from the University of Bath with a 1^st Class honours degree in Business Administration.

Reshid Berber

Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Reshid Berber is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon based at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.  After graduating from University College London, he undertook specialist training on the highly regarded training programmes across London, Leicester and Nottingham.  Mr Berber was awarded a PhD from University College London, for his internationally recognised research based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He has published several scientific articles and has received numerous awards for his research activities.  On completion of training, he went on to highly regarded national and international fellowships, including a BOA travelling fellowship to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. Mr Berber has a hip and knee reconstructive practice, including robotic arthroplasty and revision knee surgery. Mr Berber is a consultant member of the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network. He is also a dedicated faculty member on several national and international teaching courses.

Rahul Bhattacharyya

Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals, Imperial College London

Professor Rahul Bhattacharyya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at Ross

Hall Hospital, Glasgow. His NHS base is at NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals. He is Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (knee surgery biomechanics research). He is also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and University of Glasgow. He is member of the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).
His clinical interests are focused entirely around surgery of the knee with a special interest in sports knee injuries with experience in treating elite level athletes. This includes meniscal repair and meniscal allograft transplantation, ligament (cruciate and collateral) repair and reconstruction, cartilage repair and knee cap (patella) stabilisation surgery. He also treats patients with arthritis with a focus on knee joint preservation wherever possible.

Prof Bhattacharyya graduated with Honours in medicine and surgery from the University of Sheffield in 2009. He completed specialist training in orthopaedics in the West of Scotland, Glasgow. He then undertook a further sub-specialty fellowship in sports knee surgery with the internationally renowned Mr Tim Spalding and Mr Pete Thompson at Coventry, UK. Here he was trained in all aspects of modern, cutting edge sports knee surgery and is one of the few surgeons in Scotland trained to treat meniscal deficiency with Meniscal Allograft Transplantation. He has been awarded the prestigious British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) travelling fellowship in 2023. With this award, he has visited international centres of excellence in sports knee surgery in London Ontario, Canada and Stanford University, USA. This has enabled him to gain further insight into the latest cutting edge techniques used in knee surgery in world leading centres and being able to offer this to his patients in the UK.

Prof Bhattacharyya pioneered the use of Cognitive Task Analysis in knee and trauma surgery which led to multiple academic publications and presentations. He has been nominated by the Royal College of Surgeons, England, for innovation in surgical education and for the president’s medal in teaching innovation by Imperial College London for his work in this field. He also has a keen interest in biomechanics research investigating innovations in surgical techniques in sports knee surgery, research in meniscal allograft transplantation and clinical research ensuring patient outcomes are evaluated to deliver the highest standards of care.

Professor Leela Biant

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, BASK

Professor Leela Biant is the immediate past President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the King James IV Professor, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She is Academic Head of Dept Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Manchester, Honorary Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester University Hospitals an is Co-Director of the regional North West Joint Preservation Service, serving a a poulation of over 7 million patients for Cartilage Repair and Regeneration. Leela trained in London and completed specialist fellowships in Sydney and London. 

Caroline Blakey

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Specialist in Paediatric Orthopaedics and Young Adult Hip Surgeon, Sheffield Children's Hospital Foundation Trust, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust

Caroline Blakey is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Deputy Training Programme Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics in South Yorkshire.

Her clinical practice covers the breadth of paediatric orthopaedics, with particular interests in paediatric hip conditions, hip preservation and adolescent hip surgery. She is involved in regional and national education and training, and has a particular interest in supporting trainees to develop both clinical expertise and confidence as they progress towards consultancy.

Alongside her clinical work, Caroline is involved in service development and improving pathways for children and young people with orthopaedic conditions, with a focus on practical changes that make care safer and more effective.

She enjoys teaching at all levels and particularly values the discussion and shared learning that comes from working with colleagues across different subspecialties and centres.

Karina Elisabeth Bohlen

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Elbe Klinikum Buxtehude

Simon Booker

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (Shoulder & Elbow), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Steve Borland

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Steven Borland is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary where he specialises in complex orthopaedic trauma, pelvic and acetabular fractures, post trauma limb reconstruction, deformity correction, and hip and knee arthroplasty. 

Mr Borland graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005 and completed his higher surgical training in the North-East and where he developed an interest in orthopaedic trauma.  
 
He completed the Ilizarov limb reconstruction fellowship in Kurgan, Russia. He then spent a year in Toronto, Canada at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and St Michael’s Hospital gaining experience of complex trauma, pelvis and acetabular (hip socket) injuries and hip and knee replacement. 

Deepa Bose

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Trauma and Limb Reconstruction, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Deepa Bose is a consultant in orthopaedic trauma and limb reconstruction at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.  Her practice is exclusively in adults, and includes general trauma, major trauma and post-traumatic limb reconstruction: osteomyelitis, malunion, non-union, limb lengthening & deformity correction.

She is currently Hono0rary Secretary of the BOA and has previously been Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma & Orthopaedics and the lead for CESR approval process.  She has also contributed to the revision of the curriculum.  She holds an MSc in Medical Education and has been admitted to the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of RCS Edinburgh, as well as being a member of the Academy of Medical Educators. 

Chris Boulton

Director of Operations, NJR

Chris Boulton, NJR Director of Operations, leads the strategic and operational work of the registry and has worked for the NJR in senior roles for the past eight years.

With more than 20 years’ experience in clinical audit, Chris has extensive experience in health data, analytics, and operational leadership roles. He has particular expertise in delivering complex national programmes in orthopaedics, improving data quality, and translating insight into meaningful impact across the health system.

Mark Bowditch

Consultant and Divisional Clinical Director MSK & surgical specialties, BOA Past President, ESNEFT (Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals)

Mark is a Consultant and Divisional Clinical Director MSK & surgical specialties at ESNEFT (Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals) since 2000. Mark’s specialist interests are in surgery of the knee and all levels of surgical education.

He was Chair of the SAC 2017-2020 leading the new curriculum changes, East of England Training Programme Director for 11 years, and is currently Head of School of Surgery.  Following three years on BOA Council and one year on the Orthopaedic Committee he joined the Executive as Honorary Treasurer in 2020/21 and is Immediate Past President.

Vitty Bucknall

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Alderhey Children's Hospital Trust

Miss Bucknall trained in Birmingham before further graduating from the University of Dundee with honours in Orthopaedic Sciences. Following this, Miss Bucknall joined the Edinburgh Orthopaedic Programme where she completed her higher surgical training. 

Miss Bucknall went on to complete her fellowship in paediatric orthopaedic surgery at Alder Hey where she joined the team as a consultant. 

During training, Miss Bucknall received a number of national prizes for research and education and was awarded the Scottish national prize for best trainee. Miss Bucknall has served as President to the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association and has sat as council on the boards of the British Orthopaedic Association, the Intercollegiate Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Joint Committee of Surgical Training. 

Miss Bucknall is avid about surgical education and delivers both international and national conferences and teaching as well as being a nationally invited guest speaker. As a member of the Selection Design Group, Miss Bucknall continues to organise national recruitment to orthopaedic training. 

Miss Bucknall has a specialist interest in paediatric hip surgery from birth to adolescence. 

Pranai Buddhdev

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mid & South Essex NHS Trust

Mr. Pranai Buddhdev is an internationally fellowship-trained and recognised specialist in paediatric orthopaedic surgery and young adult hip preservation working at Mid & South Essex NHS Trust. He’s on the Executive board of the Hip Hope Network, an international organisation promoting paediatric hip health worldwide and on the education committee for BSCOS.  

Clare Carpenter

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Clare has been a Paediatric Orthopaedic consultant at the Noah's ark Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, since 2012. There is no greater job satisfaction than the generality of paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, coupled with the reward of treating children. Cardiff has been a major trauma centre for children since September 2020.
She has been actively involved in education since a junior trainee and this has culminated in her appointment as Training Programme Director in August 2023 to the Welsh Deanery. A role which she finds a privilege and energising to constantly be in touch with training and the trainees.
Recently she has become the BSCOS Secretary and contributes to the Paediatric Orthopaedic community across the UK.

Anna Chapman

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire

Anna Chapman is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire, with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle surgery.

She qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals School of Medicine in London and completed her Orthopaedic training on the Warwick rotation. She undertook Fellowship training in Bournemouth and Bristol, and was appointed as a Consultant in 2012. She completed a Masters Degree in Medical Education at the University of Warwick in 2010 and continues to pursue her interest in all things educational.

Anna is currently the Lead Training Programme Director for the West Midlands and is the Portfolio Pathway Lead for the T&O Specialist Advisory Committee. She has served two terms on the BOFAS Education Committee (2015-2023) and a term as BOFAS EDI Lead (2023-2025). She is currently the Chair of the BOFAS Education Committee. 

Salma Chaudhury

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospital Trust

Salma is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospital Trust who specialises in Shoulder and Elbow trauma, sports injuries and shoulder replacements. She is triple fellowship trained from international recognised centres of shoulder excellence, having trained at Oxford, Cambridge and Reading, and spent a year during training at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. She was awarded the BESS Travelling Fellowship. Her Trauma and Orthopaedics higher surgical training was completed in Oxford, and she studied medicine at Cambridge University. 

Salma is committed to producing the highest quality research to offer patients the best evidence-based, compassionate care. She was awarded a PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery from Oxford University, for her studies of rotator cuff failure and repair strategies to improve healing. To date she has been awarded £450,000 in research grants, including an ORUK early career research fellowship, and has published widely. She is the associate editor for Bone and Joint Journal 360, and was previously the social media editor for Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. She currently sits on the British Elbow and Shoulder Surgery Research Committee and was previously Executive Committee member for British Orthopaedic Research Society. 

Teaching has always been important to Salma and she was the co-director of orthopaedic teaching for Oxford University undergraduate medical students for 4 years. She has taught widely on courses such as the Oxford University Orthopaedic MSC course, shoulder and elbow cadaveric courses in Cambridge and ORUK FRCS Revision courses. She has regularly lectured internationally and nationally, including teaching in China and Palestine.

She has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to improving training for all doctors as well as patient outcomes, reflected in her wide-ranging work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives. Some of her key previous roles include:

• Elected senior BOA EDI champion for Thames Valley.
• Royal College of Surgeons Working Parents Group.
• Federation of Surgical Speciality Association (FSSA) Anti-Bullying and Harassment Committee

David Clarke OBE

CEO of ParalympicsGB

Nick Clement

Orthopaedic Consultant, NHS Lothian Hospital Trust

Nick Clement is a Consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and is a Visiting Professor at Sunderland University. He is also the network clinical research lead for orthopaedics for the Chief Scientist Office in Scotland and is an NIHR Senior Investigator. Nick's clinical practice focuses on primary hip and knee arthroplasty and hip fracture care. His clinical research has focused upon both arthroplasty and trauma to date, and he hopes to continue this broad research interest. However, he aims to focus on improving patient-reported outcomes after knee arthroplasty, with the implementation of new technologies.

Professor Matthew Costa

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

Julie Craig

Orthopaedic Specialty Doctor, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

Julie Craig is the SAS representative on the BOA education & careers committee. 

She works as an Orthopaedic Specialty Doctor in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. 

Julie graduated from Queen’s University in Belfast, and has since completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Education at Queen’s University, and a Master’s degree in Orthopaedic Engineering from Cardiff University. She is now an undergraduate educational lead for fractures for Queen’s University Belfast. 

She teaches quality improvement and leadership skills to doctors in the Belfast Trust as part of the QI faculty. 

Julie has a special interest in clinical data analysis and project design and is the Belfast Trust’s specialty improvement lead for their fracture inpatient database. She is also the Northern Ireland representative on the NHFD advisory group and a member of the RCP’s FFFAP committee. 

Julie’s publications include peer-reviewed journals and chapter contributions to a trauma and orthopaedic nursing textbook. She has received prizes for Best Presentation at the British Trauma Society, Best Abstract at the Irish Hip Fracture Database Annual Meeting, the Bone and Joint Journal Prize, and a “highlight paper" at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. 

Joanna Craven

Orthopaedic Registrar , University of Liverpool

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’.

Pallavi Dasannacharya

Consultant Anaesthetist

Kumar Dash

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Vice President BOTA, Golden Jubilee National Hospital

Edward Davis

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Clinical Service Lead for Arthroplasty and Honorary Professor, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham / University of Birmingham

Professor Edward Davis is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Service Lead for Arthroplasty at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, and Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham. He specialises in primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery and is internationally recognised for his expertise in robotic-assisted surgery, computer navigation and advanced joint replacement techniques.

Professor Davis graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School and completed his orthopaedic training in the West Midlands, followed by a specialist fellowship in revision hip and knee arthroplasty in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MSc in Trauma, a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics).

His clinical and academic interests focus on improving outcomes in hip and knee replacement surgery through the development and application of new technologies, including computer-assisted surgery, robotics and data-driven approaches to patient care. He has played a leading role in the development of navigation and robotic systems within orthopaedics and is widely invited to lecture, teach and demonstrate these techniques nationally and internationally.

Alongside his clinical practice, Professor Davis is actively involved in research, education and training, serving as Head of Academy at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and contributing to the education of medical students, trainees and orthopaedic surgeons.

Ben Dean

Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Laura Deriu

Children’s Orthopaedic Consultant, Leeds Children’s Hospital

Miss Laura Deriu has been a Children’s Orthopaedic Consultant at Leeds Children’s Hospital since 2015.

She did her higher surgical training in Rome (Italy) and underwent fellowship training in the United States and United Kingdom. She enjoys the generality of paediatric orthopaedics, but has a particular interest in trauma, hip conditions and foot deformities.

Miss Deriu is a keen trainer and is highly involved at regional and national level. She was awarded the BOTA TOTY in 2020-2021.

She is the Chair of the Education Committee of the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedics Surgery and is highly involved in organising and coordinating local and national educational events.

Livio Di Mascio

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Upper Limb Surgery), Barts Health NHS Trust

Alexander Dodds

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon GHNHSFT

Mr Alexander Dodds BSc (Hons), MBBCh, MSc, MD (Res), FRCS (Tr and Orth) is a nationally regarded UK Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, and specialist Knee and Hip surgeon. Mr Dodds has served on the BASK (British Association for Surgery of the Knee) executive team from 2017- 22, responsible for driving best practice in patient care across the UK. His first-class surgical practice is underlined by his world renowned research work, for which he was awarded an MD (Res) from Imperial College London.

Mr Dodds specialises in the diagnosis and management of knee and hip related conditions, treating joint pain, instability and sports injuries to get you back to your best. He regularly performs arthroscopic (key-hole) surgery, ligament (including ACL) reconstruction, realignment surgery (osteotomy) and partial/total joint replacements, primary and revision knee and hip replacements.

He works as a Consultant in the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He treats both private and self-pay knee and hip patients at the Nuffield Health Hospital in Cheltenham and also conducts a clinic at the Linton House Cobalt Clinic in Cheltenham.

Sukhdeep K Dulai

Past-President, Canadian Orthopaedic Association

Dr. Dulai is a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Alberta and a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Stollery Children’s and Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is a founding member and past president of the Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society, a former Director of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation and the immediate Past-President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association.

She completed medical school and a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Alberta followed by fellowships in Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Sydney, Australia) and B.C. Children’s Hospital (Vancouver, BC) and earned a Master of Health Science in clinical epidemiology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery fellowship director at the U of A. Her clinical interests are limb deformities, hip dysplasia and neuromuscular disorders.

She is co-chair of the Paediatric Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation medicine Research Team of Alberta (PORRTAL), the orthopaedic lead of the U of A Paediatric Developmental Hip Dysplasia study group and a member of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI). Along with a focus on improving pediatric orthopaedic care for underserved populations and children with complex orthopaedic conditions such as cerebral palsy, she has a keen interest in the development and advocacy of initiatives which contribute to the development of healthier and more sustainable surgical practices and health systems, thereby improving patient care overall.

William Eardley

Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon, Research Associate, University of York CTU, Honorary Associate, University of Teesside, South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Will is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in trauma surgery and fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis.
Will is responsible for hip fracture care in England and Wales as the Orthopaedic Clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database.
Will is involved in benchmarking surgical quality as vice-chair of the Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Will helps coordinate United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma and co-author BOAST guidelines as vice-chair of the
British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee. Will is involved in benchmarking Major Trauma Care and open fracture data collection nationally through the Major Trauma Registry audit committee. Will has recently become an examiner for the FRCS(Orth).

Professor Deborah Eastwood

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

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children & the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Assoc Professor, University College London
Deputy Chair of the RCS England Workforce and Training Committee 
RCSE Trustee and Council Member

As a medical student, growth and function fascinated me, and so I became a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon. I enjoy clinical work, research and teaching, and I remain a committed trainer despite the current challenges. I am a past president of both EPOS and the BOA and current president of IODA (International Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance).
I enjoy writing and have contributed to numerous book chapters and authored many papers. As BOA President in 2023, I was at the forefront of developing and maintaining innovative and sustainable solutions for training, research and clinical care with diversity, inclusion and equity at the forefront of our plans: but all these do require engagement! I continue to pursue these interests and try to ‘make a difference’!

In my spare time … I enjoy London Life

Ananth Ebinesan

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (Shoulder & Elbow), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Ananth Ebinesan holds the position of Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), where he specialises in complex shoulder reconstruction and trauma management at the MTC. He previously served as Clinical Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics and currently holds the role of Associate Chief Medical Officer (Electives) at MFT. Ananth contributes his expertise as a specialist advisory panel member for NICE and has actively participated in NICE guideline committees. Additionally, he has participated in the accreditation inspection process for GIRFT elective surgical hubs nationally. He is an active BESS member and currently sits on council, serving as the Honorary Secretary

Jonathan Evans

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedics

Jonathan Evans is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University of Exeter and Consultant hip surgeon at the Exeter Hip Unit. Having completed his doctorate at the University of Bristol, he now works on the data analysis team of the National Joint Registry (NJR). His research interests include Post-operative Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures (POPFF) and he is currently developing a Core Outcome Set for POPFF in preparation for trials in this area. He is working towards securing funding for an international collaborative RCT investigating the management of Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI), the ROADMAP trial. He is also working to develop methods to assess the environmental impact of health technologies and embed this within both trials and observational research such as the NJR.

Luke Farrow

Arthroplasty Fellow & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer , Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer University of Aberdeen

Mr Luke Farrow is a Clinical Academic and Honorary Senior Orthopaedic Trainee based in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently taking time out of his clinical training to undertake a CSO Funded Clinical Academic Fellowship exploring how to make improvements in the clinical care pathway for those awaiting hip and knee replacement through the use of artificial intelligence techniques.

He has particular research interests in the use of routinely collected healthcare information, including novel data sources and clinical application of artificial intelligence methods to Trauma and Orthopaedics. He is the current chair of the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit Quality Improvement and Research Sub-Group and a member of the steering committee for the Bone and Joint Infection Registry.

Saul Faust

Professor of Paediatric Immunity and Infection, University of Southampton

Jamie Ferguson

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals

Jamie Ferguson is a highly respected Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Oxford Limb Reconstruction and Infection Clinic, with a specialised focus on limb reconstruction. As a key member of the Bone Infection Unit in Oxford, Mr Ferguson welcomes referrals from across the UK and internationally, bringing his extensive expertise to a diverse patient population. He works as a Limb Reconstruction Consultant, based in the Bone Infection Unit at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, UK. Here he works as part of a multidisciplinary team managing complex bone infection of various aetiologies, including haematogenous osteomyelitis, fracture related infection, and infected non-union.  The Bone Infection Unit is unique in the UK as it includes a dedicated inpatient ward, admitting cases with bone infection from across the country.  The ethos of the unit is to aim to undertake single stage infection surgery, often including orthoplastic reconstruction as a single operation.  

He previously worked in the Major Trauma Centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and continues to support a multidisciplinary team meeting for the discussion of cases suspected of having fracture related infection in the trauma department.  

He undertook his surgical training in Oxford and undertook a British Orthopaedic Association Travelling Fellowship to the Ilizarov Institute in Kurgan, Russia.  He was also awarded the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society 2018 Fellowship to the United States, visiting The Hospital for Specialist Surgery in New York, The Cleveland Medical Center, The Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, and the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He spent a year at the Beit Cure International Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi on a Furlong Fellowship treating cases with complex bone infection.  

His main areas of interest include the management of complex long bone infection, fracture related infection diagnosis and treatment, and the management of segmental bone defects. He has published extensively on several aspects of infection management, including Ilizarov limb reconstruction techniques in bone infection, dead space management in osteomyelitis, local antibiotic carriers, and the diagnosis of fracture-related infection. His collaboration on histological diagnosis of infection contributed to the International Consensus Definition of Fracture Related Infection.  

He is a regular invited speaker, both nationally and internationally, on the treatment of bone infection, limb reconstruction techniques and fracture related infection.

Nicola Fine

Consultant Orthopaedic Hand & Wrist Surgeon

Sue Fitzpatrick

Director of Sue Fitzpatrick Associates

Sue Fitzpatrick is the former Director and Head of Education and Training at the Institute of Clinical Research and brings more than 40 years of experience in clinical research. She has led the management, audit, and training of Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) and has developed numerous academic and professional training programmes. Sue currently serves as Module Leader for Research Methods at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and continues to advance competency and training standards within clinical research.

She is a consultant for NHS England, an end-point assessor for clinical research degrees, and Lead Governor for North Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Foundation Trust. Sue has contributed extensively to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) standards through her work with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and has authored numerous articles and books, including co-authoring The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research published by Oxford University Press.

Michael Foxall-Smith

Workforce & Sustainability Officer, BOTA

BOTA Workforce & Sustainability Officer, Specialist Registrar, T&O

Muthu Ganapathi

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor

Yaser Ghani

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust, London

Yaser Ghani is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon at Homerton University Hospital in London. He completed his undergraduate medical training at University College London (UCL) and pursued specialist orthopaedic training in London through the Stanmore rotation. He undertook prestigious Foot & Ankle fellowships in Windsor, St. Mary’s London, and Oxford.

He is actively involved in research and education and developed the BOFAS ‘Lectures of Distinction’ webinar series in collaboration with the BOFAS Education and IT Committees. Yaser also serves on the BOFAS EDI Working Group working towards bringing equality, diversity and inclusivity in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery. He has a passion for education and training and serves as an invited faculty member on numerous national and international courses.

Naomi Gibbs

Academic Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford

Kathryn Gill

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Vice President of the BHS, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford

Sarah Gill

Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow

Sarah Gill is a Consultant Orthopaedic & Major Trauma surgeon at the QEUH, Glasgow. She has a subspecialty interest in Major Trauma care, pelvic, rib and periarticular lower limb fracture fixation. She completed trauma fellowships at Shock Trauma Centre, Baltimore as AO Travelling Fellow and at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. She holds an MD in Medical Education, in which the focus was the role of feedback in psychomotor task learning. She supervises the Pelvic and Orthopaedic Major Trauma Fellowships at QEIH, the West of Scotland Major Trauma centre. Sarah was previous Bone & Joint 360 Journal podcast editor and currently teaches on national and international periprosthetic fracture, IM nailing and chest wall trauma courses.

Kishan Gokaraju

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Upper Limb Surgery), King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kishan Gokaraju is an established trauma and orthopaedic consultant at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, with a specialist interest in upper limb surgery. 
He is triple fellowship trained, from shoulder to finger, with specialist training in Brisbane, Sheffield and Coventry, all level-1 trauma centres with high-volume, high-complexity surgery. 
His practice includes general trauma as well as specialising in shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand surgery, treating both trauma and elective pathology. 
Outside of clinical practice, his focus lies within education, running a series of renowned upper limb courses and conference sessions, aimed at all levels from resident doctor to consultant. 
He is a member of the Education Committee for the British Elbow & Shoulder Society as well as South East London Orthopaedics training rotation. 

Andrew Gray

President Elect for the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society, James Cook University Hospital

Andrew Gray's main orthopaedic specialist interest is trauma. He is based at James Cook University Hospital major trauma centre; current president elect for the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society (Orthopaedic Trauma Society) and a trustee for the British Orthopaedic Association.  He completed his medical and orthopaedic training in Glasgow, Oxford and Edinburgh, finishing an MD and also a year's trauma fellowship in Calgary. Mr Gray has been a major trauma consultant for 17 years and the lower limb trauma editor for the journal 'Injury' 2014-2021.  Over the past 5 years he has worked with the global and UK Fragility Fracture Networks (Home - Fragility Fracture Network) focusing on the 4 pillars of fragility fracture management - acute care, rehabilitation, secondary fracture prevention and policy. He co-chairs the Fracture Liaison Service Academy Network (FLS Academy & Network (FAN) Community - login) and is committed to championing Fracture Liaison Services.

Professor Amy Grove

Professor of Implementation Science, Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (CEIS), University of Birmingham

Prof Amy Grove. Professor of Implementation Science and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (CEIS). Prof Grove  has built a pioneering and distinct area of scholarship in Implementation Science and Health Technology Assessment. Her interdisciplinary contribution across clinical and organisational science is unique. In organisational science, her independent contribution to theory and methodological development in the field is achieved via her three personal NIHR Fellowships, which explore the implementation of evidence-based interventions in surgery (2013-2025). As a Chartered Psychologist, she spearheads a programme of research on Implementation Science in surgery. 

In clinical science, she specialises in evaluating health technologies (e.g., drugs, medical devices) and public health interventions for policymakers, with expertise in mixed method study design and synthesis. She has an outstanding record of successful funding applications in this space to generate scientific, methodological, and theoretical contributions. Through her research and education, she brings cutting-edge social science theory into the clinical arena, delivering innovative, inclusive, and intellectually challenging education programmes to develop the next generation of healthcare leaders. 

Abhinav Gulihar

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Upper Limb Surgery), King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Sanjay Gupta

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Sanjay Gupta is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon/MSK Oncologist and an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Glasgow.

After graduation he worked in Newcastle upon Tyne, the Central Coast in Australia, Middlesbrough and Northumberland before returning home to complete his specialist orthopaedic training in the West of Scotland. He undertook substantive fellowships at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, with further travelling fellowships across the world.

His practice is focussed on musculoskeletal oncology, hip/knee replacement surgery and osseointegration. He is passionate about tumour research, education and global orthopaedics, focussing on teaching in lower resource settings.

Chinmay Gupte

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Imperial College London

Mr Chinmay Gupte is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Clinical Reader (Associate Professor) in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London, which encompasses St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals. 

His main interests are in the diagnosis and treatment of sports knee injuries and knee arthritis, together with trauma and fracture surgery. He performs both arthroscopic (keyhole) and open procedures, in particular cruciate ligament surgery, meniscal repair, patellar stabilisation, children's knee surgery and knee replacement. 

Mr Gupte is a specialist knee surgeon with over 10 years experience as consultant, but also has an active research and teaching interest in knee problems. 

As director of training for trauma and orthopaedics for London deanery NW Thames (2011-2018) Mr Gupte helped reshape training for the consultants of the future in this region. He is also ex President of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section having served as President in 2012, and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee. He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College in 2004 for his work on the meniscofemoral knee ligaments and their role in knee arthritis and ligament injury. He won the prestigious British Orthopaedic Association Robert Jones Gold Medal Proxime Accessit in 2005. He has published over 70 papers in this and other topics which include shoulder and ankle surgery, tuberculosis and training the surgeons of the future. 

He continues his research as a Clinical Reader in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, with particular emphasis in meniscal surgery and knee ligament reconstruction, and also in arthroscopic simulator training, with the aspiration of improving outcomes in patients with knee problems. He helps train surgeons of the future at Imperial, He is a cofounder for the patient access website www.orthoconsent.com, which provides information on common procedures. 

His time as captain of Oxford University and professional cricketer in 1995/6 has given Chinmay added insight into t he unique needs of sportsmen in returning to sport after injury; experience that he brings to bear in his clinical practice. 

Colonel Hugo Guthrie

Colonel Hugo Guthrie is the professional lead for Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery across the Ministry of Defence. He works clinically at St George’s Hospital and the South-West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, with a practice that includes Lower Limb Trauma and Knee Surgery. He is Training Programme Director for the Defence Deanery. 

Hugo spent 2 years as a regimental doctor, including 12 months in Iraq. He deployed to Afghanistan as a surgical trainee and briefly worked in Birmingham as Military Registrar. Since being appointed as a consultant in 2015, he has deployed internationally and in 2021 was part of the Military Advisory Team at Nightingale Hospital London. He has served as Clinical Director at 22 Field Hospital, as Consultant Advisor to the Head of the Army Medical Services and in 2024 was appointed to his current position as Defence Consultant Advisor to the Surgeon General. 

Professor 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 Professor Haddad's clinical and research endeavours have centred around hip and knee reconstruction and sports surgery. He remains a very active high volume surgeon in spite of a broad leadersip, research and editorial portfoio. His interests include enhanced technology in surgery, implant fixation, periprosthetic infection and outcomes assessment in hip, knee, sports and revision surgery.  His broader work also encompasses strategies to preserve and regain musculoskeletal health; he led the musculoskeletal team at the London Olympics 2012, was instrumental in setting up the National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine and gained International Olympic Committee Centre of Excellence status at ISEH. He works with a number of elite sports and was the Chief Medical Officer for the NFL in the UK until 2022.

He was the gold medallist in the FRCS (Orth) exam and has gained a large number of prizes and prestigious academic awards.  He has been an EFORT Travelling Fellow, British Hip Society Travelling Fellow and ABC Travelling Fellow in 2004. He was a Hunterian Professor in 2005. He is past president of the British Hip Society and BOSTAA and has been a council member. He is a member of the Hip Society, the Knee Society, the International Hip Society (currently President) and the International Knee Society . He is also currently President of the European Hip Society.
He has presented and published widely on key aspects of hip, knee and sports surgery including over 700 peer reviewed publications. He leads a clinical research group with interests in the management of soft tissue injuries including hamstrings, prosthetic design and performance, and outcomes measurement after hip / knee injury, degeneration and surgery.

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

• Convenor Future Leaders Programme 
  • British Orthopaedic Association & 
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
• Convenor Foundations in Surgical Leadership Programme - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
• Website  https://hadfield-law.co.uk
• Twitter @lisahadfieldlaw

Bob Handley

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, GIRFT Clinical Lead for Adult Orthopaedic Trauma, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bob Handley is currently National Clinical Lead for GIRFT Adult Orthopaedic Trauma. Bob was a Consultant on the Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford from 1994-2025. He is a Past President of the British Orthoapedic Association President, the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and AOUKI. He co-chaired the NICE guideline development groups on fractures and was a member of the group for hip fractures. He was also an examiner for FRCS T&O for ten years. 

Bob trained in Sheffield, Newcastle, Sunderland and Seattle. After qualifying he worked for the British Antarctic Survey for 3 years.

Karen Harries

Lead Nurse Day Surgery and Pre-operative Assessment, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Karen is an Australian trained Registered Nurse who has been in the UK since 1995. She is currently the Lead Nurse for Pre-operative Assessment at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Karen has worked in a range of day surgery/23 hour and theatre settings for over 30 years and is passionate about educating and empowering day surgery nurses to be knowledgeable and expert in their extended role. 

Karen is delighted to be part of BADS Council and to be involved in driving and promoting the profile and importance of day surgery. 

Philip Henman

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Philip Henman has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne since 2001.  He graduated from St Andrews and Manchester Universities and roamed around the country during his training, loosely based in Dundee for specialist training in orthopaedics.  Fellowship training in children’s orthopaedics was divided between Montpellier, Metz, Paris, Adelaide and London before he finally settled to steady employment in the Northeast of England. His consultant post has been a hybrid commitment to orthopaedic trauma care and children’s orthopaedics which come together in an interest in treating children’s musculoskeletal trauma and infections.  He became involved in teaching with AOUK over ten years ago and has been active in teaching on children’s trauma in the UK and overseas since then.  

Joanna Higgins

Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Miss Joanna Higgins is a fellowship trained Hand and wrist, Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon. Graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2005, completing Specialist Training in Wessex in 2018, followed by a subspecialist fellowship at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby. She was appointed to consultant post at University Hospitals Dorset in 2021. 

Joanna has a very varied professional practice. She is a strong advocate of “Getting It Right First Time”, restoring patients back to a good level of function, honest communication and treating patients according to their individual needs. Always looking for Quality and Service Improvement within Hand and Wrist Surgery has joined a national collaborative called HandsFirst, improving hand and wrist trauma across the UK. She has been the driver behind the Hand Hub at University Hospital Dorset, where a procedure room has been utilised to undertake as much Day Case Local Anaesthetic Procedures as possible. 

Joanna was also successful in becoming British Orthopaedic Association Culture and Diversity Champion for the region, improving workforce culture within the specialty and beyond. This has led to Joanna developing and sitting on various working groups within surgery. These include Ergonomics in Surgery, Parents in Surgery, BSSH Patient Information Group and International Medics in Trauma and Orthopaedic 

Professor Caroline Hing

Pofessor of Orthopaedics, St George’s University, London

Caroline trained in Medicine at University College London with an intercalated BSc(Hons) in Anatomy & Developmental Biology. She completed her Orthopaedic and Trauma training on the Pott Rotation based at Barts and The London Hospitals with a further period of training at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital whilst completing an MD, doctoral thesis on patellofemoral instability. She also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering awarded by the University of Wales. Her fellowships included trauma at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and knee surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in London. 

Caroline has subspecialty interests in knee surgery, especially patellofemoral instability and in trauma. She is a Professor of orthopaedics at St George’s University London with research interests in patellofemoral instability and trauma. She has established a patellofemoral service within St George’s Hospital for local and regional referrals. She was clinical director for corporate outpatients at St George’s Hospital from 2019-2024 and previously lead for research in orthopaedics in the trust, having supervised over 50 orthopaedic trials. She has developed an orthopaedic trauma trials research infrastructure within St George’s including research physiotherapists, clinical trials managers and research fellows. Together with Miss Gelfer she supervises an education foundation year doctor, education fellow and an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. She is co-editor in chief of The Knee Journal, research chair for the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, immediate past research chair for AOUKI and a previous BOA trustee. She lectures nationally and internationally on patellofemoral instability and trauma.

Chris Hoffman

President, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association

Chris Hoffman is an Orthopaedic Spine surgeon. He is the President of the New Orthopaedic Association and has recently retired as RACS Senior Orthopaedic Examiner for New Zealand. He has a long interest in the management of back pain, both non-operative and operative having completed Fellowships in Trauma and

Spine at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto in 1994 and 1995. He established The Back Institute (now TBI Health Group) in 2001, it is now a nationwide programme of 52 clinics and as the Medical Director, he has overseen the development of pathways for assessment and management of back pain in the community. He completed the Institute of Directors (IoD) Directors course in 2012.

He operates at Southern Cross Hospital Wellington in the private sector and at Wellington Regional Hospital in the public sector, having served as Clinical Leader in the past. He remains on the Active Reserve of the NZ Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Married to Sally, they have four adult children and two grandchildren. His lifelong passion for flying has him now instructing as his local flying club and enjoys flying his family about the country in their Cessna 206.

Aanchal Jain

Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Epsom & St Hellier

Professor Deeptiman James

Professor & Head, Department of Orthopaedics

Bakur Jamjoom

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust

Bakur Jamjoom is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, specialising in foot and ankle surgery. He trained on the East Midlands North rotation and holds a Master of Surgery from the University of Edinburgh. He completed post-CCT fellowships at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore, developing expertise in foot and ankle trauma, total ankle replacement and hindfoot reconstruction.

He has published peer-reviewed research and book chapters on revision total ankle replacement and complex hindfoot surgery. He has presented his work at national and international conferences. He is actively involved in postgraduate education and is an enthusiastic trainer.

Toby Jennison

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals Plymouth

Toby Jennison is a Consultant orthopaedic foot & ankle surgeon at University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust. He completed a Foot & Ankle Fellowship in Sheffield Teaching Hospital and was a TIG Major trauma fellow at University Hospital Birmingham. Toby also worked with the NJR as a research Fellow.

Professor Antony Johansen

Consultant Orthogeriatrician, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Professor Antony Johansen has worked as a full-time orthogeriatrician in the trauma wards of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for the last 30 years. He co-authored the 2007 British Orthopaedic Association’s ‘Blue Book’ of Fragility Fracture and the 2011 NICE Hip Fracture Guideline (CG124), and from 2013-2026 was Orthogeriatrician lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians. 

Amanda Johnson

Head of Specialist Applications, Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST)

I am the Head of Specialist Applications for the Joint Committee on Surgical Training (JCST), having taken on this role in October 2024 after my predecessor’s retirement. My responsibilities include managing a team of Specialist Applications Casework Managers who assist evaluators in assessing Portfolio Pathway applications (formerly known as the Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) and making recommendations for applications seeking entry to the General Medical Council’s (GMC) specialist register.

Previously, I worked as the Invited Review Programme Manager for the Invited Review Mechanism at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where I drafted invited review reports for healthcare organisations.

I also have a background in health regulation, having worked as a Hearings Team Manager at the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for several years. In this role, I supported a team of hearings officers in managing fitness to practise tribunal hearings.

Nick Johnson

Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon

Sarah Johnson-Lynn

Senior Lecturer, Hull York Medical School

Sarah Johnson-Lynn is a Senior Lecturer with Hull York Medical School and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon at the James Cook University Hospital, with interests in diabetic foot surgery, foot and ankle trauma and limb reconstruction. She graduated from Newcastle University and completed specialty orthopaedic training in the North East. Fellowships in foot and ankle surgery at Addenbrookes Hospital and in trauma and limb reconstruction at Leeds General Infirmary followed, as well as a British Orthopaedic Research Society travelling fellowship in Asia and Australia. She completed a PhD at Newcastle University, continues to lead clinical and qualitative research projects and teaches on the faculty of several national courses.

Jonathan Jones

Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Anton Julyan

President, South African Orthopaedic Association

Dr Anton Julyan is an orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty interest in shoulder surgery and reconstructive procedures. He obtained his undergraduate medical degree from the University of 
Pretoria in 1996 and completed his Master of Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery (MMed (Orth)) at the same institution in 2006. Following specialist qualification, Dr Julyan served as a consultant in the Upper Limb Unit at 1 Military Hospital, where he underwent advanced fellowship-style training under the mentorship of Professor Theo le Roux. In 2008, he established his full-time private practice and has since accumulated more than 18 years of specialist experience, with a clinical focus on shoulder reconstruction, arthroscopy, and joint replacement surgery. He also maintained an active role in orthopaedic trauma services for many years.

Dr Julyan has remained committed to academic and professional development through regular participation in international congresses, advanced surgical workshops, and international observerships focused on shoulder pathology and reconstructive surgery. He is actively involved in the education and mentorship of orthopaedic surgeons, particularly in arthroscopic techniques and modern shoulder surgery. His comprehensive surgical training includes extensive experience in primary and revision joint arthroplasty, having trained with Professor B.G.P. Lindeque and Professor T.L.B. le Roux across the fields of shoulder, knee, hip, and hand surgery. His practice integrates contemporary evidence-based techniques with advanced technologies to optimise patient outcomes.

An early adopter of robotic-assisted orthopaedic surgery, Dr Julyan has more than three years' experience in robotic knee arthroplasty and completed advanced MAKO robotic shoulder arthroplasty training in the United States in 2025. He currently practises at Pretoria East Hospital, which has been established as a recognised training centre for MAKO robotic shoulder arthroplasty and augmented reality (ARVIS)-assisted surgical procedures.

Beyond his clinical practice, Dr Julyan has made substantial contributions to the advancement of orthopaedic surgery in South Africa through professional leadership and service. He currently serves as President of the South African Orthopaedic Association (SAOA), having previously served on its Executive Committee for eight years. In this capacity, he has played a key role in promoting excellence in orthopaedic education, professional standards, and the advancement of 
patient care nationally. His professional interests include shoulder arthroscopy, reconstructive shoulder surgery,  robotic-assisted arthroplasty, orthopaedic education, and the implementation of emerging surgical technologies in clinical practice

Neil Kang

Clinical Director for MSK, Cambridge

I have been a consultant for 14 years at Cambridge with a mainly shoulder & elbow arthroplasty and trauma surgical practice. I am a predominantly kinaesthetic type learner, with an ESFJ (Consul) personality type, unleashing a passion for education later in life & career. Constantly learning from delivering teaching, using different media on clinical knowledge and non-technical skills, right through to cadaveric and VR simulation at all levels from undergraduate to consultant/peer. Despite taking on the role of trauma lead & now Clinical Director for MSK at Cambridge, still regularly experience the feeling of impostor phenomena. I hope that this BOA/BESS/OTS session will equip you to make appropriate Decisions & Incisions!

Favourite quote: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
 

Paula Kelly

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Children’s Health Ireland

Paula Kelly is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic surgeon in CHI (Children’s Health Ireland) specialising in limb reconstruction and foot and ankle deformity correction. Paula is the current clinical director for peri operative critical care and neonatology in CHI.

Paula also founded Childrens Health Ireland Africa (CHIA) and collaborates with teams in Tanzania and Zimbabwe to promote access to children’s surgical services.

Cronan Kerin

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals

I am the current Chair of the T&O SAC

Raghbir Singh Khakha

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Khakha’s NHS practice is based in central London teaching hospital Guy’s and St Thomas’. He has been in consultant practice since 2017 dealing with all elements of knee related injuries ranging from children’s knee injuries right the way through complex redo surgery. 

His philosophy is based on joint preservation surgery, where he routinely performs ligament repairs and reconstructions, meniscal repairs and osteotomy surgery. He regularly accepts referrals from other orthopaedic centres to manage complex primary and redo knee reconstructive surgery. 

Following his successful completion of fellowship in the US at Massachusetts General Hospital in trauma surgery and knee fellowship at North Hampshire Hospitals, Mr Khakha embarked on his consultant career at Guy’s and St Thomas’. Prior to this, he trained on the South-East London Training Rotation. 

He is also Knee Lead Tutor for South London and KSS Trauma and Orthopaedic training programme and is Honorary clinical lecturer at Kings College London, where he is also Patron of the Orthopaedic Society. He has a passion for research as well as education and training, and regularly speaks at international and national meetings on modern minimally invasive knee surgical techniques. 

Mr Khakha completed his medical degree at St Georges University Hospital in 2006. He was awarded a BSc with honours at University College London in Orthopaedics and went to complete a Masters in the same field at the University of Brighton. He is an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London and oversees surgical fellows looking to refine their skills in knee surgery.

Tahir Khan

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore

Gerrard Kilbride

Specialist Financial Planner, Wesleyan Financial Services

Josh Lamb

Consultant lower limb arthroplasty surgeon & Consultant Clinical Lecturer, Wrightington Hospital, University of Bristol

Josh is a Consultant Clinical Lecturer at The University of Bristol and a Consultant lower limb arthroplasty surgeon at Wrightington Hospital. Josh trained in Yorkshire and has completed specialist fellowships in New Zealand and Wrightington. Josh has completed a PhD investigating periprosthetic fractures after primary total hip replacement and continues to publish widely in the field of lower limb arthroplasty.

David Lawson

Policy Lead for Medical Technology & Innovation

Lily Li

Lily Li is a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics at St Mary’s Hospital Imperial College Healthcare. Her subspeciality is hand and wrist surgery. Lily is the Training Programme Director for the North West Thames Orthopaedic rotation and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedics Section.

Alex Liddle

Consultant Surgeon/Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust/MSK Lab, Imperial College London

Alex is a consultant hip and knee surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Clinical Associate Professor at Imperial College. His clinical practice revolves around partial, total and revision knee replacement, hip resurfacing, primary and revision hip replacement. His research focusses on improving outcomes and preventing complications of joint replacement, including work on optimising fixation in cementless implants, interventions to prevent and treat prosthetic joint infection, and use of routinely collected data to improve patient selection and surgical practice. He is Surgical Speciality Lead for elective orthopaedics at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, sits on the research committee of the British Orthopaedic Association, and is Chief Medical Officer of Osstec, an Imperial spinout company developing implants based on novel cementless lattice technologies.

Hamish Lowdon

Arthroplasty Fellow, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire

Hamish completed his registrar training in the East Midlands South denary earlier this year and is now undertaking the revision arthroplasty fellowship at University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire.

He originally qualified from Warwick University in 2016, having first completed a Masters in Engineering at Durham, before moving into medicine. He spent his Foundation and Core Surgical Training years in the Thames Valley region, returning to the Midlands to pursue higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics.

Alongside his clinical work, Hamish is a member of the British Hip Society’s Culture and Diversity Sub‑Committee and serves as one of the fellows on the Bone and Joint Infection Registry (BAJIR)

Ansar Mahmood

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, President of The British Trauma Society, Research Lead for Orthopaedic Trauma & The Major Trauma Service, University Hospital Birmingham

Ajay Malviya

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Northumbria Healthcare

Ajay Malviya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the North-East of England and at Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital. He trained in the Northern Deanery and has done specialist fellowships in hip preservation and joint replacement surgery in Cambridge, London and Switzerland.

He specialises in periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia using a minimally invasive approach and hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement. In his routine practice, he deals with sports injuries of the hip and has published and presented widely on the results of hip arthroscopy and pelvic osteotomy in athletes and the general population. 

He has completed a PhD on the role of hip arthroscopy in femoroacetabular impingement. Preservation of the hip joint is his principal philosophy but he has a wide experience of joint replacement surgery catering to the young population, if necessary.

In his routine practice, he does more than 150 hip and knee replacements annually for all age groups. He also performs around 150 hip arthroscopies and more than 75 pelvic osteotomies for hip dysplasia annually; making him the highest volume hip preservation surgeon in the North East and amongst the top in the country.

Callum W McBryde

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, specialising exclusively in young adult hip surgery. His practice focuses on the assessment and treatment of hip and groin pain, including hip preservation surgery, hip arthroscopy, femoral and acetabular osteotomy, hip resurfacing, total hip replacement and revision hip replacement. He has developed a clinical and research interest in improving outcomes for young and active patients with hip pathology.

Professor Andrew McCaskie

BOA Research Committee Chair, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Interim Deputy Head of School of Clinical Medicine, Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation

Scarlett McNally

Professor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Deputy Director, Centre for Perioperative Care

Professor Scarlett McNally OBE BSc MB BChir FRCS(Tr&Orth) MA MBA FAcadMEd HonMFPH MRSPH FRSM FMWF

Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon (now part-time) in Eastbourne, Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and BMJ columnist (67 articles FREE at: https://www.bmj.com/search/advanced/mcnally). OBE 2026. Previously an elected Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2011-21). Past-President of the Medical Women’s Federation (2023-25). Recently Deputy Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (2020-26). See www.cpoc.org.uk resources. Perioperative care = patient preparation + shared decision-making + team-working + pathways. This can halve complications.

Lead author for the Academy’s Exercise the miracle cure. Frequent speaker and writer – on bullying, leadership, careers, health, diversity, respect, sustainability, perioperative care, pathways, myeloma, exercise, active travel, education and how to fix the NHS. Patient with myeloma, stem cell transplant, cardiac amyloidosis and two hip replacements (one as a day case). Travels by electric-cycle, mother of 4 adults, 4^th Dan Karate black belt. www.scarlettmcnally.co.uk

Clare McNaught

President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Dr Clare McNaught is President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Harrogate District General Hospital.

Jim McVie

Professor Andy Metcalfe

Professor at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Andy Metcalfe is a Professor at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). His clinical practice is in knee surgery including patellofemoral problems, sports surgery, osteotomy and arthroplasty. 

He leads multiple high-impact clinical trials, including RACER-Knee, START:REACTS (both published in The Lancet) as well as currently running trials such as METEOR2 and REPPORT. He was Research Lead for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee 2019-2023, is Secretary of the British Patellofemoral Society, and has been involved in multiple NICE guidelines. He has led the clinical academic training in T&O at Warwick and UHCW for many years, taking people through foundation training, academic clinical fellow posts and PhD fellowships through to Clinical Lecturer posts and beyond. 

Andy now leads a body of work focused on delivering effective innovations to patient care, and is the Chief Medical Officer of a spin-out company supported by Orthopaedic Research UK delivering research on new medical devices called Veriq.

Yusuf Michla

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon , South Tyneside & Sunderland Foundation Trust

Mr Michla is a consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic surgeon at the South Tyneside & Sunderland Foundation Trust. His specialist interest is in shoulder & elbow surgery with complex shoulder & elbow trauma being a particular interest. Mr Michla was appointed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh as the Deputy National Director of the Foundation Trainees’ Surgical Societies in 2024. He also acts as a Regional Surgical Advisor for the College.

Alongside his clinical work, Mr Michla has a strong interest in undergraduate & postgraduate training and medical education. He has been nominated as the Northern Deanery’s “Trainer of the Year” three times, winning the title once.

For local postgraduate trainees he is a current academic mentor for Northern Deanery core and specialist trainees as well as for the Northern Foundation School, as well as sitting as a committee member of ONTEA, the Northern Deanery specialist training education steering group. At undergraduate level, he holds an honorary senior lecturer post with the University of Newcastle school of medicine, as well as an honorary lecturer role with the University of Sunderland school of medicine.

He was appointed the honorary chair of the University of Newcastle’s Surgical Society in 2016 & he also serves as the current co-chair of AO UK & Ireland’s undergraduate courses.

Alan Middleton

Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon, North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust

Alan is the current President of the British Orthopaedic Directors Society. He is a consultant hand and wrist surgeon at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust and is the Clinical Lead for collaborative care (Trauma & Orthopaedics, Anaesthetics and Surgery) and Chair of the North Tees & SouthTees Surgery and Anaesthetic Clinical Board. He is NHS England clinical lead for MSK in the North East and Yorkshire region and Chair of North East and North Cumbria NHS MSK Alliance. He is Chair of the Specialty Training Committee for NHS England Education North East and a member of the School of Surgery Board. He is a member of Specialty Advisory Committee for Orthopaedic Training and Liaison Member for South East Scotland and North Scotland and chair of the Training Interface Group for Hand Surgery Fellowships.

Piers Mitchell

Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

Fergal Monsell

President, British Orthopaedic Association

Fergal Monsell graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine. He completed higher surgical training at the University of Manchester and has been a Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol since 2004. He is involved in the management of paediatric patients with a special interest in limb deformity and trauma.
He has made a greater than average contribution to the canon of lower-level evidence and has been awarded degrees at Master and Doctorate level.
He has a longstanding interest in education, is Director of the Avon Centre for Musculoskeletal Education and Projector at the Grand Academy.

He is also the current President of the BOA. 

Alexander Sheriff Montgomery

Consultant Spine Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Spinal Clinical Director at the Royal London

Rhidian Morgan-Jones

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Rhidian trained in Cardiff at the University of Wales, College of Medicine as it was then, qualifying in 1989. His training rotation was between Oswestry and Stoke-on-Trent and included fellowships in Johannesburg and Sydney. 

Rhidian has spent his Consultant career working on orthopaedic infection and revision knee replacements in Cardiff. He recently ‘transferred’ across the border to work in Colchester and help establish the Regional Revision Knee Network. 

Rhidian has a strong interest in education at all levels and continues to lecture widely. He has had the pleasure of founding and running national knee infection meetings from which he continues to learn from his peers. A personal philosophy, when possible, has always been to organise cross-speciality meetings, which broadens one’s perspective and heightens respect for colleagues in other medical and non-medical areas. This led to being a co-founder of the Bone & Joint Infection Society (BAJIS) and the inaugural President. BAJIS is a true cross-speciality society for all healthcare workers, scientists and industry partners interested in managing orthopaedic infection. 

Now living in Essex, he remains as Welsh as ever but perhaps a little less partisan than before. Professionally and personally, although life continually changes, he could not be happier than at present. 

Rhidian is delighted to be elected as Honorary Treasurer and hopes to contribute and support our Association and the profession in any way he can. 

Professor Michael M Morlock

Director FMTHH, TUHH Hamburg University of Technology

Mark Moroney

President, Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA)

Mark is married to Paula with two sons. He has worked as an Orthopaedic

Surgeon in Ipswich, Queensland since 1999 maintaining a general practice but with a paediatric interest in the public and private sectors. He has always been committed to registrar teaching having been a past Chair of Training for Queensland. He served as an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for 9 years and is a past Secretary of the Australian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland where he also serves on the Board of Fellows at King’s College.

Mark is passionate about Orthopaedic Outreach, maintaining a strong affiliation with the surgeons in Fiji via annual visitations and regular communications. He has previously served on the Outreach Board as an AOA appointment. His hobbies include ornithology, origami, snow skiing and when time allows, he enjoys trekking with his family which has taken them to places such as Mt. Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp, Langtang (Nepal) and Kokoda (New Guinea). Mark and Paula look forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones during their time in London at the British Orthopaedic Association Congress.

Emily Mounsey

Consultant Paediatric Trauma and Orthoapedic Surgeon, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Heidi Mounsey

Medicolegal Consultant, Medical Protection Society

Dr Heidi Mounsey is a medicolegal consultant and provides advice and support with a variety of medicolegal matters, including clinical negligence claims, inquests, complaints, disciplinaries, and regulatory proceedings. She joined Medical Protection in 2016 and has previously worked in anaesthesia and also in palliative medicine. Since joining Medical Protection she has written a variety of articles and case studies, and is the author of a number of Learning from Cases publications, looking at common themes and issues arising in cases and claims. She is also the editor in chief of Practice Matters UK, focusing on advice and information for the general practice team, and has given a number of presentations to a range of audiences covering common medicolegal problems and concerns.

Rajesh Nanda

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust

Rajesh Nanda is a keen educationist working as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospital of North Tees & Hartlepool since 2010 with Subspecialty interest in Shoulder and Elbow surgery. He is affiliated as an Honorary Professor to the Teesside University. A member of BOA Education & Careers committee – Fellowships and Courses Lead.

He has a postgraduate certificate in Clinical Education, Fellowship of Northeast Leadership Academy and completed Education Leadership programme for surgeons (RCS England). He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of RCS Edinburgh. He is on the panel of Examiners for the FRCS(T&O) and Section 1 lead.

He has been a member of British Indian Orthopaedic Society and BESS Education committees.
Organises the MCh Orthopaedics course from Teesside University. Organises annual orthopaedic basic science course; shoulder and elbow symposium for physiotherapists and allied health professionals; joint injection courses for GP’s. He is an invited faculty to Orthopaedic courses and invited to speak at International and National conferences

He has an active research interest and reviewer for BJJ and Shoulder & Elbow Journal.
Is a college tutor and trainer for ST / CT trainees and offers SSC for medical students. Is involved in local and regional teaching programmes, ARCP panels and regional STC. He is the Guardian of safe working for doctors in training at his trust.

Rajpal S Nandra

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

Dinesh Nathwani

Immediate Past President CAOS UK, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Hon Senior Lecturer & Lead for Orthopaedic Robotics, Imperial Healthcare NHS, Trust Charing Cross & St Mary's Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, London

Mr Dinesh Nathwani is the current President of CAOS UK. He is a Consultant and Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Robotics Lead at Cleveland Clinic London. He has a keen clinical and research interest in technology assisted knee surgery and has used Navigation and Robotics for all his partial and Total knee replacements since being appointed as a substantive Knee Consultant at Imperial College Healthcare in 2004. This was following a fellowship in Knee Navigation techniques in Perth, Western Australia. He is involved in international trials for novel cartilage resurfacing implants, customised and robotically assisted knee replacements. He is a programme committee member of Computer assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) International. He is an Orthopaedic research advisor for the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics at Imperial College and faculty member on several national and international knee reconstruction course teaching surgeons of all grades in Robotic Knee Surgery. He is a reviewer for several Orthopaedic Journals including British Bone & Joint Journal, American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Knee, and Injury.

Professor Rob Nelissen

Chairman and Professor dpt Orthopaedics Rehabilitation, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

Professor Rob Nelissen is Professor of Orthopaedics at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), where he served as Chairman and Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy from 2006 to 2026. He has also held senior academic and educational roles at Delft University of Technology and within the Leiden–The Hague Orthopaedic Residency Programme.

His research relates to “optimising clinical outcome” and “prediction modelling of outcome”. The latter relates both to fundamental research on Orthopaedic implant migration (i.e. implant-bone fixation with RSA / V3MA as 1 year predictor for 10 year implant loosening) as well as implant related infections (e.g. induction heating). Next to this, healthcare evaluation and quality of care research using large registry data  is done (e.g. choosing wisely program, value-added health care and predictors of outcome after total knee and hip arthroplasty) has his attention of research with direct (de)implementation in clinical practice. 

He successfully supervised about 80 PhD students on these topics. He published more than 600 peer-reviewed articles on these topics

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Professor Nelissen has supervised approximately 80 PhD students and has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications.

Alongside his academic work, he has held numerous national and international leadership positions. He is a Board Member of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT), serving in roles including Secretary General, Vice-President and President for 2026–2027. He also chairs the European Thematic Expert Panel for Orthopaedics, Trauma, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology under the Medical Device Regulation.

He was a co-founder of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (LROI), one of the world's largest implant registries, and served as Chair of its Registration Council. He is also a co-founder and former President of the International Radiostereometry Society (iRSA) and previously served as Vice-President and President of the Royal Netherlands Orthopaedic Association (NOV).

Paul Nesbitt

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Tony Newton

Physiotherapy to Medicine

I am a final-year medical student at Edinburgh - studying Medicine through the Health Care Progressional - Medicine (HCP-Med) Programme.

I qualified as a Physiotherapist since 2012, working both in the NHS and in Elite Sport - including Scottish Rugby, Exter Rugby and the Scottish Institute of Sport. In 2021 I started the HCP-Med Course at Edinburgh with the first 3 years being flexible study - allowing me to continue working as a Physiotherapist alongside my studies. 

Stephen Ng Man Sun

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Anastasios P Nikolaides

Consultant Femoral Fragility Trauma and Lower Limb Arthroplasty Specialist, NHFD Orthopaedic Clinical Lead, Chair European Committee Fragility Fracture Network

Dr Anastasios P. Nikolaides is an internationally recognised Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip trauma, lower limb periprosthetic fractures, fragility fractures, arthroplasty, and complex reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee. He graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medical School in 1990, obtained his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Orthopaedics and Trauma in 1998, and completed a PhD in 2008 focusing on polyethylene wear in total knee arthroplasty.

Since January 2020, Dr Nikolaides has served as Consultant Hip Trauma and Lower Limb Arthroplasty Specialist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He led the Birmingham Heartlands Femoral Fragility Fracture Service, one of the largest services of its kind in the UK, managing approximately 1,200 hip and periprosthetic fractures annually. Under his leadership, the service was shortlisted for the 2024 HSJ Award for Clinical Redesign, recognising its innovative approach to fragility fracture care.

A highly respected clinical leader, educator, and researcher, Dr Nikolaides was appointed Co-Chair of the European Committee of the Fragility Fracture Network in 2024 and will become National Hip Fracture Database Orthopaedic Lead for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland from July 2026. He is also Director of the UK’s only Senior Femoral Fragility Fellowship.

Dr Nikolaides holds the position of Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Birmingham and plays a key role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, trainee supervision, and examiner activities. He became a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators in 2023.

His clinical interests include minimally invasive fracture fixation, complex revision arthroplasty, kinematic alignment and augmented reality navigation in knee replacement surgery. He has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and is actively involved in research, editorial work, and international professional education in orthopaedic trauma and arthroplasty.

Olivia O’Malley

Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar, North West Thames Deanery

Miss Olivia O’Malley is a Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar in the North West Thames Deanery and is in the final year of her PhD at Imperial College London. She is a former Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow, with a clinical and academic interest in shoulder and elbow surgery.

Her PhD research focuses on the increasing use of reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) in the UK, with much of her work using linked National Joint Registry data to evaluate contemporary practice and outcomes. Her research has explored changing indications for RSA, outcomes and revision surgery, as well as surgeon decision-making when choosing between arthroplasty options. Through this work, she has developed a particular interest in the use of national registry data to understand real-world surgical practice, evaluate outcomes and inform clinical decision-making.

Nick Ohly

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Golden Jubilee University National Hospital

Nick completed postgraduate training in Glasgow and Edinburgh, followed by a hip and knee fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was appointed as a consultant at the Golden Jubilee in 2014. He runs a specialised elective-only practice focused exclusively on hip and knee arthroplasty, with sub-specialist interests in robotic and computer-assisted surgery, and complex and revision knee arthroplasty.

Ben Ollivere

Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Chair of Orthopaedic Trauma, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham & Nottingham University Hospital

Professor Benjamin Ollivere, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon and Major Trauma Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospital

He is head of division for Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Dermatology.
He has a keen interest in training and education and is currently the Training Programme Director for Health Education East Midlands in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. His clinical expertise lies in complex trauma and reconstruction, particularly in non-union, infection and limb reconstruction. His academic interests compliment his clinical interests.

Sam Oussedik

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Department, University College London Hospitals

Mr Oussedik is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon who specialises in knee surgery for sports injuries and degenerative conditions.

He has authored 60+ scientific articles and published 4 books on knee surgery and trauma.

He is clinical lead of Trauma and Orthopaedics & Director of Surgical Education at UCLH, Honorary Associate Professor at UCL, Clinical Governance Lead and Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at the Lister Hospital.

Maria Panourgia

Consultant Geriatrician & Orthogeriatrician, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Panourgia graduated in Medicine from the University of Bologna and trained in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Verona. She later earned a PhD in the study of healthy ageing and longevity from the University of Bologna.

Since 2013, she has worked as a Consultant in Geriatric and Orthogeriatric Medicine at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she has led transformative improvements in the care of older patients with hip fractures. She is Clinical Lead for the hospital’s Fracture Liaison Service, for the inpatient falls and Orthogeriatric Lead.

She is a member of the Executive Board of the Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) – Greece and co-Chair of the EuGMS of the Urinary Incontinence Group of the EuGMS.

She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Buckingham Medical School and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

From January 2026 she has been appointed Orthogeriatric Lead of the NHFD.

Her clinical and academic interests focus on frailty, urinary incontinence, the effects of acute stressors such as surgery in older adults, and secondary fracture prevention.

Anay Patel

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Houston, Texas

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Kavi Patel

Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma & Limb Reconstruction Surgeon

Kavi is a consultant orthopaedic trauma and limb reconstruction surgeon at The Royal London Hospital specialising in adult complex trauma, orthoplastics, bone infection, failed fixation, non-union and deformity correction. Having graduated from the Royal Free and University College Medical School, he completed his higher surgical training on the Cambridge rotation following which he undertook two post-CCT fellowships at King’s College Hospital and St George’s Hospital.

Kavi has authored a textbook chapter, multiple peer-reviewed articles, contributed to national guidelines and delivered international podium presentations in his field. He has also completed a full-time Masters in Surgical Science at UCL which culminated in the publication of basic science research.

A keen educator, he holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, is regular faculty on limb reconstruction/trauma courses and is a Senior Clinical Lecturer/co-director on the Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences MSc at the Blizard Institute. He is the fracture-related infection lead on the UK Bone & Joint Infection Registry and sits on the OTS education committee.

As an Army Reservist, Kavi has an interest in conflict surgery and orthopaedic trauma care in the austere environment having deployed to Ukraine and volunteered in Gaza.

Giles Pattison

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Trauma and Spinal Surgery (DPOTSS), Honorary Senior Lecturer Sheffield University

Giles graduated from University College London in 1991. His higher surgical training was in Bristol and the Southwest. After completing his fellowship training at SickKids in Toronto he was appointed to a consultant post at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire in 2005. He completed a masters in medical education at the University of Warwick. Giles has been TPD of the Warwick programme and served on the SAC from 2019- 2025, latterly as Vice Chair. Giles has been a member of BOA council. He has served as departmental chair and Head of Surgery at the trust. Giles has a wide-ranging paediatric orthopaedic practice, which includes a baby clinic, trauma, and an on-call commitment.

His development as a leader started with an interest in medical education and this has been the major focus of his career. His initial experience in clinical management was as audit lead and subsequently chair of the department. At this time, he developed an understanding of the complexities of change in the NHS. His leadership roles also engendered an interest in behaviours and the management of colleagues. Giles teaches on the British Orthopaedic Association’s new consultants’ course on the subject of communication and how to be an effective consultant colleague. Most recently he has developed an interest in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Giles was a founding member of the International Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance and help write the BOA’s first E, D and I strategy. He is married to a surgeon, and he has three grown up children, one of whom is a doctor.

Hayley Pennock

T&O Cinical Teaching Fellow, Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Professor Daniel Perry

NIHR Research Professor, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Sarah Phillips

Orthopaedic Surgeon, King’s College Hospital

Sarah is an Orthopaedic Surgeon with an interest in Limb Reconstruction.  She was appointed as consultant at King’s College Hospital in 1998.

She is Secretary of The British Limb Reconstruction Society.

She was in the Army Reserves for over 30 years retiring in 2021. She deployed  in March 2003 for Op Telic 1 (2nd Gulf War).

She is on the Faculty of the Diploma in Medicine in Conflict and Catastrophe (DMCC)

Sarah is a Trustee of 2 charities – IDEALS and Rebuild. (www.IDEALS.org.uk and www.rebuildcharity.org )

IDEALS was established in 2000 by John Beavis.  Its mission: to relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world affected by conflict and/or natural disaster.  It has worked in Bosnia-Herzegovia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Lebanon and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Sarah has been involved in helping to establish a Limb Reconstruction Service in Gaza since 2013. IDEALS provided training for orthopaedic surgeons, nurses and physiotherapists as well as providing specialist orthopaedic equipment.  The charity has helped in the treatment of war wounded patients and those injured in 2018-19 border demonstrations.

Since December 2023 IDEALS has been recognised as a specialist Emergency Medical Team (Orthoplastics) and has regularly sent surgical teams to Gaza to treat those injured in the present conflict.  Sarah has made 2 visits during the present war  - her most recent visit was in January 2026.

Greg Pickering

Consultant Hand & Orthopaedic Surgeon , The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Andrew Porteous

Consultant Specialist Knee Surgeon

Andrew has been a Consultant Specialist Knee Surgeon at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre(AOC) in Bristol, UK for over 23 years. He holds a number of roles within the National Joint  Registry including: Chair of the Editorial Committee, Vice-chair of the Surgical Performance Committee, Member of the NJR Board and the Executive Committee.

Andrew is a Past President of the British Assoc for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) and served on the BASK Executive Committee for 12 years. He has previously been the Clinical Lead for Knee Surgery at the AOC for over 15 years, and the Lead for Elective Orthopaedics for five years. He is on the steering committee for the NHSE/GIRFT Revision Knee Network project and is a co-author of National Guidelines for treatment of ACL injuries and Revision knee replacement.

Andrew’s research interests include: Partial, total & revision knee arthroplasty, implant retrieval analysis, infection & knee injury. He has been involved in the development and ongoing work of ODEP and Beyond Compliance for Knees. He is a Member of the BASK, BOA, EKS, ESSKA, EKA and ISAKOS; he holds a Master’s Degree in Orthopaedic Engineering.

Rob Poulter

Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Hari Prem

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

Mr Prem graduated from Madras Medical College, India and started his orthopaedic training in 1987 at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. After completing the M.S.Orth. course in 1990, he returned home to Vellore to work as a consultant at Christian Medical College with a special interest in paediatric surgery and limb reconstruction. In 1995 he moved to Australia for advanced training and fellowships and in 1998 he arrived in England with the aim of qualifying for the FRCS Orth, which he completed through training based at the Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals. He completed a Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship at Manchester and a Foot and Ankle Fellowship at Wrightington.

He started work at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and the Birmingham Children's Hospital in 2005 where he continues at present as a Foot and Ankle surgeon. He has a special interest in Flatfeet in Children and Adults and the Biology and Biomechanics of surgical complications. He enjoys teaching with a focus on patient safety and the well being of surgeons. 

Andrew Price

Consultant Knee Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals

Professor Andrew Price studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College) before completing his clinical studies at St.Thomas' Hospital in London. For his Orthopaedic training he joined the Oxford training programme in 1997, becoming a Clinical Lecturer in NDORMS in 2001.

He was awarded a DPhil in 2003 through the University of Oxford (Worcester College), studying the Oxford partial knee replacement. He then completed a year of specialist Knee Fellowship training in Melbourne, returning to NDORMs and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 2004, where he was subsequently appointed Reader and Honorary Consultant in Knee Surgery.

In 2011, through the University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise, he was made a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at NDORMS. His clinical work as a Consultant Knee Surgeon is based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, where he has recently been appointed to Clinical Director T&O. His research is based in NDORMS at the Botnar Centre, where he Leads the Knee Research Group.

Andrew is Fellow of Worcester College (Tutor for Graduate Entry Medical Studies), a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, member of the UK National Joint Registry Steering Committee and Past President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)

Sultan Qasim

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Sultan Qasim is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in foot and ankle surgery in Newcastle. He completed his orthopaedic training in the East Midlands and fellowship training at Wrightington Hospital.

He leads a tertiary service for Charcot Reconstruction and tertiary referral service for complex neurological foot and ankle deformities at Freeman Hospital.

He contributes to national and international orthopaedic training courses, supervises medical students at Newcastle University, and has led national multi-centre studies and published on ankle injury rehabilitation, ankle fractures, diabetic foot disease, and total ankle replacement.

Amir Qureshi

Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton

Mr Amir Qureshi is a Consultant Knee and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton, a major trauma centre serving the Wessex region. His clinical practice includes complex knee surgery, sports injuries, osteotomy, cartilage restoration, limb reconstruction, deformity correction, problem fractures, bone infection, and primary and revision knee replacement.
He is President of the British Limb Reconstruction Society and has previously served as Education Secretary. He is actively involved in surgical training, national education and service development within limb reconstruction and complex trauma.
Alongside his UK practice, Mr Qureshi has worked with NGO and humanitarian teams in austere and resource-limited environments, giving him direct experience of trauma and orthopaedic care outside standard surgical infrastructure.
His wider interests include complex limb salvage, pragmatic decision making in difficult environments, and developing safe reconstructive pathways for patients with challenging injuries. 

Professor Amar Rangan

Vice President, British Orthopaedic Association

Prof Amar Rangan holds the Mary Kinross Trust and Royal College of Surgeons Chair at Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Department of Health Sciences, University of York.

He is a specialist shoulder and elbow surgeon at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough, providing district and tertiary services in his specialty.

He also holds a full professorship with the faculty of medical sciences and NDORMS, University of Oxford.

Amar has held key national leadership roles: President of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association, and surgeon member of the National Joint Registry Steering Committee.

Amar is a designated supervisor for HYMS integrated academic training and supervises pre-doctoral and doctoral studentships.

He is fellowship director for the nationally accredited shoulder and elbow fellowship at South Tees Hospitals and is course director for the postgraduate MCh(Orth) programme in Teesside.

Amar leads a programme of clinical and translational research, including NIHR funded multi-centre clinical trials.

He has published widely in trauma and orthopaedics, particularly in shoulder and elbow surgery, where his work has influenced clinical practice, national guidelines, and policy.

He is chair of MedConnectNorth and is a member of the NIHR i4i Challenge Awards Committee.

Janardhan Rao

Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester

Sachin Rastogi

Consultant in Pain Management & Anaesthesia, Great North Children’s Hospital

Professor Mike Reed

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chair, NJR Surgical Performance Committee, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Mike Reed is a full-time trauma and hip and knee joint replacement surgeon. He trained in the North of England and did fellowships in New Zealand. He leads Trauma and Orthopaedics at Northumbria Healthcare, working with a team of 31 talented colleagues. His research focuses on clinical outcomes particularly around short stay surgery as well as infection prevention, diagnosis and management. He has co-developed and commercialised a validated medical device to predict perioperatice risk. Professor Reed is on the steering committee and executive of the National Joint Registry (NJR) and Chaired the Annual Report from 2019-2024. He now leads on Surgical Performance for the NJR, is a trustee for the Orthopaedic Research UK charity and is on the grant awards committee for the National Institute Health and Care Research (NIHR) (i4i PDA). He has led clinical trials for industry and NIHR, and works academically with the University of York. 

Haroon Rehman

Council Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Victoria Hospital

William Reynolds

Will is a partner at Browne Jacobson LLP. With over 15 years in the profession, he is an expert litigator and master tactician specialising in the defence of clinical negligence claims. In this role he leads a team of senior litigators and is a trusted advisor to various leading organisations in the field, including NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, and other private insurers and commercial organisations.

When it comes to his area of specialism, Will’s extensive experience covers the full spectrum of clinical negligence litigation covering numerous areas of medicine and law alike. He uses his experience, insight, and empathy to skilfully guide his clients to ensure the best outcomes are achieved. Will’s reputation in the field means he is regularly instructed on cases involving new and evolving issues of law of particular strategic importance.

Will also uses his understanding of the patient journey and empathy to deal with cases sensitively. He is a keen advocate for alternative approaches to claims resolution, and this has garnered him significant respect from leading claimant solicitors.

Outside of his case work, Will has a passion for helping clients and others learn, develop and grow. He is an accomplished speaker on the national and international stage, with a talent for distilling complex concepts down into easily accessible and engaging content. With this in mind, Will heads Browne Jacobson’s internal and external client-facing clinical negligence training programme and is a specialist in training on complex quantum and learning from harm, regularly delivering sessions focussed on these areas.

Will’s commitment to improvement and learning extends beyond the law around clinical negligence and into leading national healthcare improvement projects, such that he regularly contributes to national risk management initiatives for the NHS. This includes GIRFT and working with the BOA as a trusted medico-legal advisor.

Berna Richter

Director R&D Orthopaedic & Spine Surgery, Aesculap AG

Simon Robinson

Consultant Upper Limb Surgeon, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Simon Robinson is an upper limb orthopaedic surgeon working at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He graduated from the University of Manchester and undertook his higher surgical training in the Mersey deanery. He completed an in-training fellowship in complex shoulder replacement surgery and nerve surgery of the upper limb at Wrightington Hospital before undertaking a BESS approved fellowship at Chesterfield specialising in the spectrum of upper limb pathology.

Andy Roche

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

Benedict Rogers

Orthopaedic Consultant & Honorary Clinical Professor, University Hospitals Sussex

Professor Benedict Rogers is a Consultant in Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery consulting in Surrey and Sussex, with clinical and academic interests on hip and knee surgery, including robotic-assisted sports injuries and trauma. 

A graduate of University of Oxford (Christ Church), St George’s Hospital Medical School (University of London), UCL, University of Portsmouth and University of Toronto. 

Awarded PhD (2017) with thesis entitled “Optimising the Outcomes of Hip and Knee Replacements” 

He is an NHS Consultant at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton & Sussex Medical School (University of Sussex). 

Other professional appointments currently held: 

- Editor-in-Chief, Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

- Member of Court of Examiners, The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

A keen sportsman, Benedict was awarded an Oxford Blue (Rugby League) and has completed five Ironman Triathlons. He now regularly runs half/full marathons for local charities. 

Benedict undertook two clinical fellowships at world-renowned academic units at University of Toronto: Mount Sinai Hospital & Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. 

He was trained by several eminent surgeons including Professor Allan Gross, Professor Hans Kreder, Professor Marvin Tile, Dr Joseph Schatzker. 

He was awarded the Zane Cohen Fellowship Achievement Award by the University of Toronto; the first time this had been awarded to an orthopaedic surgeon. 

With an extensive and ongoing research portfolio covering basic science and clinical practice, he currently has over 120 publications, over 10 book chapters and over 80 presentations; including several at the British Orthopaedic Association and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, with a number awarded prizes. 

He is a fully qualified GP (non-practicing)

Lebur Rohman

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Specialist Sports Knee & Lower Limb Arthroplasty), Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Rohman is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in knee surgery and lower limb arthroplasty, with a particular focus on complex knee pathology and joint preservation. He is a nationally recognised cartilage surgeon and co-leads the development of the Gateshead Cartilage Centre, a designated national centre and the only tertiary referral facility of its kind in the North East of England.

He has extensive experience in managing sports knee injuries, early arthritis, and complex reconstructive procedures, and treats professional footballers nationally. His clinical practice is centred on advanced techniques in ACL surgery, sports knee surgery in general, cartilage restoration, joint preservation, and rapid recovery pathways.

He is the Elective Day Case Lead at Gateshead, where he leads the delivery and transformation of high-volume, high-quality surgical services, driving innovation in day-case knee surgery and arthroplasty with a strong emphasis on patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

In 2025, he was appointed British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) National Fellowship Lead, contributing to the development of the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons at a national level.

Nigel Rossiter

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & President, Combined Services Orthopaedic Society

Jo Round

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton

Jo Round is a Consultant at University Hospital Southampton, where she specialises in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction.  

Jo trained within the Wessex Deanery and completed a fellowship in Leeds and attended an Observership in Cape Town.  She has completed the BOA Future Leaders Programme and is on the faculty on the KSS Core Trainees Leadership Course.  

Bibhas Roy

Consultant orthopaedic Surgeon, Manchester University Foundation Trust

Jeremy Rushbrook

Consultant Knee and Trauma Surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Jeremy Rushbrook qualified from the University of Leeds and completed his surgical training in Yorkshire before his Fellowship in Brisbane with Dr Peter Myers.  He is a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.  His specialist interest is knee surgery, particularly with regards to robotic-assistance which has been a routine part of primary elective practice at the Trust in Portsmouth since 2018. 

He set up and manages the Major Revision Centre for the South East Central Region and over the last few years has been exploring the practical application of robotic assistance in the revision setting, including the opportunities and challenges associated with incorporating this technology into complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. 

Mathew Samuel

Medical Director, Herbertpur Christian Hospital. India

Alasdair Santini

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust

Alasdair Santini is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, specialising in knee and hip surgery, with particular expertise in primary and revision knee arthroplasty, knee arthroscopy and hip replacement surgery. He trained at the University of Sheffield before completing higher orthopaedic training on the Mersey Orthopaedic Rotation, including a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Travelling Fellowship in St Louis, USA. 

Appointed as a consultant in Liverpool in 2005, Mr Santini has extensive experience in lower limb arthroplasty and has held several clinical leadership roles. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and has published and presented research nationally and internationally, with particular interests in knee surgery, surgical education and quality improvement. 

Mr Santini is President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK), reflecting his longstanding commitment to advancing knee surgery, research and education across the UK. He has been President of the Grosvenor Orthopaedic Club and as Managing Partner of the Bone and Joint Centre in Liverpool. Through his clinical practice, research and national leadership roles, he has made a significant contribution to the development of modern knee and hip surgery.

Matt Scarborough

Consultant in Clinical Infection, Oxford University Hospitals Trust

Matt Scarborough studied medicine at Queens University Belfast and undertook post graduate training mainly in London and Oxford. He currently works as a consultant physician in clinical infection and general medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. His research interests include orthopaedic infection, bacterial meningitis and blood stream infections. 

Chloe Scott

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Khosrow Sehat

Consultant Trauma and Orthoaedic Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals

I am a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon based at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. My expertise covers knee and hip replacement surgery, including Computer Navigated surgery and Conformis custom knee replacement implants. I am also trained in knee and hip preservation surgery for younger patients with moderate arthritis, hip impingement or tendon related problems affecting the hip. 

I have a specialist interest in non-arthritic hip pain, knee cartilage injury reconstruction, computer Navigated Knee Replacement surgery and computer guided rehabilitation following knee replacement surgery. 

I hold regular clinics at Spire Nottingham Hospital and I am available to discuss your condition and direct investigations as required. I place great value in taking time to understand your symptoms and concerns and to explain treatment options with clarity and to your satisfaction. 

I studied medicine at the University of Bristol. I undertook further training, specialising in Orthopaedic Surgery in Nottingham and New Zealand and subsequently took up a post as Consultant in 2008. I have an Orthopaedic ‘Trauma’ surgery practice at the Queens Medical Centre, dealing with injuries and emergencies and an ‘Elective’ knee and hip surgery practice based at the City Hospital Campus of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH). As well as treating patients, I have held the positions of ‘Clinical Governance Lead’ with responsibility for quality assurance in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery as well as the position of Deputy Director of Surgery with organisational and service development responsibilities. I currently chair the Trent regional network for the treatment of Metastatic Bone Disease (secondary cancer) and perform surgery for this condition. 

I am on the Aesculap Academia panel of trainers for Computer Navigated knee replacement surgery and regularly teach at international training courses. I am also on the panel of surgeons developing the next generation of Computer Navigated knee replacement surgery techniques with the B Braun company, the originators of this technology. I am also on an international panel of surgeons studying and optimising the outcomes of knee replacement surgery (Pheno4U). 

Deepu Sethi

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon (Knee), Welbeck Healthcare

Shantanu Shahane

Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon, Sheffield Children's Hospital

Shantanu is a Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder and Elbow surgeon at the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust and at the Sheffield Children's Hospital.

He completed a fellowship at Wrightington Hospital, a centre of excellence for surgery of the upper limb and a further six months as a fellow at the Cappagh Hospital, Dublin to obtain further training in surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints. He has also since visited various centres of excellence around the world including the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, USA), Fondren Clinic (Houston, USA), DeBeer clinic (Cape Town, South Africa) to further his knowledge of surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints.

He is a on the board of reviewers for the journal “Shoulder & Elbow”. He has been part of Education committee of British Shoulder and Elbow surgery (BESS). He was an executive on the board of BESS for 4 years. He was Chairperson of the Instructional Course (ICL) of BESS for two years (with membership of ICL for 8 years). He is on the faculty for arthroscopic and open surgery courses for the shoulder and elbow joints in the UK and overseas.

Since 2019, he has also been in the post of Chief Medical Officer of One Health Group, a private healthcare organisation in Sheffield.

Samantha Sharkey

ST6 Trauma & Orthopaedics, North Yorkshire

Samantha is a registrar currently working in Leeds, with an interest in pursuing a career in Trauma & Limb Reconstruction. Completing Medical School and Foundation Training in the West of Scotland, she moved south to pursue surgical training; completing Core Surgical Training and commencing Higher Surgical Training within North Yorkshire. 

Samantha has a particular interest in Widening Participation and Medical Education, which aligns with her current role as the Education Representative for BOTA. She has recently returned to training having taken time out to complete a Leadership Fellowship with the Yorkshire & Humber Future Leaders Programme whilst undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education. Alongside this, she is the current Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS) Trainee Representative. 

Samantha will be involved in the BOA Schools Engagement Session and BOMFA x BOA Careers day, and may also be spotted around the BOTA stand

Akash Sharma

President CASOS UK, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

Zachariah Silk

Consultant Spinal Surgeon

Joydeep Sinha

Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon, King’s College Hospital

Professor John Skinner

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, RNOH Stanmore

Professor John Skinner is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at University College London and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Stanmore. He is an internationally recognised authority in hip and knee replacement surgery, orthopaedic innovation and the application of technology to improve patient outcomes. 

Alongside his clinical practice, Professor Skinner has served as President of the British Orthopaedic Association and has also served as President of the British Hip Society. He has been a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and previously chaired its Future Surgeons Forum. 

Professor Skinner is Director of Research and Development at the RNOH and has authored more than 300 scientific publications. His research has contributed significantly to advances in joint replacement surgery, implant performance, surgical robotics and innovation in orthopaedic care. He is widely recognised for his leadership in both research and clinical practice and for helping to shape national and international orthopaedic policy and guidance. 

Adam Smith

Solicitor and Partner, Hempsons LLP, Assistant Coroner, Milton Keynes and Inner North London

Adam is a solicitor who has specialised for over 25 years in defending doctors and other healthcare professionals before their regulators and in criminal matters.  

This has involved him in a number of significant GMC/MPTS hearings, as well as criminal cases involving allegations of gross negligence manslaughter and sexual assault. He also advises doctors in respect of internal trust investigations under "MHPS" and DBS matters.  

Additionally, Adam has represented doctors at inquests throughout his career and since 2019 has sat part time as an Assistant Coroner in two jurisdictions. 

Adam has been ranked for "Professional Discipline" for some years in Chambers & Partners" (Band 2) and is recognised as a "Leading Individual" in professional discipline by "The Legal 500".

Sarah Stapley

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust

Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon with subspecialty interest in Hand Surgery and Military Surgery. Qualified from Glasgow University. Joined the Royal Navy in 1987, undertook Surgical Training, obtaining a DM during this period. Fellowship training in Hand Surgery in Wrightington, and Trauma in Toronto, Canada. Accrediting in 2004, before undertaking 6 tours to Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts. Has used Day Surgery throughout consultant career, and since COVID has assisted in developing pathways for acute trauma to be managed via day surgery. Has a significant interest in training, holding multiple training positions and has supported several trainees through higher degrees. Retired from the MOD in 2021. Currently a visiting Clinical Professor to Loughborough University. Continues to work in the NHS as a Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, sitting on BOA Council as BADS representative

Jawad Sultan

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

I am a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, who specialises in the management of disorders of the knee. My clinical practice encompasses all aspects of knee surgery including the treatment of sports injuries, ligament injuries, arthritis and patella instability. 

I specialise in all aspects of arthritis and joint degeneration, including nonoperative treatment (injections, orthotics, rehab), cartilage regeneration procedures, kKnee re-alignment osteotomies, total and partial knee replacement, customised patient-specific knee (ConforMIS) and robotic knee replacement (Mako). 

For sports knee injuries I offer knee arthroscopy (keyhole surgery), meniscus repair / transplant, ligament reconstruction, patella (kneecap) dislocation & instability, chondral (joint surface) injuries and cartilage regeneration procedures and overuse conditions eg tendinitis. 

Since completing my training in 2016, I have performed hundreds of knee arthroscopies, replacements (partial and total), ligament reconstructions and osteotomies. I perform complex multi-ligament knee and joint reconstruction surgery at Manchester Royal Informary Major Trauma Centre, and lead the Soft Tissue Knee MDT. 

I completed my specialist surgical training in the North West of England, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS T&O) in 2016. I undertook prestigious knee fellowships in Harrogate, Cardiff and France, where I worked with world-renowned knee surgeons specialising in partial knee replacements, knee ligaments reconstruction, osteotomies and patellofemoral joint surgery. Following five years as a consultant at Royal Bolton Hospital, I was selected in 2021 to lead the acute knee services at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - Manchester Royal Infirmary, Trafford General Hospital. 

I am experienced in clinical and laboratory research, including the use of gait analysis. I completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University. My dissertation, A New Approach to Prevention of Knee Osteoarthritis, was presented at national and international conferences, and awarded Sir John Charnley and the British Association of Surgeons of the Knee prizes. I have several publications, and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. 

I lead the Soft Tissue Knee MDT at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where I perform complex multi-ligament knee and joint reconstruction surgery. I am the Clinical Governance Lead at Manchester Royal Infirmary Major Trauma Centre. I sit on national BASK committees to produce national guidance for knee surgery. 

I teach medical students at the University of Manchester, as well as on ATLS and knee replacement and trauma courses, and train junior doctors as part of the North Western Deanery Orthopaedic Rotation. I am a regular examiner of medical students at the University of Manchester, and am actively involved in training of junior surgeons in the NHS 

Andrew Tasker

Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant , Southmead Hospital, Bristol

Andrew Tasker is a Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant based at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.

He was appointed as a Consultant in 2014 and has been in full-time practice since. He has a passion for medical education and an interest in the challenges of delivering safe, effective surgical training in the modern healthcare system. Having been departmental Medical Education Lead and subsequently Postgraduate Tutor for Severn Deanery Orthopaedic Registrar Teaching, he is currently Training Programme Director for Trauma & Orthopaedics in Severn. He is a European Trauma Course Instructor and faculty on FRCS (T&O) pre-Consultant exam courses.
He is committed to evidence based practice and has been a principle investigator for his trust on national multi centre Orthopaedic trials. As part of his commitment to ensuring the highest standards of patient care and surgical practice, he has served on the executive for the Orthopaedic Trauma Society from 2021 to 2024 , and a special interest in managing Shoulder and Elbow Trauma.

Tim Theologis

Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences / University of Oxford

Professor Geraint Thomas

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon / Professor, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital / Keele University

James Tomlinson

Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Sheffield

James is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon and Associate Medical Director for Education in Sheffield UK. He is a member of the NOTSS faculty has taught nationally and internationally on surgical non-technical skills and human factors and co-led a review of the NOTSS curriculum.

He also has a research interest in surgeon performance and non-technical skills.

Professor Alex Trompeter

Orthopaedic Trauma / Limb Reconstruction Surgeon, St George’s University Hospital

Alex Trompeter works at St George’s University Hospital in London and holds the position of Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at City St George’s University of London. His specific clinical interests are the management of complex fractures, bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening, orthoplastic surgery and delivering the region’s amputation service.

Alex graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school in 2003. He completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in the South West Thames rotation in 2012. He won the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the FRCS examinations in 2011. Alex undertook specialist fellowship training in trauma and limb reconstruction in the UK (Liverpool and Chertsey) and overseas (Calgary, Canada). He was awarded the Braun travelling fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, by the British Orthopaedic Association, and a travelling fellowship to the Oxford Bone Infection Unit by the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Alex is  actively involved in academic research and is widely published in his field, as well as being a keen surgical educator teaching locally, nationally and internationally. He was previously Training Program Director for the South West London Orthopaedic Rotation. Alex chairs the BLRS Research Committee and is vice chair of the BOA trauma committee and co-chair of the BOA Clinical Standards Committee (responsible for producing BOASTS). In his spare time he enjoys ultra running, gardening, cooking and making salami.

Professor Phil Turner

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

Professor Turner has been a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon based at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport since 1990 having trained in Manchester and spent time studying in centres in America and Europe. He was the senior surgeon in the department and specialises in all aspects of knee surgery, having established a tertiary referral unit for complex knee problems from across the North West and beyond.

His clinical practice includes caring for elite athletes including Premiership football teams, professional rugby league and union players and Olympic athletes.

Philip Turner has been a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon based at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport since 1990 having trained in Manchester and spent time studying in centres in America and Europe.. He was the senior surgeon in the department and continues to specialise in all aspects of knee surgery, having established a tertiary referral unit for complex knee problems from across the North West of England and beyond. His main clinical interests are outcome measures, arthritis of the knee in the younger patient and sports injuries of the knee. He is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

He was a Council and Executive member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and served as President from 2018 to 2019. He was previously the North West Orthopaedic Training Programme Director, Head of the North West School of Surgery, founding Chair of the Confederation of Post-Graduate Schools of Surgery and Chair of the BOA Training Standards and Curriculum Committee. Philip has been a key member of the Joint Intercollegiate Committee for Examinations where he has been an examiner, assessor and quality assurance lead. He has been involved in surgical education and assessment throughout his career and was awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the RCS Edinburgh in 2016.

He has been domain clinical lead in the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and founding Chair of the Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance. He holds an Honorary Professorship in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Salford and was elected as a Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2019 where he chaired the Professional Standards Committee. Philip was appointed as the Deputy Dean for Accreditation in 2025 and Chairs the Joint Specialty Examinations Committee.

He is proud to have been appointed as a founding trustee of the “DayOne Trauma” charity supporting the care of patients and families who have suffered catastrophic injuries.

Philip was elected as Vice President of the College in 2025.

Kalpesh Vaghela

Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

Nijil Vasukutty

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust

Nijil Vasukutty is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle surgeon with his NHS practice based in United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust. He completed his foot and ankle training in Southampton University Hospital and University Hospital of South Manchester, followed by Diabetic Foot training at King's College Hospital. He has maintained a keen interest in research with several publications in  foot and ankle surgery and lower limb arthroplasty in addition to large number of national and international presentations. Mr Vasukutty has a postgraduate qualification in medical education from University of Glasgow. His educational roles include Academic Lead for Orthopaedics at University of Lincoln Medical School, College Tutor and Specialty Education Lead at United Lincolnshire Hospitals (Boston site). His current research interests are mainly around diabetic foot surgery.

Sarafina Vatharkar

Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham Trust

Richard Neville Villar

Orthopaedic Surgeon

Sam Vollans

Consultant Shoulder/Elbow Surgeon, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Peter Wall

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham

Peter is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip surgery at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. His research interests are the clinical effectiveness and safety of musculoskeletal interventions. He is the Co-Chief Investigator with Professor Ed Davis for the RACER-Hip Study; a multi-centre, blinded RCT comparing clinical and cost-effectiveness of robotic assisted total hip replacement to conventional total hip replacement for adults with hip osteoarthritis.

Graham Walsh

Mr. Graham Walsh is the Medical Director for Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber and a Consultant Knee Surgeon. With extensive experience in knee surgery, Mr. Walsh is a leading figure in the development and implementation of innovative healthcare solutions. His dual role allows him to bridge clinical expertise with health innovation, driving forward advancements that enhance patient outcomes and improve the delivery of healthcare services across the region.

Professor 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.

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.                                                                

Professor Henning Windhagen

Director and Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover im Annastift

Henning Windhagen (born 4 March 1965 in Essen) is a German orthopaedic surgeon and trauma surgeon. Since 2006, he has been Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic at the Hanover Medical School (Medizinische Hochschule Hannover) in the Annastift, and in 2014 he served as President of both the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC) and the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU). 

Henning Windhagen studied human medicine from 1984 to 1991 at the Philipps University of Marburg and the University of Bern (Switzerland). In 1992, he earned his doctorate at the University of Marburg with a dissertation entitled: 

“Biomechanical Investigations into Acromioclavicular Joint Stabilisation: PDS Fixation versus Wire Cerclage.” 

He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomechanical Sciences at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, and was a recipient of scholarships from the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation and the B. Braun Foundation. 

After serving as a resident physician in the Department of Trauma Surgery at Humboldt University Berlin and at the Virchow Hospital of the Charité, Windhagen became a board-certified orthopaedic specialist in 1996 and joined the Orthopaedic Clinic of Hanover Medical School (MHH) as a research associate. He completed his habilitation there in 2001. 

In 2004, he received an additional teaching appointment in biomedical engineering at the University of Hanover. Since 2006, Windhagen has held a full professorship in orthopaedics at MHH and has served as Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic and the Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials. 

In 2007, he became co-director of the CrossBIT Research Center (Center for Biomaterials, Implant Immunology, and Medical Technology), and in 2008 he took over leadership of OrthoGO (Institute for Orthopaedic Gait and Movement Analysis). 

Since 2009, he has served as Medical Managing Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic of MHH at the Annastift. In addition, since 2012 he has been a member of the board of the Lower Saxony Center for Implant Research and Development (NIFE). 

Ben Woodhouse

PhD Student, Keele University / The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital

Professor Karina Wright

Professor of Orthopaedics and Bioengineering, Keele University/RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital (Oswestry)

Sam Yasen

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Mr Yasen specialises in all aspects of knee surgery including ligament reconstruction, meniscal transplantation, realignment osteotomy and arthroplasty. Major interest in sports injuries and joint preservation. Published widely in the fields of ligament surgery and knee osteotomy.

He trained at King's College London, graduating with Triple Distinction in undergraduate medicine and a First-Class Honours for a BSc in physiology. He was awarded the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal in Trauma & Orthopaedics in 2014 and subsequently appointed as the BOA Young Ambassador. He was also awarded the McLeod Medal in Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2015 and is a Member of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine.

Mr Yasen holds additional degrees in Engineering (Masters - MSc - with distinction) from Cardiff University, and Teaching (Bristol University- PGCE - again with distinction). He has a national appointment as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has a broad experience of teaching from undergraduate level to international lecturing and presentations.

Mr Yasen additionally hosts a surgical visitation program in Basingstoke Hospital for surgeons interested in joint preservation.