Professor Philip Turner has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon based at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK since 1990.  He is the senior surgeon in the department and specialises in all aspects of knee surgery having established a tertiary referral unit for complex knee problems.

His clinical interests are in sports injuries of the knee, complex knee ligament reconstructions, the arthritic knee in younger patients, disorders of the patello-femoral joint and the failed knee replacement.

He is a Council and Executive member of the BOA and President from 2018 to 2019.  He has previously been the North West Orthopaedic Training Programme Director, Head of the HENW School of Surgery, Chair of the Confederation of Post-Graduate Schools of Surgery and Chair of the BOA Training Standards and Curriculum Committee.

He has been involved in surgical education throughout his career and has been the Chair of the IQA Committee of the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations.  He was awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the RCS Edinburgh in 2016.

He is active in promoting research and service delivery in his previous role as a domain clinical lead in the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and Chair of the Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance. He is now clinical lead for the transformation of specialist services in Greater Manchester and holds an Honorary Professorship in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Salford.

Professor Kjaersgaard-Andersen is currently a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and the Head of Section for Hip and Knee Replacement in the Department of Orthopaedics at Vejle Hospital in Denmark. He is also an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and regularly lectures medical students at Vejle Hospital and at South Danish University.

Professor Kjaersgaard-Andersen graduated from Aarhus University in 1982 with a license to practice medicine in Denmark, and in 1995 was certified as an Orthopaedic Surgery Specialist by the Danish National Board of Health. His area of speciality is hip replacement with a particular interest in non-cemented primary total hip replacements, conservative hip surgery in younger patients and complicated revision total hip replacement with big bone loss.

He has been a co-opted member of the EFORT Executive Committee since 2007 and was Chairman of the local organising committee of the 12th Annual EFORT Congress 2011. He is Past-President of the Danish Orthopaedic Society, Secreatry General in EFFORT from 2012-2016 and is current the President of EFORT. Since 2008 he has been Chairman of the National Board of Health task group concerning specialist planning in orthopaedic surgery.

Professor Kjaersgaard-Andersen has to date published 112 Medline indexed scientific articles in international peer reviewed medical journals. He has given over 600 presentations at national and international meetings.

In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Orthopaedics Today Europeas well as reviewer and editorial board member for a number of other renowned orthopaedic journals.

Chris Lavy is professor of Orthopaedics and Tropical Surgery at Oxford, a fellow at Green Templeton College and an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals. His first consultant post was at The Middlesex Hospital and UCL in London, then in 1996 he moved to Malawi where he was professor at the new medical school there for 10 years. He has been a council member and trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was a commissioner in the recent Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and his passion is capacity building in surgery in Africa.  He was instrumental in setting up a College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) in 1999.  He has also set up orthopaedic hospitals in Malawi and Zambia and is currently working with Ministry of Health colleagues in Zimbabwe to build an orthopaedic hospital in Bulawayo.  He qualified from UCL and Barts and supports Chelsea and Norwich

James is a registrar on the Severn rotation and current chairperson of the World Orthopaedic Concern-UK (WOC-UK) trainee committee. He is also the WOC-UK representative on the British Orthopaedic Trainee Association (BOTA) committee.

He first got involved with overseas work as a CT2. James was awarded one of the WOC-UK travelling grants which helped pay for a trip to Laos with Steve Mannion doing Club Foot work. For the first time, he saw Orthopaedics through a different lens. He had the opportunity to teach and learn in a variety of overseas settings and have found each experience educationally enriching.

We are working to help create opportunities for trainees who want to get involved with Orthopaedics in low- and middle-income countries; we lobbied the Specialty Advisory Committee (SAC) to change policy on study leave and Work Based Assessments (WBAs) relating to short trips, we are in the process of streamlining the process for matching trainees with a suitable projects, and are encouraging academic links with Orthopaedic trainees overseas.

Dr. Wilson Li who specialises in sports medicine and orthopaedic traumatology is consultant surgeon and the Chief of Service in the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Hong Kong’s largest hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Dr. Li graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 1989 and was elected surgical Fellow of both Royal Colleges at Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1994. He was AO International Trauma Fellow in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1997. After overseas sports medicine fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and the New York Hospital for Special Surgery in the US, he became an expert in sports related injuries as well as surgery around the knee and the shoulder. He teaches extensively in trauma and arthroscopy courses around the world, and is an active member of the International Society for Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine ( ISAKOS ) and the International Cartilage Repair Society ( ICRS ). He has worked as the Chairman of the Education Commission of the Asian Federation of Sports Medicine, and of the Education Committee of AO Trauma Asia-Pacific. He is the founding President of the Sports Medicine Chapter at the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Assocation. Dr. Li has worked as volunteer surgeon for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and has initiated the Bridge the Gap project at the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT). He is also the President-elect of the Hong Kong College of Orthopaedic Surgeons.