Mustafa Alnaib
Catherine Armstrong
Richard Armstrong
Vipin Asopa
Philip Breedon
Ross Coomber
Luke Farrow
Justin Green
Peter Harris
Tom Harte
Professor Amar Rangan
Professor Mike Reed
Keith Tucker
Jing Xie
Dr Mustafa Alnaib is an orthopaedic surgeon, MSK doctor, digital health consultant, and software developer with a strong focus on applying AI in clinical practice. He has been involved since the first AI in Orthopaedics conference, contributing to both presentations and practical workshops. A founding member of the Orthopaedic Research & AI Association (ORAIA), he co-organised “AI in Orthopaedics” workshop in and contributed to EFORT and SICOT sessions on AI applications in orthopaedics. He develops AI-powered tools such as clinic-letter assistants, triage and research solutions apps, in addition to developing medical databases. He is an advocate for advancing work on FHIR-based data integration, governance frameworks, and clinician-led innovation in healthcare technology.
Clinically, Dr Alnaib works as a general trauma surgeon and musculoskeletal doctor in the NHS across London and Kent and is the founder of ACTIVATE Musculoskeletal private clinic, where he provides ultrasound-guided injection therapies and patient-focused MSK care.
Catherine's initial qualification was a BSC Hons in Physiotherapy from University of Ulster. Following junior jobs in most specialty areas in physiotherapy, Catherine returned to University of Manchester as a Research Fellow, funded by the Humphrey Booth Trust, to complete her PhD in Electrical Muscle Strengthening. Catherine has worked as a Research Physiotherapist at LUHFT since 2002. She has specialised in Lower Limb Orthopaedics for the last 21 years. Catherine has a special interest in Arthroplasty and in particular Metal on Metal Total Hip Replacements and long-term surveillance of hip replacements. She became involved in the Arthroplasty Care Practitioners Association (ACPA) at its inaugural meeting in 2005. In 2015 she was elected onto the committee of ACPA which resulted in a number of committee roles such as Education Secretary, Vice President and finally President 2020-2022. In undertaking this role, Catherine has become involved with The BOA and the Implant Retrieval Service providing advice on behalf of the ACPA members. She was also involved in writing part of the BOA guidelines on Total Knee Replacements. As ACPA president she organised two parallel conferences alongside the BHS and BASK. As part of the lengthy process of becoming an Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner, she had to prove competency in many areas of Arthroplasty care, including image interpretation. Catherine now runs a biennial image interpretation course for Health Care Professionals in Arthroplasty Care.
Mr Luke Farrow is a Clinical Academic and 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.
Peter Harris is the Director of Research Science at NielsenIQ, where he leads a global team of Artificial Intelligence researchers. NielsenIQ is a multinational company dedicated to understanding consumer behaviour worldwide. In addition to his role at NielsenIQ, Peter serves as an AI consultant for the NHS, leveraging advanced AI techniques to predict medical conditions from x-rays before they are visible to the human eye. His expertise spans several cutting-edge domains, including Natural Language Processing, Image Classification, Graph Neural Networks, and Generative AI (in collaboration with Microsoft).
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.
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.
Present
Chairman of ODEP (Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel) and the “Beyond Compliance advisory group”
Chaiman ISR (International Spinal Registries)
Member of the Implant Performance Committee NJR
Member of Network of Registries of Europe,
Member of the working group on dangers of Cobalt in TJR
Trustee for the Gwen Fish Trust.
Past
Consultant General Orthopaedic surgeon in Norwich 1977-2017
Secretary and President of the British Hip Society.
Member of the Steering and chair of the Implant performance NJR committees.
Trustee for ORUK
Author and co-author on numerous orthopaedic papers and chapters in books.
Present Research
The use of machine learning in areas of orthopaedics, particularly Hip Replacement.
Hobbies: Family and I run a small farm and a small woodland with my wife
Jing Xie is the Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory and Clinical Affairs at MicroPort Orthopedics Inc. She joined MicroPort in September 2021 with over 20 years' experience in leading global teams and developing and executing clinical and regulatory strategies to accelerate market access and market development. Prior to joining MicroPort, Jing held multiple executive level positions, including Sr. Vice President, Global Clinical and Medical Affairs at Smith and Nephew, Vice President, Clinical, Regulatory and Office of Medical Affairs at Medtronic, Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Medical Device Innovation Consortium, Vice President, Global Clinical Affairs at Zimmer Biomet, and Vice President, Global Clinical Research at Biomet. She received her Bachelor of Science in Analytical Chemistry from Xiamen University, her Master of Science in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Alabama, and her Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University. She also attended the Global Leadership Program at the University of Notre Dame Mendozza College of Business.