Niel Kang

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , Education & Careers Committee British Orthopaedic Association, Medical Student Engagement Lead

I'm a Year 29 medical student. Looking for more and better ways to help ALL early career resident doctors & medical students interested in the best profession in the 🌎 to nail their dreams and cement their goals!

Professor Deborah Eastwood

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Great Ormond St Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

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

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

Karen Chui

BOTA Past President, Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation

Karen (she/they) is a Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialty Registrar in London on the Stanmore rotation. As BOTA Past President, Karen represented Orthopaedic trainees at national meetings, advocating to improve training and education opportunities for trainees. Karen campaigned for DEI in Orthopaedics and surgery to promote an environment in which surgeons and patients feel proud to be their authentic selves. They are passionate about creating cultural change in Orthopaedics, building a compassionate profession for the modern surgeon to deliver excellent care to our patients.

Alex Schade

Trauma and Orthopaedic Registrar

Alex Schade is an ST6 T&O trainee in the West Midlands and completed his Wellcome Trust PhD on outcomes of open tibia fractures in Malawi between 2020-2023. Born and grew up in France, he then studied an undergraduate at King’s College London, medical degree at the University of Bristol and a master’s in public health at the University of Warwick. He has worked in different hospitals across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) including in Uganda, Cambodia and Malawi. He believes that the growing epidemic of disability from musculoskeletal conditions can be reduced through good clinical practice and high-quality collaborative research. His specific research interests include strengthening orthopaedic services in LMICs, cost-effective interventions, and policy implementation to ensure research leads to meaningful impact. He is particularly interested in paediatric orthopaedic pathology in LMICs.

Lucy Harriss

Lucy is currently an F1 doctor in General Surgery at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. She aspires to pursue a career in orthopaedics, with a particular interest in paediatric orthopaedics. She graduated from Barts and The London Medical School this year, during which she undertook electives in foot and ankle surgery at the Royal London Hospital and in paediatric orthopaedics at Beit-Cure International Hospital, Malawi. 

Sophie Heppenstall

Sophie is a Foundation Year 2 doctor in London with a strong interest in medical education and research. She currently serves as the President of the British Orthopaedic Medical Students Association (BOMSA) and represents BOMSA on the BOA Education and Careers Committee. 

Vipin Asopa

Consultant hip and knee surgeon, SWLEOC London

Mr. Vipin Asopa PhD FRCS (Tr & Orth) is a consultant hip and knee surgeon at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre and Senior Clinical Lecturer at St. George’s and City, University of London. He has completed a PhD in Articular Cartilage Biology at the Kennedy Institute, before completing his higher orthopaedic surgical training in North West London and fellowship training at Sportsmed.SA, Adelaide and The Royal Berkshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has received Orthopaedic Research UK funding for a study titled, ‘The use of Machine Learning in the early detection of failing total hip replacements’. He is also a computer programming coder an associate editor for AI submissions to The Knee Journal.

Helen Chase

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital

Helen studied medicine at UCL, obtaining an intercalated BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology. She was part of the East Anglian region for her speciality orthopaedic training, gaining her FRCS in 2015.

Helen undertook her fellowship at Adelaide’s Women and Children’s Hospital. She has recently joined the Great Ormond Street team specialising in Neurodisability and clubfoot. Prior to this she was a consultant at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the West Suffolk Hospitals. Helen has been RCS college tutor, mentoring lead and previously won trainer of the year for east of England orthopaedics. She has been on the editorial board for the Bone and Joint 360 since 2018.

James Tomlinson

Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Sheffield

James is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon in Sheffield UK. He has a significant interest in surgical education and training and is Education TPD for Yorkshire & Humber and Deputy Director of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, RCSEd.

He is a member of the NOTSS faculty has taught nationally and internationally on surgical non-technical skills and human factors.

Raveen Jayasuriya

Rav completed his intercalated BMedSci in Medical Research in 2009 and his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Sheffield in 2012. Since then, he has worked in NHS hospitals across the Yorkshire region and, in 2014, became the first appointed NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow (ST1) in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery in South Yorkshire. 

In 2020, he undertook a Health Education England Leadership Fellowship, and in 2022 completed an MSc in Surgical Innovation at Imperial College London. Rav has contributed to several areas of the University of Sheffield, including the Academic Unit of Medical Education, the Mellanby Bone Centre, the Department of Oncology and Metabolism, and, most recently, the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) as a PhD student and Co-Applicant on the NIHR BASIS Study RCT. 

Rav recently achieved his CCT in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, having trained on the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Rotation. During his Out-of-Programme training, he completed a two-year pre-CCT Paediatric Spinal Deformity Fellowship at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He currently serves as the Trainee Representative on the British Scoliosis Society Executive Committee. 

The Leeds Spinal Fellowship is Rav’s first post-CCT fellowship, where he aims to further develop expertise in adult and paediatric spinal deformity, acute on-call spinal pathology, and lumbar and cervical degenerative spinal conditions. Following this, he will undertake his second post-CCT fellowship in Brisbane, Australia. 

 

Lucky Jeyaseelan

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot Ankle Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust

Lucky’s NHS practice is based at Barts Health NHS Trust, home to The Royal London Hospital, Europe’s busiest trauma centre, where he is also Clinical Lead of Elective Orthopaedic Care. He specialises in all aspects of Foot & Ankle surgery, He is the F&A Fellowship Director at Barts Health. He is passionate about education and is the Training Programme Director of the Royal London Hospital Orthopaedic Rotation, and serves on both the SAC in T&O, as well as the ST3 National Selection Design Group. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL). 

Yusuf Michla

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.

Jonathan Cormack

Specialty Trainee in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

ST5 T&O – jointly responsible for keeping you in one piece. From med student to bone-fide ST5, keen to train and be trained. Aiming for excellence with a particular grip on hand and wrist surgery. Collecting courses, roles, and experiences to nail the next step

Claire Edwards

Consultant Hand Surgeon, Head of School of Surgery EoE, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

Claire Edwards is Head of the School of Surgery East of England. She was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020 where she chairs the Professional Standards Committee and set up the SupportEd support hub for individuals and organisations delivering or developing surgical care. Claire is an examiner for FRCS (Tr and Orth) and a member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers RCSEd. She sits on a number of committees concerned with training and workforce development including CSTAC and the Intercollegiate Extended Surgical Team Board.

She is  a Consultant Hand  Surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Outside of work she enjoys time outdoors with her sporty family.