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.

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 Vice 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.  She is involved in national selections for core and orthopaedic surgery, and sits on ARCP panels for both.  She was regional training programme director for core surgery in West Midlands from 2015 – 2019.

She is the Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern UK, a specialist society of the British Orthopaedic Association, and a charity which focuses on teaching orthopaedics in low resource countries.  She is co-director of the postgraduate orthopaedic training programme in Guyana.  She also visits Gaza as part of the UK limb reconstruction team of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.

She has been on the Emergency Response Team of UK Med, a first response team for international disaster relief, since 2012.

Alex Schade

Trauma and Orthopaedic Registrar

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