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Session Title: From Risk to Resilience: Advancing Orthopaedic Pathways Through Innovation and Evidence
Session Description: This expert-led session explores the evolving landscape of orthopaedic care, with a focus on infection prevention, clinical innovation, and evidence-based practice. Attendees will gain valuable insights from internationally recognised leaders in the field, who will share the latest consensus guidelines, emerging microbial trends, and practical strategies for optimising patient outcomes.
Abtin Alvand will delve into the shifting microbial landscape and the challenges it presents, offering practical guidance on navigating infection risks in modern orthopaedics. Finally, Rhidian Morgan-Jones will explore the importance of preoperative risk stratification and enhanced surgical protocols, emphasising their role in improving healing and reducing complications.
This session is ideal for clinicians, surgeons, and healthcare professionals committed to advancing orthopaedic pathways through innovation, collaboration, and evidence-based care.
Co-Chairs: Rhidian Morgan-Jones, Abtin Alvand and John Timmons
Agenda:
From Risk to Resilience: Advancing Orthopaedic Pathways Through Innovation and Evidence
1. Infection Management in Orthopaedics: Navigating the Evolving Clinical Landscape Abtin Alvand
A practical review of emerging risks, shifting microbial profiles, and the impact of modern strategies in infection control
2. Your Incision, Your Decision: Excellence in Protocols and Pathways Rhidian Morgan-Jones
Exploring preoperative risk stratification and contemporary protocols for optimal healing and reduce complications
3. International Consensus on Infection Prevention: Q&A Session John Timmons
A Q&A based on the latest data, consensus guidelines, and clinical implications for orthopaedic infection management
Abtin Alvand is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) in Oxford. He is one of the highest volume revision knee surgeons in England based on the National Joint Registry. He graduated from University of London and completed his higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics on the Oxford programme. He also completed a PhD (DPhil) at the University of Oxford which 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 post-CCT fellowships focusing on complex hip and knee surgery in Oxford (NOC) and Stanmore (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital). He was European Bone & Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) Travelling Fellow in 2017 and also completed a fellowship focusing on peri-prosthetic joint infection at the Rothman Institute (Philadelphia, USA). He is a member of the Bone and Joint Infection Registry (BAJIR) steering committee as well as the Executive Committee member for the 2025 International Consensus Meeting for Prosthetic Joint Infection. Abtin's clinical and research interests focus on peri-prosthetic joint infection and revision knee arthroplasty.
John Timmons is the Director of Medical Affairs for the Acute Portfolio and for Professional Affairs at Molnlycke Healthcare. John has been with Molnlycke for 6 years, prior to this he has had 3 other clinical roles in industry. John spent 20 years in the NHS with most of this spent as a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist in Lanarkshire and Aberdeen. Following some time in Australia as a clinical academic, he moved into academia full time as a University Lecturer, teaching pre and post grad nursing at degree and masters level before working for Wounds UK as the Clinical Editor following which he joined industry full time.
