Ines Reichert

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Ines Reichert has completed a PhD at Imperial College London prior to her Orthopaedic Training. She is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at King’s College Hospital London a major trauma centre, with subspecialities Upper Limb Hand & Wrist, as well as Diabetic Foot Reconstruction.

She is the R&I Lead for Clinical Research in Trauma & Orthopaedics and leads Undergraduate Teaching in Trauma at her Trust.

Ines Reichert serves nationally on the BOA Research Committee, internationally on the ORS fracture healing section and is President-Elect for the British Orthopaedic Research Society (BORS).

She is specialising in basic science relevant to clinical problems and brings her experience in the conduct of clinical research as well as basic science projects together for improvement of patient care.

Karina Wright

Professor of Orthopaedics and Bioengineering (BORS Treasurer Elect) , Keele University/RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital (Oswestry)

Karina Wright is a basic scientist, based at the Keele laboratories in the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust, Oswestry. She started her PhD there in 2005, studying cell therapy mechanisms in spinal cord injury. She is a Professor of Orthopaedics and Bioengineering and the Director of Keele’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine Research (launched last year). She leads modules in the Schools of Pharmacy and Bioengineering and Life Sciences on Applied/Translational Regenerative Medicine.

Her laboratory group at the RJAH develops and tests novel biological therapies for orthopaedic patients. Her team’s research transcends the bench to bedside translational pipeline, from in vitro analyses, organ-on-a-chip systems, pre-clinical models, clinical trials and finally NICE approved treatments. They are equally interested in learning from bedside to bench through reverse translational research, by collecting and analysing human cells and tissues and relating biological profiles to clinical outcomes in an effort to refine, tailor and develop novel treatments.

Andrew McCaskie

BOA Research Committee Chair, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Interim Deputy Head of School of Clinical Medicine, Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation

Professor Andrew McCaskie is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Interim Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine (following this he will resume the role as Head of the Department of Surgery) at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant at Addenbrookes’ Hospital.

His clinical interest is lower limb, particularly hip disease in young adults. His translational research is focused on cell and regenerative therapies relating to bone and cartilage repair. This encompasses work to understand the role of cells and molecules in repair, alongside advanced imaging, related clinical trial work, precision health approaches and patient stratification.

He is Director of the Versus Arthritis Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Therapies Centre, which brings together several UK institutions and is a Principal Investigator at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

He is a past president of the Association of Professors of Orthopaedic Surgery and the British Orthopaedic Research Society and has served on the British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery Council of Management. He is the current Chair of the Research Committee of the BOA. He is an editor for Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery (27th & 28th Editions) and was inducted a Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research in 2019.