Sharon Scott

Orthopaedic Consultant, Liverpool

Sharon is an Orthopaedic Consultant working in Liverpool, who specialises in trauma surgery including pelvic and acetabular fractures. She was involved in the origination of the Cheshire and Mersey Major Trauma Network / Centre and has previously been a clinical member of the National Clinical Reference Group for Major Trauma and Burns. Being a strong advocate for trauma patients, she is driven to improve the access to acute fracture surgery and to heighten the awareness of non-elective care during a period where the focus is very much on ‘elective recovery’.

She is an Associate Editor for the international trauma journal, Injury;  co-chair for the Royal College of Surgeons Damage Control Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery course and member of the AO faculty.

Her interests include running, golf, skiing and horse riding, whilst being perpetually entertained by the antics of her four children.

William Eardley

Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon, Research Associate, University of York CTU, Honorary Associate, University of Teesside, South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Will is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in trauma surgery and fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis.
Will is responsible for hip fracture care in England and Wales as the Orthopaedic Clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database.
Will is involved in benchmarking surgical quality as vice-chair of the Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Will helps coordinate United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma and co-author BOAST guidelines as vice-chair of the
British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee. Will is involved in benchmarking Major Trauma Care and open fracture data collection nationally through the Major Trauma Registry audit committee. Will has recently become an examiner for the FRCS(Orth).

Bob Handley

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, GIRFT Clinical Lead for Adult Orthopaedic Trauma, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bob Handley is currently National Clinical Lead for GIRFT Adult Orthopaedic Trauma. Bob was a Consultant on the Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford from 1994-2025. He is a Past President of the British Orthoapedic Association President, the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and AOUKI. He co-chaired the NICE guideline development groups on fractures and was a member of the group for hip fractures. He was also an examiner for FRCS T&O for ten years. 

Bob trained in Sheffield, Newcastle, Sunderland and Seattle. After qualifying he worked for the British Antarctic Survey for 3 years.

Professor Alex Trompeter

Orthopaedic Trauma / Limb Reconstruction Surgeon

Alex Trompeter works at St George’s University Hospital in London and holds the position of Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at City St George’s University of London. His specific clinical interests are the management of complex fractures, bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening, orthoplastic surgery and delivering the region’s amputation service.

Alex graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school in 2003. He completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in the South West Thames rotation in 2012. He won the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the FRCS examinations in 2011. Alex undertook specialist fellowship training in trauma and limb reconstruction in the UK (Liverpool and Chertsey) and overseas (Calgary, Canada). He was awarded the Braun travelling fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, by the British Orthopaedic Association, and a travelling fellowship to the Oxford Bone Infection Unit by the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Alex is  actively involved in academic research and is widely published in his field, as well as being a keen surgical educator teaching locally, nationally and internationally. He was previously Training Program Director for the South West London Orthopaedic Rotation. Alex chairs the BLRS Research Committee and is vice chair of the BOA trauma committee and co-chair of the BOA Clinical Standards Committee (responsible for producing BOASTS). In his spare time he enjoys ultra running, gardening, cooking and making salami.

Kim Russon

Consultant Anaesthetist, Clinical Lead for Day Surgery, Past President BADS, The Rotherham NHS Foundation

Dr Russon is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Lead for Day Surgery at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and a past president (2019-2021) of the British Association of Day surgery (BADS). She was a member of BADS Council 2016-2023.

She is  passionate about helping progress day surgery locally and nationally and has given many presentations and has co-authored a number of BADS booklets and the BADS/CPOC/GIRFT National Day Surgery Delivery pack. Kim organise some BADS/HCUK speciality focused conferences. She has also authored day surgery chapters in Lee’s synopsis of anaesthesia and Bailey and Love Short practice of surgery.

She has a fantastic Day Surgery team who are committed to delivering a high quality Day Surgery service and developing new day case pathways. We have many surgeons who promote day case and so at my Trust we successfully perform many day case procedures including day case total knee replacements, total hip replacements, total laparoscopic hysterectomies through our DSU.

Dr Russon is also interested in Regional Anaesthesia (RA) and Education. She has written RA articles, chapters in books, an E-Learning module and teach on national RA courses and the RA MSC. I was co-editor for the RA section of Anaesthesia Tutorial of the Week for 10 years. I was on the Society for Education in Anaesthesia’s council for 8 years.

Piyush Mahapatra

Piyush is a lower limb arthroplasty surgeon at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust who is deeply committed to leveraging technology to improve patient care. He serves as the Chief Innovation Officer at Open Medical, where he led the development of Pathpoint and eTrauma. These digital platforms are now used by more than 40 units to streamline the management of acute trauma, virtual fracture clinics, and fracture liaison services. As both an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and a Clinical Entrepreneur, he is dedicated to driving digital transformation and optimizing clinical workflows. He also contributes to local digital transformation initiatives as the innovation lead of the surgical division at West Herts.