Professor Fares Haddad

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery, University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital

Fares Haddad is a hip and knee reconstructive surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedics and Sport Surgery at University College Hospitals and The Princess Grace Hospital in London, UK. He is Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCH, Director of the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London, past president of the British Hip Society and of the British Sports Trauma Association. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Bone & Joint Journal.

Elizabeth Ashby

Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Elizabeth Ashby is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant. She attended medical school in Cambridge, did her orthopaedic training in London and completed a fellowship in Montreal, Canada. She worked as a consultant at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital before returning to where she started – Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She is Clinical Lead for Paediatric Orthopaedics and regional lead for children with clubfeet. Elizabeth enjoys all aspects of Paediatric Orthopaedics with a particular interest in limb and foot deformity.

Professor Matthew Costa

Orthopaedic Consultant & Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, University of Oxford & John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Matthew Costa PhD, FRCS, FMedSci. Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions. He is Lead Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). His work has been cited widely and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Matt is the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Trauma and Emergency Care and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is also Associate Editor for Trauma and Research Methods at The Bone & Joint Journal.
Matt is past President of the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society and past President of the Global Fragility Fracture Network.
 

Chloe Scott

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Chloe Scott is a consultant hip, knee & trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and an NHS Research Scotland Clinician. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic surgery, finite element analysis and knee biomechanics. She serves on the editorial board of the BJJ where she is associate editor for knowledge translation and was awarded the Hunter Doig medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020.

Professor Andrew Duckworth

Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Andrew Duckworth is Professor of Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University of Edinburgh and is Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.  His undergraduate and postgraduate study was undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, with the award of his PhD in 2016.  Following completion of his training in Edinburgh, he was an Upper Limb Fellow at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit. 

 

Andrew’s clinical and research interests are in trauma and upper limb surgery, with a focus on injuries around the elbow, wrist and hand. His current research includes multi-centre clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, large data studies and the efficacy of patient reported outcome measures.  He is the Co-CI for the NIHR funded FOREST and MOTION trials and is a co-app and PI on several other NIHR funded clinical trials.  He is an Editorial Board Member for the Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ), Bone and Joint Research (BJR), Bone & Joint³⁶⁰ and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT). He is also on the Research Committees of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS).  He is a co-director of the world-renowned Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium and is a member of the Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Network and the UKCCIIS IOC Research Centre of Excellence.

 

Professor Daniel Perry

Daniel Perry MA(Oxon), PhD, FRCS (Orth) FRCS Ed (Ad Hominem) is an NIHR Research Professor, Consultant Children's Orthopaedic Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and is the BOA Speciality Lead for Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinical Trials.

 

Dan trained in Liverpool and Warwick, before completing a fellowship at SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He holds a prestigious NIHR Research Professorship.

 

Dan leads a large amount of research in children’s trauma, orthopaedics and emergencies – including orthopaedic studies - FORCE, SCIENCE, CRAFFT, BigBOSS, PICBONE, ODDSocks, OpNonSTOP, BASIS and even a trial in paediatrics about UTIs (CURLY)! His academic love is to make clinical research accessible – for children, parents and clinicians. He keenly integrates cartoons, animations, videos and uses text messages to make trials easy for everyone. 

 

Dan is a member of the NIHR HTA General Board, is Orthopaedic trials lead for the Royal College of Surgeons, an Editor of the Bone and Joint Journal and is the clinical lead for hip screening within Public Health England.