Fazal Ali

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chesterfield Royal Hospital & Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Fazal Ali did his MBBS in Jamaica and Orthopaedic training in Sheffield, UK with a Knee Fellowship in Newcastle and a short Trauma Fellowship in New York. He has a special interest in sports injuries to the knee, both in adults and in children. He is a consultant at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital where he has helped set up a national referral service for knee problems in children which is the only service in the UK that regularly manages sporting injuries and  congenital knee disorders.

He is a former OrthopaedicTraining Programme Director (TPD) for South Yorkshire and is presently the Vice President of BOSTAA (Britsh Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association).

He has published more than 70 scientific papers and chapters and given numerous invited lectures on training issues and knee surgery both nationally and internationally. He has edited ‘Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics’ (Cambridge University Press) which is a best-selling orthopaedic text in its 3^rd edition and was recently published in Chinese. He is co-editing two further textbooks, ‘Postgraduate Orthopaedic Clinics’ (CRC Press), due to be released in 2025 and ‘Child and Adolescent Knee Surgery’ (Springer) which is in progress.

Fazal Ali was voted ‘Trainer of the Year’ on six occasions across 2 training rotations. As such, he was given a life-time award for training by South Yorkshire in 2014. In 2017 he was again honoured by the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation with the creation of an annual award: The ‘Fazal Ali Award for Academic Excellence’.

He serves as a senior examiner and assessor for the FRCS(Tr&Orth) examination. He is Chair of  Section 1 exam of all ten surgical specialities and sits on the JCIE and T&O Boards. He is also Chair of the International FRCS exam and serves on the board of examiners in multiple developing world countries with the view that this would help advance the standard of orthopaedic training and care in those countries.

Lennard Funk

Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder Surgeon, Wrightington Hospital

Professor Lennard Funk is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in shoulder surgery. After qualifying in medicine in 1990, Professor Funk pursued specialist orthopaedic training in clinics across the north of England, and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons in Glasgow in 1995. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wrightington Hospital in 2006.

Professor Funk regularly works with professional athletes and rugby players in particular. In addition to his surgical qualifications, he is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine UK and holds a BSc in Sports Physiology and an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering. He lectures nationally and internationally on shoulder surgery and sports injuries, established the most popular shoulder injury website in the UK, and holds Honorary Professorships at Salford University and the University of Bolton.

Mazim Ibrahim

Mazin Ibrahim is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in Hip and knee surgery.  He trained in Trauma and Orthopaedics in London as part of the Northeast London rotation (UCH). Mr Ibrahim is a substantive lower limb arthroplasty and sports surgery consultant at the London Whittington Health and University College Hospital joint venture.

He completed two lower limb arthroplasty and sports surgery fellowships: the first at the renowned Rorabeck Bourne Arthroplasty Centre, part of the London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada; and the second at London’s University College Hospital. He was awarded many travelling fellowships including the European Hip Society travelling fellowship, EFORT Robotic Visiting Fellowship, The BOA’s Infection (Heraeus/Andrew Sprowson) fellowship, The Mark Paterson travelling fellowship (EFORT/BJJ) and EFORT/BOA Spring Travelling Fellowship.

He publishes scientific papers, has contributed to several books and presents at conferences nationally and internationally. He is an invited reviewer for the Bone and Joint Journal. He holds two master’s degrees in Orthopaedics. He won many national and international prizes. He is passionate about teaching and has a post-graduate degree in Medical Education. He teaches medical students, is invited Faculty on national courses, and holds a postgraduate certificate in Medical Education.

He is an advocate for day-case arthroplasty surgery and is interested in enhancing patient recovery. He considers robotic surgery an integral part of enhanced patient recovery. 

Neil Jain

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Neil Jain is a specialist in the treatment of sports injuries & joint preservation with a particular interest in knee and shoulder arthroscopy. He has a tertiary referral practice relating to knee ligament reconstruction and cartilage and meniscal injury particularly within active sports participants, along with treating many retired professional sports men and women more relating to joint preservation. He is actively involved in teaching having lectured to the University of Manchester, University of Liverpool and University of Lancaster about Orthopaedic and Sports Injuries. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Salford.

Having gained his medical degree from the University of Southampton Mr Jain then completed his further Orthopaedic surgical training on the North West Orthopaedic rotation. He completed a Sports Injuries and Reconstructive Arthroscopy Fellowship at the world-renowned University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is published in many peer-reviewed journals and continues to present at National and International meetings. 

With a keen interest in sport Mr Jain has worked with a number of sports clubs and associations both amateur and professional including working with the Football Association (The FA) and the England National Football team, along with many professional football clubs, rugby clubs, county cricket teams and international world champion boxers and mixed martial artists. Outside of Orthopaedic Surgery he is heavily involved in delivery of medical care within sports medicine having contributed medical care at the Commonwealth Games, Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. He is the current Vice-President of BOSTAA.

Shamim Umarji

Consultant Orthopaedic Hand & Wrist Surgeon, St George’s University Hospital, London

Miss Umarji is Clinical Director for Surgery at St. George's Hospital, London. She qualified from Oxford University and has undertaken super Specialist fellowships in hand /wrist surgery. She publishes regularly , presents work nationally and internationally and was previously the Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Tutor .
As a sportswoman (former national representation for cricket and rugby) she understands the importance of getting patients back to sport . Many of Miss Umarji's patients are high demand tennis players , rowers and rugby players . She also has a research interest in Dupuytren's disease , arthritis in the hand , wrist trauma especially fractures .

Lee Van Rensberg

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon , Cambridge university Hospitals NHS trust

I hold a full time consultant post in trauma and orthopaedics, based at Addenbrooke's hospital, part of the Cambridge university Hospitals NHS trust. I also consult and operate at the Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital.

I completed my primary medical training in 1993 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. After moving to the United Kingdom in 1996, I completed my Basic surgical training at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds and completed my Higher surgical training on the East Anglian orthopaedic rotation (Cambridge) in 2005. I undertook a fellowship predominantly in trauma at the Alfred hospital, Melbourne, Australia in 2006.

My particular areas of interest are disorders of the shoulder and elbow. I undertake arthroscopic and open shoulder and elbow surgery. Doing joint replacements of both the shoulder and elbow. I have been operating predominantly on the shoulder and elbow since 2006.
Trauma care is a particular area of interest, having established the Addenbrookes orthopaedic trauma unit a collaboration of orthopaedic surgeons dedicated to the care of the multiply severely injured patient.