Session Title: Do You Treat the Condition or the Patient
Session Description:
We are trained to assess injuries, restore function, and repair damage with precision. Yet, behind every fracture, dislocation, or trauma is a person — often vulnerable, sometimes profoundly changed. Today's discussion challenges us to look beyond imaging and operative plans, and to consider the broader context of recovery: physical, psychological, and emotional..
Agenda
The Childhood Challenge - Perthes
Listen to us - the Patients Inclusion
To operate or not, that is the question
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Adam Galloway
Advanced Practice Clinical Academic Physiotherapist, Children’s Orthopaedics, University of Leeds/Leeds Children’s Hospital
Adam is a Clinical Academic Physiotherapist in Children's Orthopaedics in Leeds. He has recently completed a HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF)(now DCAF) on a rare hip disease in children called Perthes’ Disease. He has a clinical base at Leeds Children's Hospital as part of the Children's Orthopaedics team and an academic base at Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds. During this PhD Adam has developed a digital self-management intervention for the non-surgical treatment of Perthes’ Disease (The NON-STOP app). Children with Perthes’ Disease and their families are using The NON-STOP app to manage their condition in the first randomised clinical trial for Perthes’ Disease called the Op NON-STOP study ran out of the University of Oxford and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. As well as this, Adam has used the PhD to develop the skills necessary to conduct high-quality, research and progress as a clinical academic leader.
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Tash Maher
Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner
Natasha Maher is an advanced physiotherapist and NIHR predoctoral fellow at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, with a specialist interest in shared decision-making (SDM) in orthopaedic care. She co-leads national and international SDM initiatives, including literature syntheses, interview studies and developing teaching aids for NIHR funded trials. As a BESS Travelling Fellow, she presented at the 2024 Sports Congress in Denmark. Natasha has co-authored national guidelines, supported NIHR applicants, and helped to build AHP research capacity. Her research focuses on reducing decision regret in shoulder surgery through inclusive, patient-centred approaches that improve outcomes and empower choice.
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Katy Boland
Specialist Physiotherapist
Katy is a Specialist Physiotherapist working with people with complex shoulder and elbow conditions at Wrightington Hospital, in Northwest England. Having just completed an NIHR funded Pre-Doctoral (PCAF) fellowship, Katy is in the early stages of a clinical academic career. Her research interests include supporting patients to self-manage their musculoskeletal health, including optimising information provision and supporting shared decision making. Her PCAF research project used interviews to explore the information needs of people with elbow osteoarthritis.
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Hayley Carter
Research Chair/Global Health Advocate, ATOCP committee
Dr Hayley Carter is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. She has recently completed her PhD exploring patient management following an Anterior Cruciate Ligament rupture, co-developing a theory- and evidence-based shared decision-making intervention. She is interested in interventional research targeting MSK and orthopaedic conditions and has expertise in complex intervention development, mixed methods research, implementation science theory and knowledge mobilisation.
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Dr Tom Roberts
Tom’s main clinical interests are emergency anaesthesia and high-risk pre-operative assessment. He was previously responsible for Enhanced Recovery across the health board, worked as a surgical services reviewer for Health Inspectorate Wales, and undertook prize-winning research into point of care coagulation testing. He is currently coordinates the Orthopaedic Frailty Pathway, and is Deputy Clinical Director for Theatres in Cardiff and Vale UHB.
