Speakers
Andrea Sott
Professor Mike Reed
Gerrard Kilbride
Specialist Society
Agenda:
16:30 - 16:35 Andrea Sott, Chair, BOA Ortho Committee
Welcome/Introduction
16: 35 - 16:55 Professor Mike Reed, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chair, NJR Surgical Performance Committee, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
What have I done? What works and what does not?
16:55 - 17:25 Gerrard Kilbride & Martin Smith, Specialist Financial Planner, Wesleyan Financial Services
Strategies & Considerations for financial planning
17:25 - 17:35 Deepu Sethi, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Welbeck Healthcare
Independent sector partnership model
17:35 - 18:00 Panel + Q&A
Miss Andrea Sott works as Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant at Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust and the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre SWLEOC since 2004. Andrea leads her Trust’s large planned Care division as Medical Director and is Surgical Director at SWLEOC. At Georges, Epsom &St Helier Andrea furthermore chairs the Surgery Strategy group as well as the New &Novel Panel. In all her roles she strongly promotes excellent surgical care and senior clinical leadership to continuously improve services for our patients.
At BOA Andrea chairs the Orthopaedic Committee and sits on Council since 2023.
As a leader Andrea has been instrumental in achieving national top performance in hip fracture care, MSK elective recovery and patient waiting times providing mutual aid to more challenged UK regions.
Andrea maintains a GMC portfolio as an active and enthusiastic Trainer. She has just completed 10 years as Senior Examiner for the JCIE, past Surgical Tutor and current AAC panel member for the Royal College of Surgeons continuously inspiring students, trainees and colleagues to take up professional and leadership roles in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. Andrea is host to a well-established BOA Future Leaders Programme CCT F&A fellowship and has been invited as director/ faculty to several BOFAS and BOA courses and meetings.
She has published many papers in her field. As member of the SWL executive R&D committee she oversees several NIHR studies some as PI, advocating evidence based surgery at all times.
Married to Simon with three children Andrea enjoys a busy family life, Gym, boating and baking with their own chicken’s eggs…
As one female surgeon amongst 52 male colleagues at SWLEOC she is keen demonstrate that a flourishing Orthopaedic career, senior leadership positions and happy fulfilling family life are indeed achievable to all.
Professor Mike Reed is a full-time trauma and hip and knee joint replacement surgeon. He trained in the North of England and did fellowships in New Zealand. He leads Trauma and Orthopaedics at Northumbria Healthcare, working with a team of 31 talented colleagues. His research focuses on clinical outcomes particularly around short stay surgery as well as infection prevention, diagnosis and management. He has co-developed and commercialised a validated medical device to predict perioperatice risk. Professor Reed is on the steering committee and executive of the National Joint Registry (NJR) and Chaired the Annual Report from 2019-2024. He now leads on Surgical Performance for the NJR, is a trustee for the Orthopaedic Research UK charity and is on the grant awards committee for the National Institute Health and Care Research (NIHR) (i4i PDA). He has led clinical trials for industry and NIHR, and works academically with the University of York.
Martin began his career in 1998. He started providing mortgage advice in 2000, and has since worked in a variety of environments - from banks to building societies and specialist brokers.
Martin joined Wesleyan in 2012. In his current role, he covers areas in the South-East of England, providing advice in a range of specialist areas, including tax efficiency, estate planning and pensions. He also became a Chartered Fellow of the Personal Finance Society in 2019, before completing a Master's degree in Global Finance with The University of London in 2024.