Speakers
Tim Petherman
James Shelton
Peter Young
Specialist Society
Chair & Co-Chairs: Ian Kennedy & Tim Petheram
Session Description
This session covers some of the key areas of debate in bone and joint infection. The session starts with a 10-minute opening lecture providing a concise update on the latest developments in bone and joint infection. Each debate will feature expert speakers presenting for and against the statement, facilitating discussion into current controversies and evolving practices. The session concludes with a 5-minute panel Q&A and wrap-up, offering delegates the chance to engage with the faculty.
Agenda
10:30 – 10:40: Bone and Joint infection: an update
Ian Kennedy
10:40 – 11:05: “Two-stage revision remains the standard for PJI”
11:05 – 11:30: “All open fractures should initially be managed with external fixation to reduce FRI”
11:30 – 11:55: “Short antibiotic courses are sufficient following revision arthroplasty for PJI”
11:55 – 12:00: Q&A
Mr J Shelton is a consultant revision arthroplasty/trauma surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Shelton Graduated from the University of Dundee in 2010 and after completion of foundation & core training joined the Mersey rotation in 2014 for higher surgical training in trauma & orthopaedics achieving his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 2019 and Certificate of Completion of Training in February 2021. The excellent outcomes of joint replacement surgery drove Mr Shelton to seek further fellowship training in arthroplasty and complex trauma, completing The Cavendish revision arthroplasty fellowship here in Sheffield along with fellowships in young adult hip/arthroplasty at Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney and major trauma/metastatic arthroplasty at Royal Prince Alfred Sydney. Mr Shelton was appointed to his NHS role at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in October 2022.
Mr Shelton also has a keen interest in global development of orthopaedics and promoting access to orthopaedic care in low and middle income countries. Mr Shelton was the Kadoorie fellow at The Children’s Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh Cambodia and returns annually to provide support and training to the local Khmer surgeons working there. For his work in surgical education he has been awarded membership to the faculty of surgical educators by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Mr Shelton’s research interests focus around efficiency, systems and processes and is actively involved in the development of the South Yorkshire Major Revision Network promoting the best possible care for your patients around the region.
Peter Young is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon primarily based in the West of Scotland. His practice includes the management of metastatic bone disease, general trauma, primary and revision lower limb arthroplasty, prosthetic joint infection and salvage orthopaedics.
Peter undertook fellowship training as the ZimmerBiomet Adult Reconstruction Travelling Fellow in Vancouver in 2016 and in the Sarcoma and Infection Unit of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham.
Peter has a keen research interest having undertaken a BMedSci during his undergraduate training, and was the Robertson Trust Fellow in 2015 undertaking a postgraduate PhD in nanoscale surface modification and bone marrow stem cell response. He supports stem cell research as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment, University of Glasgow.
Enis is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic surgeon working at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust in the Major Trauma Centre since 2011.
His specialist interest is in the management of acute complex trauma in both the upper and lower limbs in adults and pediatrics. Enis’ sub-specialty interests are the management of bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening and works with plastic surgeons performing combined operating lists and MDT clinics.
Enis enjoys teaching at local, regional, national and international courses and is an honorary senior lecturer at the Brighton & Sussex Medical School. He is a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, the British Limb Reconstruction Society and the Royal Society of Medicine.
In his spare time, apart from skiing, running and cycling, you will mostly find him grilling away at his bbq!