Speakers
BOA Session
Session Title: Best of the Best
Session Description: The session will host several papers selected by their TPD, usually at Annual Deanery T&O Research Days around the country. Each paper is limited to trainees' research done in 'normal' training time and not done during OOPR. The research topics can be very diverse but must be related in some way to T&O.
The marking is done by the TPDs present at Congress and the winner is awarded the prize during the Awards and Medal ceremony at the Annual Congress. The winner will be able to represent the BOA and present the best abstract at the 26th EFORT Congress 2026.
Chair: Donald Campbell
Agenda:
14:35 - 14:42 The impact of social deprivation and ethnicity on patient reported outcome measures for primary and revision hip and knee replacement at a specialist UK centre James Archer (Birmingham)
14:43 - 14:50 Biomechanical assessment of bone loss in transfemoral and knee disarticulation amputees Louise McMenemy (Defence Deanery)
14:51 - 14:58 Mini-open Achilles Repair: 100 patient case series using the Achillon system Alex Murray (East Mid North)
14:59 - 15:06 Functional ultrasound assessment of Flexor Pollicis Longus (FPL) tendon to distal radius watershed line distance - variability amongst healthy participants Jonathan Cormack (East of England)
15:07 - 15:14 SOS: Surviving Orthopaedic Surgery-preparing new SHOs for battle John Ferns (Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria)
15:15 - 15:22 Enhanced tumour delineation using fluorescence lifetime imaging with ICG in human sarcomas Corey Chan (Northern)
15:23 - 15:30 MTC designation and its effect on DGH level trauma provision in Northern Ireland Jonathan Sterne (Northern Ireland)
15:31 - 15:38 Predicting Patient Reported Outcome Measures Following Hip and Knee Arthroplasty using Supervised Machine Learning Amr Selimm (Oswestry)
15:39 - 15:46 Maternal and Foetal Health Outcomes in Pregnant Trauma Patients Usama Rahman (Royal London)
15:47 - 15:54 Epidemiology and survivorship of primary knee arthroplasty in young adults: analysis of 3069 cases from the Scottish Arthroplasty Project Scott Morrison (Scotland East and Dundee)
15:55 - 16:02 A Review of Practice – Do We Know How To Correctly Segregate Waste In Theatres? Alexander Boucher (East Mids South)
16:03 - 16:10 Implant Camouflage – How Apparently Excellent Registry Data Can Mask Poor Implant Results David Keohane (Republic of Ireland)
16:11 - 16:18 Total Hip Arthroplasty Restores Population Health Related Quality of Life Norms: A Propensity-Matched Study with Mediation Analysis of BMI Andrew Ablett (South East Scotland)
Donald Campbell was born in Vancouver Island, Canada and emigrated to Scotland where he spent his formative years. He graduated from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1993 and trained around most of Scotland, including his Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) rotation in the East of Scotland. He completed two years of fellowships in paediatric T&O in Glasgow and Sheffield. He was appointed as a consultant in Ninewells Teaching Hospital in Dundee in 2007, where he treats a broad range of paediatric conditions with a particular interest in the foot and the ankle, including some adult F&A work. He has a keen interest in training and was the East of Scotland T&O Training Programme Director for 6 years. He is now the TPD forum chair for the UK and Ireland and a FRCS T&O examiner. He is also a SAC liaison member for the JCST and sits on the BOA education committee.