Benedict Rogers

Orthopaedic Consultant & Honorary Clinical Professor, University Hospitals Sussex

Professor Benedict Rogers is a Consultant in Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery consulting in Surrey and Sussex, with clinical and academic interests on hip and knee surgery, including robotic-assisted sports injuries and trauma. 

A graduate of University of Oxford (Christ Church), St George’s Hospital Medical School (University of London), UCL, University of Portsmouth and University of Toronto. 

Awarded PhD (2017) with thesis entitled “Optimising the Outcomes of Hip and Knee Replacements” 

He is an NHS Consultant at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton & Sussex Medical School (University of Sussex). 

Other professional appointments currently held: 

- Editor-in-Chief, Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

- Member of Court of Examiners, The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

A keen sportsman, Benedict was awarded an Oxford Blue (Rugby League) and has completed five Ironman Triathlons. He now regularly runs half/full marathons for local charities. 

Benedict undertook two clinical fellowships at world-renowned academic units at University of Toronto: Mount Sinai Hospital & Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. 

He was trained by several eminent surgeons including Professor Allan Gross, Professor Hans Kreder, Professor Marvin Tile, Dr Joseph Schatzker. 

He was awarded the Zane Cohen Fellowship Achievement Award by the University of Toronto; the first time this had been awarded to an orthopaedic surgeon. 

With an extensive and ongoing research portfolio covering basic science and clinical practice, he currently has over 120 publications, over 10 book chapters and over 80 presentations; including several at the British Orthopaedic Association and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, with a number awarded prizes. 

He is a fully qualified GP (non-practicing)

Professor Andrew McCaskie

BOA Research Committee Chair, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Interim Deputy Head of School of Clinical Medicine, Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of Cambridge & Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation

Professor McCaskie is an orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in lower limb surgery e.g. hip arthroscopy and related research. His research aims to develop innovative solutions, particularly regenerative, for patient benefit in musculoskeletal disease. One focus is Osteoarthritis (OA), which affects around 8 million people in the UK alone. The research encompasses a greater understanding of the causes of musculoskeletal disease and the mechanisms of action of therapy. 
 
He is the Director of the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre. The £6 million Centre is based at four sites: Newcastle University, the University of Aberdeen, Keele University/the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Oswestry and the University of York. Funded by a core grant of £2.4 million over five years from Arthritis Research UK with a further £3.4 million pledged by the four participating universities, the centre brings together leading clinicians, engineers and biologists from research and clinical groups. The aim and potential clinical impact is to treat early osteoarthritis by introducing stem cells into damaged joints in conjunction with existing surgical procedures. Prof McCaskie leads the Smart Step consortium (£1.1M) as part of Stage II UK Regenerative Medicine Platform. The aim is to develop cell-free approaches to Osteoarthritis and establish a translational pipeline for their development. 

Joanna Craven

Orthopaedic Registrar

Joanna Craven is an ST5 Trauma and Orthopaedic Registrar in Wales and an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she is completing a funded PhD investigating Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip. Joanna’s research focuses on clinical trial design, patient-reported outcomes, and family-centred care in paediatric orthopaedics. Her work includes the development of a parent-reported outcome measure and the delivery of a multicentre feasibility trial, aimed at strengthening the evidence base for the management of developmental dysplasia of the hip in infants. She is the Academic Representative for the British Orthopaedic Trainee Association and Founder and President of the Welsh Orthopaedic Research Trainee Hub (WORTH), a trainee-led research collaborative supporting orthopaedic research across Wales.

Salma Chaudhury

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospital Trust

Salma is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospital Trust who specialises in Shoulder and Elbow trauma, sports injuries and shoulder replacements. She is triple fellowship trained from international recognised centres of shoulder excellence, having trained at Oxford, Cambridge and Reading, and spent a year during training at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. She was awarded the BESS Travelling Fellowship. Her Trauma and Orthopaedics higher surgical training was completed in Oxford, and she studied medicine at Cambridge University. 

Salma is committed to producing the highest quality research to offer patients the best evidence-based, compassionate care. She was awarded a PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery from Oxford University, for her studies of rotator cuff failure and repair strategies to improve healing. To date she has been awarded £450,000 in research grants, including an ORUK early career research fellowship, and has published widely. She is the associate editor for Bone and Joint Journal 360, and was previously the social media editor for Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. She currently sits on the British Elbow and Shoulder Surgery Research Committee and was previously Executive Committee member for British Orthopaedic Research Society. 

Teaching has always been important to Salma and she was the co-director of orthopaedic teaching for Oxford University undergraduate medical students for 4 years. She has taught widely on courses such as the Oxford University Orthopaedic MSC course, shoulder and elbow cadaveric courses in Cambridge and ORUK FRCS Revision courses. She has regularly lectured internationally and nationally, including teaching in China and Palestine.

She has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to improving training for all doctors as well as patient outcomes, reflected in her wide-ranging work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives. Some of her key previous roles include:

• Elected senior BOA EDI champion for Thames Valley.
• Royal College of Surgeons Working Parents Group.
• Federation of Surgical Speciality Association (FSSA) Anti-Bullying and Harassment Committee

 

Professor Alex Trompeter

Orthopaedic Trauma / Limb Reconstruction Surgeon

Alex Trompeter works at St George’s University Hospital in London and holds the position of Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at City St George’s University of London. His specific clinical interests are the management of complex fractures, bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening, orthoplastic surgery and delivering the region’s amputation service.

Alex graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school in 2003. He completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in the South West Thames rotation in 2012. He won the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the FRCS examinations in 2011. Alex undertook specialist fellowship training in trauma and limb reconstruction in the UK (Liverpool and Chertsey) and overseas (Calgary, Canada). He was awarded the Braun travelling fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, by the British Orthopaedic Association, and a travelling fellowship to the Oxford Bone Infection Unit by the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Alex is  actively involved in academic research and is widely published in his field, as well as being a keen surgical educator teaching locally, nationally and internationally. He was previously Training Program Director for the South West London Orthopaedic Rotation. Alex chairs the BLRS Research Committee and is vice chair of the BOA trauma committee and co-chair of the BOA Clinical Standards Committee (responsible for producing BOASTS). In his spare time he enjoys ultra running, gardening, cooking and making salami.

Professor Matthew Costa

Orthopaedic Consultant & Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, University of Oxford & John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Matt was appointed Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma, University of Oxford in 2015. He was previously Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics at University of Warwick. Matt is also Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Matt's research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal interventions and he is Chief Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute of Health Research. His work has been cited widely, and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)