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Andrea Sott
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Chairs: Andrea Sott and Ajay Malviya
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.
Ajay Malviya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the North-East of England and at Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital. He trained in the Northern Deanery and has done specialist fellowships in hip preservation and joint replacement surgery in Cambridge, London and Switzerland.
He specialises in periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia using a minimally invasive approach and hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement. In his routine practice, he deals with sports injuries of the hip and has published and presented widely on the results of hip arthroscopy and pelvic osteotomy in athletes and the general population.
He has completed a PhD on the role of hip arthroscopy in femoroacetabular impingement. Preservation of the hip joint is his principal philosophy but he has a wide experience of joint replacement surgery catering to the young population, if necessary.
In his routine practice, he does more than 150 hip and knee replacements annually for all age groups. He also performs around 150 hip arthroscopies and more than 75 pelvic osteotomies for hip dysplasia annually; making him the highest volume hip preservation surgeon in the North East and amongst the top in the country.