Oliver Townsend

ST5 BOTA Sustainability and Workforce Rep, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

I am a Trauma & Orthopaedic Specialty Trainee in Wessex, and the current BOTA Sustainability & Workforce Representative. I have worked with both the RCS England and BOA as a trainee representative on defining the scope of practice for PAs in both Surgery and in Trauma & Orthopaedics. 

Professor Vikas Khanduja

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Affiliate Associate Professor, Cambridge

Vikas Khanduja is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in both preservation and arthroplasty aspects of hip surgery and has a particular interest in arthroscopic surgery of the hip. He has been instrumental in setting up the tertiary referral service for Young Adult Hip Surgery in Cambridge for East of England.

Complementing his clinical practice, he also leads the Cambridge Young Adult Hip Research Group and is Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. The focus of his research group centres around optimisation of conservative and surgical management of femoroacetabular impingement with the help of technology. Mr. Khanduja has authored over 200 peer reviewed articles and 3 books.

Mr. Khanduja is the recipient of the American and British Hip Society Travelling Fellowship in 2011, the Arnott Medal presented by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2013, the Insall Fellowship presented by the American Knee Society and Insall Foundation in 2014 and the Hunterian Professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2021.  

Mr. Khanduja sits on the Executive Board of SICOT as President Elect, of BOA as a Council Member and Trustee & is the Associate Editor in Chief to JISAKOS. He is the Past President of the British Hip Society, Past Chair of the ESSKA - European Hip Preservation Associates and a Trustee and Past Chair of the Non-Arthroplasty Hip Registry.

Cronan Kerin

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Liverpool University Hospitals

Mr Cronan Kerin is a Consultant Knee & Trauma Surgeon in the Liverpool University Hospital Teaching Hospital Major Trauma Centre. After graduating from St Andrews and Manchester Universities medical programme Mr Kerin spent his early medical career in the Lancashire region. He then undertook his Higher Surgical Training on the prestigious Oswestry Orthopaedic Training programme. Following his Higher Surgical Training Mr Kerin undertook fellowship training in knee surgery at Aintree University Hospital and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. His training was further enhanced by fellowships in America, Germany and Northern Ireland.

Mr Kerin is recognised an excellent trainer and is currently an honorary senior lecturer post at the University of Liverpool and the regional Training Programme Director. He is current  Chair of Selection Design Group Trauma & Orthopaedics National Selection and an examiner for the FRCS (Tr & Orth). Mr Kerin is regularly invited to teach at national and international meetings, training juniors and other Consultants on arthroscopic surgery, ligament reconstruction of the knee and knee replacement and trauma surgery.