Session Title: BLRS revalidation session 2
Chair & Co-Chairs: Chris Crome and Jo Round
Agenda:
10:30 - 10:50 360 degree round up of limb reconstruction literature Jerry Tsang
10:50 - 10:55 Q&A
10:55 - 12:00 Abstract Free Papers
10:00 - 11:02 (155) Strain manipulation: The treatment of fracture non-union without the use of bone graft Richard Navratil
11:02 - 11:09 (380) Intramedullary limb lengthening in the presence of ipsilateral adjacent Implant Ibidumo Igah
11:09 - 11:16 (544) Does using a circular frame in patients with prosthetic joints increase the risk of prosthetic joint infections? Sheeraz Iqbal
11:16 - 11:23 (714) External fixator Biomechanics: Quantifying the influence of individual components on construct stiffness and fracture micromotion Piyush Upadhyay
11:23 - 11:30 (861) Outcomes of Judet’s Quadricepsplasty In Improving Knee Stiffness: A Retrospective Analysis Dineshwaran Rajendran
11:30 - 11:37 (635) Timely Orthoplastic Care in Open Lower Limb Trauma: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Flap Outcomes and Predictive Variables Louis John Stephen
11:37 - 11:44 (766) Elective amputations in adult limb reconstruction - a 15-year analysis of indications and outcomes Charles Merry
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Chris Crome
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
Chris Crome is a Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. His specialist interests consist of hip arthroplasty, revision hip arthroplasty, lower limb trauma and limb reconstruction, including limb lengthening, non-union, deformity correction and orthoplastics.
Chris graduated from St. George’s Hospital Medical School in 2011, before completing Foundation Training in Aberdeen, and Core Surgical Training in Sussex. He completed his higher Orthopaedic Training in the West of Scotland, before undertaking fellowships at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow, and the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.
Chris is a member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, the British Limb Reconstruction Society and sits on the Surgical Education Board for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He currently coordinates the post CCT Fellowship Programme at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
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Jo Round
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton
Jo Round is a Consultant at University Hospital Southampton, where she specialises in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction.
Jo trained within the Wessex Deanery and completed a fellowship in Leeds and attended an Observership in Cape Town. She has completed the BOA Future Leaders Programme and is on the faculty on the KSS Core Trainees Leadership Course.
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Jerry Tsang
Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon
Jerry is an Consultant Academic Orthopaedic Surgeon, who co-leads the RePAIR (Research in Preservation, Aging, Infection, and Regeneration) group in the Centre for Bone & Joint Health at QMUL. The RePAIR group focuses on improving musculoskeletal outcomes through targeted translational investigation into preservation of bone and muscle in ageing populations, infection, and fracture healing.
He completed both his undergraduate medical training (2009) and postgraduate surgical training (2022) in Edinburgh. During his Orthopaedic training, he was awarded an MSc Surgical Sciences (2013) and the Cutner research fellowship (2016) from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh (RCSEd). He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on implant-related infections (2021).
He is dual-fellowship trained, having completed world-renowned Limb Reconstruction and Trauma fellowships at the Oxford Bone Infection Unit (2022) and Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town (2023).
He has received research prizes from the British Limb Reconstruction Society, Scottish Committee on Orthopaedics and Trauma, Pan-Celtic Orthopaedic Societies, South African Orthopaedic Association, and Orthopaedic Research Society-International Section for Fracture Repair (ORS-ISFR). He is a dual recipient of the JIP James Medal and has been awarded travelling fellowships from the British Orthopaedic Research Society and British Limb Reconstruction Society
He is a consultant reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed microbiology and orthopaedic surgery journals, an Associate Editor for Journal of Orthopaedic Research and Frontiers in Surgery, as well as a Specialty Editor for Bone & Joint Research. He sits on the Executive Committee, as Chair for Data Analysis, for the Bone & Joint Infection Registry; Research Committee for the Bone and Joint Infection Society; and Specialist Advisor for the African Bone and Joint Infection Database Working Group. He is a past-Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association Future Leaders Programme.
His enthusiasm and commitment for academic and surgical training has been recognised by the RCSEd in his election as a Member to their Faculty of Surgical Trainers (2021).