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
16:35-16:42 - Title Closed Loop Audit Cycle of North of Scotland Deanery Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Post-Graduate Teaching achieved improved Trainee Satisfaction and Attendance ( Scotland North/ Aberdeen - James Dixon)
16:43-16:50 - Impact of Cryotherapy on Discharge Rates and Pain Management Following Knee Arthroplasty ( Scotland West /Glasgow - Pamela Zace)
16:50-16:57 –The cost of implant waste in trauma orthopaedic surgery and sustainability considerations: an observational study (South East London (Guys & St Thomas, KCH) - Charmilie Chandrakumar)
16:58-17:05 – Improving Regional Radiation Protection in Orthopaedic Theatres – The Severn PPE Audit of Radiation Exposure (S.P.A.R.E.) (Severn - Lily Mills)
17:06-17:13 - Strain manipulation: The treatment of fracture non-union without the use of bone graft ( South West London - Richard Navratil)
17:14-17:21 - Evaluation of X-Ray PPE for Orthopaedic Surgeons in TheatrE (EXPOSEd) Study: A National Survey of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeons (South West Peninsula - Sophie Donoghue)
17:22-17:29 - Final Destination Part III – Evaluating 4 years of the Transition to Consultant T&O Surgeon Course ( South Yorkshire- Rav Jayasuriya)
17:30-17:37 - Outcomes of Robotic Total Hip Arthroplasty for Atypical Hip Anatomy: Component Positioning, Functional Outcomes, Survivorship and Complications in 192 cases (Stanmore - Joshua Enson)
17:38 -17:45 - Nail Plate Construct in Complex Distal Femur Fractures allow safe, early unrestricted weight bearing with high rates of union and a low rate of failure: five-year experience at a UK Major Trauma Centre (Kent, Surrey and Sussex - Tom Barrow )
17:46 - 17:53 - Introducing the Vertical Patellar Bony Height Index (VPHI) : a new MRI marker for assessing patellar lateralisation (Wales / Welsh Deanery - Ahmed Gad)
17:54 - 18:01 - Predicting the survival of Meniscal Allograft Transplants – a multi-centre cohort study (Warwick - Dylan Mistry)
18:02-18:09 - The impact of co-locating Orthoplastic services at a major trauma centre on the management of Gustilo-Anderson grade IIIB and IIIC tibial fractures (Wessex - Matt Flintoft-Burt)
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.