External Organisation
In typical orthopaedic fashion, sessions are based on the anatomy of the injury, despite this a key objective is to identify commonalities in how older adults with skeletal injuries are best managed regardless of the anatomical site.
We’ll follow the patient pathway through three real cases—from arrival in secondary care to discharge—tapping into the diverse expertise of the audience and pre-prepared updates from invited speakers relevant to every step.
10:30–12:00 Hip Fractures
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30 Ankle Injury
14:30–16:00 Upper Limb Injury
Will is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in trauma surgery and fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis.
Will is responsible for hip fracture care in England and Wales as the Orthopaedic Clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database.
Will is involved in benchmarking surgical quality as vice-chair of the Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Will helps coordinate United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma and co-author BOAST guidelines as vice-chair of the
British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee. Will is involved in benchmarking Major Trauma Care and open fracture data collection nationally through the Major Trauma Registry audit committee. Will has recently become an examiner for the FRCS(Orth).
Bob Handley has been a Consultant on the Trauma Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford since 1994. Bob is currently President of the British Orthoapedic Association, and National Clinical Lead for GIRFT Orthopaedic Trauma. He has been President of both AOUK and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, and has chaired the NICE guideline development group. Bob was also an examiner for FRCS T&O for ten years.
Prof Amar Rangan holds the Mary Kinross Trust and Royal College of Surgeons Chair at Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Department of Health Sciences, University of York.
He is a specialist shoulder and elbow surgeon at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough, providing district and tertiary services in his specialty.
He also holds a full professorship with the faculty of medical sciences and NDORMS, University of Oxford.
Amar has held key national leadership roles: President of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, trustee of the British Orthopaedic Association, and surgeon member of the National Joint Registry Steering Committee.
Amar is a designated supervisor for HYMS integrated academic training and supervises pre-doctoral and doctoral studentships.
He is fellowship director for the nationally accredited shoulder and elbow fellowship at South Tees Hospitals and is course director for the postgraduate MCh(Orth) programme in Teesside.
Amar leads a programme of clinical and translational research, including NIHR funded multi-centre clinical trials.
He has published widely in trauma and orthopaedics, particularly in shoulder and elbow surgery, where his work has influenced clinical practice, national guidelines, and policy.
He is chair of MedConnectNorth and is a member of the NIHR i4i Challenge Awards Committee.
