Speakers
Sunil Bajaj
Shahnawaz Haleem
Fazal Ali
Venu Kavarthapu
Om Lahoti
Mel Grainger
Niel Kang
Specialist Society
The management of Trauma over the years has changed dramatically in line with the evolution of Trauma and Orthopaedics. This BIOS Trauma Revalidation session explores the changes that have occurred in subspecialties over the years, enhancing patient safety and care.
Chair: Sunil Bajaj & Shahnawaz Haleem
Agenda:
14:45 - 15:00 Venu Kavarthapu, Consultant Foot and Ankle Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, London
The Changing paradigm in diabetic ankle fracture management
15:00 - 15:15 Fazal Ali, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Chesterfield Royal Hospital & Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Evolving Management of first-time lateral patellar dislocation in adolescents
15:15 - 15:30 Om Lahoti, Consultant Paediatric and Adult Lower Limb Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, London
Technology-assisted management of complex paediatric fracture malunion
15:30 - 15:45 Mel Grainger, Consultant Spinal Surgeon, University Hospital’s Birmingham
The Evolution of Spinal trauma management
15:45 - 16:00 Niel Kang, Consultant Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals
Proximal humeral fractures: the changing face of the BIOS (Beliefs, Ideas, Opinions & Science) way
16:00 - 16:15 Navin Thakkar, President, Indian Orthopaedic Association
The Changing Face of Trauma Management
Mr Sunil Kumar Bajaj is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with specialist expertise in Foot & Ankle Surgery and Paediatric Orthopaedics. He completed his orthopaedic training in London through the South East Thames Orthopaedic Training Programme based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, followed by advanced fellowships at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He has also undertaken international travelling fellowships in Switzerland and the Netherlands, focusing on advanced foot and ankle surgery and arthroscopy.
A Gold Medallist in medical school, Mr Bajaj has combined a distinguished clinical career with a longstanding commitment to orthopaedic education, training, research, and academic publishing, including textbook chapters in leading references such as Mercer’s Textbook of Orthopaedics.
Mr Bajaj has been an active member of the British Indian Orthopaedic Society for over 15 years and has served the Society in several leadership roles, including Education Committee Member, Treasurer, and Education Secretary. He currently serves as President Elect of the Society.
Mr Haleem is a triple fellowship trained Consultant Spinal surgeon, a specialist whose training fellowships covered the whole breadth of adult and paediatric spinal surgery including deformity, degenerative, tumours, inflammatory and musculoskeletal presentations. His adult degenerative and deformity practice is based at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. He has performed dual-surgeon paediatric deformity correction operative procedures in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Mr Haleem completed his Higher Orthopaedic Training Programme obtaining his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) from the prestigious London Deanery where he was inspired to take up a career in Spinal Surgery. He has consequently actively worked towards developing and enhancing his specialist skills in world class training centres both in the United Kingdom and worldwide. He has also gained the EUROSPINE Spine Diploma and the EUROSPINE Advanced Spine Diploma during this process.
He has travelled overseas on prize-winning fellowships to Hong Kong and Istanbul to improve his spinal and paediatric spinal skills at renowned centres where he gained immensely from leading spinal experts. He is known to be a thinking surgeon who always tries to find a safer and better way of improving patient care and outcomes. This is evidenced in his two eponymous classifications that improve patient safety and care worldwide.
Mr Haleem is known for his scientific approach and has authored, taught and presented worldwide. He is very active in research and his published research involves both adult and paediatric topics that are extending the boundaries of patient care in general and spinal surgery in particular. He is active with major spinal and orthopaedic societies and holds leadership roles where he enjoys interacting and improving the spread of knowledge in a bid to help patients worldwide.
He has been an active member of BIOS serving in various roles and is currently serving as the Education Secretary and President Elect of the society.
Fazal Ali did his Orthopaedic training in Sheffield, UK with a Knee Fellowship in Newcastle and a short Trauma Fellowship in New York. He has a special interest in sports injuries to the knee, both in adults and in children. He is a consultant at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital where he has helped set up a national referral service for knee problems in children which is the premier service in the UK that regularly manages sporting injuries and congenital knee disorders. He co-convenes the biennial International Kids Knee conference which brings together surgeons form all over the world.
He is a former OrthopaedicTraining Programme Director (TPD) for South Yorkshire and is presently the President of BOSTAA (Britsh Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association).
He has published more than 70 scientific papers and chapters and given numerous invited lectures on training issues and knee surgery both nationally and internationally. He has edited ‘Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics’ (Cambridge University Press) which is a best-selling orthopaedic text in its 3rd edition and was recently published in Chinese. He is co-editing two further textbooks, ‘Postgraduate Orthopaedic Clinics’ (CRC Press), due to be released in 2026 and ‘Child and Adolescent Knee Surgery’ (Springer) which is in progress.
Fazal Ali was voted ‘Trainer of the Year’ on six occasions across 2 training rotations. As such, he was given a life-time award for training by South Yorkshire in 2014. In 2017 he was again honoured by the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation with the creation of an annual award: The ‘Fazal Ali Award for Academic Excellence’.
He serves as a senior examiner and assessor for the FRCS(Tr&Orth) examination. He is past-Chair of Section 1 exam of all ten surgical specialities and sits on the JCIE and T&O Boards. He is also Chair of the International FRCS exam and serves on the board of examiners in multiple developing world countries with the view that this would help advance the standard of orthopaedic training and care in those countries.
Orthopaedic Lead, King’s Diabetic Foot Unit
Regional Lead, Young Adult Hip Surgery Service
Honorary Senior Lecturer- King’s College London
Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Member, Vascular Society of GB and I SIG on Diabetic Foot
President, International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons
Co-Founder and Medical Director- UK India Diabetic Foot Foundation Charity
SPECIALIST ORTHOPAEDIC TRAINING
South-East Thames Specialist Registrar Rotation 1998-2005
MIS and Computer Navigation Hip Surgery Fellowship, Dr. L Dorr, Los Angeles, USA, 2003
Trauma Fellowship, Dr. Joel Matta, Los Angeles, USA, 2003
Hip Fellowship, Guy’s Hospital, London, 2002-2003
Foot & Ankle Fellowship, Royal Surrey County Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital, 2006
RESPONSIBILITIES- External
Panel member for the Development of a Core Outcome Set for the evaluation of interventions for diabetic foot ulcers- Consensus Meeting 2024
Panel member- Charcot International Consensus Committee 2023 till date
President- International Association of Diabetic Foot Surgeons (2020-2022, 2024-till date)
Member- Education Committee British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society- Nov 2019 - 2023
Member- Diabetic Foot Special Interest Group, Vascular Society- August 2020 till date
External Reviewer for IWGDF guidelines on Charcot Foot Management- 2022
Associate Professor- University of Southern Denmark- since 2018
Chairman- British Indian Clinical and Academic Partnership- 2017 - 2021
Training Programme Director Orthopaedics- Southeast London Region: Jan 2016 - 2021
President of Indian Orthopaedic Society UK (British Indian Orthopaedic Association)- 2012-2015
HUMANITY WORK
• Lead for King’s Diabetic Foot Charity, part of King’s College Hospital Charity. Raised substantial amount of funds for King’s Diabetic Foot Charity by completing Everest Base Camp Trek in 2022.
• Co-founder and Medical Director of UKIDFF- UK India Diabetic Foot Foundation (2021) that provides a free remote MDT advise to clinicians in India on diabetic foot presentations and organises annual diabetic foot mega health camps in India.
AWARDS
• Erudite Lecture- Paada Sparsh 2026 Diabetic Foot Conference, Tiruvananthapuram, January 2026
• Eponymous Lecture- Dr Arun Bal Oration, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Diabetic Foot Society of India (DFSICON 2025), Amritsar, November 2025, November 2025
• Presidential Guest Lecture, Indian Foot & Ankle Society Annual Conference, August 2023
• BIOS Lifetime Achievement Award, BIOS Annual Conference, Windsor, UK, July 2023.
• DEAR Lifetime Achievement Award in Diabetic Foot Care - Diabetes Education Awareness and Research, 31st August 2022.
• Karnataka Orthopaedic Association – Eponymous Lecture on Diabetic Foot Surgery 2019
• Trainer of the Year King’s College Hospital 2016/2017
• BOTA (British Orthopaedic Trainee Association) SE Thames Trainer of the Year 2017
• Indian Orthopaedic Association – Honorary Fellowship, 2016
• Indian Orthopaedic Association – Eponymous Lecture on Diabetic Foot Surgery 2014
• Simulation Training Innovation Grant, London Deanery- 2013
• Indian Orthopaedic Rheumatology Association Eponymous Lecture on Young Adult Hip Surgery 2013
• Simulation Training Grant, London Deanery- 2012
• South Thames Foundation Surgery- Best Trainer of the year 2010-2011 Award
• UK Hospital Doctor National Award- 2007
MEDICAL INNOVATION / DEVICE DEVELOPMENT
Hip replacement implant intraoperative alignment tool with NilNav.
Developed Tibial Nailing Simulator with Vitramed company- from concept to full produce with funding from the School of Surgery- Royalties donated to King’s College Hospital
Charcot Midfoot Fixation Beam- Marquardt
Charcot Midfoot Correction and Exostectomy Osteotomes- Marquardt
Charcot Midfoot Osteotomy Cutting Jig- Marquardt
Charcot Midfoot Fixation Beam targeting devise for guide wire insertion- Marquardt.
Designed Charcot specific 3D Printed Custom-made Titanium block for complex Charcot Ankle Reconstruction with Meshworks in 2023
Range of diabetic foot specific off-the-shelf, semi-custom and post-op footwear with Pediteq
Mr Om Lahoti is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in children and adult lower limb surgery based at King’s College Hospital where he treats patients with complex lower limb fractures, deformities, limb length difference (limb lengthening and growth modulation), children’s hip and foot disorders. He have specialist interest in complex deformities including a wide range of foot and ankle conditions.
After completing a Master of Surgery (Orthopaedics) at the prestigious Osmania University/Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India, he moved abroad for further education and training. He worked in Ireland, England (South East Thames Deanery) and was awarded Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1989 and Intercollegiate Board Exam (FRCS Orth) in 1996. Mr Lahoti undertook advanced training in children’s orthopaedic disorders at the prestigious Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, as a National Fellow in Paediatric Orthopaedics. He completed a diploma course in gait analysis to study lower limb mechanics and complex interaction between hip, knee and foot and ankle, at the Strathclyde University. Mr Lahoti pursued advanced training in circular frame treatment at the world famous Ilizarov Institute, Kurgan, Siberia, Russia. He was also awarded Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons Canada in 2001 after examination. He was appointed to a consultant post at the University Hospital Lewisham in 1998 and then moved to King’s College Hospital in 2003 to pursue specialist interest in adult and paediatric lower limb disorders.
Mr Lahoti is very passionate about undergraduate and postgraduate education and conducts teaching courses regularly. He co-organised the very first King’s College FRCS (Orth) revision course and Paediatric Orthopaedic FRCS Orth Revision Course in 2008. He then became an examiner for the Intercollegiate Board Examination in Orthopaedics – FRCS Orth Examiner- in 2011.
Mr Lahoti also has a keen interest in orthopaedic clinical research, and he has presented his research widely. He is regularly invited to speak at the national and international conferences. He also conducts training workshops for the postgraduate trainees and junior consultants in the field of Lower Limb Reconstruction. Mr Lahoti is also a faculty at various paediatric and adult orthopaedic courses in the UK and abroad. He is also past President of British Limb Reconstruction Society (2020-2022).
Having graduated from the University of Manchester Medical School in 1992, Mr Grainger undertook basic surgical training in the NorthWest before starting specialist orthopaedic training in the West Midlands where he developed his passion for spinal surgery. A joint neurosurgical/orthopaedic spinal fellowship in Liverpool preceded his appointment as a consultant spinal surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 2004.
In 2018 he moved to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, one of the busiest spinal trauma units in the country. He has a specialist interest in spinal oncology, in particular primary sarcoma surgery on which he has lectured and taught extensively. He was Clinical Service Lead at the ROH for 9 years and is the Clinical Service Lead for spinal neurosurgery at QEHB
I am a Consultant Shoulder & Elbow Surgeon and Clinical Director for MSK at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I have over 14 years of consultant experience, with clinical and research interests in upper limb trauma, including the changing face of proximal humeral fractures. My approach has been shaped by the shift from fixation-focused surgery towards evidence-based, patient-centred care. A former BIOS Travelling Fellow, including time spent in Mumbai in 2010, I remain passionate about international collaboration, surgical education and mentorship through simulation, cadaveric and digital learning platforms.
Dr Navin Thakkar is President of the Indian Orthopedic Association (IOA, 2025–2026). He has worked extensively for the IOA, including website development, transparent online elections, and initiatives for free bone and joint surgery—recognised with a special award at IOACON Kochi 2016 for dedicated IOA activities.
His academic honours include the Sushrut Award (IOACON 2006, Delhi), the Innovation Gold Medal at the Inventors of India Meet at IIM Ahmedabad (2006), the K T Dholakia Gold Medal (IOACON 2007, Kolkata), the S P Mandal Rational Orthopaedic Gold Medal (IOACON 2008, Bangalore), and a gold medal at NAILSCON 2012 (Udaipur). He delivered the Silver Jubilee Oration at IOACON 2012 and the IOA Conference Oration at IOACON Kochi 2016, and received the Presidential Appreciation Award for Dedicated IOA Activities at IOACON 2016.
He is associated with Incubate – Centre for Innovation and Incubation at IIM Ahmedabad, and is recognised as the first Indian orthopaedic surgeon to receive two US patents, among numerous other awards and innovations.