Speakers
Sameer Singh
Andy Williams
Gary Mundy
Otto von Arx
BOA Session
Session Title: The Medico legal consideration in Sports
Session Description: The treatment of elite athletes and those who earn their living form spots requires special consideration compared to non athletes. It is important that appropriate insurance in place. The different needs of elite athletes will need to be considered. We have two surgeons speaking about their experience over the last 20 years of dealing with professional sports players. They will highlight the joys, pressures and perils of dealing with athletes and the steps that need to be taken if involved with athletes and aspiring sports people.
We also will be hearing from the legal profession of the steps that need to be taken when dealing with individually who earn a living from sport – this will have cross over to regular clinical practice and define material risk which is important following Montgomery vs Lanarkshire Health Board.
For the final talk we will be hearing about drug use in sports and the use of performance enhancing supplements.
The session will be useful to all grades of Orthopaedic Surgeons in improving their understanding and knowledge of dealing with athletes and promote safe practice when dealing with sports injuries.
Chair & Co-Chairs: Sameer Singh, Gary Mundy and Otto Von Arx
Agenda:
Part Two
16:15 - 16:30 Discussion
16:45 - 17:15 Questions for Andy Majid and Sameer Singh
17:15 - 17:45 Doping and Doctors Adam Taylor
17:45 - 18:00 Questions for Adam Taylor
Mr. Sameer Singh qualified from Guys ad St Thomas Medical School and completed his Orthopaedic Training in London, Liverpool, New Zealand, and Australia. Clinical practice includes all aspects of upper Limb disorders and Trauma. He has been working as an expert witness since 2018 and completes 200 reports per year, Mr. Singh is keen to educate and mentor the future generation of expert witnesses in producing high-quality reports.
Knee surgeon at, and founder of Fortius Clinic, London; and Reader at Imperial College, London.
Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Peters Myers / McMeniman. Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore ’97-00 then 15 years at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Exclusively ‘sports knee’ surgery now. 90% of patients are professional athletes- he is the usual knee surgeon for many teams including the majority of English Premier League football and rugby clubs. He undertakes approximately 100 ACL reconstructions per year and a multi-ligament reconstruction every 2-3 weeks. This latter work represents one of the World’s largest experiences.
He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles: some award-winning, as well as many other publications. A study of knee motion employing weight-bearing, ‘dynamic’ MRI was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2005-2006. Current focus is on the MCL after a period of work on the anterolateral soft tissues with relevance to ACL injury, and published improved clinical outcomes in elite athletes by applying the lessons learned in the Andrew Amis lab at Imperial College. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. A cadaveric study on ramp lesions of the medial meniscus is the 11th most cited meniscus research article per year 1976 – 2019, and another on chondral treatment techniques is 35th most cited publication ever in orthopaedic knee research. His h-index is 46.
He sits on the Board of Directors of ISAKOS and serves on their finance and knee: sports and preservation committees. He is second vice-president of The ACL Study Group and so will be president in 2030. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal, as well as The ESSKA Sports Committee. He was previously on the executive of The British Association for Surgery of The Knee. In 2002 he was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship. He was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper in 2011. He is the first UK member of The Herodicus Society, a U.S.-based sports surgery society.
He lectures nationally and internationally and delivered the inaugural Werner Müller lecture at ESSKA 2021.
Mr Gary Mundy has been a Consultant Lower Limb surgeon in Northampton since 2010, with a practice in hip and knee surgery. He completed his medical training in Manchester in 1996. He acquired specialist accreditation in Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2008, undertaking higher surgical training in Nottingham. He completed a Master’s degree in Medical Law and Ethics in 2020. Further subspecialist fellowship training was undertaken at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, London.
I am a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma and Spinal surgeon since October 2007 at the Royal United Hospital Bath. I graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape , South Africa. I completed my Higher Surgical Training on the Severn Rotation followed by a complex AO spine fellowship in Brisbane Australia. I have an active practice in all aspects of medicolegal practice and have recently joined the BOA medical-legal committee to contribute to this forum which plays a vital role in member education.
Adam is a barrister based in London who practises in sports law and other areas of civil and regulatory law. He is ranked as a Leading Junior for Sports Law in the Legal 500. He has also lived and worked in Lausanne, Switzerland, dealing exclusively with international sports litigation. His interests outside of work are Liverpool FC, mountain sports and gardening. He can regularly be found asking medical questions of the many doctors in his family and extended family.