Lucky Jeyaseelan

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot Ankle Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust

Lucky’s NHS practice is based at Barts Health NHS Trust, home to The Royal London Hospital, Europe’s busiest trauma centre, where he is also Clinical Lead of Elective Orthopaedic Care. He specialises in all aspects of Foot & Ankle surgery, He is the F&A Fellowship Director at Barts Health. He is passionate about education and is the Training Programme Director of the Royal London Hospital Orthopaedic Rotation, and serves on both the SAC in T&O, as well as the ST3 National Selection Design Group. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London (QMUL). 

Robert Clayton

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon; BOFAS President, NHS Fife

Robert Clayton is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a major specialist interest in all aspects of Foot and Ankle surgery. He moved to Edinburgh in 1994 and graduated in 2000. He undertook Basic and Higher Surgical training in the South East Scotland region. He undertook fellowship training in Foot & Ankle surgery in Glasgow in 2009 with further lower limb reconstruction fellowship training in Toronto, before taking up post as a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon in Fife in 2010. He has a highly specialised elective and trauma foot and ankle practice. He has an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and orthopaedic research. He has served on the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS) council since 2017 and is the 2025 President.

Howard Davies

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Howard Davies graduated from Manchester University in 1999 and completed his Orthopaedic training in Leeds and the East of England. He undertook a Foot & Ankle Fellowship in Sheffield and joined the Sheffield Foot & Ankle Unit as a Consultant and honorary senior clinical lecturer to Sheffield University in 2013. He has an interest in medical education and spent seven years on the Education Committee of the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS). Through BOFAS he has taught on many courses both in the UK and internationally. When not at work Howard enjoys walking his dogs in the Peak District national park and plays bass guitar in a band.

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.  

Yaser Ghani

Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust, London

Yaser Ghani is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon at Homerton University Hospital in London. He completed his undergraduate medical training at University College London (UCL) and pursued specialist orthopaedic training in London through the Stanmore rotation. He undertook prestigious Foot & Ankle fellowships in Windsor, St. Mary’s London, and Oxford.

He is actively involved in research and education and developed the BOFAS ‘Lectures of Distinction’ webinar series in collaboration with the BOFAS Education and IT Committees. Yaser also serves on the BOFAS EDI Working Group working towards bringing equality, diversity and inclusivity in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery. He has a passion for education and training and serves as an invited faculty member on numerous national and international courses.

Professor Lyndon Mason

Foot and ankle Lead, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group

Professor Lyndon Mason is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, specialising in major trauma and foot & ankle surgery. He trained in Wales and completed BOFAS travelling fellowships at the University of Utah and Carl Gustav Carus University in Dresden. In Liverpool, he was awarded the BOFAS Gold Fellowship.

Prof Mason is internationally recognised for his research, having won over 30 regional, national, and international awards. His work has led to several high-impact discoveries, including the identification of a new foot ligament. He was awarded the Hunterian Professorship (2020), the Robert Jones Gold Medal (2017), the EFORT Jacques Duparc Prize, and the BOFAS Chan Chen Memorial Prize on four occasions. In 2023, he received a National Clinical Impact Award for improving the safety and quality of NHS services.

He is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Liverpool, where he leads undergraduate musculoskeletal and orthopaedic education in the School of Medicine. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers (RCSEd).

Prof Mason is a respected national educator and has been invited faculty for the BOA, Royal College of Surgeons, AO, RSM, and BOFAS. He served as BOFAS Clinical Practice Committee Chair until 2025 and now leads the National Foot & Ankle Registry, having previously chaired the Outcomes Committee.

Alex Vris

Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, The Royal London Hospital

Mr Vris is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. He specialises in complex trauma, orthoplastics and limb reconstruction.

He enjoys training and teaching during his clinical practice, as an honorary senior lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London, and in national and international orthopaedic courses.

In his own time, he does humanitarian work as a surgeon in austere environments around the world.

Ash Vasireddy

Mr Ash Vasireddy is a fellowship-trained Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon specialising in complex lower + upper limb, pelvic and acetabular fractures (open and closed fractures) in both adults and children. He is Head of Trauma and Director of the Post-CCT Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship Programme at King’s College Hospital, where he leads training for the next generation of trauma surgeons. Alongside his clinical practice, he is active in research and education, holding academic roles across London universities. He also works as a Pre-Hospital Care Consultant with the Air Ambulance Service and has extensive experience in national and international trauma education.Mr Ash Vasireddy is a fellowship-trained Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon specialising in complex lower + upper limb, pelvic and acetabular fractures (open and closed fractures) in both adults and children. He is Head of Trauma and Director of the Post-CCT Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship Programme at King’s College Hospital, where he leads training for the next generation of trauma surgeons. Alongside his clinical practice, he is active in research and education, holding academic roles across London universities. He also works as a Pre-Hospital Care Consultant with the Air Ambulance Service and has extensive experience in national and international trauma education.