Chris Lavy is an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford (UK) who lived and worked in Malawi for ten years. There he helped build an orthopaedic hospital and research unit. He was also one of the founders of COSECSA, the regional college of surgeons for East and Central Africa in 1999.
Richard Carey Smith is an orthopaedic oncology surgeon with fellowship training in the UK, USA, Australia and Canada, and has worked in