Mr Dominik Lawniczak, MD, PhD, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK.

Mr Lawniczak is an author on a paper in the October 2024 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Learning from a decade of litigation in the orthopaedic treatment of children and young people

Bone & Joint 360. 2024;13(5):8–17.

Mr Dominik Lawniczak was born in Poznan, Poland. He graduated from University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, and after orthopaedic training (including a fellowship in Sheffield) was appointed to the Consultant at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals. During his training, he met Professors W. Dega, R. Ganz, and J. Schatzker.

He is now involved in the management of paediatric patients, with special interests in limb deformity reconstruction and trauma.

Dominik has had research work published and presented at both national and international conferences, including the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT).

His main professional passion is clinical excellence. He is active in research when this is not in the way of his other passion of ice climbing in winter, and long-distance triathlon (Ironman and Celtman) in other seasons. He is married and has two adventurous sons.

Mr Fergal Patrick Monsell, MSc, PhD, FRCS(Orth), Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Mr Monsell is an author on a paper in the August 2024 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Some thoughts on remaining optimistic in a time of change

Bone & Joint 360. 2024;13(4):7–9.

Mr Fergal Monsell was born in Dublin, and emigrated to England shortly before football last came home. He graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine and was appointed to the Consultant Staff at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) Stanmore and Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1997. He has been a Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol since 2004, and is involved in the management of paediatric patients with a special interest in limb deformity and trauma.

Fergal has collected an alphabet soup of post-nominals, and has made a slightly greater than average contribution to the canon of lower-level evidence as a hobby researcher. He has a longstanding interest in education, is Director of the Avon Centre for Musculoskeletal Education, and Projector at the Grand Academy. He was previously King James IV Professor, Visiting Professor at Cardiff University, and is Hunterian Professor for 2024.

Fergal is Editor of AO Surgery Reference (Paediatrics), Specialty Editor (Pediatrics) and Chairman of the Council of Management for The Bone & Joint Journal, and will serve as British Orthopaedic Association President in 2025-2026. He is married to Ros, has three grown-up children and to his credit is a lifelong Spurs supporter.

Dr Tom Doyle, MB, BAO, BCh, MCh, Core Surgical Trainee with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) & Research Fellow at the Department of Orthopaedics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Dr Doyle is an author on a paper in the June 2024 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize Winner: Weight loss drugs: their role and potential future in orthopaedic surgery

Bone & Joint 360. 2024;13(3):12–15.

Dr Tom Doyle is an incoming core surgical trainee with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) for 2024 to 2026. Tom graduated from the University of Galway in 2022, where he also obtained a master’s degree in surgery in 2023 during his intern year spent at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh and Beaumont Hospital Dublin. Tom has a keen interest in academic orthopaedics and has presented 25 abstracts as posters/podiums both nationally and internationally, winning six prizes.

Tom started his research career while still a medical student under Professor Hannan Mullett in the UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic. Tom collaborated with Duke University on a number of projects, which led to his current role as an international research fellow with the Duke shoulder department with support from the Orthoregeneration Network and the Bone & Joint Core Trainee Bursary.

Tom’s main research focus is on shoulder instability and arthroplasty, but he is also passionate about decision-making and innovation in surgery, which inspired his essay on the role of weight loss drugs in orthopaedics.

Miss Eleanor Burden, MBChB, MRCS (Ed), Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Orthopaedics (ST5), Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.

Miss Burden is an author on a paper in the April 2024 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

A review of registry research

Bone & Joint 360. 2024;13(2):47–49.

Miss Eleanor Burden is an ST5 orthopaedic trainee on the Peninsula rotation. Ella graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2016, before moving to Exeter where she undertook her core surgical training. She is now completing her higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics in the Southwest of England.

Ella has an interest in upper limb surgery, and her current work is focused on elbow arthroplasty where she is actively researching rehabilitation and arthroplasty utilization in trauma. She has published primary research and review articles in this field, funded by the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS), and in relation to this work she recently won the Paul Calvert prize.

Over the past year, Ella has produced a number of review articles for publication in Bone and Joint 360, which have focused on recent and important orthopaedic registry papers.

Miss Joanne Round, BM FRCS(Tr&Ortho), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Miss Round is an author on a paper in the February 2024 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

What’s new in limb construction?

Bone & Joint 360. 2024;13(1):7–8.

Miss Joanne Round is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specializing in trauma and limb reconstruction surgery at University Hospital Southampton. Joanne completed her training in the Wessex region with a fellowship in Limb Reconstruction at Leeds General Infirmary and an observership in South Africa. She completed the BOA Future Leaders Programme in 2021.

As a consultant and one of the trauma leads in a busy major trauma centre, Joanne has a particular interest in complex lower limb trauma and the identification and application of new technology and techniques. She is a champion of multidisciplinary teams, and enjoys working closely with both her limb reconstruction colleagues and her plastic surgery colleagues within the Orthoplastic Department.

Joanne sits on the Educational sub-committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and is a member of the British Limb Reconstruction Society. She has been involved as faculty on several courses relating to trauma, limb reconstruction, and leadership. She has presented regionally and nationally, including for the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and the British Limb Reconstruction Society at the BOA congress.

Dr Heather A. Vallier, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Dr Vallier is an author on a paper in the December 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Optimizing recovery after trauma: overview of existing literature and practices: a call for future action

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(6):6-12.

Dr Heather A. Vallier graduated with Highest Distinction from Northwestern University in 1989, receiving a BA in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. She attended Stanford University School of Medicine and received Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Research. She completed her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin, followed by a fellowship in Traumatology at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.

Dr Vallier is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University and was awarded the inaugural C. L. Nash Professorship in Orthopaedic Education. Dr Vallier has lectured nationally and internationally on hundreds of occasions. She has published over 250 journal articles and 23 book chapters. Dr Vallier has also been awarded for teaching at both basic and advanced fracture courses, and as Educator of the Year in 2020 by the residents of Case Western Reserve University. She has received many research grants over the past several years and is involved in numerous multicentre trials.

Dr Vallier is the Past-President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and has served as a Deputy Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. In 2013 she founded the Trauma Recovery Services program at MetroHealth, and in 2022 she founded the Evellere Group.

Mr Matthew Arnaouti, MBBS MA MRCS, Core Surgical Trainee Year 2, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Post-Graduate Research Fellow, The Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Mr Arnaouti is an author on a paper in the October 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize 2021/2022: Global orthopaedics: the norm, not the exception

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(5):6-10.

Mr Matthew Arnaouti is a Trauma and Orthopaedic-themed Core Surgical Trainee based in North London. He graduated from St George’s Hospital Medical School in 2018, and completed foundation training in the Peninsula Deanery. Following this, he completed a Master’s degree in ‘Conflict, Security and Development Studies’ at the University of Exeter. He is due to commence a Clinical Research Fellowship in the Sarcoma department at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in October.

Matthew intends to pursue a career in humanitarian medicine, and has undertaken Trauma and Orthopaedic clinical observerships in Malawi, Haiti, and most recently the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Further to this, he was appointed as a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in 2021, where his research has focused on civilian-military integration in trauma care, as well as humanitarian disaster response efforts. He is also helping to develop the Primary Trauma Care Foundation’s digital course content, and is a member of their instructor faculty.

Outside of medicine, Matthew enjoys running and playing the guitar – and although his own medical school rugby career has ended, he is a keen supporter of SGHMS RFC in the United Hospitals Cup!

Mr Simon Craxford, FRCS (Orth), Post CCT Advanced Limb Reconstruction Fellow, Royal London Hospital, London, UK.

Mr Craxford is an author on a paper in the August 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Outcome sets in orthopaedics: defining ‘what’ and ‘how’ to measure

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(4):6-9.

Mr Simon Craxford is a current Fellow on the prestigious joint Royal London and Stanmore Limb Reconstruction Fellowship. He completed his higher surgical training in the East Midlands in 2022.

During his training, Simon completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham, with a focus on major trauma and recovery after rib fracture. He developed a novel rib fracture patient-reported outcome measure and published on outcomes after chest wall trauma using data from a national trauma registry. During the recent global pandemic, he also collaborated with other national and international research groups leading to several papers on the fight against COVID-19.

Simon has published his research work widely and presented at numerous international conferences including the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA), and European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT). His ongoing research interests include the assessment of medical implants in both trauma and limb reconstruction surgery.

Simon is married to a very patient wife and is a father of four slightly less patient children.

Mr Howard Stringer, MBChB BSc MRCS, Core Surgical Trainee 2, Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, UK.

Mr Stringer is an author on a paper in the June 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize: The rule of a third

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(3):8-9.

Mr Howard Stringer is an Orthopaedic themed Core Surgical Trainee in the North West of England Deanery. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2018 along with an intercalated Clinical Anatomy BSc. Following the completion of his foundation training, he undertook a Junior Academic Fellowship at Aintree University Hospital. Through his academic fellowship, he has developed interests in trauma and foot & ankle surgery.

Mr Stringer has been heavily involved in education and designed the trauma content for the successful Acute, Critical and Emergency Care intercalated MSc at the University of Liverpool School of Medicine, working as an Honorary Clinical Fellow for the last three years.

Outside of work, Howard has undertaken a number of charity challenges, raising awareness for and promoting good mental health. And, since his own recent diagnosis, supporting wider education about Type 1 Diabetes along with the challenges faced by it. He is also a keen footballer, playing for both Liverpool Ramblers AFC (11 a side) and Bone FC (5 a side).

Mr George A. E. Pickering, MBChB(Hons) BMedSci PGCert MRCS FHEA, Core Surgical Trainee in Yorkshire and Humber Deanery, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, UK.

Mr Pickering is an author on a paper in the June 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize: The bare bones: Orthopaedic education in the UK undergraduate curriculum

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(3):5-7.

Mr George Pickering graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 2019, and it was here at the Sheffield Arthroplasty Unit that his enthusiasm for Trauma and Orthopaedics began. He completed a BMedSci studying bone biology, winning several awards for his research including the President’s Prize at the British Hip Society. He was selected for the Academic Foundation Programme in South Yorkshire and is currently completing his Core Surgical Training.

In addition to academic research, Mr Pickering also has a keen interest in medical education, having held a teaching post at Sheffield Medical School and served on the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) education committee. Here he organized and co-chaired the BOA medical student day at the 2019 annual conference. He has completed a postgraduate certificate in medical education and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Currently he is an Honorary Tutor at the University of Leeds and is passionate about teaching more junior clinicians as well as trying to persuade them to pursue a career in Orthopaedics!

In his spare time Mr Pickering enjoys watersports, having previously worked as a waterski instructor, as well as rock climbing and exploring the local Peak District National Park.

Dr Brett Rocos, BSc, MB ChB, MD, FRCS(Tr & Orth), Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Dr Rocos is an author on a paper in the April 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Adult pyogenic and tuberculous spondylodiscitis

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(2):6-9.

Brett Rocos is Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina, USA, joining the faculty in December 2022.

Brett graduated from the University of Bristol in 2006, and followed this with foundation, core, and specialist training in the Severn region. From 2010 to 2011, he was Clinical Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer of England, and advisor to the Patient Safety Division of the World Health Organization (WHO). After carrying out a Trauma fellowship in North Bristol NHS trust, he spent two years at the University of Toronto, first as Complex Paediatric Spine and Trauma fellow, then as Complex Adult Spine fellow.

After 18 months as a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary University of London and the Royal London Hospital, Brett was appointed to the faculty at Duke University in the USA, as Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, as a complex spine and trauma surgeon. With a research portfolio spanning clinical outcomes, surgical safety, and techniques, Brett sits on the AO Knowledge Forum Deformity and the SRS Research Awards committee.

Outside of work, Brett has dived into the USA lifestyle, driving his pickup truck around North Carolina and enjoying all that the state has to offer.

Mr Dileep A. Karthikappallil, MBChB MRCS(Ed) AFHEA, Orthopaedic Research Fellow, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

Mr Karthikappallil is an author on a paper in the February 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize: Metagenomics: the answer to prosthetic joint infection

Bone & Joint 360. 2023;12(1):5-7.

Mr Dileep A. Karthikappallil graduated from the University of Leeds in 2018 prior to completing his Foundation training in Durham and Darlington. He recently completed his Core Surgical Training in the Northwest Deanery of England in 2022, and is currently taking time out of training and pursuing an Academic Research Role with both the Upper Limb and Hand teams at Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust.

Mr Karthikappallil has interests in hand and upper limb surgery as well as arthroplasty and prosthetic joint infection, including methods to prevent and treat this devastating complication. He has a keen interest in education, currently working with the University of Liverpool’s School of Medicine, in particular their Acute, Critical and Emergency Medicine MSc Programme. Mr Karthikappallil is highly involved in mentoring junior clinicians, medical students, and those interested in Orthopaedics as well as widening access to medicine programmes in his hometown of Liverpool.

Outside of work Dileep is an enthusiastic (if hopeless) tennis player, an avid Liverpool FC supporter, and movie lover.

Miss Isobel Pilkington, BA, MB, BCh, BAO, MRCS, Core Surgical Trainee in Wessex Deanery, Poole Hospital, Poole, UK.

Miss Pilkington is an author on a paper in the February 2023 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize: Surgeon, protect thyself: Enhanced radiation protection to reduce breast cancer in female orthopaedic surgeons

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;12(1):9-12.

Miss Isobel Pilkington is a Core Surgical Trainee in the Wessex Deanery. She is a Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery themed trainee and is currently applying for ST3 in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

Isobel undertook her undergraduate medical education in Trinity College Dublin in her native Ireland. She then completed her foundation training in London, spending eight months working within the Trauma and Orthopaedic department in King’s College Hospital where her interest was encouraged and supported.

While working at Poole Hospital, Isobel became interested in improving the radiation protection available for female orthopaedic surgeons due to concerns regarding the rate of breast cancer in this group. She researched this topic and won the Bone & Joint Publishing Core Trainee Prize in 2022, as well as presenting it at the Orthopaedic Trauma Society Annual Conference 2022. Isobel and Miss Charlotte Lewis at Queen Alexandra Hospital are working with industry to develop enhanced radiation protection to protect the breast from radiation. They hope that this will be provided to all female orthopaedic surgeons shortly.

Outside of work, Isobel has been enjoying the fantastic beaches of Wessex, and swims in the sea at every opportunity she can get.

Mr Jonathan Phillips, MSc FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.

Mr Phillips is an author on a paper in the December 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Enhanced recovery after surgery in orthopaedics

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(6):6-11.

Mr Jonathan Phillips was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Exeter in 2015 after completing specialist training in the East Midlands. He undertook Fellowship training in knee surgery in Exeter and Nottingham. He also completed a Master’s Degree in Sports Medicine and volunteered at the London 2012 Olympics.

Mr Phillips works at the Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, specializing in knee arthroplasty and knee revision surgery, as well as general trauma. He is the current revision knee network lead for the South West Peninsula.

He has been a member of the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) and Beyond Compliance committees since 2015, and is a member of both the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) Primary and Revision Knee Working Groups. He is regularly involved in teaching (including being AO faculty regularly teaching on Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and industry courses). He is on the editorial board of Bone & Joint 360, and is a south west regional clinical coordinator for the National Joint Registry (NJR).

His research portfolio includes exploring patient outcomes after knee surgery, pain, revision surgery, and infection, and with the team at Exeter he is involved in a number of ongoing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in primary and revision knee surgery.

**Dr Bilal Jamal, MBChB, FRCS(Tr&Orth),**Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK.

Dr Jamal is an author on a paper in the October 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

What is new in limb reconstruction?

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(5):6-8.

Dr Bilal Jamal was appointed as an orthopaedic surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in 2017. He has subspecialty training and interests in trauma, foot, ankle, and limb reconstruction surgery.

Having completed training in the West of Scotland, Bilal completed fellowship training in Sheffield and Edinburgh. In addition, he has been the recipient of the European Foot and Ankle Society travelling fellowship visiting centres in Heidelberg, Lyon, and Verona.

Alongside his plastic surgical colleagues, Bilal leads the ortho-plastic service for the West of Scotland. A large proportion of this workload relates to his role as limb reconstruction surgeon to the largest Major Trauma Centre (MTC) in Scotland.

Bilal is a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, where he is also the Director of Surgical Education. As part of this role, he has pioneered an innovative approach to digital education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, he is a member of the Council of the British Limb Reconstruction Society as well as being a member of the trauma committee of the British Orthopaedic Association.

Dr Orla Hennessy, MB, BaO, BCh, MCh, MRCS, ST4 in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland.

Dr Hennessy is an author on a paper in the August 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize 2021 Winner: A woman like me?

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(4):5-7.

Dr Orla Hennessy commenced her ST4 Year of Specialist Orthopaedic Training in Ireland in July 2022. She graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2017 with first class honours. She recently completed her Core Surgical Training, and was delighted to be selected for higher specialist training in Trauma and Orthopaedics last year.

Orla has a keen interest in a number of orthopaedic fields, and has published consistently throughout her career from medical school onwards, carrying out research projects in institutions such as Cambridge University and Massachusetts General Hospital. She has presented at numerous meetings both nationally and internationally. Orla is also avidly involved in teaching and mentoring, having held tutor roles in the National University of Ireland Galway, and continues to train and supervise a number of medical students clinically and in research projects.

When not at work, Orla enjoys running, needle felting, baking, and spending time with family and friends – usually with good food involved!

Mr Brian Rigney, BMBS, MRCSI, MCh, Core Surgical Trainee, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Mr Rigney is an author on a paper in the June 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize 2021 Winner: Sarcopenia and orthopaedics: an issue of prehabilitation and rehabilitation

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(3):5-8.

Mr Brian Rigney is a Core Surgical Trainee in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He has been accepted onto the Higher Surgical Training programme for Trauma and Orthopaedics through the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), which is due to commence in July 2022.

Mr Rigney was born in Dublin, and subsequently qualified with a degree from the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth in 2017. It was in Exeter where he developed his passion for Orthopaedics. He completed the Foundation Programme in the Peninsula Deanery before commencing the Core Surgical Training Programme in Ireland. He is currently working as a surgical trainee in Ireland’s National Spinal Injuries Unit.

Mr Rigney has an interest in teaching, recently being awarded an Honorary Lecturer position in RCSI. He additionally has a keen interest in fragility and fracture prevention, which was the catalyst for his article on sarcopenia that won the Bone and Joint Journal CST prize in 2021.

Outside of work, Mr Rigney can be found surfing the Irish coastline.

Mr Michael Foxall-Smith, MBBS, BSc, MRCS, Core Surgical Trainee, Severn Deanery, Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK.

Mr Foxall-Smith is an author on a paper in the June 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Core Trainee Prize 2021 Winner: The future of orthopaedic surgery: bone printing

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(3):9-11.

Mr Michael Foxall-Smith is a Core Surgical Trainee in Severn Deanery, and has recently accepted a Specialty Registrar post in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in the Kent, Surrey, Sussex deanery.

Mr Foxall-Smith qualified from University College London Medical School in 2017, with a BSc in Trauma & Orthopaedic Sciences, and completed foundation training in the Peninsula region before undertaking a clinical fellow post at North Bristol Trust. Currently he works as an orthopaedic themed Core Surgical Trainee at Gloucester Royal Hospital, developing an interest in trauma surgery and sports injuries.

Mr Foxall-Smith is keen on orthopaedic development and scientific advances in the field, and has published widely and presented at multiple international conferences. Most recently, Michael came runner-up in the Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Skills Competition, open nationally to all Core Surgical Trainees, and is applying for RCS teaching faculty status.

Outside of the hospital, Michael plays for a Premiership American Football team (Bristol Aztecs) and is an avid fan of the NFL.

Miss Amy S. Zheng, BA, BMBCh, MRCS(Ed), Clinical Research Fellow, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.

Miss Zheng is an author on a paper in the April 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Metastatic spinal disease: current concepts

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(2):5-10.

Miss Amy S. Zheng is a Clinical Research Fellow at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham and a Specialty Trainee in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in the East Midlands North Deanery.

Miss Zheng qualified from the University of Oxford in 2014 and completed her foundation training in Aberdeen, before starting her surgical training in the East Midlands. Currently she is taking time out of training to research the role of inflammation in outcomes in trauma at the Academic Orthopaedic Department in Nottingham. She has a keen interest in Spinal Surgery since starting her surgical training at the Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery in Nottingham.

Miss Zheng is a member of the British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS) and a regular attender of national and international conferences. She has an interest in teaching, most recently with organizing an AO alliance spinal course in Ethiopia.

Outside of work she can often be seen singing as part of the band ‘Sultans of Spine’ at spinal conferences.

Mr Tanvir Khan, PhD, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Post-CCT Trauma and Knee Fellow, Imperial College Hospitals, London, UK.

Mr Khan is an author on a paper in the February 2022 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

The management of acute knee dislocations

Bone & Joint 360. 2022;11(1):6-12.

Mr Tanvir Khan is a post-CCT trauma and knee fellow at Imperial College Hospitals, London. He completed higher surgical training in Nottingham in 2020 following which he undertook a one-year knee fellowship at the renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.

During his training Tanvir was awarded a NIHR ACF and subsequently the first joint Royal College of Surgeons–National Joint Registry research fellowship to undertake a PhD focussed on the development and application of novel statistical survival models to analyze orthopaedic time-to-event data. Tanvir has published his research work widely and presented at numerous national and international conferences including the AAOS, OTA, ISAKOS, and ESSKA. His ongoing research pursuits relate to investigating knee surgery interventions at population level, health economics and policy.

Tanvir is passionate about teaching both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is a regular faculty member on several FRCS(Tr&Orth) courses. He has contributed chapters in four orthopaedic textbooks, most recently writing the updated knee examination chapter in the Oxford Textbook of Trauma and Orthopaedics (3rd Edition).

Miss Kate Spacey, FRCS(Tr&Orth) MBBS BSc(Hons), Post CCT Fellow Orthopaedic Oncology, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore, Stanmore, UK.

Miss Kate Spacey is an author on a paper in the December 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

To P or not to P? FSSA classification provides only fair to moderate agreement in hip arthroplasty

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(6):8-10.

Miss Kate Spacey trained in the East of England deanery, and currently works as a post CCT fellow in Sarcoma at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore. Following this appointment, Kate will further develop her specialist interest in adult hip and pelvic reconstruction at the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. She hopes in the longer term to improve local access to endoprosthetic services, for appropriate Orthopaedic Oncological patients in the East of England.

Kate has a keen interest in medical education, and has received a number of awards for her commitment to teaching. Kate is a member of the Education Committee for the British Hip Society, and is in the process of developing a post graduate higher qualification in Hip Surgery in conjunction with the Education Committee. Kate is a current UKITE editor, and has co-convened the Norwich FRCS(Tr&Orth) examination course. Aside from Registrar level teaching, Kate has established a successful programme for senior house officers (SHOs) within the region, preparing for their ST3 Orthopaedic interviews.

Outside of work, Kate can often be found walking the North Norfolk dunes along the ‘Champagne Coast’.

Mr Daniel Morris BMedSci (Hons) BM BS (Hons) FRCS (Tr & Orth), Upper Limb Senior Fellow,* *Derby Shoulder Unit, Royal Derby Hospital, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Derby, UK.

Mr Daniel Morris is an author on a paper in the October 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Radial head arthroplasty: stability after 80 years of development?

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(5):7-10.

Mr Daniel Morris is an Upper Limb Senior Fellow at the Derby Shoulder Unit, Royal Derby Hospital. He completed higher surgical training in the East Midlands; demonstrating an interest in shoulder, elbow, and trauma surgery throughout. Membership of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) and fellowship visitations to specialist centres in Australia and Belgium further demonstrate commitment to these subspecialties.

Mr Morris graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2011; having gained an additional BMedSci (Hons) degree. He achieved the Mitchell Memorial Prize, awarded to the best overall student on the clinical course; and the Hay-Shunker Prize in Clinical Surgery, awarded for outstanding performance in clinical surgery. Mr Morris enjoys participating in research and quality improvement, with involvement in 20 peer-reviewed publications, 14 international podium presentations, and development of several upper limb trauma management pathways. He is passionate about training and education, having designed and facilitated a regional surgical skills course for junior doctors and been involved in supervising medical students undertaking an upper limb surgery research project leading to a BMedSci degree.

Mr Morris is married with two chinchillas and is a long-suffering fan of Nottingham Forest Football Club.

Mr Tom Kurien, PhD, MSc, FRCS (Tr &Orth), Academic Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine, University of Nottingham; Nottingham Elective Orthopaedic Service (NEOS), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham; Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit Fellow, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust, Exeter, UK.

Mr Tom Kurien is an author on a paper in the August 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Mechanisms of pain in knee osteoarthritis that influence outcomes after total knee arthroplasty surgery

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(4):5-11.

Mr Tom Kurien was selected for an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Orthopaedics where he worked in the Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Pain Centre Nottingham as a fellow. During this period, he was awarded the BASK/DePuy Research Fellowship and a prestigious Medical Research Council/ Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Clinical Research Training Fellowship to undertake a PhD researching ‘The Central and Peripheral Drivers of Knee Osteoarthritis Pain that Influence Outcomes after Total Knee Arthroplasty using Functional Brain MRI’.

In 2018 Tom was selected as one of six Bone & Joint Research/British Orthopaedic Research Society Travelling Fellows and visited Orthopaedic International centres of Excellence including Rush (Chicago), St Louis, Texas, Minneapolis, and the Mayo Clinic.

Tom has presented at over 30 international conferences including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopaedic Research Society, and won the BASK Presidential Medal in 2019 and the BASK Best Paper Award in 2016 and 2017. He was awarded a New Investigator Recognition Award (NIRA) from the Orthopaedic Research Society (USA) in New Orleans in 2018 sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, and the Andrew Sprowson Award for Translational Research at the British Orthopaedic Research Society. Tom is currently on the British Orthopaedic Association ‘Future Leaders Programme 2021’.

Outside of work, Tom is married with two energetic young boys. He coaches rugby, enjoys skiing, and plays the piano.

Mr Piers Page, MD, FRCSEd(Tr & Orth), Senior Orthopaedic Trauma Fellow, Trauma Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.

Mr Piers Page is an author on a paper in the June 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

When is a new implant not a new implant? Moving goalposts and orthopaedic trauma device evaluation

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(3):4-5.

Mr Piers Page has recently been appointed locum consultant at Oxford University Hospitals’ Trauma Unit, where he undertook a post-CCT trauma fellowship after completing training on the Kent, Surrey and Sussex rotation. His professional interest is complex and major trauma. Piers’s doctoral research was into the evaluation of a novel hip fracture device, and he continues to undertake research in both frailty trauma and device evaluation.

Piers joined the British Army in 1998 and has served in both regular and reserve roles since, also undertaking an MPhil by research as part of the Combat Casualty Care group. Work undertaken at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court has informed both military policy and clinical guidelines in several countries. He was awarded the BOA Robert Jones medal in 2019 and is an editor for the Association’s UKITE exam.

Piers’s advisory role in voluntary search and rescue has led to a medicolegal interest, and he was awarded the Diploma of Legal Medicine with Distinction by the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. He is now studying for a LLM degree. Piers has written and edited a number of textbooks, is a primary editor for The Bone & Joint Journal, and is Deputy Editor of BMJ Military Health.

Mr Vito Coco, MD, Orthopaedic Resident, II Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica, Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute (Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli), Bologna, Italy.

Mr Vito Coco is an author on a paper in the April 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Meniscal allograft transplants: state of the art

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(2):5-16.

Having graduated from the University of Campus Bio-medico in Rome, Mr Vito Coco is an orthopaedic resident at the prestigious Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna. He is supervised by Prof Stefano Zaffagnini who is a member of the ACL Study Group, ESSKA Cartilage Committee, ISAKOS scientific committee, and an associate editor of Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy.

During his training, Mr Coco had the opportunity to gain international experience in knee reconstruction surgery with a particular focus on meniscal allograft transplantation, and became a research fellow at the University Hospitals of Coventry & Warwickshire, under supervision of a pioneer of meniscal transplantation, Mr Tim Spalding, Chairman of ESSKA, ICRS, UK National Ligament Registry NLR, and President of the International ACL Study group.

Mr Coco will fondly remember the education delivered by these experts of international standing, and aim to transfer this learning into excellent outcomes for his patients in the future.

Mr Andrew Manktelow, MBBS, BSc, FRCS(Ed), FRCS(Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.

Mr Andrew Manktelow is an author on a paper in the February 2021 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Dual mobility articulations – are two heads better than one?

Bone & Joint 360. 2021;10(1):4-9.

After medical school in London, Mr Andrew Manktelow trained in orthopaedics at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore. During training he spent a year at Harvard, where his activities were centred around primary and revision hip arthroplasty. Appointed in Nottingham in 1999, he was part of the busy trauma group for many years, although recently his practice has been based in elective surgery, with a specialist interest in primary and complex hip replacement, hip resurfacing, and revision.

Andrew is the ‘Hip chair’ of East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network, providing a central hub to review and discuss complex surgery performed within a network of six hospitals, covering a population of around four million. He travels widely to lecture and to demonstrate his experience and clinical activities in hip surgery, and set up the popular Nottingham Revision Meeting which attracts surgeons worldwide.

Andrew was President of the British Hip Society in 2018. He is a member of the International Hip Society, the European Hip Society, and was voted onto the Council of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) in 2019.

Married to Claire, a GP and with four tolerant and beautiful daughters, Andrew has little time to spare away from work. However, when quiet, he enjoys travelling, music, gardening, (watching) sport, and planning future revisions.

Prof Iain McNamara, MA (Cantab), MRCP, FRCS (Tr&Orth), MD, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia; Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK.

Prof Iain McNamara is an author on a paper in the December 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Investigation of painful joint arthroplasty

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(6):5-11.

Prof McNamara is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon working at The Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Foundation Trust. His elective work covers all aspects of knee arthroplasty as well as anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and patella stabilization surgery.

Iain took over as lead of the Orthopaedic Research Unit in 2016 and was appointed as an Honorary Professor at University of East Anglia in the same year. His laboratory and clinical research is focussed on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infected joint arthroplasties, investigation of surgical changes on outcomes in knee arthroplasty, novel rehabilitation methods, and patella stabilization surgery and outcomes.

Iain undertook his undergraduate training at the University of Cambridge and then moved to, and qualified from, the University of Oxford in the year 2000.  He undertook an MD at the University of Cambridge. Iain undertook fellowship training in sports surgery and early arthritis intervention at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, a hip and knee revision arthroplasty fellowship in Nottingham, and a trauma fellowship at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Iain lives with his wife and two daughters and tries (“with ever decreasing success”) to maintain some interests in cycling, golf, and music.

Miss Pamela Garcia Pulido, MBChB, MRCS (Eng), Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Orthopaedics (ST7), East of England Region, Visiting Researcher – Division of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Miss Garcia Pulido is an author on a paper in the December 2019 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Staying in the groove: managing patellofemoral instability

Bone & Joint 360. 2019;8(6):3-8.

Miss Pamela Garcia Pulido is an ST7 orthopaedic trainee on the East of England Rotation. Pam has a specialist interest in soft tissue knee, realignment and arthroplasty surgery and is actively researching the molecular biology of the anterior cruciate ligament with the University of Cambridge.

On her training rotation Pam is enjoying exposure to a variety of philosophies within knee surgery as someone who is at the beginning of her knee career. While on rotation at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, the opportunity arose to work with Professor Iain McNamara and Professor Simon Donell on a review article focusing on patellofemoral joint instability.

The aim is to provide a readily comprehensible account of the clinical assessment and reasoning that can be applied to a condition where management is contentious. Pam hopes that this article provides a review of the current understanding of literature around patellofemoral instability and a logical process of assessment and treatment that is reproducible and accessible for others to follow. As with all areas of orthopaedics, the floor remains open to debate as new evidence emerges allowing the optimization of the care patients with complex pathologies.

Mr Ben Waterson, MD, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Knee Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.

Mr Ben Waterson is an author on a paper in the October 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Zonal fixation in knee replacement surgery – is there any clinical or biomechanical evidence to justify it?

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(5):4-9.

Mr Ben Waterson is a Consultant Knee Surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Exeter. He specialises in complex knee arthroplasty including unicompartmental, primary, and revision knee arthroplasty.

Ben graduated with a MBChB from Edinburgh University in 2005 and undertook his specialist training in orthopaedic surgery in Edinburgh. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2017 and completed his fellowship training at the adult lower limb reconstruction centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Ben has authored numerous research articles and book chapters, and has lectured throughout the UK and Europe. He was awarded a Medical Doctorate (MD) from Edinburgh University in 2018 for his research in the field of knee surgery and the impact of alignment on total knee arthroplasties (TKAs). His randomized controlled trial, “The early outcome of kinematic versus mechanical alignment in total knee arthroplasty”, was published in The Bone & Joint Journal in 2016 and remains a key paper on the subject. Ben’s current research interests include using robotic technology to improve patient outcomes in TKAs.

Dr John T. Machin, MA(Oxf), MBBS FRCS(Tr&Orth), PGC, Specialist Registrar Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK; Clinical Lead for Litigation, GIRFT Programme, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust and NHS England & Improvement, London, UK.

Dr John T. Machin is an author on a paper in the August 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Clinical negligence: is orthopaedics learning from it?

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(4):6-10.

Dr John T. Machin is the clinical lead for litigation for the Getting It Right First Time programme (GIRFT), working with NHS Resolution and NHS England & Improvement, to ensure patient care is improved from reviewing clinical negligence claims. Responsible for publishing a range of scientific papers spanning clinical research, quality improvement, and clinical negligence, John has also co-authored and contributed to a number of national reports, includingThe Chavasse Report on improving armed forces and veteran care, Getting It Right First Time – National Review of Elective Orthopaedics and Getting It Right in Orthopaedics – The follow up report.

John is a previous National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at NHS England. He holds an honours degree in Medical Sciences from Magdalen College, Oxford, and completed his clinical training at UCL. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and is a higher surgical trainee in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in East Midlands (North). John has been awarded the University of British Columbia Lower Limb Joint Reconstruction and Oncology Fellowship in Vancouver which he begins shortly.

Dr David E. Lebel, MD, PhD, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Dr David E. Lebel is an author on a paper in the June 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Lack of magic in the magnetically controlled growing rod

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(3):5-7.

Dr David E. Lebel graduated an MD, PhD programme from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel in 2004. His PhD in neurophysiology focused on learning and memory and particularly with regards to synaptic plasticity. He attended his residency at Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Israel, followed by a general paediatric orthopaedic fellowship programme at Dana-Dewek Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel, and a two-year fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. David was appointed as a consultant at Dana-Dewek Children's Hospital Tel-Aviv in 2013 and became the head of the paediatric spine service there in 2016. He joined the faculty at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada in 2018.

Since moving to Canada his main research interests have been clinical outcomes and quality improvement in paediatric spine surgeries, safe and cost-effective introduction of new technologies, and reduction of barriers for access to care among patients with paediatric spine deformities.

Miss Yulanda Myint, BM MSc FRCS(Tr&Orth), Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.

Miss Myint is an author on a paper in the April 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Elbow and wrist fracture management: where are we with the evidence?

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(2):3-6.

Miss Yulanda Myint is a post-CCT foot and ankle fellow at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Prior to this, Yulanda completed a trauma fellowship in Nottingham. She has also carried out visiting fellowships to the Shock Trauma Centre in Baltimore and the Massachusetts General Hospital trauma department in Boston.

Miss Myint qualified from Southampton Medical School in 2009 and did her initial training in Wessex deanery, before completing higher surgical training in the East Midlands. She is due to take up her consultant post in foot & ankle and orthopaedic trauma in Nottingham and the East Midlands MTC later this year.

Miss Myint is passionate about training and education, and has been involved with teaching for medical students through to FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam preparation. She has been faculty on orthopaedic clinical examination and FRCS revision courses.

Prof Justin P. Cobb, MCh, FRCS, MSk Lab, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Prof Cobb is an author on a paper in the February 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Hip resurfacing – what is its role in modern orthopaedics?

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(1):4-9.

Prof Justin P. Cobb was an undergraduate student at Magdalen College Oxford, graduating in 1982. His junior surgical training was completed in north London, followed by Registrar training on the St Thomas’ rotation, and Senior Registrar training on The Middlesex/RNOH rotation. Justin’s research with Gordon Blunn and Peter Walker in the BME unit at RNOH resulted in a Hunterian Professorship in 1991 ’Surgery and Osteosarcoma’.

Justin was appointed consultant at The Middlesex and UCH in 1991, working on the London Bone Tumour Unit, and in trauma and general orthopaedics including spines. Research into limb and joint salvage led to a forerunner of Mako with clinical trials beginning in 1999. 3D planning and assistive technologies have been a major focus ever since.

Since joining Imperial College London in 2005 Justin has focused on planning and performing conservative surgery and developing metrics of efficacy capable of measuring higher level function. Two fields are highly active right now: compartmental knee arthroplasty and hip resurfacing with H1, a novel all-ceramic device. A grateful patient paid for the newly opened Biomedical Engineering Hub in White City, consisting of 12 floors of engineers, scientists, and surgeons.

Justin was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen in 2008, and was married to Iona in 1985, who is a full-time GP in Chelsea. They have four grownup children, two grandchildren, and a dog.

Dr Kartik Logishetty, MBBS, BSc, MSk Lab, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Dr Kartik Logishetty is an author on a paper in the February 2020 issue of Bone & Joint 360.

Hip resurfacing – what is its role in modern orthopaedics?

Bone & Joint 360. 2020;9(1):4-9.

Dr Kartik Logishetty is a trauma and orthopaedic specialty trainee in London, UK. Kartik’s research interests include the development of assistive technologies for enhancing surgical training and improving outcomes in patients with hip disease using bone conserving and tissue-sparing techniques.

Kartik received his MBBS with distinction from Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, and a BSc in Surgery & Anaesthesia and an MSc in Surgical Innovation from Imperial College London. He was an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow before studying for his PhD as a Royal College of Surgeons’ fellow at Imperial’s MSk Lab, supervised by Prof Justin Cobb. This led to a number of influential publications on how virtual reality can upskill surgeons to perform arthroplasty and contributed towards the development of a novel all-ceramic hip resurfacing device.

Kartik is an honorary lecturer and course lead on MSc, MEd and BSc programmes at Imperial College London, and the team physician for the London Skolars Rugby Club. His clinical training is ongoing but is particularly focused on the management of hip disease and has included time with Dr Paul Beaule at The Ottawa Hospital, Canada, Dr Michael Leunig at The Schulthess Clinic, Switzerland, and Dr Edwin Su at the Hospital for Special Surgery, USA.

Professor Robert U. Ashford, MD, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Tumour Surgeon, Leicester Orthopaedics, Leicester, United Kingdom; Honorary Professor, Leicester Cancer Research Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom.

Rob Ashford qualified from the London Hospital in 1992. Following his basic surgical training in London and East Anglia, he then undertook a period of research culminating in an MD at the University of Sheffield for his thesis Skeletal Complications in Metastatic Breast Cancer.

His higher surgical training was in Yorkshire and he spent two years as a Fellow, first in bone and soft-tissue sarcomas with Dr Paul Stalley in Sydney and then in joint reconstruction and sarcomas at Buckinghamshire Hospitals and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.

He was appointed as a Consultant with a joint post at University Hospitals of Leicester and Nottingham University Hospitals in 2007 and has recently been appointed as an Honorary Professor at Leicester Cancer Research Centre. He was an ABC Travelling Fellow in 2014. His practice incorporates soft tissue sarcomas, skeletal metastases, benign tumours, and lower limb joint reconstruction. He is actively involved in clinical research and is a keen trainer. He is currently President of the British Orthopaedic Oncology Society.

Rob is married to Isabel and they have two children. He is struggling to come to terms with the recent form of the Leicester Tigers but remains hopeful that a change in fortunes is close! He is also an enthusiastic cricket fan and fairweather cyclist.

Professor Ashford is an author on a paper in the October 2019 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Primary bone sarcomas: what’s hot and what’s not

Bone & Joint 360 2019;8(5)4-10.

Mr Jonathan Phillips, MBChB, MSc, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, United Kingdom

Jonathan Phillips is a specialist orthopaedic trauma and knee arthroplasty surgeon working at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Devon, having completed fellowships at Exeter and Nottingham. He works alongside his colleagues at the Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit in the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, specializing in knee and revision arthroplasty and prosthetic joint infection, which is where his academic interests lie.

Jonathan has been an active member of both the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) and Beyond Compliance committees since 2015 and is a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) Revision Knee Working Group. He is on the Editorial Board for Bone & Joint 360, and is a member of AOTrauma faculty. Jonathan has also worked alongside Versus Arthritis, setting up a Joint Understanding peer support network for patients undergoing knee arthroplasty.

Mr Phillips is an author on a paper in the June 2019 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

50 years of total knee arthroplasty

Bone & Joint 360 2019;8(3)3-7.

Mr Fazal Ali, MBBS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Specialist Knee Surgeon, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Chesterfield, United Kingdom and Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Fazal Ali works at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Sheffield Children’s Hospital, and has a special interest in sports injuries to the knee. He is a former Training Programme Director for South Yorkshire and is presently the Academic Secretary of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA). He has published his work, written chapters, and given invited lectures on training issues and knee surgery both nationally and internationally. He has also co-edited a best-selling orthopaedic text, Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics.

Fazal was voted South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Trainer of the Year on five occasions. He was given a lifetime award for training by the South Yorkshire training scheme in 2012. In 2018, he was again voted Trainer of the Year, this time by East Midlands. In 2017, he was honoured by the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation by the creation of an annual award, The Fazal Ali Award for Academic Excellence. He is Head of the Question Writing Committee of the Intercollegiate Board and serves as a senior examiner for the Intercollegiate Board in the FRCS(Tr&Orth) examinations. In 2017, he was elected to the panel of international examiners. Fazal also serves on the board of examiners in other countries, with the view to helping advance the standard of orthopaedic training worldwide.

Mr Ali is an author on a paper in the April 2019 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Paediatric anterior cruciate ligament injuries: a review of controversies and treatments

Bone & Joint 360 2019;8(2):2-8.

Mr Jeya Palan BSc(Hons), MBBS(Lon), FRCS(Tr&Orth), UHCW Senior Lower Limb Arthroplasty Fellow, UHCW NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom

Jeya Palan is a post-CCT Senior Lower Limb Arthroplasty Fellow at the University Hospital of Coventry with Mr Pedro Foguet and Prof Richard King. Prior to this, he completed a 12-month fellowship in Nottingham with Mr Andrew Manktelow, Mr Peter James, and Mr Ben Bloch. He is due to take up a senior fellow post in musculoskeletal sarcoma surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford for six months with Mr Duncan Whitwell. He was a T&O registrar in the East Midlands Leicester Deanery and was awarded the Prof Joe Harper Memorial plate in 2017. He has previously been an Associate Editor for The Bone & Joint Journal (2012-2016) and was the National Joint Registry/Royal College of Surgeons (NJR RCS) Fellow in 2013/14. He was awarded the British Medical Association Doris-Hillier research grant in 2014/15 and the British Orthopaedic Association Travelling Fellowship to Canada in 2014. His primary research interests are in outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty, and he has developed a specialist interest in the management of prosthetic joint infections. His PhD thesis is based on the POST study (Predicting Outcomes After Total Hip and Knee Replacement) with Prof Joe Dias in Leicester. He has published and presented extensively on hip and knee arthroplasty surgery. He has an interest in improving surgical training and was President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association in 2013/14.

Mr Palan is an author on a paper in the October 2018 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

The role of patella resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty

J. Palan, B. V. Bloch, O. Shannak, P. James

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Dr Tim White MD, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Tim White is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Trauma at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He has subspecialist interests in injuries to the pelvis and acetabulum, knee (including soft tissue reconstruction), and foot and ankle. He is the author of the ankle chapter in Rockwood and Green’s Fractures in Adults, both in the current edition and in the forthcoming edition. He is also the author of McRae’s Orthopaedic Trauma and Emergency Fracture Management, the best-selling text for orthopaedic trainees. He has published recent papers on Trauma Triage Clinics, the fibular nail, the uses (and abuses) of new biological therapies in trauma, and current controversies surrounding ankle fractures. He is co-director of the Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium.

Tim White is the author of a paper in the August 2018 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Ankle fractures: facts and fiction

T. O. White, T. H. Carter

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Mr Donald CampbellFRCSEd (Tr&Orth), Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom

Donald Campbell was born in Vancouver Island, Canada and emigrated to Scotland aged six following the death of Elvis Presley. He graduated from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1993 and trained around most of Scotland, including his Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) rotation in the East of Scotland. He completed two years of fellowships in paediatric T&O in Glasgow and Sheffield. He was appointed as a consultant in Ninewells Teaching Hospital in Dundee in 2007, where he treats a broad range of paediatric conditions with a particular interest in the foot and the ankle, including some adult F&A work. He has a keen interest in training and is the East of Scotland T&O Training Programme Director and a FRCS T&O examiner.

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A. I. W. Mayne, D. M. Campbell

Bone & Joint 360 2018;7(3):2-6.

Prof Adam Watts MBBS, BSc, FRCS (Tr and Orth), Consultant Elbow and Upper Limb Surgeon, Wrightington Hospital, Visiting Professor, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Adam Watts is a Consultant Orthopaedic Elbow surgeon at Wrightington Hospital and Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, both in the UK. He trained on fellowship in Adelaide, Australia and Wrightington, UK. His clinical interests include the treatment of degenerative joint disease, sports injury and trauma, with a focus on arthroscopic techniques and joint reconstruction. Adam works with many national sporting organizations, clubs and professional athletes. He has published extensively on upper limb surgery and talks nationally and internationally. He is the clinical supervisor to several PhD students at the University of Manchester. He is Associate Editor for the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons and sits on the Editorial Board for the National Joint Registry and Shoulder and Elbow Journal. Adam is Research Lead for Specialist Services at Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust, both in the UK. He is clinical adviser to several Orthopaedic manufacturers and has designed a number of surgical procedures and implants.

Adam Watts is the author of a paper in the December 2017 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Total elbow arthroplasty: A narrative review

T. Luokkala, A. C. Watts

Bone & Joint 360 2017;6:2-10.

Mr David I Clark FRCS (T and Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic & Upper Limb Surgeon, Royal Derby Hospital & Honorary (Consultant) Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, School of Medicine.

David Clark qualified from Sheffield University in 1988 and during that time took a year out to do a BMedSci in orthopaedics and  bioengineering under the  direction of Professor Tom Duckworth and Mr Mike Saleh, who cemented his interest and enthusiasm for  orthopaedics. His higher surgical training in Trauma  and Orthopaedics was on the Nottingham rotation. During this period, he spent  time out on fellowships in Auckland, New Zealand and as an upper limb  fellowship in Wrightington.

His family are originally from Derbyshire and he was delighted to be appointed as a Consultant Upper Limb Surgeon at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary in  October 2000. His interest in upper limb surgery was inspired after working for Angus Wallace and Lars Neumann in Nottingham and Peter Lunn in Derby.

He is currently the Royal College of Surgeons/ BOA Regional Advisor East Midlands North. He is an elected trustee on the BOA council and serves on the British Elbow and Shoulder society council as secretary.

His research interests are the epidemiology of upper limb conditions and clinical outcomes in shoulder conditions and he has published over 30 peer review articles.

David Clark is the author of a paper in the August 2017 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty

A. G. Titchener, A. A. Tambe, D. I. Clark

Bone & Joint 360 2017;6:2-7.

Andrew D. Toms, Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit, Exeter, United Kingdom

Andrew Toms studied Medicine at Birmingham University where he was awarded the Sir John Lewis prize for medicine. He started his Orthopaedic and Trauma training immediately at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and followed this through with a year's basic surgical training rotation under the Professor of Orthopaedics, Auckland, New Zealand. He completed higher surgical training on the Stoke/Oswestry Orthopaedic training rotation and during this period completed a research degree in Engineering from Cardiff University focusing on revision knee replacement.

He was subsequently awarded a Smith & Nephew research award in 2003, British Association of Surgery of the Knee Educational Travel award in 2004, Cutner award from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2004, British Orthopaedic Association award in 2004 and the Charnley Trust Foundation Award in 2004. He completed the Adult Reconstruction Fellowship in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia, where he spent a year operating, skiing, sailing and chasing his 3 young children. Andrew now specialises in surgery of the knee, particularly complex primary total knee replacement, revision knee surgery and knee trauma. He is currently on the BASK research board and ODEP for knees. Major research interests include pain post TKR, periprosthetic joint infection and functional outcome assessments. The unit collaborates as part of NIHR trials and European multicenter studies in these key areas.

Life in Devon outside work is a hectic mix of watersports, rugby coaching and taxi driving!

Andrew Toms is an author of two Feature Articles in the June issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Registry review - knee arthroplasty

J. R. A. Phillips, H. B. Waterson, D. J. Searle, V. I. Mandalia, A. D. Toms

Bone & Joint 360 June 2014;3:2–8.

Thou shalt not varus - still applicable in total knee arthroplasty?

H. B. Waterson, J. R. A. Phillips, V. I. Mandalia, A. D. Toms

Bone & Joint 360 June 2014;3:9–13.

Professor David Wood MB, BS, MS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), FRACS. Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

David Wood is a Winthrop Professor at The University of Western Australia. A graduate of St Thomas's, completing specialist training in Leicester fellowships at Harvard and the University of Florida before migrating to Australia in 1990. He is a recipient of The D V Davies prize for Surgical Anatomy, The Sir George Bedbrook medal and the Evelyn Hamilton Prize. His current interests include cell based therapies, musculoskeletal oncology, joint replacement surgery and medical aid in Papua New Guinea.

Professor David Wood is the first author of a Feature Article in the December issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Sarcoma Genomics

D. Wood, and R. Jones

Bone & Joint 360 December 2013;2:2–8.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas K. Rowlands, MB, BCh, BSc, Grad Dip Phys, FRCS (Tr & Orth), Royal Army Medical Corps, Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Birmingham, England.

Lt Col Rowlands qualified as a Physiotherapist at Kings College London before studying medicine at St Andrews University, Scotland and Manchester University Medical School, graduating in 1997. After working in Plymouth, Peterborough, Sheffield and Stoke Mandeville, he was a Resident at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, concluding his time as a Shoulder Fellow under Professor Angus Wallace.

He is currently posted to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham where he uses his extensive knowledge of acute and reconstructive surgery gained from operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan for the benefit of military and civilian patients. Lt Col Rowlands is not only a Founding member but is also on the Faculty of the Damage Control Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Course at the Royal College Of Surgeons, England and lectures widely on his experience as a Trauma Surgeon.

Tom is a semi-professional rock drummer, a keen fisherman and an amateur radio enthusiast.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas K. Rowlands is the second author of a Feature Article in the October issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Infection and combat injuries: historical lessons and evolving concepts

J. G. Penn-Barwell, and T. K. Rowlands

Bone & Joint 360 October 2013;2:2–7.

Surg Lt Cdr G Jowan Penn-Barwell RN, Trauma and Orthopaedic Registrar, NIHR Research fellow, Birmingham, UK.

Surg Lt Cdr PENN-BARWELL joined the Royal Navy whilst studying Medicine at Birmingham University. After graduation and completing the Commando course and Naval officer training at Dartmouth he was appointed as medical officer to 30 Commando IX Group Royal Marines. This appointment culminated with a seven-month operational tour in Afghanistan with 3 Commando Brigade as a pre-hospital doctor working in isolated patrol bases throughout Helmand province.

In 2007 he was appointed to a Trauma and Orthopaedic training rotation in the West Midlands. This was interrupted for a research year at the prestigious US Army Institute of Surgical Research and further operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. He has published original scientific research extensively in international journals and has set up and leads the SeLECT study group that conducts research into combat injury. He has completed an MSc in trauma surgery and is writing his doctoral thesis on infection in open fractures.

Aside from his research interests, Surg Lt Cdr Penn-Barwell is an assistant editor of the Journal of the Royal Navy Medical Service and a member of the Battlefield Trauma Life Support instructor faculty. He intends to specialise in orthopaedic trauma with an interest in limb reconstruction.

In his free time he enjoys running, boxing, swimming, hill walking and Radio 4.

Surg Lt Cdr G Jowan Penn-Barwell is the first author of a Feature Article in the October issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Infection and combat injuries: historical lessons and evolving concepts

J. G. Penn-Barwell, and T. K. Rowlands

Bone & Joint 360 October 2013;2:2–7.

J. N. Cakic, MD, FCS (SA) Orth, MMed (Orth) WITS, PhD(Med), WITS, Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon, Life Fourways Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Fondly known as “Dr Chuck”, Dr Cakic practices as a general orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in hips. He is one of few Orthopaedic Surgeons in South Africa skilled enough to do an anterior incision for total hip replacement surgery, a procedure that potentially reduces pain and length of stay in hospital.

Dr Cakic is the author of the Arthroscopy Article in the August 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

Arthroscopy

J. N. Cakic

Bone & Joint 360 August 2013 2:2-5.

Kate McNamara BSc, DPhil, Chartered and European Patent Attorney, Venner Shipley LLP, Cambridge, UK.

As a Chartered and European patent attorney Kate has experience across all aspects of patent law, from drafting, filing and prosecuting UK, European and international patent applications, to due diligence work and opposition and appeal cases before the European Patent Office.  Kate handles a wide variety of medical and pharmaceutical subject matter, and has worked with clients varying in size from single inventors to biotechnology start-ups and large pharmaceutical companies.

Kate McNamara is the author of the Patent Feature Article in the June 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

Innovation within orthopaedics: the basics of patenting

K. McNamara

Bone & Joint 360 June 2013;2(3):2-5.

Professor W. Angus Wallace MB ChB, FRCS(Ed & Eng), FRCSEd(Orth), FFSEM(UK), FHKCOS(Hon) FMOT(Hon), Professor of Orthopaedic & Accident Surgery, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.

Angus Wallace is a proud Scotsman who trained in Nottingham, Derby, Newcastle, Nottingham and Toronto (Canada) before his Senior Lecturer/Consultant post with Prof Charles Galasko in Manchester. He was appointed Professor of Orthopaedic & Accident Surgery in Nottingham in 1986. He has been Chair of the National Osteoporosis Society (1996-8); President of the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association (1997-9); Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1997-2000); President of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (2001-3); Chair of the Inter-collegiate Specialty (Exam) Board in Orthopaedic Surgery (2002-5); Chair of the Trauma and Orthopaedic SAC (2008-10) and President of the International Congress of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery in Edinburgh (2010).

His hobbies include woodwork and taking his narrowboat “Jacana Mist” along the English canal system. In 1995 he became famous as “the Coathanger Surgeon” when he inserted a chest drain into a patient in an aeroplane at 35,000 feet! He has been happily married to Jackie for 42 years and has 3 children – Suzanne a Consultant in Obstetrics in Nottingham (married to Daren Forward an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon) and Malcolm and Andrew who are both Engineers. He continues to work full time as a Specialist Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon carrying out over 400 operations per year (including 100 shoulder replacements).

Professor Wallace is the author of the Surgeon Inventor Article in the June 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

The challenges of becoming a “Surgeon Inventor” and a “Product Champion”

W. Angus Wallace

Bone & Joint 360 June 2013;2(3):6-14.

Chris Colton, MB, BS, LRCP, FRCS, FRCSEd(Orth), Professor emeritus, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK._

Chris Colton qualified in medicine and surgery in 1960, after studying at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1963, and decided to pursue a career as an orthopaedic surgeon, studying in Bristol and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, also including a tour of duty at Dala Orthopaedic Hospital, Kano, Northern Nigeria during the Biafran civil war.

He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Nottingham in 1973 and was an ABC fellow in 1974. The University of Nottingham honoured him with a personal chair in Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery, in 1993, for his research and teaching in the field of musculoskeletal trauma. An eponymous “Chris Colton Trauma Lecture” is delivered each year at the Nottingham University Fracture Forum.

He is a Past President of both the British Orthopaedic Association, of the AO Foundation and of AOUK: he is also the recipient of numerous professional honours.

He retired from surgical practice in 1997, but has remained active as a teacher, an editor and a writer. He is also a Master Scuba Diver (the highest qualification in recreational diving), having taken up that activity at the age of 62.

Chris Colton the author of the Feature article in the April 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

Orthopaedic challenges in Ancient Egypt

C. Colton

Bone & Joint 360 April 2013;2(2):2-7.

Khay-Yong Saw, MB Chb (Liverpool), MCh Orth (Liverpool), FRCS (Edinburgh), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Kuala Lumpur Sports Medicine Centre, Malaysia.

Dr Saw Khay Yong is the founder and senior partner of Kuala Lumpur Sports Medicine Centre (KLSMC), Malaysia. He studied medicine at the Liverpool University Medical School from 1979 to 1984. He obtained his FRCS from Edinburgh in 1989 and went on to his chosen field of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 1993, he completed his Masters in Orthopaedic Surgery (MCh Orth) at Liverpool University Medical School, UK.

Upon his return to Malaysia in 1994, he became an orthopaedic lecturer at the University Hospital Kuala Lumpur. He started the Sports Clinic at University Hospital and proceeded to develop the field of arthroscopic surgery. He started his private practice in 1997 at the Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur before moving his practice to KLSMC in 2007.

In 2005, he started his research work in Articular Cartilage Regeneration with the use of stem cells. He has received numerous awards in the field of regenerative medicine for knee cartilage injuries. He is regularly invited to speak at local and international conferences and events. He has also organised and conducted many arthroscopic courses, some of which included live surgery.

Khay-Yong Saw is the senior author of the Feature article in the February 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

From ‘Blade Runner’ to ‘Stem-Cell Player’ and beyond

K-Y. Saw and C. S-Y. Jee

Bone & Joint 360 February 2013;2(1):6-11.

Caroline Siew-Yoke Jee, BEng (Hons), PhD (London), Chief Scientific Officer, Kuala Lumpur Sports Medicine Centre, Malaysia.

Caroline Jee is the Chief Scientific Officer of Kuala Lumpur Sports Medicine Centre (KLSMC), Malaysia, focusing on research and development both applied and fundamental. Current research projects include animal studies and human clinical trials of the application of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in numerous regenerative therapies.

Prior to KLSMC, she was with Inno Bio Diagnostic (2008), a company set up by the Malaysian Government to develop stem cell related bio-technology. She was a Senior Manager at Inno Bio Diagnostic, driving the companies R&D activities and managing a team of stem cell research scientists. She has also spearheaded numerous local and international R&D projects.

Caroline obtained her PhD degree in December 2003 from Queen Mary, University of London, received her B.Eng (1st-class Hons) in Biomedical Materials Science and Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London (1999). She also received numerous awards for outstanding performances throughout her degree.

Caroline Jee is the co-author of the Feature article in the February 2013 Bone & Joint 360:

From ‘Blade Runner’ to ‘Stem-Cell Player’ and beyond

K-Y. Saw and C. S-Y. Jee

Bone & Joint 360 February 2013;2(1):6-11.

Frank F.A. IJpma, MD, Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands.

Frank F.A. IJpma graduated from the medical school of the University of Utrecht in 2005. As part of his medical studies, he worked for a few months as a research fellow at the Tygerberg Children’s Hospital in South Africa. He volunteered for the ambulance and sky medical team in Cape Town. He was trained as a surgeon in Zwolle and Groningen, the Netherlands, and will complete his residency in trauma surgery in 2013. As a resident in surgery, he participated in the Hernia Project in Ghana to support African countries with hernia surgery. Professor ten Duis from the Department of Trauma Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen, who is co-author of the present article, greatly contributed to his surgical training.

Dr IJpma had an early interest in the history of surgery, which led him to write a PhD thesis on the world famous collection of painted anatomy lessons from the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. Today, the majority of these anatomy paintings are exhibited in the Amsterdam Museum. He focused on the connection between surgery and painted art. Professor van Gulik from the department of surgery of the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, who co-authored the current manuscript, is his supervisor. He was awarded a grant from the Collegium Chirurgicum Neerlandicum to travel to St Petersburg, Russia, as part of his historical and anatomical studies.

In his spare time, Dr IJpma likes playing soccer, squash and tennis and sailing on the beautiful lakes in the northern part of The Netherlands. He has traveled to different countries in Asia, Africa and South America and enjoys their nature and culture.

Frank F.A. IJpma is an author of the Feature article in the December 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Osteology: a cornerstone of orthopaedic education

F. F. A. IJpma, H. J. ten Duis, and T. M. van Gulik

Bone & Joint 360 December 2012 1:2-7.

Lieutenant Colonel (P) Philip J. Belmont Jr., MD, Program Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, USA.

Philip J. Belmont Jr., MD is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine and completed his internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery (Orthopaedics) at the Uniformed Services University. He served as an orthopaedic surgeon with the 228th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq and is has been the Program Director of the William Beaumont Army Medical Center /Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas since 2007.

LTC(P) Belmont co-edited the textCombat Orthopedic Surgery: Lessons Learned in Iraq and Afghanistan to address the need for an evidence-based resource that prepares military orthopedic surgeons facing deploying to today’s combat zones. The importance of the textbook is that it draws on a decade of clinical experience and peer-reviewed literature to outline clinical best practices for treating combat-related orthopedic injuries, which comprise approximately 75% of casualties.

During his seventeen years of service in the United States Army he has received numerous awards, including the “A” proficiency designator from the Army Medical Department which denotes his exceptional clinical, research and teaching proficiency. His military awards include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (2 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (2 Oak Leaf Clusters) and Army Achievement Medal (5 Oak Leaf Clusters).  LTC(P) Belmont is a graduate of the Air Assault School and the Distinguished Honor Graduate from the Flight Surgeon Course.

LTC(P) Belmont interests relate to musculoskeletal care of military servicemembers and total joint arthroplasty. He has 40 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and numerous national and international presentations. As a first author, he has been recognised as a finalist for the 2001 and 2002 Charles A. Hufnagel Resident’s Research Award as well as the 2003 Bailey K. Ashford Award. His work as a co-author has been awarded the 2002 Hibbs Basic Science Research Award at the Scoliosis Research Society, outstanding clinical science research for the 2003 Bailey K. Ashford Award, outstanding paper for the 2003 Eastern and Southern Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting and Founder’s Award for the 2009 Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons.

He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances.

LTC(P) Philip J, Belmont is the lead author of the Feature article in the October 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Lessons from the front line: orthopaedic surgery in modern warfare

P. J. Belmont Jr, S. Hetz, and B. K. Potter

Bone & Joint 360 October 2012 1:2-7.

Dr S Rajasekaran, MS(Orth), D.Orth, DNB, FRCS(Ed), FRCS(London), MCh (Liverpool), FACS, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics & Spine Surgery at Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India.

Dr S Rajasekaran is the Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics & Spine Surgery at Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India. His unit has 420 beds and 18 operating theatres dedicated to Trauma, Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery and is currently one of the largest specialty orthopaedic units in South Asia. Apart from being a busy clinical unit performing nearly 16 000 surgeries every year, the department is also recognised for orthopaedic residency training, super speciality training in spine and trauma surgery and PhD studies in orthopaedic surgery.

Dr Rajasekaran is currently the President of the Indian Orthopaedic Association and also the President of the Association of Spine Surgeons of India. He is the current Chief National Delegate of Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association. He is the Past President of International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine, Canada and the Past President of the World Orthopaedic Concern.

His academic positions include the prestigious position of the ‘Hunterian Professor’ for the year 2011-12 of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is the Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, MGR Medical University and Member of Faculty of Medicine, Annamalai University and Bharathiar University.

He is on the Editorial Board of The Bone & Joint Journal (BJJ) and European Spine Journal. He is also the Deputy Editor to the Journals SPINE, Global Spine Journal and Journal of Craniovertebral Surgery.

His research interest relates to Disc Biology and nutrition, Imaging of Spinal cord injuries, and Open injuries of limbs. He is the recipient of numerous international awards including the prestigious ISSLS Award for Spine Research for the years 2004 and 2010, EuroSpine Open Paper Award for 2008. Macnab LaRocca Research Award Canada, 2005 and Sofamer Danek Award of the ISSLS for the years 1996, 2002 & 2006.

Nationally he has received the Silver Jubilee Research Award of the Medical Council of India in 2002, the Hari Om Ashram Award of the Medical Council of India in 2005, Tamilnadu Government Scientist Award in 2000 and Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee Research Awards of the Indian Orthopaedic Association.

He is the Chief Editor of a Video Atlas of Spine Surgery and the ASSI Textbook on Spinal Infections & Trauma. He has 127 publications in international journals and many national and international presentations.

Professor Rajasekaran is an author of one of the Feature articles in the August 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Publish to flourish: is it corrupting science?

S. Rajasekaran

Bone & Joint 360 August 2012 1:5-7.

Mr Harvey Marcovitch MB, BChir, FRCP Hon, FRCPCH, Balscote, UK.

Harvey Marcovitch graduated from Cambridge University and St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1966. He trained at St. Mary’s, Great Ormond Street, Hammersmith, Northwick Park and Boston (Massachusetts). He became consultant paediatrician in North Devon in 1977 and at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust in 1982, when he was appointed honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford. He was editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood from 1994-2002 and an honorary officer (external relations adviser) for the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health from its foundation until 2002.

He left clinical practice in 2001 to take up posts as syndications editor for BMJ Publishing Group and as a General Medical Council associate. He was elected an honorary fellow of the RCPCH in 2007 “in recognition of outstanding contributions to the objects of the College.”  He has also been editor in chief of Clinical Risk (RSM Press Ltd), associate editor of BMJ and editor of Black’s Medical Dictionary. He has completed a term as chairman of the Committee on Publication Ethics, was a board member of the UK Research Integrity Office and director of the Council of Science Editors (US).  For the last 10 years he has chaired Fitness to Practice Panels of the General Medical Council (now Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service).

He has trained many researchers throughout the world in how to write scientific papers and has a particular interest in research and publication integrity.

At present he is engaged as paediatric adviser to the [Public] Inquiry into hyponatraemia related deaths in Northern Ireland, which is currently hearing evidence.

Harvey Marcovitch is an author of one of the Feature articles in the August 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Can you believe all that you read in the medical journals?

H. Marcovitch

Bone & Joint 360 August 2012 1:2-4.

Justin Cobb, MCh FRCS, Professor, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, Imperial College, Charing Cross Campus, London, UK.

Justin Cobb has been the chair of Orthopaedics at Imperial College, and consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Imperial College NHS trust since 2005. He is a civilian advisor to the armed forces, is on the staff at King Edward VII Hospital for officers, and is orthopaedic surgeon to Her Majesty The Queen.

He started medical training as a demy at Magdalen College, Oxford. Reaching London as an SHO, he joined the Middlesex Hospital pre-fellowship rotation in 1984. In an eventful year, he met and married Iona, and discovered orthopaedics, working for Sir Rodney Sweetnam and Michael Edgar in 1985 with Steve Cannon as the very senior registrar. After a brief trip to St Thomas’s, and RNOH, he returned to The Middlesex where he remained happily ensconced until it was knocked down in 2005.

It was becoming harder to divide focus between orthopaedic oncology and the science and surgery of osteoarthritis. In osteoarthritis, the surgeon scientist has a real opportunity to make a difference. His interest in computer assistance and robotics goes back to 1988, when he was awarded a grant of £3,000 to buy a computer with a 30Mb hard drive. In 1991 a grant of £25,000 bought a serious computer that allowed 3d imaging of the skeleton to begin in earnest, with the Acrobot emerging into clinical daylight in 1998 after a 7 year gestation.

Using donations from grateful patients, he has build up the MSk Lab on the Charing Cross Campus, into one of the best equipped gait labs in the world. His research group focuses on how and why joints wear out, and what can be done to make them better with minimal impact. After 15 years of trying to save limbs from amputation, the groups entire focus is on being as conservative as possible. The group has 3 elements: higher end gait analysis, 3d skeletal analysis, and surgical technology. In part funded by the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC, by charitable donation and close industrial collaborations, our group includes computer scientists, engineers, physiologists, neuroscientists and surgeons. It is part of the Musculoskeletal Network in Imperial, with a steady stream of under- and post-graduate students coming west to the clinical environment at Charing Cross, or going east to the basic science labs in Mechanical Engineering in South Kensington.

After a nautical childhood, and living on a barge on the Thames as a student, he lives on the tideway, and can be found there on summer evenings, if he isn’t working.

Justin Cobb is an author of one of the Feature articles in the June 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Are robots taking over orthopaedic surgery?

J. P. Cobb and B. L. Andrews

Bone & Joint 360 June 2012;1(3):2-4.

Mr Robert Grimer, MB BS, DSc, FRCS, FRCSEd(Orth), Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Northfield, Birmingham B31 2AP, UK.

Mr Robert John Grimer MB BS, DSc, FRCS, FRCSEd(Orth) qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in London in 1976 and did his first house job there working for Rodney Sweetnam. At the time Mr Sweetnam (later Sir Rodney Sweetnam PRCS) treated many of the bone tumours in London - nearly always by amputation. Despite this most of the patients died. With an FRCS behind him, Mr Grimer was appointed to a registrar post at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham where he started working for Rodney Sneath, who 'did' the bone tumours in Birmingham. In just five years the whole management of bone tumours had changed from amputation and despair to limb salvage, chemotherapy and hope! Encouraged by Professor John Scales who designed and manufactured the endoprostheses used in limb salvage, Mr Grimer established a tumour database in 1986, creating an ‘electronic patient record’ 10 years before the term was invented. Appointed the first ever Consultant Orthopaedic Oncologist in the UK in 1988 he now has extensive experience of all aspects of musculoskeletal oncology. The database has 30 000 patient details and is a gold mine of information - in no small part contributing to the 250+ publications from the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Oncology Service over the past few years. His main interests include long term outcomes and the management of pelvic sarcomas.

Robert Grimer is an author of one of the Feature articles in the June 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Limb salvage for bone tumours: does it work?

R. J. Grimer and L. M. Jeys

Bone & Joint 360 June 2012;1(3):5-6.

Professor Chris Lavy OBE MD MCh FCS FRCS, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Windmill Road, Oxford, UK.

Chris Lavy is an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford and holds honorary professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He won an entrance scholarship to university and was an undergraduate at University College London and St Bartholomew’s Medical School reading anthropology then medicine.

He declared an early interest in Africa by cycling there in 1984 after house jobs, then pursued postgraduate training first as a GP, then in orthopaedics in Oxford, Norwich, Cambridge, Bath, Cape Town, London and Paris. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital and the Middlesex hospitals in 1992 and had a private practice in the West End of London. He left London in 1996 to work with the Christian Mission CBM International to set up orthopaedic services in Malawi. There he was appointed professor at the new medical school and worked closely with Cure International to build a children’s orthopaedic hospital. He was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2002 and is an advisor in orthopaedics to many organisations including WHO.

He was involved in setting up orthopaedic training in the East and Central region of Africa and received the OBE for this in 2007. He is an elected council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical interests include surgery of the spine hip and knee, and his research interests are focussed around Africa and the Tropics. He is currently involved in setting up an orthopaedic hospital in Niger. He has three sons who like him support Chelsea. He speaks regularly at medical and Christian conferences and meetings. He is also interested in drawing, and, when no-one is listening, plays the piano and cello.

Professor Lavy is the author of one of the Feature articles in the April 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Orthopaedics in the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa

C. Lavy

Bone & Joint 360 April 2012;1(2):5-6.

Richard Carey Smith, BSc(Hons), MB BS, MRCS(Eng), FRCS(Tr&Orth), FRACS(Ortho), Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth 6009, WA, Australia.

Richard Carey Smith qualified from St Mary's Hospital in London, and then completed UK specialist training on the Cambridge rotation, followed by the Australian fellowship whilst in Perth Australia. He did clinical fellowships in lower limb reconstruction and orthopaedic oncology in Perth Australia, and Vancouver, Canada, as well as a knee fellowship at Coventry and Warwick, and a trauma fellowship in Denver, Colorado.

He works at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth as part of the University Department of Orthopaedics, and his clinical interests are focused on orthopaedic oncology and complex lower limb reconstruction.

His interest in medical aid work started in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and most recently with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons as part of a team developing orthopaedic services and particularly orthopaedic oncology in Papua New Guinea.

When not repairing joints he is busy damaging his own kitesurfing, cycling and swimming to generate sponsorship for sarcoma research at the University of Western Australia.

Richard Carey Smith is the author of one of the Feature articles in the April 2012 Bone & Joint 360:

Orthopaedics in the developing world: Papua New Guinea

R. Carey Smith and D. Wood

Bone & Joint 360 April 2012;1(2):2-3.

Dr Tom Hogervorst: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Haga Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Dr Tom Hogervorst was trained as an orthopedic surgeon in Amsterdam, but before that he studied biology for a year in Leiden. He did research fellowships at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Salt Lake City and at the McCraig Centre for Joint Injury and Arthritis in Calgary. He then did a PhD on aspects of joint homeostasis in ACL reconstruction and OA.

His interest in biology always remained, which led him to study comparative anatomy and evolution of the hip and knee.

He works in a 10-surgeon practice in the Hague, Netherlands, focussing on hip and knee reconstruction. He is an active reviewer for several international clinical and research journals and also sits on the editorial board of this journal.

Dr Hogervorst is the author of a feature article in the February 2012 issue of Bone & Joint 360:

Osteoarthritis: a consequence of evolution?

T. Hogervorst

Bone & Joint 360 2012;1(1):2-6.