Dr Neil P. Sheth, MD, FACS, Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Director, Adult Hip and Knee fellowship; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr Sheth is an author on a paper in the April 2024 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

How modular porous metal augments have changed the management of acetabular bone loss at primary or revision total hip arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2024;106-B(4):312–318.

Dr Neil P. Sheth, MD, FACS is the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, Adult Hip and Knee fellowship Director, and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Following his undergraduate trianing, he joined the Investment Banking division of Salomon Smith Barney on Wall Street before pursuing a career in medicine.

Dr Sheth attended Albany Medical College and then completed a six-year Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he completed an adult hip and knee reconstruction fellowship at Rush University as well as a three-month mini-fellowship at the ENDO-Klinik in Hamburg, Germany, focusing on periprosthetic joint infection.

Dr Sheth focuses his research on acetabular bone loss, periprosthetic joint infection, health policy economics, and the costing of revision total joint arthroplasty. He is heavily involved with global surgery as the Director of Global Orthopaedics, and is leading a team to build an orthopaedic centre of excellence in Tanzania, East Africa.

Mr Nick Todd, MB BS, PgDL, MD, FRCPE, FRCS, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Newcastle Nuffield Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Mr Todd is an author on a paper in the March 2024 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The failure of subcategorization of cauda equina syndrome: implications for clinical management

Bone Joint J. 2024;106-B(3):227–231.

Mr Nick Todd is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon. He graduated from Guy’s Hospital in London, and was an MRC Special Training Fellow in Neurosurgery conducting research into experimental stroke. This led to an MD and a Hunterian Professorship (RCS England). He was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991, and has also had some legal training (PgDL).

Mr Todd has retired from clinical practice, but remains in academic and medicolegal practice. In the last three years, he has published 17 peer-reviewed papers and two book chapters, mainly in respect of spinal surgery. He is a reviewer for many national and International journals, and his academic interests include the cauda equina syndrome, spinal injury, spinal vascular anomalies, spinal tumours, spinal infection, and informed consent.

Mr Todd was previously an ocean yachtsman and a pilot (power), and is now training as a glider pilot.

Mr Andy Metcalfe, MB ChB, PhD, FRCS (T,O), Professor of Orthopaedics, Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick; Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire, Coventry, UK.

Mr Metcalfe is an author on a paper in the February 2024 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Robotic trials in arthroplasty surgery: design of the RACER studies and implications for the future

Bone Joint J. 2024;106-B(2):114–120.

Mr Andy Metcalfe is a Professor at the Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), Warwick Medical School, and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). His clinical practice is in knee surgery.

Andy graduated from the University of Sheffield and undertook his basic and higher surgical training in Cardiff and the All-Wales rotation. He completed a PhD at Cardiff University at the Versus Arthritis Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre. His fellowships were in Bristol with Mr Andrew Porteous and Mr Jonathan Eldridge, and in Sydney with Dr David Wood, before starting in Coventry in 2015.

He leads the thriving Surgery, Pain and Rehabilitation group at Warwick CTU, with numerous trials across a broad range of specialities. He leads multiple high-impact clinical trials, including START:REACTS (which has recently completed) as well as currently recruiting trials such as RACER, the topic of this article, METEOR2, and REPPORT. He was Research Lead for the British Association for Surgery of the Knee 2019-2023, and has been involved in multiple National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines.

Andy also leads the clinical academic training in trauma and orthopaedics (T&O) at Warwick and UHCW, a productive programme taking people through foundation training, academic clinical fellow posts, and PhD fellowships through to Clinical Lecturer posts at the end of training.

Mr Luke Farrow, MBChB(Hons), BSc(Intercalated), MRCS, Clinical Research Fellow, Scottish Hip Fracture Audit, Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK; Grampian Orthopaedics, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK; Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

Mr Farrow is an author on a paper in the January 2024 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The impact of an ageing population on future increases in hip fracture burden: insights from the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit

Bone Joint J. 2023;106-B(1):62-68.

Mr Luke Farrow is a Clinical Academic and Senior Orthopaedic Trainee based in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently taking time out of his clinical training to undertake a CSO Funded Clinical Academic Fellowship, exploring how to make improvements in the clinical care pathway for those awaiting hip and knee replacement through the use of data-linkage and artificial intelligence techniques.

Mr Farrow is also the current chair of the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit Quality Improvement and Research Sub-Group, and is passionate about improving evidence-based care for the frailty trauma population. He has helped to deliver a number of previous projects around improving quality of care for hip fracture patients, including a focus on service provision.

Mr Farrow regularly reviews for both The Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint Research. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, cycling, and spending time with his wife and three young children.

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Dr Laith M. Jazrawi, MD, Professor of Orthopedics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Chief of the Sports Medicine Division and Co-Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.

Dr Jazrawi is an author on a paper in the December 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

A modified Delphi consensus statement on patellar instability: part I: diagnosis, nonoperative management, and medial patellofemoral complex repair

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(12):1259–1264.

Dr Laith M. Jazrawi is a Professor of Orthopedics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Chief of the Sports Medicine Division and Co-Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at NYU Langone Health. As an academic sports medicine specialist, he has contributed greatly to both the clinical and research arenas in order to improve patient outcomes in the surgical management of athletes.

Dr Jazrawi specializes in the surgical management of sports injuries and advanced joint preservation procedures. As an orthopaedic surgeon, he is committed to researching and developing minimally invasive surgical techniques to shorten the recovery process, with a focus on restoring joint function and delaying the onset of arthritis in people who enjoy active lifestyles. His research focuses on surgical treatments of cartilage injuries and minimally invasive arthroscopic management of shoulder, elbow, knee, and ankle injuries.

Dr Jazrawi oversees sports education for one the largest orthopaedic residency programmes in the USA (14 trainees per year) and sports fellowships (three per year). He is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and continues to train in his free time. He resides in New York City with his wife Adele and three daughters.

Mr Simon Young, FRACS, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, North Shore Hospital, Auckland; Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Mr Young is an author on a paper in the November 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Intraosseous regional prophylaxis in total knee arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(10):1135–1139.

Mr Simon Young is a specialist knee surgeon from Auckland, New Zealand. He is Director of Orthopaedic Research at North Shore Hospital, an Associate Professor at Auckland University, serves on the board of the New Zealand Joint Registry, and is the current president of the New Zealand Knee Society.

After his orthopaedic surgical training in New Zealand, Simon went on to work in the USA, completing a Sports Medicine fellowship at Stanford University and an Arthroplasty fellowship at the Mayo Clinic Arizona. He has a strong research interest, winning three North American Knee Society Awards, the Mark Coventry Award 2013, Chitranjan Ranawat Award 2016, the John Insall Award in 2017, and the AAHKS Clinical research award in 2018.

For his doctoral thesis, he developed the technique of intraosseous regional antibiotic prophylaxis in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), which is the topic of the annotation in this issue of BJJ. His other research interests include periprosthetic joint infection, alignment and outcome in TKA. He lives in Auckland with his wife Maria, a human rights lawyer, and their two young daughters.

Dr Brian Chalmers, MD, Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA.

Dr Chalmers is an author on a paper in the October 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Risk factors for blood transfusion and postoperative anaemia following total knee arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(10):1086–1093.

Dr Brian Chalmers is an Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City. Brian completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic and fellowship in adult hip and knee reconstructive surgery at HSS, where he was awarded the Clinical Excellence Award. He has a special interest in complex primary and revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA), including fractures and extensor mechanism complications.

Brian was selected as a Knee Insall Travelling fellow in 2022, and has received the American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) FARE grant as well as other grants to further his research efforts. His main focuses of research are perioperative outcomes after primary and revision total hip and knee arthroplasty, including blood management and pain management protocols, and drivers of primary total knee dissatisfaction, specifically total knee laxity and instability profiles.

Through collaboration with the HSS Biomechanics department and his colleagues at HSS, Brian’s goal is to determine generalized and/or patient-specific optimal soft tissue tension, balance, and stability for patients undergoing primary and revision TKA in order to improve patient outcomes. He is a manuscript reviewer for several journals and serves on the Editorial Board for the HSS Journal and the Journal of Arthroplasty.

Dr Jonathan Bourget-Murray, MD, CM, FRCSC, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, Canada.

Dr Bourget-Murray is an author on a paper in the September 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Annual incidence and assessment of risk factors for early-onset deep surgical site infection following primary total knee arthroplasty in osteoarthritis

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(9):971–976.

Dr Jonathan Bourget-Murray is an orthopaedic surgeon based in Kamloops, Canada. Clinically, he focuses on orthopaedic trauma, primary and revision hip & knee arthroplasty, and periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs). He also holds a position as a Clinical Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Dr Bourget-Murray completed his residency training at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, and holds a specialist certificate of Orthopaedic Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After residency, Dr Bourget-Murray completed the Trueta Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. Following this, he pursued an additional fellowship in adult reconstruction (hip & knee arthroplasty) and PJI at the University of Ottawa. His research has focused largely on hip fracture care and periprosthetic hip and knee infections.

Dr Bourget-Murray also actively participates in global surgery initiatives. He continues to be a member of the True North Mission Society, a charitable organization from Calgary whose mandate is to conduct medical missions to impoverished people who normally would not have access to medical care in developing countries around the world, most currently in Ecuador, South America.

Mr Alex Liddle, DPhil, FRCS, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Department of Surgery and Cancer, The MSk Lab, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Mr Liddle is an author on a paper in the August 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Pregnancy, parenthood, and fertility in the orthopaedic surgeon: a systematic review

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(8):857-863.

Mr Alex Liddle is a consultant hip and knee surgeon at Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals in London and Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. After graduating from Imperial, he undertook basic and higher surgical training in London. His DPhil, from the University of Oxford, concerned optimization of outcomes following partial knee replacement and produced several influential papers on the subject. He was subsequently National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Orthopaedics at University College London (UCL), based at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Alex’s clinical interest is in primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, and he performs surgery for lower limb trauma at the Major Trauma Centre at St Mary’s Hospital. His academic interest is in the improvement in clinical outcomes and avoidance of complications after joint replacement, encompassing population-based outcomes research, training, surgical techniques, and implant design. He supervises a number of PhD students and teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Imperial.

Alex is on the editorial board of The Bone & Joint Journal, and is Speciality Editor of Bone & Joint Open.

Prof Tim Theologis, MSc, PhD, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Prof Theologis is an author on a paper in the July 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Consensus guidelines on the management of musculoskeletal infection affecting children in the UK

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(7):815-820.

Prof Tim Theologis is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford and an honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals. He looks after children with orthopaedic conditions, including developmental dysplasia of the hip, musculoskeletal tumours, neuromuscular disorders, and cerebral palsy. He is involved in the supervision of postgraduate degrees and the training of orthopaedic residents.

Tim has an active academic interest, leading multicentre clinical research studies in children’s orthopaedics and holding National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) research grants. He has a research interest in motion analysis and is Emeritus Editor-in-Chief for Gait and Posture. He was a Board member of the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS) from 2009 to 2021 and its President between 2018 and 2020. In this role, he promoted the development of research priorities in children’s orthopaedics and completed a James Lind Alliance priorities setting project. He also led the development of consensus among BSCOS members in the management of common paediatric orthopaedic conditions, and promoted an inclusion and diversity review within the Society.

Ms Chloe Scott, MD, MSc, FRCSEd (Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, NRS Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; Department of Orthopaedics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Ms Scott is an author on a paper in the June 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Surgical approaches to periprosthetic femoral fractures for plate fixation or revision arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(6):593-601.

Ms Chloe Scott is a consultant hip, knee, and trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and is an NHS Research Clinician. Clinically she focuses on complex knee arthroplasty, periprosthetic fractures, and ‘traumaplasty’ cases. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic assisted surgery, finite element analysis, and knee biomechanics.

Chloe serves on the executive committee of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, and on the editorial boards of Bone & Joint Research and The Bone & Joint Journal where she is associate editor for Knowledge Translation. In 2020 she was awarded the Hunter Doig medal from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and is co-chairing the European Society of Biomechanics annual meeting in Edinburgh in 2024.

Dr Robert Brophy, MD, Professor and Chief of Sports Medicine and Director of the Orthopaedic Clinical Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Dr Brophy is an author on a paper in the May 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(5):474-480.

Dr Robert Brophy is Professor and Chief of Sports Medicine and Director of the Orthopaedic Clinical Research Center at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), with a clinical and academic focus on sports medicine injuries of the knee and shoulder. He is Chief Medical Officer for St. Louis City SC in Major League Soccer and Vice Chair of the NFL Musculoskeletal Committee, as well as a team physician with St. Louis Blues (NHL). He is Deputy Editor of Sports Medicine for JAAOS and has served as an at large member on the Board of Directors of the AAOS, program chair for the 2018 AOA annual meeting, and received the OREF Career Development Award in 2018.

Dr Brophy has authored or co-authored over 320 peer-reviewed articles and received the AOSSM Cabaud Memorial Award in 2015 and 2022. He has been an ICRS Traveling Fellow, AAOS-AOA North American Traveling Fellow, AOSSM-ESSKA Traveling Fellow, and AOA ABC Traveling Fellow.

Dr Brophy graduated from Stanford University with bachelors’ degrees in electrical engineering and economics and a master’s degree in industrial engineering, and earned his MD from the WUSM. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency and fellowship training at The Hospital for Special Surgery before returning to Washington University as faculty.

Assoc Prof Allard J.F. Hosman, MD, PhD, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Prof Hosman is an author on a paper in the April 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Neurological recovery after early versus delayed surgical decompression for acute traumatic spinal cord injury: a prospective, observational, European multicentre (SCI-POEM) cohort study

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(4):400-411.

Prof Allard Hosman graduated from Radboud Medical school with special interest in Medical Science and completed his internships in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Africa. After finishing his orthopaedic training he did fellowships in paediatric orthopaedics and trauma- and spine-surgery. In 2003, he finalized his PhD on idiopathic deformities of the spine, started as a spine surgeon at the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboud UMC), and established the first Acute Spinal Cord Injury unit in the Netherlands. The Radboud UMC is a EUROSPINE certified centre and founding member of the European Multicentre Study about Spinal Cord Injury.

Allard’s research interest focuses on traumatic spinal cord injury. Together with Giuseppe Barbagallo MD and Joost van Middendorp MD PhD, Allard (PI) initiated the SCI-POEM study in 2012. The SCI-POEM study was a prospective, observational, European multicentre study on the neurological recovery after early versus delayed surgical decompression for acute, traumatic spinal cord injury. This AO EU spine sponsored pan-European study recruited patients from 17 centres throughout Europe.

Allard takes great pride in training registrars, fellows, and spine surgeons.

Mr Andy Goldberg, OBE MD FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Wellington Hospital, London, UK.

Mr Goldberg is an author on a paper in the March 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

How long do ankle replacements last? A data linkage study using the National Joint Registry and NHS Digital

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(3):301-306.

Andy graduated from Imperial College in 1994 and completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in North-East Thames. He was awarded an MD from the University of London in 2006. Following specialist fellowships in complex foot and ankle disorders in the UK, Europe, and USA, he was appointed in 2010 as an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in Stanmore, and an Associate Professor at University College London (UCL).

In 2011 Andy was awarded an OBE for services to medicine. He has helped to raise more than £10m of research grants into health informatics, first in man studies into stem cell therapies (ASCAT), and a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) multicentre randomized controlled trial comparing total ankle replacement versus ankle arthrodesis (TARVA), as well as examining and supervising Masters and PhD students. In 2018 he moved into independent practice at the Wellington Hospital in London, but continues to run research programmes at UCL, and Imperial College where he is a visiting Professor.

Andy sits on the outcomes committee for the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS), the National Joint Registry (NJR) Editorial Committee and Medical Advisory Committee, and is an International Editor for Foot & Ankle International.

Mr Alexander Aarvold, BSc(Hons) MBChB FRCSEd(T&O) MFTSEd DM, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton Children’s Hospital; Honorary Associate Professor, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Mr Aarvold is an author on a paper in the February 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The Free-Gliding screw for slipped capital femoral epiphysis – is it safe, does it glide, and does age matter?

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(2):215-219.

Mr Alexander Aarvold graduated from Edinburgh Medical school and has worked in Edinburgh, Sydney (Australia), Nairobi (Kenya), Oxford, London, the Wessex region, and completed his fellowship in paediatric orthopaedic surgery in Vancouver (Canada). He has been awarded travelling fellowships to centres in Italy, Australia, Canada and USA. These awards have been gratefully received from the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS), Health Education England (HEE), and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd).

Alex’s clinical practice is focused on children’s hip, neuromuscular disorders, and paediatric trauma, alongside the wider children’s orthopaedic team in Southampton. His research interests reflect all aspects of his clinical practice, with the primary area being on developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). This research is both clinical and laboratory based, optimizing operative and nonoperative treatment strategies plus exploring the underlying aetiology. He sits on the medical advisory boards for the International Hip Dysplasia Institute (IHDI) and for the charities DDH-UK and Perthes Kids Foundation.

Dr Petra Heesterbeek, PhD, Research Lead, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Dr Heesterbeek is an author on a paper in the January 2023 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Fluoroscopic and radiostereometric analysis of a bicruciate-retaining versus a posterior cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty: a randomized controlled trial

Bone Joint J. 2023;105-B(1):35-46.

Dr Petra Heesterbeek is a senior researcher at the Sint Maartenskliniek, a specialized hospital for movement disorders in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has studied Biomedical Health Sciences, with a specialization in Human Movement Sciences. After a PhD trajectory during which she studied the clinical and technical aspects of a cruciate-retaining total knee arthroplasty (graduating in 2011), she was appointed as senior researcher and team leader of the research unit for orthopaedics, anaesthesiology, and radiology.

As current research lead for Orthopaedic Innovations, Petra works in close collaboration with orthopaedic surgeons and initiates research on evaluation of orthopaedic innovations. With analyses on fixation (radiostereometric analysis (RSA)), function, and kinematics of implants, mainly primary and revision total knee arthroplasties, her drive is to improve mobility in patients.

Petra supervises several colleague researchers and orthopaedic residents in their (PhD) research, and is active in the education (research methodology and statistics) of young orthopaedic surgeons in the hospital. She was a member of the board of the Dutch Orthopaedics and Science working group for six years. Since 2021 Petra has been a member of the board of the International RSA society, and is organizing the upcoming 8th International RSA meeting 2023 in Nijmegen.

Outside of work, Petra loves to go outside with her three daughters and husband in the beautiful region of Nijmegen.

Mr Liam Yapp, BMSc (Hons) MBChB MRCSEd, Specialty Registrar in Trauma & Orthopaedics (ST7), Department of Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Mr Yapp is an author on a paper in the December 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The estimated lifetime risk of revision after primary knee arthroplasty is influenced by age, sex, and indication

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(12):1313-1322.

Mr Liam Yapp is an orthopaedic registrar in the South-East Scotland deanery and a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his undergraduate medical studies at the University of Dundee, during which he also obtained an intercalated Bachelor of Medical Science degree with first class honours. He then completed Foundation training in Glasgow prior to moving across to Edinburgh to begin Specialty Training in 2014.

Liam intends to pursue a career specializing in surgery of the hip and knee that is both clinically and academically stimulating. He recently completed a two-year research fellowship with the Scottish Arthroplasty Project and Public Health Scotland. His research interests are focussed on the use of novel linkage between large healthcare datasets to enable greater understanding of outcomes following primary and revision lower limb arthroplasty. He is a member of the Knowledge Translation team, creating infographics and animations for The Bone & Joint Journal.

Prof Sir Keith Willett, CBE, FRCS, FRCS(Ed), Professor of Trauma Surgery, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

Prof Sir Willett is an author on a paper in the November 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Platelet-rich plasma injection for acute Achilles tendon rupture: two-year follow-up of the PATH-2 randomized, placebo-controlled, superiority trial

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(11):1256-1265.

Prof Sir Keith Willett is Professor of Trauma Surgery at Oxford University and Chair of South Central Ambulance Service. With 41 years in the NHS he has extensive experience of trauma and emergency care, healthcare management, and service transformation.

In 1994 Keith co-founded the consultant-resident Oxford Trauma Service, and in 2003 he founded the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research. In 2008 he became the first National Clinical Director for Trauma charged with improving hip fracture patient care and established regional Major Trauma Centres and Networks. By 2012, both reorganizations were credited with marked improvements in patient care and survival.

Then as Medical Director for Acute Services, Keith had national policy responsibility for ambulance services, emergency departments, urgent surgery, and major incidents. He led the urgent and emergency care Keogh Review and Ambulance Response Programme. Keith became National Director for Emergency Planning and Incident Response, and from 2018 to 2020 as Strategic Commander he prepared the NHS to leave the EU. From 2020 as Strategic Incident Director, he led the NHS response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Keith has presented research and taught surgery and health leadership internationally. He was awarded a CBE in 2016 and was knighted in 2021 for services to the NHS.

Dr Aaron Gazendam, MD, MSc, Postgraduate Year 5, Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

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Dr Michelle Ghert, MD, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Dr Gazendam and Dr Ghert are co-authors on a paper in the October 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Tourniquet use in patients undergoing tumour resection and endoprosthetic reconstruction of the knee

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(10):1168-1173.

Dr Aaron Gazendam

Dr Aaron Gazendam is a senior resident in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He completed his undergraduate education at Queen’s University and attended medical school at the University of Toronto.

During his residency, Dr Gazendam concurrently completed a Master of Science degree in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University under the guidance of Dr Michelle Ghert and Dr Mohit Bhandari. His focus was functional outcomes in musculoskeletal oncology patients undergoing endoprosthetic reconstruction. He was awarded the Michael G. DeGroote Fellowship Award for postdoctoral clinical research and has obtained grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Physicians’ Services Incorporated to support his research.

Dr Gazendam plans to pursue a career as a surgeon-scientist in orthopaedic oncology, and will be attending the University of Toronto in 2023 for fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr Michelle Ghert

Dr Michelle Ghert studied Medicine at Vanderbilt University in the USA and completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at Duke University. She then studied at the University of Toronto for her fellowships in orthopaedic oncology and cancer research. She was appointed as Assistant Professor at McMaster University in 2005 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2017.

Dr Ghert has led the Prophylactic Antibiotic Regimens in Tumor Surgery (PARITY) international randomized controlled trial (RCT), which was the first multicentre RCT in orthopaedic oncology. The study randomized 604 patients undergoing lower extremity endoprosthetic reconstruction of oncological reasons to one or five days of postoperative prophylactic intravenous antibiotics. Patients were enrolled across 48 clinical sites in 12 countries and six continents. The study found that there was no difference in surgical site infections between randomized groups, but that there was a significantly higher rate of antibiotic-related complications in the five-day group. The PARITY study has won multiple collaboration and national research awards.

Dr Ghert serves in the Presidential Line of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and as the inaugural Chair of the Strategies in Clinical Research Section of the Orthopaedic Research Society.

Dr Wim Rijnen, MD, PhD, Consultant, Department of Orthopedics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Dr Rijnen is an author on a paper in the September 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Thirty years of experience with instrumented femoral bone impaction grafting and a cemented polished Exeter stem: a prospective cohort study of 208 revision arthroplasties performed between 1991 and 2007

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(9):1039-1046.

Dr Wim Rijnen completed his medical training at Radboud University in Nijmegen, and was subsequently trained as an orthopaedic surgeon in the south of The Netherlands. In 2010, he finalized his PhD about the treatment of osteonecrosis of hip and knee, and in 2011 he completed a fellowship in hip surgery at the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) and has worked there since then as a consultant. Dr Rijnen’s major area of orthopaedic work is on treatment of complex primary and revision hip arthroplasty, and he has a special interest in the treatment of hip pathology in younger patients. In 2019, he completed a combined British Hip Society/European Hip Society travelling fellowship in the UK.

Radboudumc is a university hospital and tertiary referral centre for revision surgery in The Netherlands. The hospital has a long history of impaction bone grafting of the acetabulum and femur, with extensive research projects conducted on this topic. Dr Rijnen has contributed with several international publications, presentations, and book chapters. In Radboudumc, he is director of the residents training programme.

Dr Rijnen is a husband and father of three children and an enthusiastic cyclist, loving to ride the forest trails and roads all around the hilly Nijmegen region.

Prof Baker is an author on a paper in the August 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Management and Outcomes of Femoral Periprosthetic Fractures: Data from the Characteristics, Outcomes and Management of PeriprOsthetic Fracture Service Evaluation (COMPOSE) cohort study

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(8):997-1008.

Prof Baker studied medicine at Newcastle University and undertook his orthopaedic training in the North East of England alongside a trauma fellowship at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2014, and has been the Trust's Director for Research and Innovation since 2019.

He completed his MD on the outcomes following knee replacement surgery in 2013 following his work as the inaugural National Joint Registry research fellow. More recently Prof Baker has worked with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) creating national guidelines and quality standards within orthopaedics, and he is the orthopaedic representative on the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) commissioning panel. He is a NIHR chief investigator for the OPAL intervention development study and the subsequent OPAL trial.

Prof Baker is an honorary professor at Teesside University and an associate researcher at York University. He is the current Royal College of Surgeons speciality research lead for elective orthopaedics and a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) research committees.

Dr Michael B. Millis, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Dr Millis is an author on a paper in the July 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

A qualitative study of the impact of a periacetabular osteotomy on patients’ lives

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(7):781-785.

Dr Michael B. Millis is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. He was Chief Resident under Prof John Hall at Boston Children’s Hospital. After two years in the US Navy, he returned to a faculty position at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he has practiced since.

Following a fellowship with Prof Heinz Wagner in Germany, Dr Millis has pursued a career-long interest in developmental hip conditions and their evolution through adolescence and adulthood, with a particular interest in patients treated with hip preservation surgery. He was the Founding Director of the Child and Young Adult Hip Preservation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Millis, Dr John Clohisy, and Dr Perry Schoenecker founded the ANCHOR Group, while he and Young-Jo Kim established the Children’s Hospital Hip Fellowship in 2003. He is a member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the European Pediatric Orthopaedic Society, the American Hip Society, and the International Hip Society. Dr Millis received the Pro Maximis Meritis Award from EPOS in 2017, was the 2018 Presidential Guest Speaker at POSNA, and was the Guest of Honor at the Bern International Hip Symposium in 2020.

Prof Andrew Price, DPhil, FRCS(Orth), Clinical Director T&O and Consultant Knee Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK.

Prof Price is an author on a paper in the June 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Early patient-reported outcomes following primary hip and knee arthroplasty have improved over the past seven years: an analysis of the NHS PROMs dataset

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(6):687-695.

Prof Andrew Price studied medicine at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College) before completing his clinical studies at St.Thomas' Hospital in London. For his Orthopaedic training he joined the Oxford training programme in 1997, becoming a Clinical Lecturer in NDORMS in 2001.

He was awarded a DPhil in 2003 through the University of Oxford (Worcester College), studying the Oxford partial knee replacement. He then completed a year of specialist Knee Fellowship training in Melbourne, returning to NDORMs and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 2004, where he was subsequently appointed Reader and Honorary Consultant in Knee Surgery.

In 2011, through the University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise, he was made a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at NDORMS. His clinical work as a Consultant Knee Surgeon is based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, where he has recently been appointed to Clinical Director T&O. His research is based in NDORMS at the Botnar Centre, where he leads the Knee Research Group.

Mr Andrew Duckworth, MSc, FRCSEd(Tr&Orth), PhD, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in Edinburgh Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Mr Duckworth is an author on a paper in the May 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Bone grafting for scaphoid nonunion surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(5):549-558.

Mr Andrew Duckworth is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon in Edinburgh Orthopaedics at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Following completion of his training in Edinburgh, he was an Upper Limb Fellow at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit. His clinical interests are in trauma and upper limb surgery, with a focus on injuries around the elbow, wrist, and hand.

Andrew’s current research includes clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, large data, and patient-reported outcome measures. He is a co-app and Co-CI/PI on NIHR funded clinical trials. He is an Editorial Board Member for The Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ), Bone & Joint Research (BJR), and Bone & Joint 360, and is on the Research Committees of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS). Andrew is also a co-director of the world-renowned Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium.

Mr Kevin Deere, MSc, Senior Research Associate, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Mr Deere is an author on a paper in the March 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The risk of all-cause mortality, heart outcomes, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders with cobalt-chrome-containing total hip arthroplasty implants: an analysis of the National Joint Registry

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(3):359-367.

Mr Kevin Deere is a senior research associate at the University of Bristol. Having completed his Masters in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2012), he began working in the Musculoskeletal Research Unit in Bristol Medical School. He is currently a core member of the team that provides statistical analyses and support to the National Joint Registry (NJR). He has been heavily involved in the production of the NJR annual report since 2016, as well as the surgeon and implant outlier analyses.

Kevin has authored over 45 research articles and has a growing portfolio of orthopaedic based research, including the introduction of non-inferiority analyses as a means for benchmarking the orthopaedic devices used in hip and knee arthroplasty. His current research interests are centred on describing revision of hip and knee arthroplasty and exploring factors that influence revision.

When Kevin is not working with NJR data he likes to spend as much time as he can with his two young children, Esme and Jamie.

Dr David Mayman, MD, Hospital for Special Surgery, Division of Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement, New York, New York, USA.

Dr Mayman is an author on a paper in the January 2022 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The journey to preventing dislocation after total hip arthroplasty: how did we get here?

Bone Joint J. 2022;104-B(1):8-11.

Dr David Mayman is one of a handful of national experts in computer navigation in hip and knee replacement surgery. He performs over 700 computer-navigated joint replacement surgeries a year. “I believe that in the future all joint replacement will be done with better tools," he says. "Computer guides give more consistent alignment, with no bigger incision.”

Dr Mayman studied human kinesiology in his native Canada, and trained in orthopaedic sports medicine as well as joint-replacement surgery. His typical patient is an active 40–60 year old with an arthritic or pre-arthritic condition of the hip or knee, who wants to get back to previous activities – not just walk around the block. Whatever the patient’s age, Dr Mayman is concerned with getting people back to their lives through minimally invasive surgery.

As Co-Director of Computer Assisted Surgery at HSS, Dr Mayman has a strong research background in computer navigation with a primary interest of incorporating new technologies into arthroplasty that can make it easy to achieve good surgical techniques, and therefore, good patient outcomes.

Mr Amit Atrey, MD, MB BS, MSc. FRCS, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Attending Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Mr Atrey is an author on a paper in the December 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Cost-effectiveness of dual-mobility components in patients with displaced femoral neck fractures

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(12):1783-1790.

Mr Amit Atrey grew up in the North West of England and represented the North of England for rugby at the under-18 level. He went to medical school at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, qualifying in the year 2000.

His senior house officer and Registrar training was in and around London, with fellowships in Toronto and Warwick for arthroplasty and Hamburg, Germany for trauma.

In 2013, Amit was made locum consultant in Cheltenham and Gloucester before moving to a full-time post at Bury St Edmunds in 2015.

Two years later, the opportunity for an academic post in a tertiary referral centre and to replace his mentors (Profs Jim Waddell and Emil Schemitsch) came his way and he felt he couldn’t refuse the opportunity.

Since then, his academic interests have been in hip tribology and improving implant survivorship as well as setting up the GAIA (Global Arthroplasty Infection Association).

Amit has also been working on orthoCAST – a project to cover the entire ortho syllabus into high definition documentary style videos for resident and fellow education.

Dr Tim Schepers, MD, PhD, Trauma surgeon, Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC, University of Amsterdam, Trauma Unit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dr Schepers is an author on a paper in the November 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Functional outcome of routine versus on-demand removal of the syndesmotic screw: a multicentre randomized controlled trial

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(11):1709-1716.

Tim Schepers studied Medicine in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since August 2012 he has been working as a staff member in trauma-surgery, specializing in complex foot and ankle trauma, at the Amsterdam UMC, locatie AMC, a Level-1 Trauma centre.

Dating from 2004, when Tim first started his research endeavours, he has been fascinated with complex foot and ankle trauma. The complexity and the significant impact on patients intrigued him. Thus far this has led to Tim authoring over 150 peer-reviewed international and national publications on the subject, including several book chapters. The main focus of these publications has been improving patient satisfaction and decreasing complication rates, which often implies disproving what he had been taught for many years.

Tim is a frequent guest-lecturer around the world at meetings, including several AO advanced Foot-Ankle courses. He is part of the Foot Ankle Expert Group of the AO. He has participated in the writing of Dutch foot and ankle fracture guidelines, and is an active reviewer for many orthopaedic trauma and especially foot-ankle journals.

When not being active in his profession, Tim likes to try a bit of woodworking, travelling, and is a PADI-rescue diver. However his biggest achievement is and will always be his family, with his wife Claudia and two children (Lieke and Cas).

Mr Mark Blyth, FRCS (Tr+Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Glasgow Royal Infirmary; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Mr Blyth is an author on a paper in the October 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Early outcomes after robotic arm-assisted bi-unicompartmental knee arthroplasty compared with total knee arthroplasty: a prospective, randomized controlled trial

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(10):1561-1570.

Following fellowships in Melbourne, Australia, and Vancouver (Canada), Mr Mark Blyth was appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) in 2001. His clinical practice encompasses a wide variety of knee pathology including primary and revision knee arthroplasty, ligament surgery, patellofemoral instability, and late knee reconstruction following trauma.

Mark is Director of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Orthopaedic Research Unit and has received research grants from the NIHR HTA  and MRC (EME) programmes. His research is mainly clinical and with the team at GRI he has run a number of randomized controlled trials testing new technologies against traditional treatments. This includes two trials on robotic-arm assisted knee surgery. He is a past Chair of the Scottish Committee in Orthopaedics and Trauma and a past Specialty Advisor in Orthopaedics to the Chief Medical Officer in Scotland.

Mark is currently the Chair of the Scottish Orthopaedic Services Delivery Group, which involves service redesign in Orthopaedics, one of his other major interests.

Prof Edward Davis, MSc, PGCME, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Consultant Arthroplasty Surgeon, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham; Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Prof Davis is an author on a paper in the September 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Using an asymmetric crosslinked polyethylene liner in primary total hip arthroplasty is associated with a lower risk of revision surgery: an analysis of the National Joint Registry

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(9):1479-1487.

Prof Edward Davis works at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, where he undertakes primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty and is the Clinical Lead for the Arthroplasty department.

Edward graduated from Birmingham University in 1996 and undertook his basic and higher surgical training in the West Midlands. He was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 2007 and spent the first ten years of his consultant career also undertaking sessions at the Dudley Group of Hospitals, where he had an elective and trauma commitment.

Edward was made an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham in 2015. He undertakes over 340 joint replacements per year. He first became interested in computer assisted technology during his fellowship year and has been using it routinely in his clinical practice for over 14 years. Over this time, he has also been involved in the development of computer navigation and the use of robotics and is passionate about improving the outcomes of joint replacement surgery. His basic science research interest is in the pathology of osteoarthritis (OA) and the quest for disease-modifying medication in OA. Edward is the West Midlands lead for orthopaedic research for the NIHR and was previously the R&D director at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.

Mr Hosam E. Matar, BSc (Hons) MSc (Res) FRCS (Tr&Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the East Midlands, UK.

Mr Matar is an author on a paper in the August 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Outcomes of single- and two-stage revision total knee arthroplasty for chronic periprosthetic joint infection: long-term outcomes of changing clinical practice in a specialist centre

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(8):1373-1379.

Mr Matar has recently completed his speciality training in the North West of England and worked with nationally renowned surgeons across Merseyside/Wrightington. He was awarded The Charnley Latta Travelling Scholarship to go on his fellowship at the prestigious Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada, where he worked closely with internationally renowned arthroplasty experts and learned a number of new techniques in revision surgery which he brought back to the UK, and gained insight into North American orthopaedic practice. He then trained in the respected knee revision unit in Nottingham under the distinguished Mr Peter James and Mr Benjamin Bloch, advancing his skills in revision surgery.

Mr Matar has an abiding interest in clinical research and presented his award-winning research both nationally and internationally with numerous peer-reviewed publications. He has developed his academic interests early on in his career and was appointed as a Research Associate working on NIHR-funded Health Technology Assessment programmes leading to national guidelines. His research interests have been recently focused on improving patients’ outcomes in hip and knee arthroplasty and evidence-based orthopaedics. He has recently completed a major collaborative book (Matar HE, Bloch BV, Cameron HU, James PJ. Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Practical Guide) with Springer Publishing.

Prof Joe Dias, MB BS, FRCS (Ed) (Ortho), MD, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of Academic Team of Musculoskeletal Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.

Prof Dias is an author on a paper in the July 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Cost-effectiveness of surgery versus cast immobilization for adults with a bicortical fracture of the scaphoid waist: an economic evaluation of the SWIFFT trial

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(7):1277-1283.

Prof Joe Dias is a Consultant Hand and Orthopaedic Surgeon for the University Hospitals of Leicester with interest in exploring the evidence we use in clinical decision-making. He is Professor of Hand and Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of the Academic Team of Musculoskeletal Surgery (AToMS).

Prof Dias leads studies for UK-NIHR-HTA on scaphoid fractures (SWIFFT) and Dupuytren’s contracture (DISC). He has been co-applicant on other NIHR studies. He has published widely, written over 30 chapters on hand injury and disorders, and authored several national reports and NICE accredited clinical pathways. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hand Surgery (JHSE) and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Prof Dias was President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) in 2008 and President of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2012. He was Head of School of Surgery (East Midlands Deanery) and has contributed to UK Department of Health Enhanced Recovery and Shared Decision-Making programmes. He chairs the clinical senate of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He graduated from Bombay University and has maintained close links with orthopaedic surgery in India visiting, operating at a leprosy colony and lecturing regularly.

Prof Colin R. Howie, FRCS(Ed), Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Edinburgh; and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Prof Howie is an author on a paper in the June 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Patients follow three distinct outcome trajectories following total knee arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(6):1096-1102.

Colin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1977, gaining FRCS in 1982 and a post fellowship position in Orthopaedics in Edinburgh. His first consultant post was in Inverness in 1990, however he moved back to Edinburgh in 1995 to join the arthritis surgery practice. At that time, his lists would include shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, and knees developing specialist interests in young total hips, rheumatoid surgery, and revision surgery.

Colin has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications and many book chapters. He has been visiting Professor around the world and guest lecturer at many meetings gaining the Walter Mercer and Naughton Dunn medals. He was made an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University in 2014. He has been Chair of the Scottish orthopaedic group, Specialist advisor to the Chief Medical Advisor (Scotland), President of the Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hip Societies, an elected member of BOA council and the BOA president in 2014. He set up the Scottish arthroplasty project, the Scottish equivalent of the NJR, which continues to monitor arthroplasty real time. His ongoing research revolves around the orthopaedic outcomes register in Edinburgh.

Married to Sally, he has three boys, one an orthopaedic consultant and one a helicopter pilot (his other career ambition) and three granddaughters.

Mr Ben Marson, MB BCh BSc MRCS, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Mr Marson is an author on a paper in the May 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Treatment of completely displaced distal radius fractures with a straight plaster or manipulation under anaesthesia

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(5):902-907.

Mr Ben Marson is an orthopaedic registrar in the East Midlands North Deanery. He completed his undergraduate education at Cardiff University and developed an early interest in orthopaedics in South Wales (Cardiff, Newport, Haverfordwest, and Bridgend) before moving to Gloucestershire for Core Surgical Training.

He was appointed as a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow before taking time out of the training programme to complete his PhD under the supervision of Prof Ollivere, Prof Scammell, Prof James, and Dr Manning at the University of Nottingham. Ben was awarded a prestigious NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to support his PhD in the development of a core outcome set for childhood fractures. He is now in the final year of his PhD and his national multicentre study is currently recruiting a cohort of children with lower limb fractures to validate patient-reported outcomes.

In addition to his PhD study, Ben is also the deputy chief investigator for the ANCHOR study investigating the feasibility of a trial for ankle fractures in children, and is the lead author for a Cochrane review about interventions for childhood supracondylar fractures.

Ben’s ambition is to become a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in trauma and hip surgery. He is looking forward to returning to the training programme to complete his clinical training and to continue his active involvement in research.

Prof Michael M. Morlock, PhD, University Professor, Director Institute for Biomechanics, Director FMTHH (Research Center of Medical Technology Hamburg), Director Research Focus “Regeneration, Implants and Medical Technology”, TUHH Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany.

Prof Morlock is an author on a paper in the April 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Factors influencing periprosthetic femoral fracture risk: a German registry study

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(4):650–658.

Prof Morlock received his University degrees in Mathematics and Sport Sciences from the University of Stuttgart and his PhD-degree in Medical Science at the University of Calgary. After three years in the industry combined with a post-doc position in the Department of Trauma Surgery at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), he joined the Biomechanics Institute at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). Since 2004 he has been the director of the institute and holds the position of full Professor in “Biomechanics”. In 2007 he initiated the research focus “Regeneration, Implants and Medical Technology” and in 2013 the Hamburg Research Center for Medical Technology (FMTHH) in conjunction with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Since 2016 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Arthroplasty Register (EPRD).

Prof Morlock has received several international awards including the Clinical Biomechanics Award, Street Science Award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Guest of Honour Award from the Asian Pacific Arthroplasty Society (APAS), Morscher Memorial lecture from European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) (2015), and the Presidential Guest Lecture at the 2016 Hip Society Meeting. He has served official functions in national and international research organizations. His major scientific interests are in preclinical testing, failure analysis, surgical process optimization, and future evolution of arthroplasty registers.

Prof Cesare Faldini, MD, Full Professor and Chair, 1st Orthopaedic Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Neurimotor Sciences, University of Bologna; IRCCS-Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.

Prof Faldini is an author on a paper in the March 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Does total hip arthroplasty have a higher risk of failure in patients who undergo lumbar spinal fusion?: a retrospective, comparative cohort study from the RIPO registry

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(3):486-491.

Prof Cesare Faldini is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a particular interest in deformity management and complex spine, hip, and foot and ankle surgery. He has been full-time faculty at University of Bologna, where he rose through the ranks to become Full Professor and Chair of the 1^st Orthopedic Clinic of the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute. He is Director of the Residency Program in Orthopedic Surgery of the University of Bologna, the largest of his country.

Cesare is a leader in multimedia education of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS). More than 25 surgical videos he authored are included in the permanent AAOS Multimedia Educational Video Gallery, 21 of which have been acknowledged with the Best Multimedia Award. Cesare holds numerous extramural grants for research projects and has approximately 150 peer-reviewed publications. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Musculoskeletal Surgery.

Since 1999, in collaboration with “Orthopaedics Onlus”, an association which he co-founded, Cesare put in work a department of Pediatric Orthopedics at the Children's Hospital in Mlali (Kongwa, Tanzania). Since then, other hospitals in Africa have been founded, and Cesare teaches local surgeons about the management of paediatric and adult orthopaedic diseases.

Lt Col Arul Ramasamy, MA(Cantab), PhD, FFSEM, FRCS(Tr+Orth), RAMC, Senior Lecturer, Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London, London; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Defence Medical Services, London, UK.

Lt Col Ramasamy is an author on a paper in the February 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Current management strategies for osteochondral lesions of the talus

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(2):207-212.

Lt Col Arul Ramasamy is a Foot and Ankle Consultant currently serving in the British Army and is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London. Arul read medicine at Trinity Hall, Cambridge before taking up a commission in the Army. He has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Having submitted his PhD on lower limb blast injuries at Imperial College London, Arul completed Higher Surgical Training in Birmingham before completing fellowships in Foot and Ankle Surgery at Oxford and London. He was awarded the BOA American-British-Canadian (ABC) Travelling Fellowship in 2018.

Arul has published over 60 papers and book chapters on foot and ankle conditions and military trauma. Arul has received over £2m in grants related to his research and currently supervises six PhD students in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His research interests include the development of devices to improve function after lower limb trauma, enhancing fracture healing using stem cells, and preventing ankle injury in professional sportsmen.

Arul is a specialty editor for Foot and Ankle and sits on the editorial board of The Bone and Joint Journal. He is also the Associate Editor for BMJ Military Health.

Dr Seyler is an author on a paper in the January 2021 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Next-generation sequencing not superior to culture in periprosthetic joint infection diagnosis

Bone Joint J. 2021;103-B(1):26-31.

Dr Seyler is the attending physician specializing in knee and hip reconstruction at Duke University, where he is also the Adult Reconstruction Fellowship Director and Associate Residency Director.

He graduated from the prestigious Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany in 2005. He continued his academic journey with a PhD on tissue engineering from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, and completed his residency training there before moving to Durham, North Carolina to complete his fellowship in Adult Reconstruction.

Dr Seyler is a multiple recipient of the Best Poster, Top Paper, and Best Scientific Exhibit awards at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting, and a recipient of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) grant and The Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education (FARE) grant. He currently serves on the AAHKS Research Committee and serves as the Board of Specialty representative for the Musculoskeletal Infection Society.

Dr Seyler’s main areas of clinical research involve risk prediction modeling of complications in joint replacement, including preoperative risk-stratification algorithms and optimization. In addition, he heads up the Orthopaedic Biofilm Laboratory at Duke University investigating drug elution, biofilm formation, and biofilm disrupting technologies. He has written over 230 peer-reviewed publications in the area of hip and knee arthroplasty to date.

Prof Ollivere is an author on a paper in the December 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Quality of patient reported outcomes used for quality of life, physical function, and functional capacity in trials of childhood fractures: a systematic review using the COSMIN checklist

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(12):1599-1607.


Prof Ben Ollivere is an academic orthopaedic surgeon with a particular interest in clinical effectiveness in trauma and translational research. He holds a number of NIHR and research council grants in a diverse range of areas spanning COVID-19 transmission (PANTHER Study MRC), outcome measures (NIHR CoreKids and AOUK OCTS), clinical trials (NIHR Anchor, NIHR ORIF), and basic science translational work (InnovateUK SMART Nails and DoD STEMulate). He plays an active role in the Nottingham BRC and his main interest is in collaborative research to answer difficult problems.

Ben’s clinical practice is in Nottingham, the UK’s biggest and busiest trauma centre where he specializes in limb reconstruction, bone infection, and trauma. He has an active interest in teaching and training having been the programme director for East Midlands North, and the academic programme director for the ACF programme. He has supervised a number of PhD projects (ten and counting in all areas of academic orthopaedics).

Ben is editor in chief of Bone and Joint 360 and has spent a decade on The Bone and Joint Journal editorial board.

Prof Kader is an author on a paper in the November 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The preoperative Oxford Knee Score is an independent predictor of achieving a postoperative ceiling score after total knee arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(11):1519-1526.

Prof Deiary Kader is an academic consultant specialising in knee arthroplasty and sports surgery at South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC), where he is also deputy medical director.

He graduated from Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in 1989. Originally from Kurdistan he fled Iraq to the UK in 1993 as a refugee and undertook his registrar training in Aberdeen, Scotland completing a knee fellowship in Sydney, Australia.

Prof Kader devotes much of his time to humanitarian work and research. Ten years ago he established NGMV Charity to help those affected by the war in Iraq. In 2015 he resigned from his NHS position at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Gateshead, focusing on his humanitarian work as an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) specialist war trauma surgeon in Lebanon.

Prof Kader has published over 120 scientific papers, book chapters, and articles, including original research on anatomical reconstruction of the medial patellofemeral ligament (MPFL) and a recent The Bone & Joint Journal (BJJ) study on the risk of acquiring Covid-19 perioperatively.

He is a member of the RCSEng quality assessment panel and Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC), vice-president of BOSTAA (British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopic Association), and chairman of the British Iraqi Orthopaedic Initiative (BIOI).

Dr David Wood, MBBS, FRACS FA.Ortho.A, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mater Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Dr Wood is an author on a paper in the October 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The surgical repair of proximal hamstring avulsions: does the timing of surgery or injury classification influence long-term patient outcomes?

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(10):1419-1427.

Dr David Wood is a consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who operates at the Mater Private Hospital, Sydney. He consults from the North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre, the Sydney Sports Medicine Centre at Homebush, and The Stadium Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre at Moore Park.

David trained in the Sydney-based programme and was fortunate to do a fellowship under the tutelage of his mentor Dr Mervyn Cross OAM. He spent time in Bangor, north Wales and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry. Dr Wood specializes in arthroscopic and reconstructive surgery of the knee with an interest in ligament reconstruction, patella disorders, knee arthroplasties, and tibial osteotomy. David has a special interest in hamstring avulsions from the ischial tuberosity, and is a past president and secretary of the Australian Knee Society.

David is a former chairman of the NSW branches of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is a past member of the Federal Prostheses and Devices Committee, the Knee Prostheses Advisory Group, the Medical Services Committee of NSW, and Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) to the Australian Federal Government. David’s leisure activities include golf, surfing, travel, and wine.

Dr Ring is an author on a paper in the September 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Talking points for safe and effective alleviation of pain

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(9):1122-1127.

Dr David Ring, MD, PhD, is Associate Dean for Comprehensive Care and Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Trained as a hand and orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Ring’s extensive research, patient care, and quality and patient safety leadership contributed to an understanding of and a passion for the ways that mindset and circumstances affect human illness. Getting people interested in innovative ways to get and stay healthy depends on effective communication strategies that establish trust and make healthy habits appealing. Dr. Ring’s current work focusses on ways to use existing knowledge, diverse expertise, and innovative applications of technology to help people choose healthy options consistent with their values.

Dr. Ring was born and schooled in San Diego, California attending the University of California at San Diego for both undergraduate and Medical School. He then moved to Boston for residency, fellowship, and eventually full Professor at Harvard University. Dr. Ring plays guitar, bass, and drums in various bands with surgical and medical colleagues and sometimes sits in with the local band on international visits.

Mr Watts is an author on a paper in the August 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Reliability and validity of the Wrightington classification of elbow fracture-dislocation

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(8):1041-1047.

Mr Adam Watts is a Consultant Orthopaedic Elbow surgeon at Wrightington Hospital and Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. He trained on fellowship in Adelaide, Australia and Wrightington, UK. His clinical and research interests include the treatment of degenerative joint disease, sports injury, and trauma, with a focus on arthroscopic techniques and joint reconstruction. He works with a number of national sporting organisations.

Adam has over 130 publications in upper limb surgery, has contributed to national guidelines on wrist fractures, elbow arthroplasty, and infection, and is a designer of surgical techniques and implants. He is an Associate Editor for The Bone and Joint Journal and Shoulder and Elbow Journal, and sits on the Editorial Board for the National Joint Registry. Adam is an NIHR Grant award holder and a Research Lead at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Adam lives in Lancashire with his family and assorted animals.

Prof McNally is an author on a paper in the July 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Limited diagnostic value of serum inflammatory biomarkers in the diagnosis of fracture-related infections

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(7):904-911.

Prof Martin McNally is Lead Surgeon at the Oxford Bone Infection Unit in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Oxford University and King James IV Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Martin enjoyed medical school at Queen’s University in Belfast and was trained in orthopaedics in Northern Ireland, USA, and Oxford, UK. He is fascinated by the interplay between humans and bacteria and has a particular interest in bone reconstruction after osteomyelitis, infected fractures, and nonunions. Martin runs research projects in treatments for bone infection, diagnostic methods, and local antibiotic delivery systems, and is a co-principal investigator on several large multinational randomized infection trials.

Martin has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters and contributes regularly to instructional courses and international meetings on bone infection and limb reconstruction. He is Past-President of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) and President of the Girdlestone Orthopaedic Society. Martin is a member of the EFORT Scientific and Education Committees and co-chair of the International Fracture-related Infection (FRI) Group.

Martin has learned that a successful and happy career is possible when you like what you do and don’t always believe what you think.

Prof Meek is an author on a paper in the June 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Sport after total hip arthroplasty: undoubted progress but still some unknowns

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(6):661-663.

Following medical school in Glasgow, Prof R. M. Dominic Meek undertook Trauma and Orthopaedics training in the West of Scotland rotation, and completed a MD at Glasgow University. He was appointed Consultant in 2003 and works at the QUEH, Glasgow with a specialist interest in hip reconstructive arthroplasty surgery. Dominic continues to participate in trauma at the QUEH designated regional trauma centre. Together with his consultant colleagues he has developed the Glasgow complex young hip and revision, periprosthetic joint infection, and fractures arthroplasty service.

Dominic undertook the adult reconstruction fellowship at Vancouver University Hospital and was awarded the BHS/AHS Travelling Fellowship and the BOA ABC Fellowship. He is the Hip Specialty Editor for The Bone and Joint Journal and editorial secretary for the BHS.

Honorary Professor at Glasgow University, Dominic’s research interests are in the basic science of nanotechnology and cell behaviour/bone regeneration and implant fixation and effects of wear particles, particularly cobalt-chromium (CoCr) particles. Dominic is also the President of the West of Scotland Orthopaedic Research Society (WoSORS) and cofounder (2009) of the Glasgow Orthopaedic Research Society (GLORI) for fundamental science research at Glasgow University.

Dominic lives with his wife Judith, whom he met in his medical year, their four children (Rachel, Rory, Pippa, and Jonny), and two dogs.

Dr Egol is an author on a paper in the May 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Patient function continues to improve between one and five years following tibial plateau fracture managed by open reduction and internal fixation

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(5):632-637.

Dr Kenneth A. Egol is a graduate of Binghamton University and of the Upstate Medical School where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery at the Carolinas Medical Center, in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Dr Egol has received numerous professional honors including an American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) American-British-Canadian Travelling Fellowship in 2005. He has won the Boville Award for best clinical paper at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association twice. He has been named in Castle and Connelly’s Best Doctors in the New York Metro area, New York Times “Super Doctors”, and New York Magazine’s Best Doctors annually since 2008.

Dr Egol has authored five textbooks and contributed over 30 textbook chapters and over 430 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He has served on many professional committees including the Program Committee and the Instructional Course for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the latter of which he was chair as well as for the Research Committee for the Orthopaedic Trauma Association.

Prof Dr Victor is an author on a paper in the April 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

How should we evaluate robotics in the operating theatre? A systematic review of the learning curve of robot assisted knee arthroplasty

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(4):407-413.

Prof Dr Jan Victor obtained his medical degree in 1985 from the University of Leuven and his board certification in orthopaedic surgery in 1991. His clinical career is dedicated to the treatment of knee pathology, including arthroscopy, soft tissue procedures, osteotomy, and joint reconstruction.

Jan has published over 120 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, published several books, and written multiple chapters on knee pathology and surgery in orthopaedic handbooks.

Jan was president of the Belgian Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology in 2002 and 2003. He is a founding member of the Belgian Knee Society (BKS), of which he was President from 1999 to 2001. Since 2005 he has been an active member of the American Knee Society, and he was president of the European Knee Society in 2016 (EKS) and has been a board member since. Jan is also an honorary lifetime member of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA).

Jan has been awarded several times in his career, including best scientific exhibit AAOS 2009, John Insall Award 2009, Ranawat Award 2011, American Knee Society, and honorary lifetime membership of ISTA and SOFCOT. He holds several patents in the field of knee arthroplasty and has codesigned several implants and surgical instruments.

Dr Burke is an author on a paper in the February 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Long-term follow-up of all-polyethylene tibial components when used for oncological endoprosthetic reconstruction

Bone Joint J. 2020;102-B(2):170-176.

Dr Zachary Burke is a senior resident in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed his undergraduate education at Pomona College, and attended medical school at UCLA where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honour society. He completed over a year of study in Central America and Southern Africa with a focus on health outcomes and disparities.

During his residency, Dr Burke completed a research fellowship at the Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center under the mentorship of Dr. Nicholas Bernthal with a focus on novel translational treatments for prosthetic joint infection and clinical outcomes of endoprosthetic reconstruction in orthoapedic tumour surgery. He was awarded a two-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as the H.H. Lee Surgical Scholars grant in support of his research. He has numerous publications in both basic science and clinical research, and has presented widely at international and national meetings.

Dr Burke is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS). He is currently applying to a fellowship in orthopaedic oncology, and plans to pursue a career as a surgeon-scientist. He currently resides in Venice, California with his wife, Katie, their two children Max and Anni, and their dog, Milo.

Dr Andrew D. Pearle is the Chief of the Sports Medicine Institute at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.  He is Head Team Physician for Rugby Union New York, an Associate Team Physician for the New York Mets, and an Orthopaedic Consultant for the UFC.  Andrew is the former Editor-in-Chief of the orthopedic journal Techniques in Knee Surgery and has been a member of the ACL study group since 2011.

Dr Pearle is a high-volume knee surgeon who is internationally known for his pioneering clinical work in robotic knee surgery.  In 2007, he performed the first robotic partial knee arthroplasty in the New York region.  He has now performed thousands of these procedures and is the leading world expert in the use of robotic technology for partial and total knee arthroplasty.

Dr Pearle's academic activities have focused on partial knee arthroplasty as well as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) research.  He has published more than 185 original manuscripts and is a prominent national and international speaker on emerging techniques to improve knee surgery. Dr Pearle lives in Rye, New York, a suburb of New York City with his wife and four children.

Dr Pearle is an author on a paper in the January 2020 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Mid-term survivorship and patient-reported outcomes of robotic-arm assisted partial knee arthroplasty: a single-surgeon study of 1018 knees

Bone Joint J 2020;1:108-116.

Jonathan Vigdorchik received his BA with Honors in Finance and Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, his MD at the University of Missouri Columbia, and residency at Detroit Medical Center/Providence Hospital where he served as Chief Resident. He completed his fellowship in Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, and then completed a traveling fellowship in Hip Preservation Surgery, visiting multiple centres in Switzerland and the United States.

Dr. Vigdorchik was selected to participate in the John N. Insall Travelling Fellowship sponsored by The Knee Society in 2016 and was awarded The Hip Society Frank Stinchfield Award in 2019. He is a multiple recipient of the Best Poster and Best Scientific Exhibit awards at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting, and a recipient of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) grant for Robotic-Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty. He currently serves on the AAHKS Digital Health Committee and the AAOS Adult Reconstruction Hip Program Committee.

Dr. Vigdorchik’s main areas of clinical research involve the avoidance of complications in joint replacement, from preoperative risk-stratification algorithms using machine learning and artificial intelligence, to advanced imaging, templating and intraoperative execution of the surgical plan using robotic and computer-assisted technology. He has written multiple articles about the hip-spine relationship in total hip arthroplasty, and kinematic alignment for hip and knee replacement.

Jonathan is an avid skier, golfer, and wine enthusiast. He lives with his wife Katie in Brooklyn, NY, and they are proud parents of a 9-month old daughter with whom he loves spending his free time outside of his clinical practice.

Dr Bernthal is an author on two articles for the July issue of The Bone & Joint Journal

A systematic approach to the hip-spine relationship and its applications to total hip arthroplasty

N. Eftekhary, A. Shimmin, J. Y. Lazennec, A. Buckland, R. Schwarzkopf, L. D. Dorr, D. Mayman, D. Padgett, J. Vigdorchik

Bone Joint J 2019;101-B:808–816.

Evaluation of the spine is critical in the workup of recurrent instability after total hip arthroplasty

J. Vigdorchik, N. Eftekhary, A. Elbuluk, M. P. Abdel, A. J. Buckland, R. S. Schwarzkopf, S. A. Jerabek, D. J. Mayman

Bone Joint J 2019;101-B:817–823.

Nicholas Bernthal is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon-scientist who serves as the Chief of Musculoskeletal Oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is an Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Program Director for the Orthopaedic Oncology Fellowship, and serves on the Faculty Executive Council of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr Bernthal is on the Executive Board of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS), and is the Founder and President of Drops Fill Buckets, a non-profit organization that funds health and education projects in the developing world. He was an American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellow in 2017 and was awarded the Leonard Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine that year. Dr Bernthal grew up in Washington D.C. and studied political science at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa while playing for the varsity basketball team. After working in South Africa on HIV/AIDS policy, he returned to Cornell University for medical school and orthopaedic residency at UCLA. After fellowships in orthopaedic research (UCLA) and orthopaedic oncology (Huntsman Cancer Institute), Dr Bernthal joined the UCLA faculty. He is an NIH-funded investigator with a basic science laboratory focused on novel technologies and host immunology in orthopaedic implant infections. He lives with his wife, Julie, their children, Jack and Georgia, and their dog, Jojo, on the beach in Venice, California.

Dr Bernthal is an author of an article for the June issue of The Bone & Joint Journal

Long-term follow-up of custom cross-pin fixation of 56 tumour endoprosthesis stems: a single institution experience

N. M. Bernthal, A. Upfill-Brown, Z. D. C. Burke, C. R. Ishmael, P. Hsiue, K. Hori, F. Hornicek, J. J. Eckardt

Bone Joint J 2019;101-B:724–731.

Dr Catani completed Medical School at the University of Bologna, Italy and his residency in orthopedic surgery and phisiotherapy at the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli of Bologna, Italy. He has been trained in joint biomechanics and motion analysis at Mayo Clinic, MIT, and Nuffield Orthopaedic.

He is an internationally recognized expert in joint arthroplasty surgery focusing on motion analysis and innovation technology, such as computer assisted surgery and robotic surgery. He is also an expert on research and educational endeavors to make patients more satisfied with their knee and hip arthroplasty, increasing their ability to perform daily living activities. His contributions to the orthopaedic community have focused on improving surgical techniques, understanding the pathomechanics of orthopaedic diseases, and quantifying the patient outcomes. He has patents on ankle, knee designs, and orthopaedic sensoring devices. In recognition of his work, he has received numerous awards, including the Mark Coventry Award, assigned by the American Knee Society.

Dr Catani is often asked for insight and investigation of contemporary orthopaedic issues. He is often invited to give presentations on his work, both nationally and internationally and has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, abstracts, and other written publications. He belongs to the American Knee Society and is the current Vice-President of the European Knee Society.

Fabio is motorcycle fan and is the official doctor of Ducati GP and SBK. He enjoys good cuisine and travelling. He and his wife Patrizia have two sons. Their oldest son is a bioengineer and woodworker. Their daughter is a teacher.

Dr Catani is an author of an article for the April issue of The Bone & Joint Journal

Does component placement affect short-term clinical outcome in robotic-arm assisted unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?

F. Zambianchi, G. Franceschi, E. Rivi, F. Banchelli, A. Marcovigi, R. Nardacchione, A. Ensini, F. Catani

Bone Joint J 2019;101-B:435–442.

Professor Carsten Perka, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director and Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Charité - Universitaetsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.

Professor Carsten Perka is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in adult reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee. He is a leading innovator of advanced total hip and knee systems for both, primary and revision arthroplasty settings.

Professor Perka’s research interests predominantly surround the diagnosis and treatment of complex failures of primary and revision total hip and knee arthroplasties. Over the last decade, he has put special effort into the optimization of diagnosis and treatment of periprosthetic joint infections.

As one of the leading authorities on adult reconstructive surgery, Professor Perka lectures regularly at orthopaedic symposia in Germany and abroad and has published extensively in leading medical and scientific journals, including The Bone & Joint Journal, JBJS-A, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and Nature Biotechnology. He is editor of landmark textbooks for adult joint reconstruction and trauma surgery and has co-authored more than 30 chapters in medical textbooks. Professor Perka holds a patent for intramuscular transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells.

An editorial board member of and reviewer for multiple prestigious medical journals, Professor Perka holds leadership positions in many national and international professional organizations. He is the current President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, the General Secretary of the German Arthroplasty Society, and the Spokesman for the German Arthroplasty Registry. He is a member of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the European Knee Society and serves as the leader of the Membership Committee of the International Hip Society.

He has been named repeatedly by Focus magazine as one of the best orthopaedic surgeons in Germany.

Professor Perka is an author of an article for the March issue of The Bone & Joint Journal

Reconstruction of acetabular defects with porous tantalum shells and augments in revision total hip arthroplasty at ten-year follow-up

J. Löchel, V. Janz, C. Hipfl, C. Perka, G. I. Wassilew

Bone Joint J 2019;101-B:311–316.

Michael R Whitehouse, PhD MSc(Orth Eng) BSc(Hons) FRCS(Tr&Orth) PGCert(HE) FHEA, Reader and Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol and Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust.

Mike grew up in the North West of England and went to university in Bristol where he completed an intercalated BSc in Cellular and Molecular Pathology (1998) and his medical degree (2001). His basic training was completed in Bristol and Birmingham before higher surgical training in South West Thames and Bristol. During training, he completed a Masters in Orthopaedic Engineering (2009) and a PhD in Orthopaedics (2011). Mike has completed fellowships in hip and knee arthroplasty and oncology in Vancouver and Bristol. He was appointed as a Consultant Senior Lecturer in 2014 and promoted to Reader in 2018.

Mike’s clinical work is based in Southmead Hospital, a major trauma centre and tertiary elective unit. His particular clinical interests include hip and periprosthetic fractures, complex revision hip arthroplasty, young adult hip disorders, degenerative knee conditions, and he is one of five Consultants that delivers the regional tertiary hip prosthetic infection service. He has broad research interests including having delivered two first-in-human trials, basic science, multicentre clinical trials with a focus on efficient trial designs, evidence synthesis, methods for, and analysis of, large health care data sets, and qualitative and translational research. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications.

Mike sits on the EFORT Basic Science Task Force, the NIHR CRN Injuries and Emergencies National Steering Group as well as a large number of faculties. He is a keen trainer, supervising the academic clinical trainees in Orthopaedics in Bristol and clinical trainees at Core and StR level. He is the musculoskeletal teaching lead for the University of Bristol’s new curriculum and has supervised three doctorates to completion, is currently supervising five others and has examined nine.

He tries, but generally fails, to achieve a work-life balance with his very understanding better half, Gemma, and their three dogs (Manzi, Dexter, and Sky).

Dr Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, MD, PhD, Consultant in Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Dr Sanchez-Sotelo was born in Madrid, Spain. He graduated as Medical Doctor from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and obtained the #1 position in the Spanish National Exam for Medical Graduates. He completed his Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Hospital Universitario La Paz and his PhD Program at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Following his PhD, he was then selected for a fellowship position at Mayo Clinic and completed a two-year program in adult reconstruction.

Currently, Dr Sanchez-Sotelo practices as a Consultant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic. He is also a full Professor at Mayo College of Medicine. He serves as Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship, and Vice Chairman for the Division of Adult Reconstruction. He has been awarded the Mayo Clinic Teacher of the Year Award on two separate occasions and has received other awards in the past, including the Mark B. Coventry, Melvin Post, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association, Knee Society, and AAOS Achievement’s Awards.

Dr Sanchez-Sotelo is a member of multiple professional societies, and currently serves as a Board Member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), as well as Associate Editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES), the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty (JSEA), and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT).

Alongside medical practice, Dr Sanchez-Sotelo has published 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature in addition to over 50 book chapters. He is co-editor of the most widely read textbook on elbow surgery, The Elbow and Its Disorders. Dr Sanchez-Sotelo has recently published Mayo Clinic Principles of Shoulder Surgery. He is actively involved in the design of implants for joint arthroplasty and fracture fixation. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo serves as course co-director for the Mayo Clinic Annual Elbow Course “Teach the teachers”, the Mayo Clinic Course on Shoulder Tendon Transfers and Complex Rotator Cuff Tears, and the International Advanced Course on Elbow Surgery (IACES). He has presented his research on numerous occasions at national and international meetings.

Dr Sanchez-Sotelo has developed a special interest in complex reconstructive surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints, as well as in basic science research related to the genetic and molecular basis of orthopaedic conditions, particularly joint stiffness, as well as the biomechanics of shoulder and elbow injuries and implants. Other interests, outside orthopaedic surgery, include ballroom dancing, travelling, and reading.

Dr Sanchez-Sotelo is an author on a paper in the November 2018 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Dr Mark W. Pagnano, BA MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Mark Pagnano earned his BA with Distinction in Economics at Colby College and his MD at George Washington University. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Mayo Clinic and his fellowship in knee reconstruction at the Insall-Scott-Kelly Institute.

He is an internationally recognized expert in joint replacement surgery focusing on patient care, research and educational endeavors to make knee and hip replacement increasingly reliable, reproducible and efficient. His substantial contributions to the orthopaedic community have demonstrably improved the care of knee and hip replacement patients in the areas of surgical technique, perioperative pain management, and techniques that limit blood loss and transfusion. In recognition of his work, he has received numerous awards, including twice receiving both the Knee Society Clinical Research Award and the Hip Society Frank Stinchfield Award.

Dr Pagnano is often asked for insight and analysis of contemporary orthopaedic issues and has been featured in mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and Consumer Reports. He is frequently invited to give presentations on his work both nationally and internationally and has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, abstracts and other written publications. He has served as deputy editor of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and is the current Vice-President of the Knee Society.

Mark is an avid runner, fly-fisherman, and golfer. He and his wife Linda have three sons whom they have homeschooled. The oldest son is now an officer in the United States Air Force, the middle son is a professional ballet dancer, and the youngest son professes an interest in a medical career.

You can read Dr Pagnano’s latest paper here,

A randomized controlled trial of fixed- versus mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty a follow-up at a mean of ten years

M. P. Abdel, M. E. Tibbo, M. J. Stuart, R. T. Trousdale, A. D. Hanssen, M. W. Pagnano

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:925–9.

Professor Clive P Duncan

MB MSc FRCSC

Professor and Emeritus Head of Orthopaedics

Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Canada

Clive Duncan is Professor and Emeritus Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He moved from Ireland to Vancouver in the 70s. He continues to run a busy clinical and academic practice in that city, with a special interest in complex hip problems.

He has made numerous contributions to hip surgery, many of which have been adopted into mainstream orthopaedic surgery, such as the PROSTALAC antibiotic loaded articulating spacer for the management of deep-seated infection after hip or knee replacement. Dr Duncan was also the developer of the Vancouver Classification of periprosthetic fractures after hip replacement, a system that has now been expanded into the Unified Classification System, or UCS, to guide the management of all periprosthetic fractures regardless of what bone is broken and what joint has been replaced.

He has lectured extensively across five continents and is also well known due to his numerous publications, most of those dealing with hip disease and its treatment.

He has been the recipient of many recognitions and awards throughout his career. In 2009 he was awarded the Sir John Charnley Commemorative Gold Medal after his address to the British Orthopaedic Association. In 2010, he was awarded the Harris Gold Medal at Harvard Medical School. More recently, in 2016 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the North American Hip Society.

Clive has been an adventurer and outdoor enthusiast throughout his life, starting with the establishment of a mountaineering club in Dublin while in his teens. When not at home, in the hospital, or on the lecture circuit, you are likely to find him ocean sailing or clambering up many of the wonderful peaks of Canada and elsewhere in the world.

You can read Clive's latest paper here

Revision for adverse local tissue reaction following metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty is associated with a high risk of early major complications

H. B. Waterson, M. R. Whitehouse, N. V. Greidanus, D. S. Garbuz, B. A. Masri, C. P. Duncan

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:720–4.

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Professor Robert Dunn

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Robert completed both his under and postgraduate studies at the University of Cape Town separated by a few years of military service as a naval doctor which included time in Antarctica and on a submarine.

He then embarked on an 18-month spine fellowship in London, made possible by Mike Edgar at the Middlesex and Queen Square Hospitals followed by a year at RNOH Stanmore with mentors Tim Morley, Ben Taylor and Jan Lehovsky. Not only did this empower him with clinical skills but also insight into productive organisation. Ben Taylor’s database was a case in point, and while in the UK, Robert wrote a similar surgical database based on the RNOH model which he still uses today, providing a wealth of research data.

On his return to Cape Town, Robert established a spine service at Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospitals to deal with the overwhelming local burden of trauma, infection and deformity. In 2003 he established the Acute Spinal Cord Injury unit, a regional service which processes 180 cases per year. Based on his fellowship experience, he established a local equivalent that trains surgeons from all over Africa.

He was an ABC fellow and is an active participant in SRS, AOspine, IGASS and local spine research and educational organisations. He has published on the full array of spinal pathology focusing on appropriate intervention in a resource limited community taking the best from the developed world and applying the techniques with consideration to local conditions.

He has served in many leadership positions, currently the president of the College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Treasurer of the College of Medicine and on the South African Orthopaedic Association’s executive council.

In 2012 he was appointed to the Pieter Moll and Nuffield chair of Orthopaedic Surgery as HOD where, in addition to running the department, he continues to lead the spine service with deformity believing passionately that you can’t talk about it if you don’t do it.

To balance this he enjoys the outdoors, having completed the Comrades 90km ultra-marathon for the last three years. He also hunts, dives and plays the guitar.

You can read Robert's latest article here,

Spinal tuberculosis review of current management

R. N. Dunn, M. Ben Husien

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:425–31.

Professor Mike Reed, MD FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Following medical school in Newcastle and his MD in Sheffield, Mike trained in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the North of England, and completed fellowships in New Zealand. In 2012, he was chosen to represent Britain as an ABC Fellow.

Currently, he is a fulltime hip and knee replacement surgeon, with trauma commitments within a busy Trauma Unit.

At Trust level, Mike has run improvement programmes in hip fracture care, infection prevention and enhanced recovery. He is the Clinical Director at Northumbria leading a high performing team, supported by a group of committed and talented colleagues.

His research, supported by industry, charity and government funding, focuses on clinical outcomes and on his specialist interest in infection prevention, diagnosis and management. With Northumbria, he is leading large national collaboratives on hip fracture care and enhanced recovery. In addition, Mike supervises basic science research at Newcastle University, which focuses on vitamin D and infection, and particularly biofilm modification with an extracellular DNAse. He is also Chief Investigator for clinical trials on clinical outcomes and infection prevention at the Universities of York and Oxford.

Mike co-authored the Trauma and Orthopaedic curriculum and at present, leads the UK Trauma and Orthopaedic elogbook. He was an MD/PhD examiner at the Universities of Newcastle, Sheffield, Copenhagen, Auckland and University College London. Until recently he enjoyed being the Training Programme Director for the Northern Deanery, and was awarded the National Programme Director of the Year award in 2015 by the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association. He Chaired the Education Committee for the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) between 2014 and 2017 and was an elected Trustee of the BOA Council between 2015 and 2017.  In January 2018, Mike joined the steering committee of the National Joint Registry.

Mike’s interests include travelling, running, and spending time with friends and his two children, Ben and Anna.

You can read Mike's latest articles here:

The effect of triclosan-coated sutures on the rate of surgical site infection after hip and knee arthroplasty: a double-blind randomized controlled trial of 2546 patients

Sprowson† A. P., Jensen C., Parsons N., Partington P., Emmerson K., Carluke I., Asaad S., Pratt R., Muller S., Ahmed I., Reed M. R.

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:296-302

A randomized controlled trial comparing the Thompson hemiarthroplasty with the Exeter polished tapered stem and Unitrax modular head in the treatment of displaced intracapsular fractures of the hip: the WHiTE 3: HEMI Trial

Sims A. L., Parsons N., Achten J., Griffin X. L., Costa M. L., Reed M. R., CORNET Trainee Collaborative

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:352-360

Nick's clinical practice will focus on primary hip and knee arthroplasty and he is aware of the increasing burden of revision knee surgery in the future. His clinical research has focused upon both arthroplasty and trauma to date and he hopes to continue this broad research interest. However, he aims to focus on improving patient reported outcomes after total knee arthroplasty. His basic science research focus is on biomechanics of the knee and he hopes to establish what the normal biomechanics are and to try and recreate these in a knee replacement with the aim of improving patient outcomes.

Nick is the author of over 100 publications and several book chapters, and believes that only through collaboration can true orthopaedic science progress. In his limited spare time Nick enjoys spending time with his family and his twin girls Rosie and Abigail, playing golf and travelling.

You can read Nick's latest paper here: 

Three groups of dissatisfied patients exist after total knee arthroplasty: early, persistent, and late

N. D. Clement, M. Bardgett, D. Weir, J. Holland, C. Gerrand, D. J. Deehan

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:161–169.

Dr. Goodman has published over 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts in medical and bioengineering journals. He participates on numerous national and international committees, and editorial boards. Dr. Goodman's recreational interests include spending time with his family and golden retriever, traveling, and vigorous indoor and outdoor sporting activities.

You can read Dr Goodman's latest article here:

Metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty is not associated with cardiac disease

L. H. Goodnough, A. Bala, J. I. Huddleston III, S. B. Goodman, W. J. Maloney, D. F. Amanatullah

Bone Joint J 2018;100-B:28–32.

He is presently the Aaron G. Rosenberg Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of the Section of Adult Reconstruction at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr Della Valle is a busy clinician who specializes in primary and revision total joint arthroplasty. A respected researcher, he has more than 200 peer reviewed publications on topics including unicompartmental, primary and revision total knee arthroplasty as well as total hip arthroplasty, hip resurfacing and revision total hip arthroplasty. He is a member of The Hip Society, The Knee Society and The International Hip Society. He is currently 1st Vice President for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and Secretary of the Hip Society.

Dr Della Valle has been married to Justyna for six years and has a two-year old son named Dominic.

You can read Dr Della Valle's latest article here: 

Do higher-volume hospitals provide better value in revision hip and knee arthroplasty?

N. B. Frisch, P. M. Courtney, B. Darrith, C. J. Della Valle

Bone Joint J 2017;99-B:1611–17.

His career landmarks include graduating valedictorian of his high school class, highest honors at Lehigh University, valedictorian and magna cum laude at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, orthopaedic surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During his medical education he received numerous awards including the 2001 Mayo Scholar award and the Joe Janes Humanitarian Award.

Dr. Jacofsky enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, and spending time with his two teenage boys.

Episodic payments (bundling)

D. J. Jacofsky

Bone Joint J 2017;99-B:1280–5.

Professor Johan Bellemans is a senior consultant at the ZOL Hospitals, Genk, Belgium and head of the GRIT Belgian Sports Clinic, Leuven. His practice focuses on primary as well as complex knee surgery, including knee arthroplasty and sports orthopaedics. He holds a Lecturing Chair at Hasselt University, Belgium.

His academic career started in 1997 with the public defence of his PhD thesis “Osseointegration in porous coated  knee arthroplasty”. At the age of 33, he became the youngest professor in surgery that was ever nominated at the Catholic University, Leuven.

Several of the recent insights on knee pathology are attributed to him and his group. His paper on the influence of “posterior condylar offset” was published in The Bone & Joint Journal and induced a breakthrough in understanding the frequent problem of limited flexion after knee arthroplasty. His further work on kinematics of the natural and replaced knee was the basis for many of the contemporary knee arthroplasty designs. His work on patella alta made us understand why this condition causes anterior knee pain, and more recently, his work on the anterolateral ligament and its importance in ACL-injury, has been the basis of an ongoing fierce debate on the international knee scene.

In his free time Prof. Bellemans is a dedicated admirer of international sports.

He competed as a sailor in the Barcelona 1992 Olympics, where he represented Belgium in the 470 2-man dinghy together with his brother. Since the London Olympic games of 2012 he is Medical Director for the Belgium Olympic Team.

Professor Bellemans is the author of a paper in the September 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection with alpha-defensin using a lateral flow device

P. Berger, M. Van Cauter, R. Driesen, J. Neyt, O. Cornu, J. Bellemans

Bone Joint J September 2017 99B: 1176-1182

Dan is a children's orthopaedic surgeon funded by the United Kingdom National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) as a Clinician Scientist.

His major research interest is in epidemiology and effectiveness research. This involves nationwide collaborative research, trial development and the analysis of existing (routine) datasets. 

Dan is chief investigator on the British Orthopaedic Surgery Surveillance (BOSS) Study - www.BOSS.surgery, which has brought together 144 United Kingdom hospitals (> 300 research-active consultant orthopaedic surgeons, > 200 trainee surgeons) to accrue large numbers of rare disease patients in very little time. His next challenge is to embed trials into this network, to ensure that United Kingdom orthopaedic surgeons are able to deliver challenging yet efficient trials in rare orthopaedic conditions.

Dan's clinical practice is at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, where he specialises in paediatric hip diseases and trauma - with Perthes' disease, Slipped Epiphysis and developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) as key interests. Dan’s research focus is also primarily around children's hips and trauma. 

Dan sits on the editorial board and the research methodology panel of the the Bone & Joint Journal, the NIHR Commissioning Board and the newborn and infant physical examination hip screening committee. He holds grants from the NIHR, Arthritis Research UK, the British Medical Association, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Perthes' Association, Alder Hey Charity, the John Monk Research fund and others in the industry.

Dan supervises three PhDs at the University of Oxford and the University of Liverpool.

Dan is the author of a paper in the August 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

A case control study to determine the association between Perthes’ disease and the recalled use of tobacco during pregnancy, and biological markers of current tobacco smoke exposure

D. C. Perry, C. Thomson, D. Pope, C. E. Bruce, M. J. Platt

Bone Joint J August 2017 99-B: 1102-1108.

Associate Professor Ola Rolfson is a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Joint Replacement Unit at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. In his clinical practice, he focuses on primary joint replacement and revision hip surgery.

In 2010, he defended his doctoral thesis on patient-reported outcomes and health economic aspects of hip arthroplasty at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, for which he received the “Best Thesis Award” from the National Swedish Orthopaedic Association.

Since then, his research has focused on understanding factors influencing hip arthroplasty outcomes from the patients’ perspective and improving thoseoutcomes. This has led to engagement in local, national and international initiatives built on value-based healthcare management strategies. In addition to this, he is involved in a wide spectrum of research projects covering topics such as shared decision-making, enhanced recovery programs, infection diagnostics and control, cartilage lubrication, patient education programs, economic valuation of health, joint arthroplasty epidemiology, statistical methods, and radiostereometric analysis of implants.

Ola is a dedicated educator. He was head of the orthopaedic residency programme at Sahlgrenska University Hospital before he went abroad for a post-doctoral fellowship at Harris Orthopaedic Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is a thoughtful lecturer for both colleagues and students. His passion for his work is shared through his participation in numerous international annual meetings as well as through patient and attentive mentoring as a thesis advisor to local and international graduate students.

Beginning in 2017, Ola transitioned from senior researcher to becoming the Director of the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register. He serves on the board of the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association and participates in the steering committee of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries.

He dreams about Haute Route, mountaineering and sailing around the world, but balancing work and family life with three beloved children is challenge enough for the time being.

Ola is the author of a paper in the June 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Lumbar surgery prior to total hip arthroplasty is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes

T. Eneqvist, S. Nemes, H. Brisby, P. Fritzell, G. Garellick, O. Rolfson

Bone Joint J June 2017 99-B: 759-765.

Professor Anders Troelsen is a senior consultant performing primary and revision knee and hip arthroplasty at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre. In 2014, at 37 years old, he became the youngest professor of orthopaedic surgery ever in Denmark. The professorship at the University of Copenhagen has special focus on osteoarthritis treatment. He has achieved a PhD and doctor of medical sciences degrees, did a research fellowship (2011) at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and has been visiting surgeon in Oxford (2016). 

His academic focus areas are testing developments in knee and hip arthroplasty designs and materials applying special techniques like radiosterometric analysis radiography, and optimising treatment strategies validating and applying patient reported utcome measures as part of these efforts. Prospective data collection by means of randomised controlled trials, databases, and international multicentre studies are in his portfolio.

Anders is serving on the board of the European Knee Society (EKS) and is frequently giving lectures to an international audience on subjects related to his focus areas in arthroplasty treatment. He believes that “surgical happiness” comes from an open mind to continued education and development of skills, evaluation of outcomes, and critical appraisal of new technology. 

Anders is the author of a paper in the May 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Vitamin E diffused highly cross-linked polyethylene in total hip arthroplasty at five years

A. K. Nebergall, M. E. Greene, M. B. Laursen, P. T. Nielsen, H. Malchau, A. Troelsen

Bone Joint J May 2017 99-B: 577-584.

Dr. Kyung-Hoi (“Kay”) Koo is a Professor at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in Seongnam, South Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine and was trained at Seoul National University Hospital. For the last 25 years, he has performed orthopaedic surgery focused exclusively on hip arthroplasty. He has been instrumental in bringing ceramic-on-ceramic bearings into use in total hip arthroplasty since 1997. In his 21 papers about the ceramic bearings, he has investigated ceramic-related problems, reported the medium- to long-term results of the ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty, and has suggested how to develop and improve the ceramic material and design.

Dr. Kay Koo, having an interest in femoral head osteonecrosis, has actively participated in the Association Research Circulation Osseous (ARCO) founded by Professor Ficat and Professor Arlet to investigate bone circulation and osteonecrosis in 1989. Dr. Koo was President of ARCO from 2012 to 2015, and published a textbook (“Osteonecrosis”) with Michael A. Mont and Lynne C. Jones in 2014. He has also published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and more than ten book chapters regarding hip arthroplasty and femoral head osteonecrosis. Currently, he is President of the Korean Hip Society.

Kay is the author of a paper in the April 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Total hip arthroplasty using a monobloc cementless femoral stem for patients with childhood Perthes’ disease

K. H. Lee, W-L. Jo, Y. C. Ha, Y. K. Lee, S. B. Goodman, K. H. Koo

Bone Joint J April 2017 99-B: 440-444.

In 1999 Gordon became Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Science at University College London on the site of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

Professor Blunn has extensive research experience in orthopaedic medical devices, materials and musculoskeletal tissues. A number of his research projects have been translated into clinical practice.  He has worked on the reattachment of tendons to bone and to implant surfaces, the integration of implants with the skeleton, the wear of implant bearing materials and the use of bone graft substitute materials. He considers himself fortunate to collaborate with gifted orthopaedic surgeons and fellow academics that engenders an environment which enhances innovation and translation.

Professor Blunn is currently the President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, holds a number of patents on medical devices and is a scientific advisor to a number of small and medium-sized enterprises. 

Gordon is the author of a paper in the February 2017 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Augmenting the osseointegration of endoprostheses using laser-sintered porous collars

A. Mumith, M. Coathup, M. Chimutengwende-Gordon, W. Aston, T. Briggs, G. Blunn

Bone Joint J February 2017 99-B: 276-282.

David G. Campbell is a joint reconstruction surgeon at the Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic, Adelaide, and Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide. He is a graduate of the Australian Orthopaedic Association training program. His orthopaedic education included time as a junior registrar on the London program (United Kingdom) and reconstruction fellowship training in Vancouver. He completed a PhD thesis on bone grafting during his residency training.

He is currently the president of the Australian Arthroplasty Society and chairman of the South Australian Orthopaedic Association.

His research interests include RSA measurements of implant fixation and wear, surgical safety including VTE prophylaxis, and blood management. He is a design surgeon with projects including primary and revision arthroplasty, infected joint salvage, and acetabular revision systems. He especially enjoys the interaction with other specialists of the arthroplasty world including engineers, basic scientists and medical companies.

David is married with three adult children. He enjoys water and snow skiing, he is a competition aerobatic pilot.

David is the author of a paper in the December 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The rate of wear of second-generation highly crosslinked polyethylene liners five years post-operatively does not increase if large femoral heads are used

S. A. Callary, J. R. Field, D. G. Campbell

Bone Joint J  December 2016 98-B: 1604-1610.

Dr Clark has a combined public and private Orthopaedic practice in Perth, Western Australia. His medical training was at the University of Western Australia (UWA) with specialist training in Perth and post fellowship training in Arthroplasty and Sports Surgery of the knee in Melbourne.

He has a major interest in the use of advanced technologies in knee arthroplasty in an effort to optimise outcome. He is a strong advocate of the responsible introduction of the technology backed by evidence of improved outcomes for patients. Gavin is currently enrolled in PhD study at UWA looking at the effect of different alignment methods as assessed by patient outcomes and gait analysis. He has used computer navigation in arthroplasty for over 15 years and is currently investigating the use of this technology to facilitate different alignment principles based on intra-operative soft-tissue tension. He is also using robotic assisted surgery in arthroplasty and will be assessing the clinical benefit of this technology as it evolves.

Dr Clark and colleagues at Perth Hip and Knee Clinic have formed a research collaboration with St John of God Hospitals, Centre for Implant Technology and Retrieval Analysis (CITRA) at Royal Perth Hospital and local universities combining the clinical aspects of arthroplasty with biomechanical and bioengineering expertise. This, together with Perth’s isolation (giving excellent patient retention for long-term follow-up), provide a solid foundation for expanding the research output from this new privately funded research unit.

Gavin is the author of a paper in the November 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The effect of the native kinematics of the knee on the outcome following total knee arthroplasty

L. T. Mooney, A. Smith, K. Sloan, G. W. Clark

Bone Joint J  November 2016 98-B: 1471-1478.

Dr. Atkins is lead physician for the Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC), Oxford. She completed pre-clinical medical studies at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and clinical training at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London. She completed dual specialty training in London, Oxford and Sydney.

She has a major interest in bone and joint infections, publishing a seminal paper on multiple sampling with separate sterile instruments in 1998, and more recently, studies on laboratory methods for orthopaedic samples and on the local delivery of antibiotics. She has been involved in numerous other publications and presentations on the diagnosis and management of such infections. She has been a consultant for the United Kingdom Standards for Microbiological Investigations of periprosthetic joint infections and osteomyelitis and a co-author on the NHS England service specification for specialist bone infection units. She is one of five bone infection physicians who participate in clinical service at the NOC providing strong multidisciplinary support in a unit that deals with referrals of complex bone and joint infections from across the United Kingdom and beyond.

She is a strong advocate of multidisciplinary team working and co-founded the Oxford Bone Infection Conference, which attracts national and international clinical delegates in infection, orthopaedics and plastic surgery. She was on the organising committee for the European Bone and Joint Infection Society Meeting in Oxford in September 2016. She is also Training Programme Director for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Health Education Thames Valley.

Her hobbies include playing the trombone. 

Bridget is the author of a paper in the September 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Single-stage treatment of chronis osteomyelitis with a new absorbable, gentamicin-loaded, calcium sulphate/hydroxyapatite biocomposite: a prospective series of 100 cases

M. A. McNally, J. Y. Ferguson, A. C. K. Lau, M. Diefenbeck, M. Scarborough, A. J. Ramsden, B. L. Atkins

Bone Joint J  September 2016 98-B:1289-1296.

Professor Lohmann is Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University Hospital of the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany.  He finished Medical School at the University of Göttingen where he also received his Orthopaedic training. He fulfilled a Fellowship at the Departments of  Orthopaedics at Gainesville, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, and has a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Göttingen. He specialised in total joint  arthroplasty and orthopaedic oncology and held a position as a Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Hamburg where he fulfilled his professorship  thesis.

His special research interest is in the regulation of cells at the bone-biomaterial interface by implant materials and their wear products. His recent  scientific activities focus on the adverse reactions and lymphocyte activation in the periprosthetic tissues. He has received various prestigous Awards for  his  research activities.

Currently he also is Associate Dean for Students' Affairs at the Medical School of the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. He is  a Past-President of the North-German Orthopaedic Society, received the prestigous Austrian-Swiss-German (ASG) Fellowship and has been awarded an AOA Travelling Fellow.

Christoph is the author of a paper in the August 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Articulating polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) spacers may have an immunomodulating effect on synovial tissue

G. Singh, N. Deutloff, N. Maertens, H. Meyer, F. Awiszus, B. Feuerstein, A. Roessner, C. H. Lohmann

Bone Joint J  August 2016 98-B:1062-1068.

Dr. Brophy is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine.   He graduated from Stanford University with bachelors’ degrees in electrical engineering and economics and a master’s degree in industrial engineering, while playing on the men’s varsity soccer team.  After earning his MD from the Washington University School of Medicine, he completed his orthopaedic surgery residency and sports medicine fellowship training at The Hospital for Special Surgery. 

Since returning to Washington University to join the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, his clinical and academic focus is on sports medicine injuries of the knee and shoulder.  He has authored or co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed articles, with peer-reviewed grants from the AOSSM and OREF and a number of research related distinctions, including the AOSSM NCAA Research Award and Cabaud Memorial Award, the Lee T. Ford Award from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Washington University School of Medicine, and the Arthur C. Rettig Award from the NFL Physicians Society.  He has been an ICRS Travelling Fellow, an AAOS-AOA North American Travelling Fellow, an AOSSM-ESSKA Travelling Fellow and an AOA ABC Travelling Fellow and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Rob is married to Jen and they have two children in grade school.  He enjoys travel and sports, especially American and international football.

Rob is the author of a paper in the July 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The role for arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in knees with degenerative changes

J. D. Lamplot, R. H. Brophy

Bone Joint J  July 2016 98-B:934-938.

Professor Dias is a Consultant Hand and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons  and has a Doctorate of Medicine from Leicester University. He was born in Mumbai and graduated from Bombay University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B;B.S) degree from Grant Medical College. 

For some unfathomable reason he has a special interest in epidemiology of hand disorders, Dupuytren’s contracture, the outcome of interventions in upper limb and hand trauma and interventions for wrist disorders. He has published widely on scaphoid fracture and has written over 25 chapters in books on hand surgery. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hand Surgery (European edition) and was member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. He was Head of School of Surgery at HEEM - clearly a glutton for punishment.

Professor Dias is past President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) and Past President of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA). 

He chairs the Clinical Senate and the EWG HSCIC. His research is funded by the NIHR and he currently leads the AToMS research team at the University Hospitals of Leicester. He enjoys his clinical work.

Joseph is married to Catherine, and they have five adult children. He enjoys travel and supports the Leicester Tigers rugby union team. He is delighted to see Leicester City Football Club win the Premier League.

Joseph is the author of a paper in the May 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The epidemiology of fractures of the scaphoid

K. Garala, N. A. Taub, J. J. Dias

Bone Joint J  May 2016 98-B:654-659.

James Hunter is a children's orthopaedic surgeon in Nottingham, where he does adult trauma in his spare time. He was born in Sussex and educated at Oxford and at Kings College Hospital, where he was the orthopaedic houseman. He was sent to Nottingham by his chiefs at Kings, and has remained in the East Midlands ever since saving two years as a registrar in Enfield, and a year as the paediatric orthopaedic fellow in Sheffield.

A period of full-time research into thromboembolism in the early 1990s thoroughly put him off adult elective orthopaedics, but did position him to note the early failure of the Capital hip replacement as he was reviewing all the arthroplasties.

He is active in teaching paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, and chairs the paediatric AO course in the United Kingdom. He has been the chairman of the AO paediatric expert group since 1997.

James was on the executive committee of the children's orthopaedic Society between 2003 and 2013, serving as Secretary and President. 

He is married to Ann, an haemato-oncologist, and they have three adult children. He likes playing golf and guitar, the latter leading him to identify the correct length of time for pre-manipulation traction of the supracondylar fracture. 

James is the author of a paper in the January 2016 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Manipulation and reduction of paediatric fractures of the distal radius and forearm using intranasal diamorphine and 50% oxygen and nitrous oxide in the emergency department: a 2.5-year study.

T. Kurien, K. R. Price, R. G. Pearson, C. Dieppe, J. B. Hunter

Bone Joint J  January 2016 98-B:131-136.

After finishing high school, Dr Schreurs tried to enter the medical training programme in the Netherlands. However, due to a numerus fixus he was initially not selected and became a physical therapist. He worked for one year as a therapist and then decided to try once more to become a physician. He succeeded and started the medical programme at the age of 24 years. After receiving his MD cum laude at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, he could start a research fellowship in 1988 under the supervision of Professor Slooff and Professor Rik Huiskes at the same university. During this period he worked on the development of a femoral bone impaction system, and the principle of the instruments of this technique were designed and tested in the goat. He finished his thesis on this subject in 1994. Together with the Exeter group (Robin Ling and Graham Gie, Exeter, United Kingdom) and Howmedica International this resulted in the femoral X-Change device for femoral bone impaction grafting, which is still on the market.

After finishing his training as orthopedic surgeon, he took the opportunity to become a faculty member of the Orthopedic Department of the Radboud University as the successor of Professor Slooff in hip surgery. For many years he worked with Dr Jean Gardeniers on the Hip Unit, promoting both acetabular and femoral bone impaction grafting. He is the co-author of more than 130 journal papers and many book chapters. Initially he did a lot of experimental work, however over the last decade he has become more interested in clinical studies. For his research he received several Awards including the prestigious Dutch Anna Award. Recently, he focused his attention more to young patients who are in need of a hip prosthesis, and he believes that reconstruction of the bone loss, often seen already at the primary surgery in these young patients, is the most important step. In the Department we are now following a cohort of more than 500 patients with a total hip prosthesis who were under fifty at the moment of surgery. Working with enthusiastic PhD students on these projects is very stimulating and we are looking forward to present the data of this large cohort in the near future.

He has fulfilled several positions within the Dutch Orthopedic Society. He is running the obligatory Nijmegen Hip Course for residents orthopedics in the Netherlands for 15 years now. He is a member of several international orthopedic societies including the International Hip Society. His new challenge is that he is the incoming president of the European Hip Society and will organise the EHS meeting in the Hague the Netherlands in 2018.

In his youth he was an enthusiastic football player but at the age of 22 he realised that he missed some essential skills. So he decided to start running, and has done ever so since 1977. Every year he tries to participate in the Zevenheuvelen run, the biggest event on running in the Netherlands over 15 km. In addition, to stay in shape, he cycles everyday to the hospital, as Dutch people do.

Dr Schreurs is the author of a paper in the October 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Acetabular revision with impaction bone grafting and a cemented polyethylene acetabular component: comparison of the Kaplan-Meier analysis to the competing risk analysis in 62 revisions with 25 to 30 years follow-up.

M. A. J. te Stroet, J. C. Keurentjes, W. H. C Rijned, J. W. M. Gardeniers, T. J. J. H Slooff, B. W. Schreurs

Bone Joint J  October 2015 97-B:1338-1344.

Michael qualified from Southampton University Medical School in 1977. He joined the RAF and became a medical cadet as a student. He took house jobs in Southampton followed by A&E at Luton and Dunstable. He then spent 18 months working as a rather bewildered GP (with no formal GP training) at RAF Leuchars in Fife Scotland. The RAF insisted doctors who intended to move into hospital medicine had to work on a flying station to understand how the Air Force worked, which did not seem unreasonable to Michael.

After Leuchars Orthopaedic training at RAF Hospitals at Halton, Wegberg (Germany) and Ely with two years secondment to Nottingham (Queens Medical centre and Harlow Wood.) Michael’s interest in spinal surgery developed while working for Bob Mulholland in Nottingham. During his training his biggest influences were from Colin Campbell, Tom Bucher, Chris Colton and Bob Mulholland. However, he still recalls a lot of the knowledge he acquired on the Neurosurgical unit in Southampton as a student with John Garfield and Jason Brice.

Michael came up with the idea for a medico-legal book while at Ely/Nottingham, although he is still not quite sure what inspired him, stating “Perhaps I was too idle to do proper research”. He pursued the project with Phil Fagg and the first edition was published in 1989 and the fourth, the most recent, was published in 2010. Michael is currently unsure as to whether there will be another edition due to the use of the internet, Pubmed, google etc in medical research today.

Michael began as a consultant at PA(H) RAF Wroughton in January 1989 and moved sideways to the NHS in August 1993 at PMH (now GWH) Swindon. He developed and evolved an interest in spinal surgery with buddy Tony Fogg who tragically died in March this year.

He continues to specialise in spine, hip and knee practice and is the Chairman of the medico-legal committee BOA. He is also involved in a large equestrian/horse racing practice and is proud to have recently been appointed Trustee/Director of Injured Jockeys Fund.

Michael’s sporting interests include golf (at which he is poor to average) and football (a long-suffering season ticket holder at White Hart Lane).

Michael is the author of a paper in the September 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Informed consent: where are we in 2015?

M. A. Foy

Bone Joint J September 2015 97-B:1159-1161.

Don grew up in Montreal and went to medical school at McGill University. He subsequently did his residency at the University of Toronto. He developed an interest in lower limb reconstruction and did fellowship training in Toronto and Berne, Switzerland. He joined the active staff at Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia in 1996.

Don’s clinical interest is reconstruction of the hip and knee. He is an active member of the North American hip society, the knee society and the international knee society.

Don’s research interest is in outcomes research and clinical trials in joint replacement. He holds a master degree in clinical epidemiology. He has been the PI on three research projects that have won hip society awards.

Don is married to Vivian Bach and they have four children. Don is an avid runner and always looks forward to his runs at meetings with the editor of BJJ, though Don is almost always trailing behind.

Don is an author of a paper in the August 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Adverse local tissue reactions in metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty due to trunnion corrosion: the risk of misdiagnoses

M. R. Whitehouse, M. Endo, S. Zachara, T. O. Nelson, N. V. Greidanus, B. A. Masri, D. S. Garbuz, C. P. Duncan

Bone Joint J August 2015 97-B:1024-1030.

James Calder qualified from the London Hospital in 1991 having taken more examinations than was strictly necessary! He completed his basic surgical training in London and then on the south coast of England where he cemented his enthusiasm for sailing. In between spells of military service across the world and following the award of a Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons, he completed his MD thesis at Imperial College investigating the cellular mechanisms of osteonecrosis and realised that pure scientists were more adept at performing complex histochemical analyses.

James spent a year as foot ankle fellow to Dr Terry Saxby in Brisbane and was awarded a travelling sports orthopaedic fellowship in the USA. He was appointed Consultant at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke in 2002, moved to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2010 and was appointed Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London in 2014.

James remains actively involved in research projects at Imperial College and the Fortius Clinic, London of which he was a founding member. He is vice-president of ESSKA-AFAS and Chairman of the Achilles Tendon Study Group. He was Associate Editor of Knee Surgery, Sports, Traumatology and Arthroscopy (KSSTA) Journal until 2014, served on the Clinical Studies Group for Arthritis Research UK from 2011 and has been Medical Adviser to Dance UK since 2012. His main areas of research include Achilles tendon, articular cartilage and sports-related ankle and foot injuries. He has developed a major clinical interest in the arthroscopic treatment of ankle conditions and sports-related foot and ankle injuries and now looks after many professional athletes. James is on the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal and Specialty Editor for Foot and Ankle.

James lives near Alresford in Hampshire with his wife, Joanna and two children. With a dislike for lycra-clad cycling and the realisation that parachuting and running will eventually catch up with him, he has started swimming lessons so as not to embarrass his children during triathlons! He remains a frustrated farmer with a small herd of Dexter cows.

James is an author of a paper in the July 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Calcaneal fractures: selection bias is key

C. J. Pearce, K. L. Wong, J. D. F. Calder

Bone Joint J July 2015 97-B:880-882.

Matt grew up in Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He went to University in Cambridge and completed his orthopaedic training in North London and East Anglia. Matt developed an interest in clinical research early in his career, completing a PhD in Achilles Tendinopathy and Rupture in 2004. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire in 2006, and was promoted to Professor at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit in 2011. Matt moved to Oxford to take up the post of Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma in 2015.

Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal interventions and he is Chief Investigator for a series of randomised trials supported by grants from the UK National Institute of Health Research and Musculoskeletal Charities. His work has been cited widely, and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Matt now works exclusively in trauma surgery in Oxford, which is a Major Trauma Centre and tertiary referral unit for orthopaedic trauma surgery.

Matt is currently Associate Editor for Trauma and Research Methods at the Bone and Joint Journal. He is married to Nicola and has two children. He is living out his football dreams through watching his children play – they are much better than he ever was – but he remains a die-hard Liverpool FC fan.

Matt is an author of a paper in the May 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Meniscal allograft transplantation: Rationale for treatment

N. A. Smith, M. L. Costa, T. Spalding

Bone Joint J May 2015 97-B:590-594.

Professor David Beverland is the head of the Primary Joint Unit at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast. The Primary Joint Unit specialises in primary hip and knee replacements. It was established in 1986 and since 1992 almost 19 000 primary joints have been performed which represents around 30% of all joints carried out in Northern Ireland in the same time period. This makes it one of the largest primary joint replacement units in the United Kingdom.

He received his MB, BCh, BAO in 1978 from Queen’s University Belfast and completed his professional qualifications to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. In 1985 he completed his MD thesis which investigated the aetiology and significance of vibrations produced by the normal patella. He had two fellowships, the Sir John Charnley Hip Revision Fellowship (Wrightington, England) in 1988 with Mike Wroblewski and the Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship with special interest in pelvic and acetabular surgery (Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada with Marvin Tile and Jim Kellam) in 1989. In 1990 after completing his training he became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast. Since his appointment he has consistently been a high volume primary joint surgeon and in 1993 set up a unit to record Outcome following primary hip and knee replacement.

He has several major research and work interests: audit and information, which resulted in the creation and development of the Belfast Orthopaedic Information System; outcomes monitoring, component placement in total hip arthroplasty, for example the use of the transverse acetabular ligament; arthroplasty complications and improving patient satisfaction following total knee arthroplasty. In 2011 he was appointed honorary Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering in Queen’s University Belfast and is involved in an on-going program of research to optimise acetabular and femoral component placement which encompasses patient positioning, restoration of femoral head centre, improved accuracy of acetabular inclination and pre-operative planning.

He has had over 80 publications in a range of medical journals, has spoken at over 200 conferences and has been an invited guest speaker at many conferences worldwide. He reviews papers for the Bone and Joint Journal, Hip international, Orthopaedics and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Professor Beverland is a founder and trustee of the Belfast Arthroplasty Research Trust which provides funding for arthroplasty research in Musgrave Park Hospital.

He is a member of the British Medical Association, British Orthopaedic Association, British Orthopaedic Research Society, Irish Orthopaedic Association, British Hip Society, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), Member of the Association of Bone & Joint Surgeons, Honorary member of British Association for Surgery of the Knee and a Member of the International Hip Society.

Dr Beverland is an author of a paper in the March 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Early surveillance of ceramic-on-metal total hip arthroplasty

J. C. Hill, O. J. Diamond, S. O'Brien, J. G. Boldt, M. Stevenson, D. E. Beverand

Bone Joint J March 2015 97-B:300-305.

Dr. Van Hellemondt completed his medical training at the university of Groningen and Amsterdam, subsequently trained as an Orthopaedic surgeon in Nijmegen, Netherlands and Basel, Switzerland. He has worked as a consultant at the Sint Maartenskliniek in Nijmegen the Netherlands since 2000 and is closely involved in hip and knee research, as well as teaching and education. The Sint Maartenskliniek is a tertiary and revision referral center in the Netherlands. Over the years, the major area of orthopaedic work is focusing on diagnosis and treatment of complex primairy and revision hip and knee arthroplasty. He is also involved in the development of revision total hip and knee systems.

Dr. Van Hellemondt has several international publications and presentations / book chapters to his name and is reviewer of esteemed orthopaedic journals. He is a member of several international societies. Furthermore he is a board-member of the European Knee Society and chairman of the Dutch Knee Society.

He travels quite widely and tries to achieve balance between his  professional and private life as husband and father of three adolescent children.

Dr van Hellemondt is an author of a paper in the February 2015 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Survivorship of the cementless Spotorno femoral component in patients under 50 years of age at a mean follow-up of 18.4 years

J. E. Biemond, S. Venkatesan, G. G. van Hellemondt

Bone Joint J February 2015 97-B:160-163.

Professor Carsten Perka's major area of orthopaedic work is adult reconstructive surgery, with particular emphasis on the hip and knee. He is involved in the development of  total hip and knee systems in both,primary and revision settings.

Prof. Perka’s research interests surround the diagnosis and treatment of complex revision total hip and knee arthroplasty. Known as a pioneer in the use of new surgical techniques, procedures and modalities, he was the principal investigator in numerous major research studies. He has received a number of prestigious research grants and has secured more than $10 million in research funding.

He has published over 250 research articles and manuscripts in multiple of prestigious medical journals, including Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Am and Br), Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and Nature Biotechnology. He is editor of landmark textbooks for adult joint reconstruction and trauma surgery and has co-authored more than 30 chapters in medical textbooks. He has held numerous editorial appointments, and is a reviewer for several respected medical journals. Professor Perka holds a patent for intramuscular transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells.

He is a member of such distinguished medical societies as the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, German Society for Trauma Surgery, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and is a member of the International Hip Society, as well as being is listed among a select group of surgeons in Focus magazine’s 'Germans’s Top Doctors' issue for several years.

Professor Perka is an author of a paper in the December 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Significant muscle damage after multiple revision total hip replacements through the direct lateral approach

P. Von Roth, M. P. Abdel, W. Wauer, T. Winkler, G. Wassilew, G. Diederichs, C. Perka

Bone Joint J December 2014 96-B:1618-22.

Joseph Daniel graduated from medical school in India in 1981. His specialist training in orthopaedics took place at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. His MS thesis was on the subject of management of congenital clubfoot.

He then worked as a Senior Registrar and later as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the University College of Medical Sciences and St Stephens Hospital, New Delhi for a decade. During his time there, he had broad-based orthopaedic and trauma practice but his special interest had been paediatric orthopaedic conditions, including congenital deformities, cerebral palsy and limb lengthening.  

Mr Daniel came to the UK in 1998 and undertook further training in the West Midlands. He completed his FRCS from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow and joined Mr Derek McMinn in 2001 to undertake ongoing research at the McMinn Centre in Birmingham.

Joseph’s current research interests focus on conservative hip arthroplasty, in particular the aspects of safety and efficacy of modern hip resurfacing. He has contributed to the body of knowledge in orthopaedics with over 200 international and national presentations and around 45 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is a reviewer for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, International Orthopaedics, Acta Biomaterialia and the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Joseph and his wife Phebe have two grown-up children.

Mr Daniel is an author of a paper in the September 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Results of Birmingham hip resurfacing at 12 to 15 years.

J. Daniel, C. Pradhan, H. Ziaee, P. B. Pynsent, D. J. W. McMinn

Bone Joint J October 2014 96-B:1298-1306.

Johan Witt qualified from The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London in 1983. One of his early mentors was Sir Rodney Sweetnam who stimulated an interest in orthopaedic oncology. His orthopaedic training was mainly in the London region but he did have the opportunity to spend one year at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This gave him the chance to work with some of the doyens of American orthopaedic surgery including William Harris and Henry Mankin. He continued his training as a Senior Registrar on the Kings College Hospital rotation. He did two further fellowships, one in Sydney for one year mainly in orthopaedic oncology and lower limb arthroplasty and then spent time in Bern with Professor Ganz, where he was introduced to the techniques of hip joint preservation surgery.

In 1995 he was appointed as a Consultant at University College London Hospitals and The Middlesex Hospital. Early on following his appointment, he was largely involved with the London Bone Tumour Service but started building up experience with periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia. In 2000 he was awarded an ABC travelling fellowship. Over time, the influence of Reinhold Ganz on his practice has become increasingly apparent. He has developed a service looking after young patients with non-arthritic hip pathology. He has worked to raise the profile of non-arthritic hip diagnosis and management, organising educational sessions under the aegis of the British Hip Society, as well as other courses putting across the concepts of hip joint preservation and the anatomy of the surgical techniques involved. His current practice is focused on hip surgery, in particular minimally invasive periacetabular osteotomy, arthroscopic hip surgery and total hip replacement in young patients.

For many years he felt that the best way to analyse hip morphology was with CT scans also using 3D reconstructions. A number of research publications have been published in relation to identifying specific aspects of the dysplastic hip and hip impingement using this modality. Current research is to develop more information from dynamic analysis of CT scans, as well as functional outcomes and relation to articular cartilage injury. Mr Witt has had a long experience of performing hip replacements in young patients, including children and adolescents and has published the outcomes of cementless hip replacement in these groups, particularly in relation to ceramic on ceramic bearings.

Johan remains an enthusiastic tennis player and is always delighted to challenge colleagues on local courts at meetings around the world.

Mr Witt is an author of a paper in the September 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Evaluation of the magnitude and location of Cam deformity using three dimensional CT analysis

O. Khan, J. Witt

Bone Joint J September 2014 96-B:1167-1171.

Fergal Monsell was born in Dublin and emigrated shortly before England last won the World cup.

After attending Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, he graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine. He completed higher surgical training at the University of Manchester and fellowship training at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney.

Following appointments to the Consultant staff at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore in 1997, he has been a Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol since 2004.

His paediatric practice is broad based with a special interest in the management of patients with limb deformity. He has some experience in surgical and prosthetic management of this patient group and leads a multi-disciplinary team. He is also involved in all aspects of paediatric trauma and the treatment of children with cerebral palsy using a spectrum of contemporary techniques.

Mr Monsell has an active research portfolio and his group is currently investigating the skeletal consequences of septicaemia, defining patterns of normal limb growth and developing reconstruction techniques for complex deformity. He is involved in education at all levels and is Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol and Director of the Avon Centre for Musculoskeletal Education.

Fergal's MSc thesis was for work that quantified the kinematics of the knee following ACL injury and reconstruction and his PhD thesis evaluated on the effect of cytotoxic chemotherapy on regenerate bone in a small mammal model of limb lengthening.

In 2000, he was an ABC travelling fellow, is the immediate Past President of the Limb Reconstruction Society and a Member of the Politburo of the Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as a member of the editorial board of the Bone and Joint Journal and specialty editor for paediatrics.

He is married to Ros, has three grown-up children and to his credit, is a lifelong Spurs supporter.

Mr Monsell is author of a paper in the August 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

A prejudiced view

F. P. Monsell

Bone Joint J August 2014 96-B:1002-1004.

Matthew P. Abdel, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Senior Associate Consultant of Adult Reconstruction at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  He completed his hip and knee adult reconstruction fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where he was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Research Award.  He then completed the Müller Foundation/Hip Society European Fellowship in Hip Surgery, visiting multiple centres in England, France, Germany and Italy. Dr. Abdel completed his internship and residency at the Mayo Clinic, where he served as a chief resident and received both the Mark B. Coventry Clinical Research and PJ Kelly Basic Science Research Awards twice, as well as the Chief Resident Outstanding Clinician Award.  In addition, he received his M.S. in Biomedical Sciences from the Mayo Graduate School. 

Dr. Abdel’s research interests surround acetabular reconstruction after oncologic resection and the individual genetic host variation of arthrofibrosis, flexion instability, osteolysis, and infections.  For his research, Dr Abdel has been the recipient of the Knee Society Coventry Award (2014) and the ORS/OREF Travel Award in Orthopaedic Research Translation (2014). In addition, he has secured nearly $2 million in research funding. Contributing to practice and knowledge in orthopedic surgery with over 100 international and national presentations and over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, Dr Abdel holds a patent for developing a personal allergy detector. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research (JOR) and Bone and Joint 360, and is a reviewer for BJJ and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (CORR).

Dr Abdel is an author of a paper in the July 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Coronal alignment in total knee replacement - historical review, contemporary analysis and future direction

M. P. Abdel, S. Oussedik, S. Parratte, S. Lustig, F. S. Haddad

Bone Joint J July 2015 97-B:857-862.

After graduating from The Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1979, Professor Scott completed higher orthopaedic training on the London Hospital programme. He was appointed a consultant at the Royal London Hospital in 1992, initially as a general orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in lower limb joint arthroplasty. Upon the retirement of his mentor and former trainer, Professor Michael Freeman, he inherited the role of orthopaedic lead in the Bone and Joint Research Unit, actively collaborating with rheumatology colleagues and with members of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomaterials at Queen Mary College. This collaborative approach opened up the world of research and grant applications, leading to a number of publications and providing trainees with a rich source of material.

Between June 1997 and June 2004, he was the Head of the Trauma & Orthopaedic Department at the then St Bartholomew’s and The London NHS Trust. In 2003, he was invited to join the National Joint Registry at its inception as a Regional Clinical Co-ordinator, a role which has continued to date.

Following a long period of reviewing for the former Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br], he was invited to join the Editorial Society in 2005. He continues to serve the organisation in its new title, The Bone and Joint Journal.

After his appointment in 1992, Professor Scott was required initially to deliver the orthopaedic component of the undergraduate curriculum for Musculoskeletal Medicine single-handedly. He has a particular interest in endurance running and obtained the UK Athletics level II coaching certificate, which has helped him to meet the needs of students. In 2011, in recognition of his contribution to undergraduate education and research, the title Honorary Professor in Orthopaedics was conferred on him.

Professor Scott is an author of a paper in the June 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Single-stage revision for the infected total knee replacement

S. Tibrewal, F. Malagelada, L. Jeyaseelan, F. Posch, G. Scott

Bone Joint J June 2014 96-B:759-4

Mr Xavier Griffin graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1999 before attending medical school at the University of Oxford. He completed his basic surgical residency in 2007 and entered orthopaedic specialist training as a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at Warwick University. He was recently awarded his PhD, exploring the clinical effectiveness of biological adjuncts in fracture healing.

He currently holds a NIHR Clinical Lecturer post whilst completing his specialist training. His clinical interests include adult trauma surgery, particularly the management of pelvic and acetabular injuries. He is currently on fellowship at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, a Major Trauma Centre in Victoria, Australia.

Xavier’s research interest lies in testing the clinical effectiveness of interventions in trauma surgery. He is also a Methodological Editor with the Bone, Joint and Musculoskeletal Trauma Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, with whom he conducts and reviews secondary research in trauma interventions. His current projects include hip fracture management, assessment of outcome in hip fracture patients and interventions in fragility fractures of the distal femur.

Find his webpage at the University of Warwick here, or follow him on twitter.

Mr Griffin is an author of a paper in the May 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The Targon Femoral Neck hip screw versus cannulated screws for internal fixation of intracapsular fractures of the hip

X. L. Griffin, N. Parsons, J. Achten, M. L. Costa

Bone Joint J May 2014 96-B:652-7

Mr Andrew Shimmin is a Graduate of the Australian Orthopaedic Association Training Program. He furthered his Orthopaedic education in the USA, United Kingdom and Europe. In 1997, he became a Member of the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group as a Specialist Hip and Knee Surgeon.

He is currently a Director of the Melbourne Orthopedic Group Research Foundation. He has given over 200 presentations at National and International Orthopaedic conferences, and is a regular author in this and other major orthopaedic journal and book chapters.

Mr Shimmin is the immediate past President of the Australian Arthroplasty Society, as well as a member of the International Hip Society, American Association of Hip and Knee surgeons and Australian Knee Society.

In addition, he is an Advisor to the Australian Government (Department of Health) on the safety and efficacy of medical devices and current chairman of The Orthopaedic Subcommittee of The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

Mr Shimmin is an author of a paper in the April 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Is the length of the femoral component important in primary total hip replacement?

H. Feyen, A. J. Shimmin

Bone Joint J April 2014 96-B:3-4:442-448

Mr John Keating is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and is also Clinical Director for musculoskeletal services in Lothian.  He trained in Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Vancouver. He was appointed as a consultant in 1994, with a subspecialist interest in the field of orthopaedic trauma. His clinical practice is mainly devoted to lower limb reconstruction, with expertise particularly in pelvic and acetabular fractures and complex knee injuries. His main research interest is in orthopaedic trauma and he has published widely in this field. 

Mr Keating has been on the editorial board of The Bone and Joint Journal and reviews articles for Injury and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. He is the Co-chairman of the annual Edinburgh  International Trauma Symposium, which has been run successfully by the Edinburgh orthopaedic trauma unit for over 25 years.  More recently, he was Chairman of the RCSEd short life working group on the management of multiple trauma in Scotland, as well as a member of the National Planning Forum sub-committee on trauma management in Scotland.

Mr Keating is an author of a paper in the March 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

A comparison of the use of uncemented hydroxyapatite-coated bipolar and cemented femoral stems in the treatment of femoral neck fractures

K. R. Bell, N. D. Clement, P. J. Jenkins, J. F. Keating

Bone Joint J March 2014 96-B:3-4:299-305

Dr Robert Barrack completed his medical school training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee in 1980 and served as a Surgical Intern at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. He spent a year as a research fellow in Orthopaedic Biomaterials at Tulane University and later became adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering. From 1982-6 he completed Orthopaedic Residency Training at Tulane University affiliated hospitals in New Orleans, Louisiana. Following this he did additional training in total joint replacement at New England Baptist Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, before assuming the role as Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, California.

In 1989, prior to being honourably discharged from the Navy as a Commander in the medical corps, he was selected as an American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) ESKA European traveling fellow. He received a Navy commendation medal for his achievements in medical research and for establishing one of the few tissue banks in the military at the time. 

In 1990 Dr Barrack served as a clinical and research fellow in hip and implant surgery with Dr William Harris at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Following completion of his fellowship he returned to Tulane Medical School, where he served as a Director of Adult Reconstructive Surgery and Residency Program Director for 13 years. In 1993 he was selected as an ABC traveling fellow by the American Orthopaedic Association. In 2004 he was recruited to join the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine, where he serves as the Charles & Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Chief of Service for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Dr Barrack has been the recipient of numerous awards from the societies of which he is a member, including the Excellence in Research award by the AOSSM, the Coventry and Ranawat Awards by the Knee Society, the Stinchfield, Aufranc, and Charnley Awards by the Hip Society, the James Rand Award (on two occasions) by the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and the Marshall Urist Award by the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeries.

Dr Barrack is the author of over 250 peer review publications and numerous book chapters, as well as serving as Editor of The Hip, for the widely subscribed Master’s Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery textbook series. He has delivered numerous visiting professor lectureships, including most recently the Richard Rothman lecture at the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Society, the William Harris lectureship at Harvard Medical School, and the John Charnley lectureship at the British Orthopaedic Association.

Dr Barrack is author of an editorial in the January 2014 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Thromboprophylaxis for patients undergoing joint replacement

R. Barrack

Bone Joint J January 2014 96-B:3-4

Dr Javad Parvizi completed his medical training in the United Kingdom, and graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1991.  He then completed his surgical training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he also attained a Master’s degree from the Mayo Foundation in Molecular Biology, which involved evaluating bone healing and cartilage repair. This sparked his interest in both basic science and clinical research in the field of orthopaedics.  His fellowship training was completed under the direction of Professor Reinhold Ganz in Iselspital, Switzerland. 

Today, Dr Parvizi is the Director and Vice Chairman of clinical research both at the Rothman Institute, and Thomas Jefferson University. He has an interest in the reconstruction of complex pelvis, hip and knee diseases, with special emphasis on joint preservation. As the Vice Chair for Research, he oversees the operation of clinical and basic science. He has extensive experience conducting clinical trials and outcome studies on joint replacement patients.

Dr Parvizi is actively involved in basic scientific research in tissue engineering, and has received numerous grants from the National Institute of Health, the Department of Defense, and other funding bodies for his work on development of self-protective smart orthopaedic implants and molecular diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection. He is a member of numerous national and international societies including The Hip Society, The Knee Society and the Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and has served in leadership roles for a large number of national committees. Not only does he serve as a member of the study section for the National Institute of Health as well as various other funding organisations, but he is also a member of various editorial boards for orthopaedic journals, and has received wide recognition for his clinical and basic science research, including the Brazilian presidential award of honour, five Hip Society awards, five Knee Society awards, and numerous honours from other societies. He has penned over 400 peer reviewed manuscripts and is the editor of seven orthopaedic text books.

Professor Parvizi is the senior author of a specialty update in the November 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Proceedings of the International Consensus on Periprosthetic Joint Infection

J. Parvizi, T. Gehrke, and A. F. Chen

Bone Joint J November 2013 95-B:1450-1452

James Calder is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and has developed a specialist interest in the treatment of sports-related foot and ankle conditions.

Mr Calder grew up in Cambridge and qualified from The London Hospital Medical College in 1991. During his higher surgical training in London he was awarded the Laming Evans Research Fellowship form the Royal College of Surgeons and completed his MD at Imperial College investigating the cellular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of osteonecrosis. He completed his training with a one-year fellowship with Dr Terry Saxby at the Brisbane Foot and Ankle Centre, Australia. He was appointed Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke in 2002 before moving to The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2010. He was awarded the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Travelling Fellowship in 2006.

Mr Calder has continued his research interests into tendinopathies, ligament and articular cartilage injury and repair and has a particular interest in the clinical outcome following injury in elite athletes. He is actively involved in the teaching of under-graduate and post-graduate medicine and examiner for higher degrees. He has published widely on the basic science and clinical outcomes of foot and ankle disease. He has served as Associate Editor for the Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy Journal and is on the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal. He is also Treasurer of ESSKA-AFAS and Chairman of the Achilles Tendon Study Group.

Mr Calder has been previously involved in post-conflict and disaster relief. Away from medicine he plays tennis, is a keen sailor and lives with his family and cows in Hampshire.

Mr Calder is the senior author of a review article in the October 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Achilles tendinopathy: a review of the current concepts of treatment.

A. J. Roche, and J. D. F. Calder

Bone Joint J October 2013;95-B:1299–1307.

Ronan Treacy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham UK. For the past twenty years he has been involved in the renaissance of hip resurfacing with his colleague Derek McMinn.

Mr Treacy was born into a medical family and qualified from Birmingham Medical School in 1983. He served as an Anatomy demonstrator prior to surgical placements on the West Midlands Rotation. He developed an early interest in research and trauma. As recipient of RCS Laming Evans award in 1991, he took time out from his training to investigate the role that alterations in Red Cell membranes play in the development of ARDS. During this time he also developed a biodegradeable antibiotic delivery system in association with Aston University.

Mr Treacy was appointed to the staff of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1994 . He ran the revision hip service for nearly ten years and amassed a wealth of experience. During this time he helped develop the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing with his mentor McMinn. In addition to designing the first successful MoM resurfacing, they were also innovative in setting up an independent implant specific joint registry in 1997.

For the past decade in addition to a busy clinical practice, he has taught, lectured and operated globally including live surgeries at the COA and Current Concepts Meetings. He has the largest international experience of MoM hip resurfacing and continues to publish widely. In 2008, he was recognised by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham for his outstanding contribution to Orthopaedics in the city.  In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Birmingham. In 2013, he was elected as Staff Governor to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust.

Outside of orthopaedics, he has a number of business and charitable interests and is a Francophile and passionate skier.

Mr Treacy is the senior author of a Hip paper in the September 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The outcome of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing in patients aged < 50 years up to 14 years post-operatively

G. S. Matharu, C. W. McBryde, W. B. Pynsent, P. B. Pynsent, and R. B. C. Treacy

Bone Joint J September 2013 95-B:1172-1177.

Dr Th. Karachalios was  born  in  Loutraki  Korinthias  in  1958, he qualified  from  the  Medical School  of  Athens University (1976-1982), he specialised in Orthopaedics and completed  his  MD  thesis at the  Orthopaedic Department  of  Athens University (1984-1989). He further improved his clinical and research experience at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol University, Bristol UK (1990-1992). From 1992 up to 1998 he practiced Orthopaedic Surgery, as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the KAT NHS Hospital in Athens.

In 1998 he was elected Assistant Professor, in 2005 Associate Professor and in 2011 Professor in Orthopaedics at the University of Thessaly. He practices adult hip and knee reconstructive surgery, sport injuries and late reconstruction of musculoskeletal injuries. His main research interest is hip disorders, fracture healing and  bone metabolism and diseases.

He has published 105 papers in international Journals of Index Medicus with a total impact  factor of 192.5 (91 of them are shown  in Pubmed). He has got 1200 citations with an h-index of 22. He has written  eleven chapters in books. His teaching experience includes 408 lectures in domestic (339) and international (89) meetings.

He spends his free time running long distances and he is a keen master scuba diver.

Professor Th. Karachalios is the senior author of a Hip paper in the July 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Acetabular reconstruction in patients with low and high dislocation: 20- to 32-year survival of an impaction grafting technique (named cotyloplasty)

Th. Karachalios, N. Roidis, K. Lampropoulou-Adamidou, and G. Hartofilakidis

Bone Joint J July 2013 95-B:887-892.

Pierre J Hoffmeyer MD, is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of the Division of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Trauma and Chair of the Department of Surgery of the University Hospitals of Geneva. He is the Director of the Academic Department of Surgery of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His clinical interests are in adult orthopaedics more specifically in the shoulder and elbow but also with hip and knee prosthetics.

He graduated from Medical School, Geneva University. After completing his studies he left Geneva to do a straight surgical rotating internship on the west coast of Canada at the Vancouver General Hospital under Professors K. S. Morton and F. P. Patterson. He held this position for two years completing rotations in practically all of the Divisions of the Department of Surgery. Definitively choosing a career in Orthopaedic Surgery, he then went back to the University of Geneva into the Division of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Trauma under Professors W. Taillard and H. M. Vasey. During his training he was privileged to attend the Course for Continental Surgeons, in those days organised and led by Professor Lorden Trickey. In the year just before qualifying, a participation in the six week long Austrian-German-Swiss travelling fellowship tour was awarded to him by the Swiss Orthopaedic Association. He recalls the enthusiastic and friendly welcomes offered to the fellows by the renowned hosts of the major institutions they visited. In the winter of 1988-1989 he spent six months with Professors R. H. Cofield and B. F. Morrey at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to acquire the basics for setting up a Shoulder and Elbow clinic back home in Geneva. After completing his training he joined the permanent staff of the Division and was elected as Chair in 1998. Throughout his career, he has played a major roel in the AO Foundation progressing from Course assistant to Course organiser and Member of the Board of Directors.    

He was President of the Swiss Orthopaedic Association from 2008-2010. He is the current national representative to SICOT. He is a board member of the French Society of Orthopaedics (SOFCOT). He was the national delegate for Switzerland to the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow. He is a co-opted Member of the Editorial Board of The Bone & Joint Journal.   

Pierre Hoffmeyer is the current 2012-2013 President of the European Federation of National Societies of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT). He trusts you will join him in Istanbul for the 2013 meeting and follow up in 2014 with the London meeting.

He lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with his wife Susanne where he enjoys family, literature, sailing, skiing and long walks.

Professor Hoffmeyer is the senior author of a Trauam paper in the June 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Short duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in open fractures does not enhance risk of subsequent infection

N. Dunkel, D. Pittet, L. Tovmirzaeva, D. Suvà, L. Bernard, D. Lew, P. Hoffmeyer, and I. Uçkay

Bone Joint J June 2013 95-B:831-837.

Brigitte Scammell is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in adult foot and ankle surgery at The City Hospital, Nottingham and Professor of Orthopaedic Sciences at the University of Nottingham. She heads the Academic Orthopaedic Unit and is the Admissions Sub-Dean for the Faculty of Medicine. Her clinical interests are in adult orthopaedics, especially of the foot and ankle, with a particular emphasis on the reconstruction of severe deformity and treatment of infection in patients with diabetic foot disorders.

She qualified from the Medical School, Birmingham University and after completing her house officer posts, she went back to the University to teach anatomy for a year. This was followed by basic surgical training in Birmingham and whilst working at the now-closed Birmingham Accident Hospital she was inspired to specialise in trauma and orthopaedics. She completed her general surgical training in Southampton, and became an orthopaedic registrar at Basingstoke and Lord Mayor Treolar Hospital, Alton. She was awarded the Wessex Research Training Fellowship and combining surgical training and research she was appointed as Lecturer/Senior Registrar at the University of Southampton. Her DM investigated the effect of sympathectomy on fracture healing. In 1994 she spent a year doing a fellowship in Spinal Surgery and Trauma in Toronto, Canada to complete her orthopaedic training. 

In 1996 she moved to the University of Nottingham as a Senior Lecturer. She became Head of the Division of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery in 1999. Initially she concentrated on undergraduate education and went on to complete an MMedSci degree in clinical education at the university. She has dedicated much of her professional life to teaching and helping others realise their full potential, from medical students, supervision of BMedSci, DM and PhD students, to running Basic Science and Statistics courses for orthopaedic registrars. She was presented with a Lord Dearing Award in recognition of her teaching and learning excellence in 2004.

She was President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society from 2006-8 having previously been the Honorary Secretary, and has served on the British Orthopaedic Association research committee and education committee of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. Her research focuses on arthritis pain and biomaterials. She is a founding member of the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre which opened in Nottingham in 2010 with a £2.5m grant and of the Arthritis Research UK Sports, Exercise and Osteoarthritis Centre which started this year. In 2010 she was promoted to Professor, becoming the first woman in the UK to be a professor of orthopaedics. She is the Admissions Sub-Dean for the Faculty of Medicine and she continues to work for the NHS 50% of her time.

She lives on the Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire border where, together with her husband Simon, she breeds rare-breed sheep and poultry and keeps bees.

Professor Scammell is the senior author of an Instructional Review in the May 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Bone graft substitutes currently available in orthopaedic practice: The evidence for their use

T. Kurien, R. G. Pearson, and B. E. Scammell

Bone Joint J May 2013 95-B:583-597.

Mr Manoj Ramachandran is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in paediatric and young adult orthopaedics and trauma at Barts Health, based at The Royal London, St Bartholomew's and Barts and The London Children’s Hospitals. He is the lead for paediatric orthopaedics and the director of research and education for surgery. His clinical interests are in paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, especially of the lower limb, and the young adult hip and knee (including arthroscopy, preservation and sports injuries).

He qualified from King’s College School of Medicine with a double honours degree and proxime accessit to the University of London Gold Medal. After basic surgical training on the Oxford and Hammersmith rotations, he became Specialist Registrar on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore rotation and then completed three fellowships in paediatric and young adult orthopaedics and trauma in Sydney, Australia, Los Angeles, California and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He then started as a senior lecturer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore but moved in 2007 to the Royal London, St Bartholomew's and Barts and The London Children's Hospitals, seizing on the opportunity to join what has recently become Barts Health, the largest healthcare organisation in Europe.

Mr Ramachandran has a strong academic (clinical and basic science) interest, having authored 13 educational text books (http://amzn.to/ZAJdQK), published 67 papers in peer-reviewed journals, presented at over 100 national and international meetings and built international research collaborations globally. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary’s, University of London. He is also the director of orthopaedic translational research at the Institute of Bioengineering at QMUL and his research interests include preservation of young joints by understanding and manipulating the molecular and biological mechanisms at play in early osteoarthritis. He is the chair of the UK Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Study Steering Group.

He has extensive experience with teaching at all levels from medical students to consultant colleagues locally, nationally and internationally, and runs and teaches on several clinical and basic science courses. He is interested in innovation in the digital health space and has been working on a number of projects, such as online education (e.g. www.passthemrcs.com), with several more stealth projects on the horizon.

He lives in St Albans as the only man in his household surrounded by women (his wife Jo, daughters Isabel and Mia, and a cat and dog!). 

Mr Ramachandran is the senior author of an Instructional Review in the April 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Surgical treatment of femoroacetabular impingement in patients with slipped capital femoral epiphysis: A review of current surgical techniques

S. Azegami, D. Kosuge, and M. Ramachandran

Bone Joint J April 2013 95-B:445-451.

Eduardo García-Cimbrelo received his M.D. from the University Complutense of Madrid  in 1970, interned at Hospital La Paz in Madrid, and then entered the Orthopaedic Surgical Training Programme of the Hospital associated with the University Autónoma of Madrid.  As part of his orthopaedic training, he did his doctoral thesis (PhD) on “Bone-cement interface in low-friction arthroplasty” at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) in 1987 under the direction of Professor Luis Munuera, Head of Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma and Chairman of Orthopaedics in the University Autónoma of Madrid in those years. Primary and revision surgery of the hip was soon his favourite surgery, as well as external fixation and Ilizarov device for severe fractures and deformities and limb-lengthening.

Hospital la Paz developed a Bone Bank for use in orthopaedic and trauma surgery associated to bone defects later, in the early 1990’s, revision arthroplasty of the hip associated to big bone defects arrived on the scene, and the bone bank was able to provide bone stock at some revisions. Our unit became a reference for hip revision in several parts of Spain 

Dr. García-Cimbrelo became Chief of the Hip Arthroplasty and Revision Surgery  Section in 1992, and became Head of Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma, Hospital La Paz in 2005 where he continues presently. He is a full time orthopaedic surgeon in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Hospital La Paz and was Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid until 2012.

Dr García–Cimbrelo is a Founder-Member of the European Hip Society which was founded in October 1992, and was President of the EHS from 2006 to 2008. He is also Full-Member of the International Hip Society since 2002.

Dr. Garcia-Cimbrelo has published books, chapters on primary and revision surgery of the hip and 47 peer-reviewed papers in English literature as primary or second author. Most are related to primary total hip arthroplasty, complications of THA and revision revision arthroplasty of the hip. His wife, Pilar and he have two children, Eduardo, also an orthopaedic surgeon, and Pilar, civil engineer. They have three grandchildren.

Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo is the senior author of a hip paper in the March issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

New polyethylenes in total hip replacement: A ten- to 12-year follow-up study

E. García-Rey, E. García-Cimbrelo, and A. Cruz-Pardos

Bone Joint J March 2013 95-B:326-332.

Mr Balain completed his MBBS degree, followed by MS (Orthopaedic) postgraduate training from Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi. He came to the UK in 2001, and after completing basic surgical training at Bristol and Shrewsbury, joined the prestigious Oswestry-Stoke training program in Trauma and Orthopaedics with the West Midlands Deanery in 2004.

As well as training in all aspects of orthopaedics, he has two and a half years experience and training in spinal disorders. He has trained with both Professor S. M. Eisenstein and Mr D. C. Jaffray. He completed his spinal fellowships at University Hospital of North Staffs and RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. This was complemented by short visits for training at University Hospital, Innsbruck (Austria) and Texas Back Institute, Dallas, USA.

He is now a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, has published articles in leading international spine journals and is currently undertaking clinical and basic sciences research on a number of spine disorders. He has been the recipient of many awards and prizes in MBBS as well as during the Residency program in Oswestry.

He is a member of British Orthopaedic Association, Society for Back Pain Research and British Association of Spinal Surgeons. He was the course convener for the Oswestry Intensive Basic Sciences Course, and is actively involved in the busy teaching program in Oswestry besides contributing to the Clinical examination and viva courses in Oswestry and Liverpool. 

He has many interests, which include reading and running half marathons. He has a keen interest in cricket, and currently plays cricket for the RJAH Hospital Team in Oswestry.

Mr Balain is the first author of a Spine paper in the February 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

The Oswestry Risk Index: An aid in the treatment of metastatic disease of the spine

B. Balain, A. Jaiswal, J. M. Trivedi, S. M. Eisenstein, J. H. Kuiper, and D. C. Jaffray

Bone Joint J February 2013 95-B:210-216.

Leela Biant graduated from the University of London with an Intercalated BSc(hons) in Orthopaedic Science with Basic Medical Sciences and MBBS with Merit. She undertook a clinical and laboratory MD under the supervision of Professor Bentley entitled Articular Cartilage Repair in the Young Adult Knee. Leela completed her orthopaedic training as the Specialist Registrar Lecturer of the North East Thames training programme, where she won the William Little Medal twice, the Presidents Prize Paper at the RSM and ‘Best paper by a clinician’ at BORS.

After fellowships in Sydney and at the EOC she was appointed Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 2008. She is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh and The NRS Career Clinician Scientist Award recipient which gives her dedicated research time. Her main clinical and research interests include clinical and translational aspects of articular cartilage repair, degenerative joint disease of the knee and hip and fragility fractures. She publishes around 10 papers per year, and is an author of book chapters, a BOA blue book and this year will contribute chapters to the latest editions of Rockwood & Green and Grays Anatomy.

Leela is a dedicated trainer and enjoys taking students and registrars through the process of research study and paper writing, even when it is quicker to do it herself! She is on the South East Scotland Training Committee, is a teacher and supervisor of higher degrees at the University of Edinburgh and the External Examiner of higher degrees at Warwick University. She is an active reviewer for multiple orthopaedic journals and grant awarding bodies, Clinical Lead for The Knee at Bone & Joint, a member of the BASK Executive Committee and in 2010 was an ABC Travelling Fellow. She enjoys sports, especially together with her daughter, physical training and plays the saxophone badly.

Ms Biant is the senior author of a Knee papers in the January 2013 issue of The Bone & Joint Journal:

Socioeconomic status affects the Oxford knee score and Short-Form 12 score following total knee replacement

N. D. Clement, P. J. Jenkins, D. McDonald , Y. X. Nie, J. T. Patton, S. J. Breusch, C. R. Howie, and L. C. Biant

Bone Joint J 2013;95-B:52-58.

Jonathan Eldridge joined University Hospitals Bristol and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in February 2002. During the course of his Orthopaedic training as a University lecturer and specialist registrar in Bristol, he gained extensive experience in general orthopaedic surgery, teaching and research. He developed an interest in lower limb surgery, and following a clinical sports knee fellowship with Dr David Wood at the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre in the Olympic year, and a European Travelling Fellowship, has continued to develop expertise in specialist surgery of the knee. He has become an internationally renowned knee surgeon through his many publications and is regularly invited to teach and lecture both nationally and internationally. His clinical practice encompasses the entirety of knee surgery with particular expertise in patellofemoral instability, ligament reconstruction, compartmental replacement and joint preservation. The majority of his NHS practice is now tertiary referral.

His research interests include the investigation, diagnosis and management of patellofemoral instability and arthritis, the aetiology of anteromedial osteoarthritis of the knee, biological reconstructive solutions, robotics and kinematic alignment in compartmental and total knee replacement. He has pioneered and developed the indications and practice of trochleoplasty and medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction in the treatment of patellofemoral instability. He has supervised trainees through doctoral theses into the aetiology of anteromedial osteoarthritis of the knee and the kinematics of the stable and unstable patellofemoral joint.

He is collaborating with world renowned scientists at the University of Bristol to develop novel stem cell therapies to treat meniscal tears, is assisting in the development and application of robotic surgery to compartmental replacement and has worked on the design teams for replacement prostheses and instruments. He is co-convener of the annual Bristol and Oxford unicompartmental knee arthritis symposium and has convened unicompartmental Masters meetings. He has organised multiple international cadaveric early intervention courses and the Bristol cadaveric knee ligament course. He has in the last few months produced a web based seminar and instructional course on kinematic alignment in total knee replacement. He is a member of the BMA, BOA, BASK, EKA and ESSKA. Mr Eldridge is a dedicated family man and has recently developed a passion for road cycling with the many challenges and the community spirit it brings.

Mr Eldridge is the senior author of two Knee papers in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery [Br]:

The correct rotation of the femoral component in patellofemoral replacement: A laboratory assessment of a surgical technique

D. A. Clark, N. Upadhyay, G. Gillespie, C. Wakeley, and J. D. Eldridge

J Bone Joint Surg Br December 2012 94-B:1637-1640.

Medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction for patellar instability in patients with hypermobility: A case control study

N. R. Howells and J. D. Eldridge

J Bone Joint Surg Br December 2012 94-B:1655-1659.

Dr Marc J. Philippon is a partner at The Steadman Clinic and is one of the world's leading orthopaedic hip surgeons. He joined The Steadman Clinic in 2005 after a successful period at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where he served as Director of sports related hip disorders and was also Director of the UPMC Golf Medicine Program. Previously, he was chief of orthopaedic surgery at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dr Philippon is internationally known for performing joint preservation techniques utilising arthroscopic hip surgery to treat painful joint injury in high-level athletes who constantly use powerful hip rotation, such as golfers, NFL and NHL players, making themselves prone to acute and chronic injuries of the hip joint. He has published numerous scientific articles in sports medicine and orthopaedic journals and is a frequently invited presenter at international sports medicine and orthopaedic meetings.

Dr Philippon earned his medical degree with an academic scholarship from McMaster University Medical School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1990, and completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital in 1995. He is a consultant to NHL, NFL, NBA, and MLB professional teams and has treated numerous PGA golfers. He is also a consultant to the NHL Players Association. Some of the professional athletes he has treated include golfers Greg Norman and Peter Jacobsen, hockey player Mario Lemieux, professional football player Priest Holmes, and baseball player Alex Rodriquez.

Dr Philippon is an Active Member with the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the Arthroscopy Association of North America. He is also a Fellow with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a Master Instructor with the Arthroscopy Association of North America, Masters Experience Hip Course, and a Member of the Herodicus Society. Dr Philippon enjoys spending time with his family and participating in sports such as skiing, tennis, swimming and cycling.

Dr Philippon is the senior author of a Hip paper in the November 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery [Br]:

Arthroscopic reconstruction of the ligamentum teres: Technique and early outcomes

M. J. Philippon, A. Pennock, and T. R. Gaskill

J Bone Joint Surg Br November 2012 94-B:1494-1498.

Rob G.H.H. Nelissen’s motto is “Cogito ergo sum”. He is the chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at Leiden University Medical Center. He holds the academic rank of Professor of Orthopaedics at Leiden University. He has an adjunct Professorship at Dalhousie University A total joint fellowship was undertaken at UCLA and Ohio. He serves and has served in several extramural professional capacities. He was cofounder of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (LROI), at present he is the chairman of the scientific committee of LROI (Dutch Orthopaedic Society). At present he is president of the ERASS (European Rheumatism & Arthritis Surgical Society) and board member of Medical Delta (the collaboration of top life sciences and medical technology partners www.medicaldelta.nl). He holds numerous other professional board membership. He is director of the residency program at the Leiden-The Hague area. His research projects involve quality assessment of orthopedic implants (RSA: 3D stereometry) and epidemiological and molecular (sarcopenia) studies on mobility problems in ageing (i.e. osteoarthritis and osteoporosis). He has supervised over a dozen Thesis' and is a member of a multitude of (inter)national Thesis committees. He has published over a hundred peer reviewed articles and book chapters. His clinical orthopaedic expertise is in 'functional' reconstruction (both total joint reconstruction in reuma patients as well as tendon transfers in brachial plexus patients).

Professor Nelissen is the senior author of a Knee paper in the October 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

Differences in long-term fixation between mobile-bearing and fixed-bearing knee prostheses at ten to 12 years’ follow-up: A single-blinded randomised controlled radiostereometric trial

B. G. Pijls, E. R. Valstar, B. L. Kaptein, and R. G. H. H. Nelissen

J Bone Joint Surg Br October 2012 94-B:1366-1371.

Jeya Palan was born in Malaysia but moved to London aged 8 and was educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys, Elstree. He achieved a 1st Class intercalated BSc honours degree from University College London in Immunology and Cell Pathology in 1999 and won the Prankerd-Jones Prize for Immunology that year. He received his MBBS from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London in 2000. 

After completing his house jobs at the Royal Free Hospital and Lister Hospital in Stevenage, he worked for one year in Queensland, Australia before returning to start his Basic Surgical Rotation in Oxford and Swindon. He taught as an Anatomy Demonstrator at the University of Oxford and also worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, in Neurosurgery. His first orthopaedic registrar’s post was in Frenchay Hospital, Bristol and subsequently spent a year as a Stryker Research Fellow at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford working for Professor D Murray, Professor D Beard, Professor H Gill and Mr C Dodd. He worked primarily on the Exeter Primary Outcomes Study (EPOS) multicentre trial, which led to several international and national presentations and five publications.

Mr Palan is currently a 4th year Specialty Registrar in the East Midlands (Leicester) Deanery. He is presently undertaking a PhD at the University of Leicester with a clinical study, designed to predict poor outcomes in patients following primary hip and knee arthroplasty. His supervisors in this are Professor J Dias, Professor P Watson and Mr C Esler.

Mr Palan is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), Associate member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and currently Vice-President of the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA). As such, he is actively involved in promoting standards of training and represents the interests of orthopaedic trainees at the Joint Committee for Surgical Training (JCST) meetings and other national forums. 

Mr Palan has published in numerous journals and has presented his work at international and national meetings including the AAOS, EFORT and BOA. His main subspecialty interest is in lower limb arthroplasty and his research portfolio reflects this. 

Mr Palan is the lead author of a General Orthopaedics Annotation in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

The use of a virtual learning environment in promoting virtual journal clubs and case-based discussions in trauma and orthopaedic postgraduate medical education: The Leicester experience

J. Palan, V. Roberts, B. Bloch, A. Kulkarni, B. Bhowal, and J. Dias

J Bone Joint Surg Br September 2012 94-B:1170-1175.

Dr Bohm works at the Concordia Hip and Knee Institute in Winnipeg, Canada where he specializes in primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery.  He has undergraduate degrees in both mechanical engineering and medicine from McMaster University, and a graduate degree in Community Health and Epidemiology from Dalhousie University.  He completed his orthopedic residency at the University of Saskatchewan, and undertook an arthroplasty fellowship at Dalhousie University in Halifax.  His areas of research interest include access to healthcare, health care quality indicators, clinical trials, implant retrieval analysis, and radiographic stereometric analysis.  He currently chairs the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Orthopedic standards committee, the Canadian Orthopedic Association National Standards committee, and the advisory committee of the Canadian Joint Replacement.  He serves as medical advisor to the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s orthopedic waitlist project and their joint replacement registry.  In 2009, he completed the prestigious ABC fellowship.

Dr Bohm is the lead author of a Knee Instructional Review in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

The operative management of osteoporotic fractures of the knee: To fix or replace?

E. R. Bohm, T. V. Tufescu, and J. P. Marsh

J Bone Joint Surg Br September 2012 94-B:1160-1169.

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 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.

Dr Rajasekaran is the lead author of a Spine Annotation in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

Diffusion tensor imaging of the spinal cord and its clinical applications

S. Rajasekaran, R. M. Kanna, and A. P. Shetty

J Bone Joint Surg Br August 2012 94-B:1024-1031.

Professor Ajay Puri received his MBBS in 1987 and MS in Orthopaedics in 1992 from the University of Mumbai. He did an AO trauma fellowship in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1994 and worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, LTM Medical College, Mumbai until 1999. He moved to the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India’s premier tertiary cancer centre to establish the orthopaedic oncology unit. He obtained a Diploma in Tissue Banking from the University of Singapore in 2005.

He is currently a Professor of Surgical Oncology at the Tata Memorial Centre and Chairman of the Indian Orthopaedic Association (Oncology). At the Tata Memorial Hospital, Professor Puri developed a low cost indigenous megaprosthesis that is now extensively used in India and other Asian and African nations. This endeavour at making limb salvage affordable to a larger group in resource challenged societies won the Golden Peacock Innovation award in 2010. He is also the recipient of the St. Jude’s International Outreach Program Fellowship (2001), the Hargobind Medical Foundation Fellowship (2003), Robert Bosch Siftung scholarship (2005) and the Indo British Travelling Fellowship (2009).

Professor Puri serves on the editorial board of the journals Bone & Joint360 and Sarcoma. He is a member of the International Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (APMSTS) and on the Nominating Committee of the International Society of Limb Salvage (ISOLS). He has published more than a hundred papers and articles as well as numerous book chapters. His book “Current Concepts in Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors” received the BOS Best Book Award in 2007.

The Tata Memorial Centre conducts the only recognised orthopaedic oncology fellowship program in the country. The Indian Orthopaedic association has recognised Prof. Puri as a mentor for those desirous of training in orthopaedic oncology and he also serves as a guide to M.Ch (Surgical Oncology) & PhD (Orthopaedics) students besides heading the Ministry of Health task force on guidelines for the management of musculoskeletal sarcomas.

Professor Puri’s main interests lie in limb salvage techniques, pelvic resections, biologic reconstructions and development of durable bio scaffolds. He is associated with various research programs and clinical trials both within the institute and in collaboration with other national and international groups.

Professor Puri is the lead author of an Oncology paper in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

The outcome of the treatment of diaphyseal primary bone sarcoma by resection, irradiation and re-implantation of the host bone

A. Puri, A. Gulia, N. Jambhekar, and S. Laskar

J Bone Joint Surg [Br] July 2012;94-B:982-988.

Allan E. Gross received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1962, interned at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and then entered the Surgical Training Programme of the University of Toronto.  As part of his orthopaedic training, he did one year of research under the supervision of Dr. Robert B. Salter, developing an animal model for cortisone arthropathy.  He was the Duncan Fellow at the Toronto General Hospital working under Dr. F.P. Dewar.  During this year, he developed an interest in bone and cartilage transplantation.  In September 1970, he went to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore England, where he continued his work on the immunogenicity of cartilage.

He returned to the Orthopaedic Division of the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital in July 1971, where he along with Dr. Fred Langer developed a clinical and research programme in bone and cartilage transplantation.  The first osteochondral allograft was performed on New Years Day in 1972, for a traumatic defect of a knee.  A limb salvage tumour programme was initiated a few years later, because of the advances in chemotherapy.  A Bone Bank was then established at Mount Sinai so that preserved tissue could be used for the tumour surgery.  This was the first established bone bank of that magnitude in Canada.

In the early 1980’s, revision arthroplasty of the hip arrived on the scene, and it soon became apparent that some revisions required restoration of bone stock.  The transplant programme continues to flourish for post-traumatic joint defects, revision arthroplasty of the hip and knee, and limb salvage following excision of bone tumours.

Dr. Gross became Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai in 1973 and Chief of Surgery in 1975.  He became Head of the Combined Orthopaedic Unit of the Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Unit in 1982, and the A.J. Latner Professor and Chairman of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, on July 1, 1986 to July 1996.  Presently, he is a full time orthopaedic surgeon in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, and a full professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.  He holds the Bernard Ghert Chair in Lower Extremity Reconstructive Surgery.

Dr. Gross had published 3 books, 60 chapters and 213 articles of which most are related to bone and cartilage transplantation and revision arthroplasty of the hip.  He was an ABC Travelling Fellow in 1977, and is presently a member of the COA, AOA, and the Hip Society.  He has been the orthopaedic surgeon for the Toronto Blue Jays since 1981, and was fortunate to be part of the World Series teams of 1992 and 1993.

He is best known for his work on bone and cartilage transplantation for the use of post-traumatic joint defects, the largest international programme of its kind in the world.  He has also made significant contributions in total hip revision arthroplasty where he has developed bone grafting techniques in combination with special instrumentation and implants for these difficult complex cases. 

Allan E. Gross is the senior author of a Hip paper in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

Segmental proximal femoral bone loss and revision total hip replacement in patients with developmental dysplasia of the hip: The role of allograft prosthesis composite

A. Sternheim, B. A. Rogers, P. R. Kuzyk, O. A. Safir, D. Backstein, and A. E. Gross

J Bone Joint Surg Br June 2012 94-B:762-767.

Leo Pinczewski was educated at Newcastle Boys’ High School in New South Wales, Australia. The younger son of a migrant family who were survivors of the Holocaust, he won a scholarship to study medicine at Sydney University. Graduating in 1975, he entered the Australian Orthopaedic Association Registrar Training Program in 1979. He gained his FRACS (Orth) in 1983 after spending a Fellowship year in rheumatoid surgery at Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital in Edinburgh. He was to commence his Orthopaedic career at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1984, but the Surgeon’s dispute with the State and serendipity steered him towards knee surgery. The newly arrived operating arthroscope allowed him to develop, perfect and teach his techniques for arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.  

The ABC Travelling Fellowship in 1992 opened his eyes to the concept of a research data base to validate his newly developed techniques. His surgical registry was established in 1992 and continues to this day, prospectively recording more than 15 000 procedures in over 13 000 patients. His research has resulted in over 50 published articles and has been recognised with numerous awards including 3 Evelyn Hamilton Trust Memorial prizes for best scientific presentations at the Australian Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meetings and the inaugural Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Award. His favourite catch phrase has become “nothing ruins a good operation ... like follow-up”. 

In 2009 he achieved the significant milestone of performing his 10 000th anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. In 2011 he was the first orthopaedic surgeon to receive the Royal Australian College of Surgeons Award for Excellence in Surgery. These achievements have all been performed within a private hospital, without the support of a University department. He received his first Academic appointment in 2011 as Associate Professor of Orthopaedic at Notre Dame University Medical School, Sydney Australia. 

Leo Pinczewski is the lead author of a Knee paper in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

The outcome at 15 years of endoscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using hamstring tendon autograft for ‘isolated’ anterior cruciate ligament rupture

H. E. Bourke, D. J. Gordon, L. J. Salmon, A. Waller, J. Linklater, and L. A. Pinczewski

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012 94-B:630-637.

Rolfe Birch was born in London. His father was a toolmaker at De Havilland and his mother was an elementary school teacher. He was educated at Goldbeater Primary, Haberdashers’ Aske’s, Hampstead, Cambridge University and St George’s Hospital. After five years in accident and general surgery, he joined St Georges and the South West London Orthopaedic training scheme. 

He developed an interest in nerves and muscles during his years in Cambridge studying for the Natural Sciences Tripos. Fortunately, there was, at that time, no formal medical tripos, nor a medical school. The standard expected was unyieldingly high and the calibre of many of the other students, frighteningly so. His interest in nerve repair was generously supported by all the consultants on the training scheme. They sponsored six months of laboratory work at a time when this was very unusual. This resulted in him gaining considerable experience by the time of his appointment to the Staff of St. Mary’s Hospital in 1979, alongside George Bonney and also to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital alongside Donal Brooks. He was Consultant-in-Charge of the Accident and Emergency Department of St Mary’s for four years and continued to direct the fracture service until 1991 before transferring to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital full time. He was appointed as Honorary Civilian Consultant to the Royal Navy in 1984, and established the War Nerve Injury Clinic at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, in 2007. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications including the 1st edition of Surgical Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves (1998) with George Bonney and Christopher Wynn Parry. The 2nd edition appeared in 2011. 

Rolfe Birch is the lead author on two papers in the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Br]:

Nerve injuries sustained during warfare: Part I: Epidemiology

R. Birch, P. Misra, M. P. M. Stewart, W. G. P. Eardley, A. Ramasamy, K. Brown, R. Shenoy, P. Anand, J. Clasper, R. Dunn, and J. Etherington

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012;94-B:523-528.

Nerve injuries sustained during warfare: Part II: Outcomes

R. Birch, P. Misra, M. P. M. Stewart, W. G. P. Eardley, A. Ramasamy, K. Brown, R. Shenoy, P. Anand, J. Clasper, R. Dunn, and J. Etherington

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012;94-B:529-535.

Gary Hooper graduated MBChB (Otago) 1978 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1985. In 1990 he was an ABC Travelling fellow.

His clinical practice is largely confined to adult elective surgery with the majority being joint replacement surgery. He leads a research group that focuses on outcomes following joint replacement with several RCTs currently in progress. Other research interests include bioengineering with the manufacture of articular cartilage scaffolds, the effect of joint replacement on bone density, and the investigation of disposable orthopaedic implants.

His department is responsible for managing the New Zealand Joint Registry which has produced several published articles on the outcome of joint replacement surgery within New Zealand and is the first registry to generate long term patient reported outcome measures.

The recent earthquakes that have disrupted life in Christchurch have stalled several laboratory based activities but have opened up other areas of activity and current projects investigating the socioeconomic effect of disaster based injuries are being undertaken.

His teaching activities include undergraduate (5th and 6th year medical students), advanced orthopaedic training and postgraduate (Musculoskeletal Diploma and PhD supervision) teaching.

He is the immediate past president of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association, past chairman of the national training committee, past president of the knee society, current director of the Research Foundation and examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Currently he is a reviewer for The Bone & Joint Journal, the New Zealand Medical Journal and the World Journal of Science and is the first author of a knee paper in the March issue:

The early radiological results of the uncemented Oxford medial compartment knee replacement

G. J. Hooper, A. R. Maxwell, B. Wilkinson, J. Mathew, T. B. F. Woodfield, I. D. Penny, P. J. Burn, and C. Frampton

J Bone Joint Surg Br March 2012 94-B:334-338.

Paul F. Lachiewicz received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University, Weill College of Medicine in New York City and completed his orthopaedic surgery training at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He was a Professor of Orthopaedics at UNC-Chapel Hill until retirement in June 2009. He now practices at Chapel Hill Orthopedics Surgery and Sports Medicine, is an attending surgeon at Durham Regional Hospital, and teaches hip and knee arthroplasty at the Durham VA Hospital. He was President of the Southern Orthopaedic Association during 2010 and 2011 and was recently elected to the Presidential line of the North American Hip Society. He was a Director of the 2009 and 2011 AAOS Learning Center courses in Primary and Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty.

Mr Lachiewicz is one of the authors of the Instructional review in the February 2012 issue:

Groin pain after hip arthroplasty: aetiology, evaluation, and treatment

R.A. Henderson and P.F. Lachiewicz

J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2012;93-B:145–151

Bernard F. Morrey, M.D., is the emeritus chair of the Department of Orthopedics at Mayo Clinic. He holds the academic rank of Professor of Orthopedics at both Mayo and at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and is the John and Posy Krehbiel Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo.

He has served in a number of extramural professional capacities, including Past President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Past President of the American Orthopaedic Association, and Past President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He has been the chair of the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery [Am] and also for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. He served for 8 years on the Board of Governors of Mayo Clinic where he was primarily responsible for monitoring and improving the cost effectiveness and quality of the Mayo practice. 

He is a member of numerous specialty orthopedic organisations, including the Orthopedic Research Society, Hip Society, Knee Society and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. Dr. Morrey is a Fulbright Scholar and a former member and consultant to the Food and Drug Administration Orthopedic Device Panel and to the National Football League. He has been recognised on numerous occasions for his contributions to the research arena – both clinically and administratively, nationally and abroad. Additional academic interests include NIH supported basic research investigations involving joint kinematics and more recently he has investigated the genetic basis of host variation as it applies to the musculoskeletal system. He holds seven patents for orthopedic devices, and he has authored 12 major textbooks under four different titles. These works have been translated into five languages. Dr. Morrey has regularly served as an external reviewer and visiting professor of orthopedic training programs in the United States and internationally. He has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Morrey’s major area of orthopedic interest is adult reconstructive surgery with particular emphasis on the hip, knee and elbow. He is the personal orthopedic surgeon to the President Bush senior and Mrs Bush.

Dr. Morrey was reared in Ft. Worth and, after working at NASA as an aerospace engineer for two years in Houston, he attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed an internship and residency at Mayo Clinic Rochester during which time he also received a master’s degree in biomechanics from the University of Minnesota. After two years of service in the Air Force, he joined the staff at Mayo in 1978. His wife, Carla, an RN, and he have four children, Michael, Matthew, Mark and Margaret (Maggie) who are all involved in the medical profession. They have 12 grandchildren.

Dr Morrey has published 362 peer-reviewed papers, two of which are in our January 2012 issue.

Revision of total elbow replacement by exchange cementing

A. A. Malone, J. S. Sanchez, R. Adams, and B. Morrey

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012 94-B: 80-85.

The contribution of the coronoid and radial head to the stability of the elbow

I. H. Jeon, J. Sanchez-Sotelo, K. Zhao, K. N. An, and B. Morrey

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2012 94-B: 86-92.