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Professor Mike Reed is a full-time hip and knee joint replacement surgeon. He trained in the North of England and did fellowships in New Zealand.

He was previously a co-author of the trauma and orthopaedic curriculum led the orthopaedic elogbook, with over 50M ops logged in all specialties. He was training programme director for Northern (67 trainees), and he chaired the education committee for the British Orthopaedic Association.

At a Trust level Mike has run improvement programmes in hip fracture care, infection prevention and enhanced recovery for Northumbria Healthcare. Northumbria has the shortest length of stay in the UK for primary joint replacement with over 2700 performed each year. He is Clinical Director, working with a team of 25 talented colleagues. He is President of the British Orthopaedic Directors 2020-2022, and sits on Council of the British Orthopaedic Association.

His research focuses on clinical outcomes and infection prevention, diagnosis and management. With Northumbria he is leading a national collaborative on hip fracture care and runs basic science research from Newcastle University and clinical trails from the University of York. He supervises multiple MD and PhDs, and is leading 3 large multicenter studies.

Mike is on the steering committee and executive of the National Joint Registry and Chairs the Annual Report.

Chair, BODS revalidation Session,

Speaker, NJR Session

Mr Michael McNicholas, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester

Mr Mike McNicholas is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Liverpool University Hospitals, Broadgreen, where he has a regional referral elective knee surgery practice treating all aspects of soft tissue knee pathology and sports injuries, with arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction, articular cartilage resurfacing, osteotomy and primary partial, total and revision knee replacements.

He was trained in St Andrews, Manchester, Dundee, Inverness and Edinburgh and completed fellowships in Switzerland, America and Japan. In 2001, his first consultant post as a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon was at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust followed, in 2012 , at the Aintree University Hospital Regional Major Trauma Unit. He has a medicolegal practice focussing on knee surgery related negligence, and has been invited to lecture on the effects of the Montgomery ruling upon trauma and orthopaedic surgical practice. In the last 19 years he has performed over 1,100 knee replacement procedures, 7,000 arthroscopies and 1,600 knee ligament reconstructions. (*Figures correct Sept 2020.)

He is President of the UK Biological knee Society, who promote reconstruction and regeneration being used to avoid arthroplasty, when approriate. The International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society (ICRS) aims to advance science and educate on the prevention and treatment of cartilage disease worldwide, he is a member of its General Board.

Ajay Malviya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon based in the North-East of England, working within the Northumbria Trust, where he specialise in hip preservation surgery. In addition to his clinical work, he is an active researcher and an FRCS Examiner. Over the past decade, Ajay has had the honour of serving on the BOA Education and Careers Committee in various roles, including as the UKITE lead and, most recently, as the Vice-Chair. He has been closely involved in the committee’s expansion and its efforts to introduce new initiatives aimed at enhancing education, training, and engagement. Through his commitment, he has seen the significant positive impact of UKITE on many trainees and the success of numerous orthopaedic surgeons across the country. This journey has been fulfilling, allowing Ajay to maintain a harmonious balance between his clinical duties and other pursuits.

Ajay’s advocacy for ensuring surgical quality and measuring outcomes remains steadfast. As the former Chair of the National Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR), he takes great pride in having played a pivotal role in its evolution from a developing registry to a model of excellence at both national and international levels. While he holds traditional values dearly, he remains open to new ideas and suggestions.

As a member of the Council, Ajay would passionately advocate for the modernisation of orthopaedic training to make it a model of excellence that is exemplary to the rest of the world. Additionally, he believes that NHS organisations should support surgeons in improving quality by ensuring there are adequate resources to collect outcome data. Every trust in the UK should have an outcomes team dedicated to measuring surgical quality.