FLP Alumni

Matthew was appointed to Edinburgh’s orthoplastic hand unit at St John’s Hospital (NHS Lothian) as a Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon in March 2022. He is dual fellowship-trained and has completed both the British and European hand diplomas. He is passionate about surgical education, arthroscopic wrist surgery, widening participation in surgery.

• Double hand diploma certified (British/BSSH and European/FESSH)
• Dual orthoplastic hand & wrist fellowships (Edinburgh and Wrightington)
• International travelling fellowships (BOA and BSSH travel awards): Institut de la Main (Paris), Institut Kaplan (Barcelona), Sykehuset Østfold (Oslo)
• Past President, British Orthopaedic Trainees’ Association (BOTA)
• Past President, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Trainees’ committee
• Specialist training: Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore), NE Thames (London)
• Medical school: Guy’s, King’s College & St Thomas’ Hospitals School of Medicine (London)

Current Positions

• Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Lothian Hand Unit, Edinburgh (NHS Lothian)
• Scientific committee: IFSSH/FESSH Congress 2022 (international hand surgery)
• Chair, Young Hand Surgeons’ committee: IFSSH/FESSH Congress 2022
• Executive Committee (IT Chair): International Wrist Arthroscopy Society (IWAS)
• Digital committee: Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
• Manuscript reviewer: Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
• Online tutor: University of Edinburgh, ChM Trauma & Orthopaedics (hand module)
• Scottish T&O ST1 National Selection interviewer (previously UK HEE T&O Selection Design Group, 2019/20)
• Current focus – surgical education, arthroscopic wrist surgery, widening participation in surgery

Twitter @OrthoMattPod

Edward did his higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the East Midlands North Deanery. Following that he went on to undertake fellowships in adult and paediatric spinal surgery in Leicester, Sheffield and Nottingham, with the latter being an RCS Approved Training Fellowship. He was appointed as a substantive consultant in June 2019.

• GMC recognised Clinical and Educational Supervisor
• Spinal Fellowship trained
• BASS Travelling Fellowship 2019
• Undertook BOA FLP programme 2019 – 2020

Current position – Consultant Spinal Surgeon Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Audit and governance Lead SCH Spinal Team
• British Scoliosis Society Representative to the Spinal TIG

Harry Benjamin-Laing is a Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon at Milton Keynes University Hospital. He completed his higher specialist orthopaedic training on the North West Mersey Rotation, earning his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2022. His experience was further enhanced by fellowships at prestigious institutions such as Wrightington Hospital, where he specialised in Hand and Wrist Surgery.

An advocate for medical education, Harry serves as an RCS Instructor for Basic Surgical Skills, sharing his knowledge with the next generation of surgeons. He also founded the popular Orthom8 Orthopaedic education YouTube channel, where he delivers accessible and engaging content for trainees and professionals alike.

He completed the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) Future Leadership Programme (FLP) in 2023/24.

During the FLP, he collaborated with World Orthopaedic Concern on a visionary project: an online database for World Orthopaedic Concern. This platform connects senior consultants embarking on projects in low- to middle-income countries with trainees eager to contribute to these global health initiatives.

Harry is dedicated to improving orthopaedic care globally, mentoring future leaders, and advancing surgical education through innovative platforms and collaborations.

Throughout his training in the North West James was interested in Leadership, holding positions such as Mess President and Deanery Trainee Representative. He has been  involved with surgical education since qualifying as a Doctor and was a founding member of the North West Orthopaedic Research Collaborative. After becoming a substantive Consultant at Royal Bolton Hospital in 2019, James undertook the Future Leaders Programme (FLP) in 2020-2021. 

James' main project for the FLP was to redesign the surgical pathway from first clinic appointment to discharge for lower limb arthroplasty patients. The process is making good, albeit slow, progress.

Current Positions

• Clinical Lead for Theatres
• Trauma Lead
• Restarting Elective Care (Clinical Reference Group, Royal Bolton Lead)
• Health Education England ARCP Support for North West England
• Clinical Lead for New Theatre Complex Build
• Enhanced Recovery Lead
• LNC Representative 
• Nurse Prescriber Supervisor

Adeline graduated from the University of Aberdeen and completed her higher surgical training in the North of Scotland Deanery. She then undertook a hand and wrist fellowship at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London and an observership in hand and wrist surgery at Groot Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.  She is currently a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon at Raigmore Hospital (NHS Highland) in Inverness.  She has completed the European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma with FESSH, and holds a Masters in Clinical Education with the University of Aberdeen. She is passionate about medical education, surgical training and clinical leadership. Her other interests include development of hand surgery services in remote and rural environments. Adeline was a BOA Future Leader on the BOA FLP 2020/21.

Current Roles

• Consultant Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon with NHS Highland
• Foundation Programme Director North of Scotland
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Regional Surgical Ambassador for the North
• University of Aberdeen Honorary Clinical Lecturer, examiner and career mentor
• Clinical and Educational Supervisor for postgraduate Orthopaedic specialty trainees and Foundation year trainees

BOA FLP QIP

Introduction of the Allied Health Professional (hand therapy) led Base of Thumb Clinic for patient centred care and to improve clinic waiting times for patients with base of thumb arthritis.

Andrew graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2008 and completed orthopaedic specialty training in the East Midlands attaining CCT.

He completed fellowships in Coventry and Derby in Upper Limb Surgery.

He isommitted to quality improvement having completed FLP 2019-2020.

His research portfolio includes 14 peer reviewed publications and 21 presentations at national/international level.

He is curently a Locum Consultant in Upper Limb & Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust since November 2021.

Ashtin graduated from Newcastle University in 2003. After his core surgical training, he took 2 years out to work as a volunteer with VSO in Malawi, and still maintains a close link with the orthopaedic community out there. Upon his return, he completed my surgical training in the Mersey region. He undertook a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield and joined Warrington as a consultant in 2019. His specialty is Orthopaedic Trauma, Foot and Ankle, Diabetic Foot Surgery.

Additional roles include:

• Audit and governance lead for trauma and orthopaedic department.
• Educational supervisor for medical students and junior doctors.
• Coordinator for bi-monthly departmental journal club.
• Ashtin is actively involved in research and quality improvement and, to date, has over 20 peer reviewed publications, 2 book chapters and 1 book to his name.
• Ashtin was selected for the Future Leaders Programme run by the BOA, which he completed in 2020.
• He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, the Royal College of Surgeons of England and World Orthopaedic Concern. He also leads outreach surgical visits to Malawi with charity Feet First.

Sarah is a consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery with a sub-specialty interest in primary and revision hip surgery.  She currently works in a DGH and is soon to take up a post in an MTC.  Sarah participated in the BOA FLP 2020/21 whilst undertaking her post-CCT Fellowship in Glasgow. 

• Previous member of OrthNorth Teaching and Education Association (ONTEA) responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of T&O Higher Specialty training teaching within HEE NE.
• A member of British Hip Society Culture and Diversity committee since 2020.
• Co-leader in the development of British Hip Society Mentorship Scheme in 2021 with continued input into this scheme. 
• An assistant Guide Guider within Girlguiding UK, leading weekly meetings and activities for girls aged between 10 and 14 years of age.

Rajiv graduated from Newcastle University in 2008 and completed his trauma & orthopaedic training in the West Midlands, based primarily at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, attaining CCT in August 2019.

He undertook sub-specialist training at the Derby Upper Limb Unit; a BESS approved fellowship with an excellent international reputation.  During fellowship he worked in the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, a tertiary centre renowned for complex elective hand surgery and hand trauma.

Rajiv’s quality improvement project for the FLP was to design and integrate a ‘patient journey app’ to guide patients through the shoulder arthroplasty pathway.  The app is currently still used at the Derby Shoulder Unit and has been presented nationally at BESS.

He was appointed to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust as a Consultant Upper Limb Surgeon in June 2021.

Current positions

• Clinical Lead for Trauma at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
• Division of Surgery Quality Improvement Lead
• Departmental Audit Lead and co-ordinator for bi-monthly journal club
• Lecturer on the Birmingham Orthopaedic Training Programme
• Educational and Clinical Supervisor for orthopaedic trainee registrars and foundation doctors

Tom qualified from the University of Nottingham with degrees in Medical Science (BMedSci) and Medicine (BMBS). He was selected for an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Orthopaedics where he worked in the Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Pain Centre Nottingham as a fellow. During this period he was awarded the BASK/DePuy Research Fellowship and a prestigious Medical Research Council/ Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Clinical Research Training Fellowship to undertake a PhD researching ‘The Central and Peripheral Drivers of Knee Osteoarthritis Pain that Influence Outcomes after Total Knee Arthroplasty using Functional Brain MRI’. During this 3 year period he undertook training in Denmark, Germany and the USA.

He is currently the knee fellow at the Exeter Knee Reconstruction Unit and has completed the Derby Sports Knee Fellowship.

Awards

• Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellow 2014-2017
• BASK/DePuy Research Fellow 2014
• BASK Presidential Medal Winner 2019
• New Investigator Recognition Award Winner – Orthopaedic Research Society (USA) 2018
• Bone and Joint Research/British Orthopaedic Research Society Travelling Fellow 2018
• BOA Future leaders Programme 2020-2021

BOA Future Leaders Programme QI Project

Tom assessed the current referral pathways for unicompartmental knee surgery in Derby and examined whether MRI imaging can be helpful in offering surgery for those patients with significant cartilage wear visualised on MRI but not on conventional radiographs.

Future

Tom has recently been appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon and Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Nottingham University Hospitals and The University of Nottingham and will start this position in Summer 2022.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @kurientom

May graduated from Zagreb University in 2009. obtaining an MD degree. May completed her T&O training in April 2018. becoming first female T&O surgeon in Croatia for which she was awarded a certificate of appreciation from the Croatian Medical Association. Moving to England, she undertook two 12 month fellowships in foot and ankle surgery, then joined Birmingham University Hospitals as a substansive F&A consultant in Jan 2023.

Additional roles include:

•    Educational lead for T&O at Birmingham University Hospitals.

•    GMC approved educational supervisor for medical students and junior doctors.

•    Current IT webinar host for BOFAS since 2021. Previous coordinator for monthly  departmental F&A journal club/MDT.

•    May is actively involved in research, she recently successfully defended her PhD thesis in orthopaedics.

•    May was selected for the BOA Future Leaders Programme, which she completed in Sep 2022, she was also selected for a Swiss EMEA Leadership Excellence programme in Orthopaedics completed in Jun 2022.

•    May is a longstanding member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS), the AO Trauma (Instructor) and SICOT. 

Lee Hong Lee joined Foundation training in the UK after completing undergraduate studies in Malaysia and Canada. His journey then took him to the North East of England where he completed T&O training followed by paediatric fellowships in Southampton and Phnom Penh. During training, he was most proud of getting support from his peers in eight hospitals to complete a prospective regional collaborative trainee project. 

What did Ling appreciate most from the BOA FLP - Being comfortable with your own leadership personality and to walk with stakeholders towards your goals and celebrate each step.

Current position: Consultant in paediatric orthopaedic surgery and he is privileged to work together with his colleagues to provide care for the population of South Tyneside and Sunderland.

Current focus: Practice development

Nis qualified from the University of Liverpool in 2013 and completed his foundation, core, and higher surgical training within the Mersey region. He is the recipient of the BOA Zimmer-Biomet Travelling Fellowship Award and is currently a Post CCT Fellow in Limb Reconstruction at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He has a keen interest in surgical education and training and holds a PGCert in Medical Education. He has organised several regional and national courses and is an instructor on the European Trauma Course. He was the British Limb Reconstruction Appointed Fellow on the British Future Leaders Programme where his ambition in practice revolved around modernising the limb reconstruction referral process, which he hopes to take on to a national level.

Richard Murphy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals Sussex, practicing at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre in Haywards Heath. He specialises in the management of shoulder and elbow conditions, as well as major and complex trauma.

Richard began his medical training at Cambridge University, where he completed pre-clinical studies before obtaining an intercalated degree in Management from the Judge Institute of Management. He qualified in Medicine from Sheffield University Medical School in 2006. His academic career includes a dedicated period of research at Oxford University, where he was awarded a DPhil (PhD) in 2013. Richard has continued to build a robust research portfolio, contributing to advancements in orthopaedic practice.

Following his registrar training on the prestigious Bristol (Severn) rotation, Richard pursued fellowship training in Bristol, then travelled to Switzerland for fellowship training in Bern, and returned to the UK for a third fellowship in Brighton. He was part of the BOA Future Leaders Programme in 2020-21 and appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Brighton in early 2021.

Clinically, Richard covers a wide range of shoulder and elbow surgery, including trauma, arthroscopy, primary and revision shoulder and elbow arthroplasty, and complex reconstructive procedures such as tendon transfers. He is one of two surgeons managing the GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) Elbow Arthroplasty Hub for the South-East, overseeing all aspects of elbow replacement across the region.

In addition to his clinical practice, Richard served as Clinical HR Lead for Trauma & Orthopaedics for three years, during which he led a 40% increase in non-consultant grades and expanded the polytrauma consultant service. His efforts resulted in a demand-matched workforce, improved training and GMC feedback, and a significant reduction in locum spending. He is an active member of the Sussex Orthopaedic Research Group, where he leads research projects and supervises surgical trainees in the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex region, as well as medical students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Outside of his professional life, Richard is married to Leonie, an anaesthetist, and they have two daughters. The family enjoys an active lifestyle in Sussex, participating in a variety of sports and dance activities, and often travels to the Swiss mountains to escape and recharge.

Jeya is currently a consultant hip and knee arthroplasty surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He has a specialist interest in revision hip and knee arthroplasty, in particular periprosthetic joint infections and fractures. He is an honorary senior lecturer with a strong academic focus, having published extensively  in the field of hip and knee arthroplasty. He has previously been BOTA President, NJR fellow and an Editorial Board member at the Bone and Joint Journal. He undertook his specialist registrar trainingin T&O in the East Midlands (Leicester) deanery. He also has a keen interest in surgical education, having been a member of the first Selection Design Group for T&O ST3 National Selection (2012-2014). 

•    Fellowship trained in hip and knee arthroplasty (Nottingham and Coventry) and Sarcoma fellowship Oxford
•    Published over 40 papers in hip and knee arthroplasty
•    Research grants: £400,000

Current position:

• Consultant hip and knee arthroplasty surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust/Chapel Allerton Hospital
• Governance lead for Trauma and Orthopaedics LTH NHS Trust
• ODEP Hip panel member
• BASK Primary knee arthroplasty working group member
• BHS Dual consultant and Mentorship working group member
• Principal Investigator (PI) for several studies including POSt-Plus and ARK trials

Current focus:

• Research into sensor technology in hip and knee arthroplasty, periprosthetic fractures and infections, role of endoprosthetic replacements.

QI project:

• Developing revision hip arthroplasty networks as part of the BHS FLP 2021/22. 'Putting patients at the centre of revision hip networks'.

Joanne has trained within the Wessex region and gained her CCT in Jan 2020.  She then went on to do her Fellowship in Limb Reconstruction at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. At this busy Major Trauma Centre she was involved in the treatment of major trauma and worked within the Orthoplastic team.  She now works at University Hospital Southampton in Trauma and Orthoplastics as a Consultant.

Jit is a fellowship trained Hand surgeon and a fellow of Faculty of Surgical Trainers in the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. His main career focus is on innovative use of augmented reality in surgical education and championing diversity-awareness in British Orthopaedics.

Previous positions:

1. Specialty lead in Tr & Orth for SAS doctors, HEE North West
2. SAS Tutor, Noble’s Hospital, Isle of Man
3. Undergraduate education lead, Noble’s Hospital, Isle of Man
4. Clinical and Educational supervisor in Foundation programme and MCh Orth programme.

Current roles:

1. Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeon in Raigmore Hospital, NHS Highlands; starting August 2022.
2. JCIE panellist for MCQ writing for FRCS Tr & Orth.
3. Honorary senior lecturer at Edge Hill University.
4. Contributes to BSSH as a reviewer and a panellist.

QI Programme:

Introducing a lean and green ambulatory day case surgery unit in the Isle of Man for upper limb procedures.

I am a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust with a special interest in knee arthroplasty, sports knee injuries, knee osteotomies, and patellofemoral problems. I obtained my FRCS (Tr & Orth) in 2016 and have since completed specialist fellowship training in knee surgery at several prestigious institutions, including BOA Knee Osteotomy Fellowship at Northcumbria NHS Trust, Sports Knee Fellowship at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton, Lower Limb Arthroplasty Fellowship at Royal Berkshire Hospital, and Knee Fellowship at University Hospital Birmingham.

Elizabeth Tissingh is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. Her area of specialist interest is limb reconstruction and bone infection. She qualified in 2008 from King’s College London and has an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She leads King’s Global Health Partnerships’ work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is on the global technical advisory group for the Primary Trauma Care Foundation and leads the African Bone and Joint Infection Network. She is committed to the delivery of excellent surgical care in the NHS and to improving access to safe, timely and affordable surgery in areas of the world where it is most needed.

Jerry leads a cross-disciplinary programme of research in extremity trauma and its sequelae at Barts Bone & Joint Health. His ambition in practice is to improve the outcomes of patients sustaining trauma and to deliver worldclass academic training for the next generation of clinician scientists.

He is a former Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Cutner Research Fellow and undertook his doctoral research training at the University of Edinburgh.

His clinical expertise is orthopaedic trauma surgery with a sub-specialist interest in Limb Reconstruction. He is proud to be part of the team at the busiest orthopaedic trauma hospital in Europe – The Royal London. Jerry completed both his undergraduate medical training (2009) and postgraduate surgical training in Edinburgh (2022). He is dual-fellowship trained, having completed world-renowned Limb Reconstruction and Trauma fellowships at the Oxford Bone Infection Unit (2022) and Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town (2023). He has previously worked as a Consultant Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon in Oxford at the John Radcliffe Hospital Major Trauma Centre and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.

Current positions

• Editorial Board Member: Bone and Joint Research and Frontiers in Surgery
• Chair for Data Analytics: Bone and Joint Infection Registry
• Education Committee Member: Orthopaedic Research Society-International Section for Fracture Repair (ORS-ISFR)
• UKITE editor: BOA
• Specialist advisor, African Bone and Joint Infection Network (ABJIN)
• Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers (RCSEd)

Awards

• 2024 - Research award (BLRS)
• 2023 - Research award (SAOA)
• 2022 - Emerging Leader award (ORS-ISFR)
• 2021 - Future Leaders Programme Fellowship (BLRS)
• 2021 - Bone and Joint Infection Registry Fellowship
• 2020 - BLRS Travelling Fellowship
• 2019 - J.I.P. James memorial medal
• 2018 - Young Investigator award (ORS-ISFR)
• 2018 - Research award ((Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma (SCOT))
• 2018 - BORS/BJR International Travelling Research Fellowship
• 2016 - Joint Royal of College of Surgeons (Ed RCSEd)/Cutner Research Fellowship
• 2016 - Nominated for 'Lennart Stroemberg Award' (ORS-ISFR)
• 2014 - Research award (Pan-Celtic Orthopaedic Associations)
• 2014 - J.I.P. James memorial medal
• 2014 - Research award (SCOT)

Email:  [email protected]

Website: www.bonejointhealth.ac.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-tsang-81b53144

ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Shao-Ting-Jerry-Tsang

Twitter: @drjerrytsang

Having completed his undergraduate training in South Africa and his specialist training in the UK, Damien has had a well-rounded surgical education. Damien’s specialist orthopaedic interest is the Upper Limb having completed a fellowship in Perth, Australia. 

Future Leaders QI Project: Assessing the acceptance of a Virtual Fracture Clinic Model for the Paediatric Trauma Department in Bristol. Engaged with key stakeholders in the Department as well as ED and surrounding MIU’s to develop a referral system conducive to meet all parties needs. This project highlights the value of engaging with all stakeholders in a service and how data driven analysis of a problem is beneficial to start the conversation of change within health care.