Mark Bowditch

BOA Vice-President, Consultant and Divisional Clinical Director MSK & surgical specialties, ESNEFT (Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals)

Mark is a Consultant and Divisional Clinical Director MSK & surgical specialties at ESNEFT (Ipswich & Colchester Hospitals) since 2000. Mark’s specialist interests are in surgery of the knee and all levels of surgical education.

He was Chair of the SAC 2017-2020 leading the new curriculum changes, East of England Training Programme Director for 11 years, and is currently Head of School of Surgery.  Following three years on BOA Council and one year on the Orthopaedic Committee he joined the Executive as Honorary Treasurer in 2020/21 and is now Vice President.

Tim Briggs

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, GIRFT Chair

Chair of GIRFT and NHS England National Director for Clinical Improvement and Elective Recovery

Chair and National Lead of the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) and Honorary Colonel of 202 (Midlands) Field Hospital RAMC

Tim is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and was appointed National Director for Clinical Improvement and Elective Recovery for NHS England in November 2022. He is Chair of the GIRFT programme and leads the roll out of GIRFT methodology across all surgical and medical specialties.

Tim was appointed to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital as a consultant in 1992. His specialist interests are in orthopaedic oncology as well as surgery to the hip and knee. He was medical director at the RNOH for 15 years, ensuring a re-build, and was president of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2014.

He is also chair and national lead of the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA) and Honorary Colonel of 202 (Midlands) Field Hospital RAMC.

He was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to the surgical profession.

Lt Col Ben Caesar

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, JHGSE & University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Lt Col Caesar qualified as a doctor in 1998 and set out to pursue a career in Trauma and Orthopaedics from his time as a junior house officer in London. He undertook basic surgical training in Edinburgh and higher surgical training in Oswestry, during which time he was BOTA President, obtained his doctorate from Imperial College, his fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England, and membership of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

Whilst he was on his post-CCT fellowship year training in Derby and London, he joined 256 City of London Field Hospital as a Reservist and passed out from RMAS in January 2012 before starting as a Consultant at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. He was appointed as a substantive consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from where he deployed on Herrick 18 with 33 Field Hospital. Upon his return, he applied for a transfer of commission and returned to RMAS in 2015 before being posted to 33 Field Hospital and was posted to Brighton for his clinical placement, where he remains today. He has been deployed subsequently on Op Trenton, Op Shader and Op Pitting during this time and spent the last 6 years at 16 Medical Regiment in 127 Medical Squadron. He posted this summer to JHG SE

His interest in burnout was triggered by the foundation of the Chavasse Clinic in Brighton for Service Personnel and Veterans, and his subsequent exposure to numerous patients with PTSD, anxiety and depression, and a realisation that a similar but subtly different issue was affecting his colleagues and himself. Upon further research, he discovered the literature around burnout and moral injury in healthcare workers and has published and presented his work both nationally and internationally in this field. He has just completed work with colleagues from the Compassionate Leadership Academy and Mindalpha delivering a research driven programme, Compassion for Healthcare Workers, which has demonstrated statistically significant improvement in participants Compassion Index (CI) and statistically significant decreases in their Brighton Burnout Inventory (BBI) scores, which he co-developed, which is unique in including psychological safety as part of its analysis of burnout.

Alan Middleton

BODS President, Consultant Hand and Wrist Surgeon, North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust

Alan is the current President of the British Orthopaedic Directors Society. He is a consultant hand and wrist surgeon at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust and is the Clinical Lead for collaborative care (Trauma & Orthopaedics, Anaesthetics and Surgery) and Chair of the North Tees & SouthTees Surgery and Anaesthetic Clinical Board. He is NHS England clinical lead for MSK in the North East and Yorkshire region and Chair of North East and North Cumbria NHS MSK Alliance. He is Chair of the Specialty Training Committee for NHS England Education North East and a member of the School of Surgery Board. He is a member of Specialty Advisory Committee for Orthopaedic Training and Liaison Member for South East Scotland and North Scotland and chair of the Training Interface Group for Hand Surgery Fellowships.

Tim Wilton

Chair, Medical Director, NJR

Tim Wilton trained at Oxford and at UCH medical school and in Orthopaedics at Nottingham, Harlow Wood, Derby and South Wales with travelling fellowships in N America, Strasbourg, Bern and Ljubljana. He has an entirely elective practice in lower limb arthroplasty and has specialised in knee replacement and knee revision surgery for the last 30 years. He has a lifetime personal experience of over 2500 hip and 3500 knee replacements.

Tim teaches widely on technical aspects of knee replacement and has been invited lecturer throughout the world and at the major European, North American and International Knee Surgery organisations.

Tim has been President of the BOA and of BASK, and Chairman of the Bone and Joint Journal.

He is NJR Medical Director and Vice Chair, NJR Board.