Pramod Achan

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust

Mr Achan is a former clinical director at Barts Health NHS Trust, current programme director of the Percivall Pott Orthopaedic Training programme, and convenor for several training courses at Barts & The Royal London and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. His practice focuses on lower limb joint preservation surgery, arthroscopic intervention, primary, complex primary and revision joint surgery. In 2009, Mr Achan was one of two upcoming ‘Best of British’ surgeons chosen to represent the British Hip Society Travelling Fellowship to the USA. 

Adrian Andronic

ST8, Yorkshire and Humber rotation, BOTA Vice-president

Adrian is an ST8 on the Yorkshire and Humber rotation and is the current BOTA Vice-president. Throughout his training Adrian’s focus has been on promoting and developing educational and mentorship opportunities for trainees.

Adrian was the T&O Core Trainee Representative for North West in 2017-2018, North Yorkshire BOTA Regional Representative North Yorkshire in 2019-2021 and was elected BOTA Education Representative in 2021, BOTA Treasurer in 2022 and more recently BOTA Vice-president in 2023.

Adrian sits on multiple committees, including JCST, ISCP, and BOA Orthopaedic Committee. He has also served on the BOA Education and Careers Committee, the Royal College of Surgeons Learning Committee, and the HEE Training in the Independent Sector Committee.

Adrian is passionate about medical education and is actively engaged in supporting trainees to achieve the highest standards of both training and clinical care, especially in light of recent challenges to training.

He was a speaker for the BOA Education & Careers Committee on the topic, "Can high-quality patient care co-exist with the erosion of training standards?"

Emily Baird

Consultant in trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgery, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh.

Emily Baird is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, with an interest in paediatric trauma, and congenital conditions of the hip and foot. She trained primarily in the West of Scotland with Fellowships in Edinburgh and Toronto.

Emily is passionate about increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce and broadening access to orthopaedics through mentorship and medical education. She is heavily involved in providing medical student education as an Undergraduate Lead, and Post Graduate Education as Training Programme Director for Orthopaedic Trainees in South East Scotland and examining for FRCS Tr & Orth.

She is the Chair of the Education Committee of The British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery, a Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers, Faculty Member for Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons and Tutor for the MSc in Patient Safety and Human Factors.

She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two young boys, and likes to dance and run!

Deepa Bose

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Trauma and Limb Reconstruction, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Deepa Bose is a consultant in orthopaedic trauma and limb reconstruction at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.  Her practice is exclusively in adults, and includes general trauma, major trauma and post-traumatic limb reconstruction: osteomyelitis, malunion, non-union, limb lengthening & deformity correction.

She is currently Vice Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma & Orthopaedics, and the lead for CESR approval process.  She has also contributed to the revision of the curriculum.  She holds an MSc in Medical Education and has been admitted to the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of RCS Edinburgh, as well as being a member of the Academy of Medical Educators.  She is involved in national selections for core and orthopaedic surgery, and sits on ARCP panels for both.  She was regional training programme director for core surgery in West Midlands from 2015 – 2019.

She is the Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern UK, a specialist society of the British Orthopaedic Association, and a charity which focuses on teaching orthopaedics in low resource countries.  She is co-director of the postgraduate orthopaedic training programme in Guyana.  She also visits Gaza as part of the UK limb reconstruction team of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians.

She has been on the Emergency Response Team of UK Med, a first response team for international disaster relief, since 2012.

Clare Carpenter

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Clare has been a Paediatric Orthopaedic consultant at the Noah's ark Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, since 2012. There is no greater job satisfaction than the generality of paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, coupled with the reward of treating children. Cardiff has been a major trauma centre for children since September 2020.

She has been actively involved in education since a junior trainee and this has culminated in her appointment as Training Programme Director in August 2023 to the Welsh Deanery. A role which she finds a privilege and energising to constantly be in touch with training and the trainees.

Recently she has become a BSCOS committee member to try and contribute to the Paediatric Orthopaedic community across the UK.

Anna Chapman

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon , University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire

Anna Chapman is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire, with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle surgery.

She qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals School of Medicine in London and completed her Orthopaedic training on the Warwick rotation. She undertook Fellowship training in Bournemouth and Bristol, and was appointed as a Consultant in 2012. 
She completed a Masters Degree in Medical Education at the University of Warwick in 2010 and continues to pursue her interest in all things educational.

Anna is currently the Lead Training Programme Director for the West Midlands and is the Portfolio Pathway Lead for the T&O Specialist Advisory Committee.  She has served two terms on the BOFAS Education Committee (2015-2023) and is currently the Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for BOFAS. 

Samantha Hook

Lower limb primary & arthroplasty surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust

Sam is a lower limb primary and revision arthroplasty Surgeon in Portsmouth.

After qualifying from Bristol University Medical School in 1999 followed by house jobs, anatomy demonstrating and junior surgical jobs in Bristol and the South West, Sam then completed specialist registrar training in Wessex followed by fellowship training in Exeter and Oxford.

Sam has a passion for training and since becoming a consultant in 2011 has been college tutor for 6 years followed by 5 years as TPD in Kent Surrey Sussex before moving to the Wessex deanery in 2020.

Sam has been an active member of the Selection Design Group for the last 3 years and has lead the prioritisation station for the last 2 years.

Sam is also an active member of the British Hip Society starting on the Culture and Diversity committee and now member at large for the last 18 months.

Sam has also recently become a FRCS examiner.

In her spare time, Sam enjoys running and gardening.

Anish Sanghrajka

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Anish has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, with an exclusively paediatric practice, for over 10 years. His clinical work includes special interests in the management of limb deformity and skeletal dysplasia.

He is currently a member of the Education Committee of the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery, and faculty for the AO Paediatric Trauma group. He has recently been elected to the Board of The British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery.

In addition to his clinical work, he has a longstanding interest in Medical Education, at both under- and postgraduate levels.  He has completed a Masters in Surgical Education with Distinction.  He regularly teaches and assesses for Norwich Medical School. He has organised a number of regional and national educational events in Paediatric Orthopaedics, and has been invited faculty at a number of courses and national meetings.

He is Training Programme Director for East of England Specialty Training in Trauma & Orthopaedics, and the Paediatric Orthopaedic Lead for the Operational Delivery Network for Surgery in Children  in  East of England.

He has a number of presentations & publications (papers and book chapters) in a variety of areas including Children’s Orthopaedics and surgical training.