4.30pm – 6pm BST, 19 September 2024 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Room: Hall 1 - Main Auditorium
Specialist Society
Getting it to Heal…and What to Do if it Doesn’t
Experts discuss the different strategies for increasing union rates in those fractures, and patients, that are often reluctant to unite. Includes a comprehensive look at the management of non-unions including tips and tricks for revising fixations and whether there is ever a role for bone grafting or orthobiologics.
Chairs: Cheryl Baldwick & Jo Round
Agenda:
16:30 - 16:50 The fragility fracture and how to fix it Andrew Gray
16:50 - 17:10 The Fragility Fracture service - How can it help in fragility fracture healing Mark Baxter
17:10 - 17:35 The Diabetic patient - should we be treating them differently, the myths and facts Raju Ahluwalia
17:35 - 18:00 The non union patient - what to do next? Alex Trompeter
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot Ankle Surgeon, King's College Hospital, London
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon , Royal Devon University NHS foundation
Consultant Orthopaedic Foot Ankle Surgeon, King's College Hospital, London
Raju Singh Ahluwalia is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, and a holder of the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2022-3). This is considered to be one of the proudest honours of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The Professorship is named after the pioneering surgeon scientist, John Hunter, and is awarded annually for original research of surgical innovations. He follows in the long line of surgeons as such as Joseph Lister, Percival Pott and Paget, and Loard Darzi to be given this honor. His work was carefully considered by an expert committee and Prof Ahluwalia received the accolade for pioneering work in the field of diabetic foot surgery and clinical decision making undertaken at King's College Hospital, London, and the King's Diabetic Foot Unit.Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon , Royal Devon University NHS foundation
I trained in London, Oxford and Sydney and have been a consultant in North Devon since 2008. My clinical practice is in general trauma and shoulder & elbow surgery. Over the course of my career, I have held several leadership roles, starting as many people do, with rota management as a trainee. Some posts have been in medical education, and I spent several years as our Foundation Training Programme Director. I have had a number of operational management roles and am currently sharing an interim Medical Director post with a colleague, alongside being Deputy Medical Director for a large directorate. |
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, South Tees NHS Trust
Andrew Gray is a consultant T&O surgeon based at James Cook University hospital major trauma centre in South Tees. He has a specialist interest in fragility fractures being a previous orthopaedic representative on both the global board of the Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) and the UK Royal Osteoporosis Society (2020-2023).
He is the current secretary for the UK FFN and also co-chair of the F.A.N. (2019-present day) - Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) and Acadamy Network - a European initiative committed to starting new and making current FLS services more effective. He was the lower limb editor for the trauma journal 'Injury'. 2014-2021 and has been faculty for all level AO trauma courses since 2010. His qualifications include a Doctorate in medicine with distinction from the University of Edinburgh and a first-class honours degree in Physiology and Sports Science. He is a founder member of the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society and is their current communications lead.
Hobbies and interests are now focused on recurring attempts to improve fitness and his future fragility fracture risk score, whilst chairing the Northern Counties Medical Golf society.
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton
Jo Round is a Consultant at University Hospital Southampton, where she specialises in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction.
Jo trained within the Wessex Deanery and completed a fellowship in Leeds and attended an Observership in Cape Town. She has completed the BOA Future Leaders Programme and is on the faculty on the KSS Core Trainees Leadership Course.
Orthopaedic Trauma / Limb Reconstruction Surgeon
Alex Trompeter works at St George’s University Hospital in London and holds the position of Honorary Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London. His specific clinical interests are the management of complex fractures, bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening. He works closely with plastic surgeons for many cases. He has a regular ortho-plastic-microbiology MDT clinic as well as delivering the region’s amputation service.
Alex graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school in 2003. He completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in the South West Thames rotation in 2012. He won the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the FRCS examinations in 2011. Alex undertook specialist fellowship training in trauma and limb reconstruction in the UK (Liverpool and Chertsey) and overseas (Calgary, Canada). He was awarded the Braun travelling fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, by the British Orthopaedic Association, and a travelling fellowship to the Oxford Bone Infection Unit by the British Limb Reconstruction Society.
Alex is actively involved in education locally, nationally and internationally. He regularly teaches and lectures in his specialist areas. He is Training Program Director for the South West London Orthopaedic Rotation, sits on the BLRS Research Committee and the BOA Clinical Standards Committee (responsible for producing BOASTS). Alex is also actively involved in academic research and is widely published in his field. In his spare time he tries to go running, learn the guitar, coach cricket and make salami.