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.

Kevin Bozic

President, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

Dr. Bozic is the inaugural Chair of Surgery and Perioperative Care at the Dell Medical School at UT Austin. He is an internationally recognized leader in orthopaedic surgery and value-based health care payment and delivery models. His clinical practice is focused on the management of patients with hip and knee arthritis and painful hip and knee arthroplasties, and he has over 20 years of experience in adult reconstructive surgery focusing on simple and complex primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty. Dr. Bozic also has extensive research and policy experience in the field of value-based health care, focused on design, implementation and evaluation of value-based payment and delivery models. His research has been funded by the AHRQ, the National Institutes for Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF). He is the immediate Past President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

Donald Campbell

Chair of Training Programme Director’s Forum, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School

Donald Campbell was born in Vancouver Island, Canada and emigrated to Scotland where he spent his formative years. He graduated from Aberdeen University Medical School in 1993 and trained around most of Scotland, including his Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) rotation in the East of Scotland. He completed two years of fellowships in paediatric T&O in Glasgow and Sheffield. He was appointed as a consultant in Ninewells Teaching Hospital in Dundee in 2007, where he treats a broad range of paediatric conditions with a particular interest in the foot and the ankle, including some adult F&A work. He has a keen interest in training and was the East of Scotland T&O Training Programme Director for 6 years. He is now the TPD forum chair for the UK and Ireland and a FRCS T&O examiner. He is also a SAC liaison member for the JCST and sits on the BOA education committee.

Karen Chui

BOTA President, Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation

Karen (she/they) is a Trauma and Orthopaedic Specialty Registrar in London on the Stanmore rotation. As BOTA President, Karen represents Orthopaedic trainees at national meetings, advocating to improve training and education opportunities for trainees. Karen campaigns for DEI in Orthopaedics and surgery to promote an environment in which surgeons and patients feel proud to be their authentic selves. They are passionate about creating cultural change in Orthopaedics, building a compassionate profession for the modern surgeon to deliver excellent care to our patients.

Pierre Guy

Professor of surgery and clinician-scientist, President, Canadian Orthopaedic Association

Dr. Pierre Guy is a Professor of surgery and clinician-scientist in the Department of Orthopaedics, at the University of British Columbia, where he is Academic Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma. He heads the Clinical Department of Orthopedics at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital. His medical training and residency were completed at McGill University, followed by orthopaedic trauma fellowships in Hannover and Berlin, Germany and at UBC. Dr. Guy also holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. He is the 2023-2024 President of the Canadian Orthopedic Assocciation.

He is a practicing Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon at BC’s level 1 Trauma Centre, Vancouver General Hospital. He is an active member of the Orthopedic Trauma Association and a founding member of the Canadian Orthopedic Trauma Society.

 Dr. Guy’s research is focused on hip, pelvis and acetabulum fracture treatment, fracture prevention, and post injury function. He collaborates with Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Materials Engineers to study hip and pelvis fractures and to develop novel technologies, including minimally invasive techniques and navigation. He also pursues clinical research trials and health services research, and aims to develop precision medicine tools. He collaborates with Government to realise Quality Improvement initiatives, currently developing province-level measures of quality of surgical care for each surgeon in British Columbia to receive.

Simon Hodkinson

BOA President, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Simon trained in London at St Bartholomew’s Hospital from 1977-82.

He was a Royal Naval cadet as a medical student so after house jobs in London and the Navy he spent the next two and a half years on General Duties in the Royal Navy.

After a crash course in all sorts of medical disasters he might face at sea, he went to the Falklands and Antarctica for the best part of a year before spending the second year in general practice in a Naval base.

Simon started his surgical training within the Navy in 1986 and in 1990 joined the fledgling HEMS project at the London as one of the original three Drs flying on the helicopter.

His higher training took him out of the Navy to Edinburgh and Leeds before being appointed a Consultant in the Navy in 1995.

Deployments to Cyprus, Bosnia and the Gulf intermingled with his early career and he then left the Navy in 1999 to join the NHS in Portsmouth.

In the NHS he developed his fledgling interest in foot and ankle surgery, which rapidly became him chosen speciality as the department expanded.

After a period as clinical director in Portsmouth his interest in education started as the RCS Tutor and progressed to being the Training Programme Director for T&O in Wessex for 8 years and membership of the SAC for 5 years.

His involvement with the BOA began with being elected to the Training Standards Committee, as was and then the Education committee.

Elected as a Trustee in 2017 he became Honorary Secretary in 202O and then elected to the Presidential line in September 2021.

Michael Johnson

President, Australian Orthopaedic Association

Michael Johnson gained his fellowship of the Australasian College of Surgeons in 1986.

Between 1986-1989, he obtained further training in spinal surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London, UK. In addition, he completed further fellowships in Germany and the United States. 
After returning to Melbourne in 1989, he limited his practice to spinal surgery working both in private practice. At different times, he has had public appointments at St Vincent’s Hospital, Monash Medical Centre, Peter MacCallum Clinic and The Royal Children’s Hospital. Most recently he has been working at Epworth Hospital.
 
In addition, he is involved in a number of professional organizations. At present, he is a member of the Federal Board of the AOA and is the AOA President. Also, he has been on a number of government committees relating to the MBS review, Atlas of Healthcare variation and prosthesis reform.

He was on the Executive of the Spine Society of Australia and was SSA President between 2018 and 2020.

Also, he is the Principal Investigator and Steering Committee Chair of the Australian Spine Registry.