Simon Bishop

Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour & Director of the Centre for Health Innovation Leadership and Learning (CHILL)

Simon Bishop is Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Centre for Health Innovation Leadership and Learning (CHILL). His research involves applying social science to understand change in health and social care. He has conducted studies on many new types of healthcare organisations and services, including Independent Sector Treatment Centres, integrated care providers, new forms of community health delivery and knowledge translations organisations. An important theme of his research is the relationships between policy and regulatory reform, organisational level change - for example partnerships, supply and commissioning arrangements - and how this affects care processes, management, work and employment. His work has been published in Human Relations, Social Science and Medicine and Sociology of Health and Illness amongst other journals.

Rumneet Ghumman

Fracture Liaison Service Database Manager, Royal College of Physicians

I work for the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) as part of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit programme. The FLS-DB is a clinically led web based national audit of secondary fracture prevention in England and Wales commissioned by HQIP.

Xavier Griffin

Chair Trauma & Orthopaedic Research Group, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at Queen Mary and Barts Health, having joined in August 2020 as the inaugural chair of Bone and Joint Health.

Xavier’s vision is for world class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations.

Xavier is a NIHR Clinician Scientist and has been awarded over £10m of research funding and over 80 peer reviewed publications.

He is driven by having a meaningful impact on patient care; his research is focused on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new and existing treatments to improve bone and joint health and has been cited by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. He has a passion for developing methodologies that harness the speed, power, and efficiency of routinely-collected data but are coupled with the great advantages of randomisation.

Kassim Javaid

Professor of Osteoporosis and Adult Rare Bone Diseases, NDORMS, University of Oxford

Professor of Osteoporosis and Rare Bone Diseases, University of Oxford and an honorary consultant adult rheumatologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He specializes in common and rare metabolic bone diseases. He is the clinical lead for Oxford Fracture Prevention Service, and the national Fracture Liaison Service Audit for England and Wales and serves on the Board of the Fragility Fracture Network. He also is the clinical lead for the Oxford Rare bone disease service for adults and Rare Disease Collaborative Network for Adult Rare Bone Diseases. His research interests include the epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases with a focus on rare bone disorders and secondary fracture prevention.

Sunil Nedungayil

Senior Clinical Lead- Falls and Fragility Audit programme , Royal College of Physicians, London

Dr Sunil Nedungayil, is the Senior Clinical Lead for the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit programme (FFFAP). He is Clinical Director & GP With Special Interest (GPSI) Musculoskeletal Medicine, Integrated MSK, Pain & Rheumatology Service (IMPReS), East Lancashire Hospital NHS Trust since 2019. He is an East Lancashire GP at the Castle Medical Group in Clitheroe and working as a GPSI for the last 15 years. He trained as an Orthopaedic Surgeon in the UK, before becoming a GP.

Dr Nedungayil, over the last twenty-four years he has worked across Primary, Community and Secondary care on the frontline as well as in leadership roles. He is a member of the Clinical & Scientific Committee member at the Royal Osteoporosis Society. He has served as the Medical Director for the Northern Health Science Alliance and as a member of the NHS England &Improvement, Best MSK Health Osteoporosis Falls and Fragility Fracture Working Group. He is a GP Educator & Appraiser and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, University Of Central Lancashire. He recently completed a term as the Clinical Advisor to NHS England (North-West) Outpatient transformation programme.

His area of interest is Osteoporosis and Bone health. He has led research projects and initiated Quality Improvement programmes aimed at improving the detection and management of patients with fragility fractures in Primary Care. He led the Northern Bone Health Project, which is an innovative and first-of-its-kind approach to identification and management of Osteoporotic and fragility fractures in Primary care. Along with the work he does at the FFFAP, he is also involved in working with systems across the country to improve and sustain delivery of evidence-based, informed, personalised, high quality, bone health care of value to all.

Zoe Paskins

Professor of Rheumatology & Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist

Zoe is an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist in Stoke-on-Trent,  Professor of Rheumatology at the Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis at Keele University and NIHR Clinician Scientist. She leads the Keele Osteoporosis Research group with specific interests in applied health research to improve the care of people with osteoporosis. She is a member of the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group, Chair of the Musculoskeletal Disorders Research Advisory Group for Versus Arthritis and sits on various committees for the Royal Osteoporosis Society.

Opinder Sahota

Professor of Ortho-Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Lead, Nottingham Ortho-Geriatric Unit

Opinder Sahota is Professor of Ortho-Geriatric Medicine, and the clinical lead of the Nottingham Ortho-Geriatric Unit, providing specialist care to older people presenting to the regional trauma and spine centre and the Nottingham Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit.

Nationally, he has served as a committee member on a number of NICE guidelines and is currently a member of the Fracture Liaison Services RCP Database Advisory and the RCP Academic and Research Committee. Internationally he is the Chair of the Vertebral Fragility Fracture Specialist Interest Group of the Global Fracture Fracture Network (FFN) and sits on both the board and scientific committee of the FFN.

Opinder has a specialist interest in musculoskeletal injuries in older people, medical and metabolic management and innovative services (and service redesign) in fragility fracture prevention.