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Honorary Fellowships
The BOA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Honorary Fellowship, which will be presented at BOA 2021 Congress.
David Beard Having originally qualified as a physiotherapist David Beard returned from an overseas posting in Canada to complete higher degrees at Kings College London (MSc – Biomedical Science) and Oxford University (DPhil – Medicine). After a Senior Lecturer period at the University of Sydney, Australia, he has been Professor of Musculoskeletal and Surgical Science at the University of Oxford (Kellogg College) since 2011. He has been at the forefront of surgical evaluation, particularly in orthopaedics, for several years and is currently the Rosetrees RCSEng Director of the Surgery and Interventional Trials Unit [SITU NDORMS]. He also maintains a small NHS clinical role for Swansea Bay UHB. Having first published research on anterior cruciate ligament deficiency in 1991 he has now logged over 300 published articles, several of which are high level practice changing clinical trials in surgery, orthopaedics, and rehabilitation. He has also supervised over 30 higher degrees. With his special interest in the knee (clinical and research), David is a longstanding member and supporter of BASK (research committee). He is Chief Investigator/Co-app in several ongoing and planned trials with contributions to methodology, placebo control designs (CSAW), outcome measurement, and most recently innovation/robotic surgery. He sits on many committees and is a core member of the RCSEng Working Group on Robotic Surgery (RADAR), the BOA linked MSK RAS working group, RCS Digital Device Science Group and TSC Chair of many NIHR HTA trials. Any spare time is devoted to volunteer Search and Rescue activities with the National Coastguard (and a little 5-aside football!). n
Colin Howie Colin graduated from Edinburgh in 1977 completing a post fellowship in orthopaedics in Edinburgh with John Chalmers. He became senior registrar on the Exeter/Truro rotation in 1986 working with Robin Ling. Originally intending to be a general orthopod, in 1990 he joined the team in Inverness doing almost everything including cervical spine fractures and arthroscopy tutor for the shoulder and elbow! In 1995 he was asked to move back to Edinburgh to join the arthritis surgery practice of Willie Souter and Peter Abernethy. His lists included shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, and knees developing a specialist interest in young complex hips following the paediatric hip service of George Mitchell and Malcolm Macnicol, and complex revision surgery. Unusually his research output accelerated throughout his career with over 120 peer reviewed publications and many book chapters. He has contributed to NICE guidance on rheumatoid arthritis and heavily criticised (correctly!) NICE guidance on DVT. He continues as a permanent vice chair on the NICE Interventional Procedures committee reflecting his belief in evidence rather than opinion-based medicine. He has been visiting Professor and eponymous guest lecturer around the world. He set up the Scottish Arthroplasty Project, the ‘Scottish NJR’, which continues to monitor arthroplasty real time. His ongoing research revolves around patient outcomes. He was made an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University in 2014. In the past he has been Chair of SCOT, Specialist advisor to the CMO, President of the Rheumatoid Arthritis and British Hip Societies and was BOA President in 2014. n
10 | JTO | Volume 09 | Issue 03 | September 2021 | boa.ac.uk
