New BOA Trustees (2022–2024)

Cheryl Baldwick

I have been a consultant in North Devon for 13 years and have a full clinical practice in general trauma and my subspecialist interest of shoulder and elbow surgery. I have been involved in medical education, spending several years as our Foundation Training Programme Director and developing new Specialty Registrar posts in T&O at my Trust. I have also had a number of medical leadership positions and have just been appointed to a Deputy Medical Director role.

Since 2014, I have been a member of the BOA Trauma Committee, contributing to the development of BOASTs and chairing a number of multi-disciplinary hip fracture reviews around the UK.

The next few years pose immense challenges for us as orthopaedic surgeons as we try to recover elective services after the pandemic while continuing to provide excellent trauma services across the country. The BOA has an integral role to play in this process and it is important to me that Council represents surgeons from a wide variety of units around the country, including strong trauma representation. I work in a small rural Trauma Unit and, while involved in the BOA, I have always highlighted issues relating to smaller units and promoted generalisability in the guidance the Trauma Committee has released.

Deepa Bose

Ms 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 and deformity correction.

Deepa is currently Vice Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma and 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.

Deepa 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. Deepa 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.

Deepa decided to run for the BOA Council because she is passionate about safeguarding the future generation of orthopaedic surgeons. She hopes to achieve this by promoting the highest standard of education and training, both in the UK and in low and middle income countries.

Caroline Hing

Caroline is a professor of orthopaedics at St George’s Hospital in London. She trained on the Percival Pott rotation before fellowships in trauma and knee surgery in Australia. She has an academic interest in knee surgery and trauma, having completed a BSc, MSc and MD. She currently leads research in her department and has built up participation in trauma trials within the department. She has committee positions with the NIHR, Orthopaedic Trauma Association, British Orthopaedic Association and the British Association of Surgery of the Knee. She is a founding member of the International Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance and has hosted webinars on diversity to increase support for change.

Caroline has previously helped to develop the BOA’s diversity strategy and ran for council hoping to continue to support the BOA in diversity initiatives, education and research. She is keen to support encouraging medical students to consider a career in trauma and orthopaedics by highlighting the varied career trajectories that are possible and the contribution that SAS doctors, AHPs and surgeons all make to patient care.

In her free time she likes to stay active by rock climbing, swimming, cycling, skiing, freediving and travelling. She is happiest outside in the sea or amongst the mountains, ideally somewhere hot and sunny.

Andrew Price

Andrew studied medicine at the University of Cambridge before completing his clinical studies at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. For his orthopaedic training he joined the Oxford training programme and joined the Nuffield Department Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science (NDORMS) as a Clinical Lecturer in 2001.

He was awarded a DPhil in 2003 through the University of Oxford (Worcester College) and then completed a year of specialist Knee Fellowship training in Melbourne, returning to Oxford in 2004, where he was appointed Reader and Honorary Consultant in Knee Surgery. In 2011, through the University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise, he was made a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a Fellow of Worcester College in Oxford.

His clinical work as a Consultant Knee Surgeon is based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, where he has recently been appointed Clinical Director T&O. His research is based in NDORMS, where he leads the Knee Research Group, with research focused on using mixed methodologies to improve clinical pathways in orthopaedics.

He is the immediate Past President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) and is actively involved in the UK National Joint Registry.

He was delighted to be elected to join the British Orthopaedic Association team. Andrew applied so he could have an active role in the development of orthopaedics within the UK, using the experience he has gained through working on the BASK executive. n

New Lay Trustee (2022–2024)

Paul Buckley

Paul Buckley retired from the General Medical Council at the end of 2020 after almost 25 years with the organisation, 16 years of which he was a Director and member of the Senior Management Team. In his most recent role he was responsible for the development of the GMC’s corporate strategy and overseeing its policy work including a major regulatory reform programme, and leading other key functions including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, business planning, research and data. He was also a Director and Managing Director of GMC Services International Ltd, a consulting subsidiary.

Paul is now building a non-executive portfolio in healthcare, and in addition to his role with the BOA he is a member of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Citizen’s Partnership and is the independent chair of the Scope of Practice and Education Committee which is reviewing standards across six organisations for counselling and psychotherapy with adults.

AGM update

We were delighted to see so many of you attend the AGM in Aberdeen, the room was packed with members to hear updates on the BOA financial performance and activities, and for voting on some important changes to the Articles and Rules of the Association. The BOA is in sound financial state and all proposed resolutions were passed and we will now be implementing the changes to enhance the governance of the Association.

These changes were:

• Extending the voting rights to include members in the SAS 11 years+ category.

• Appointment of Lay Trustees to the Council. This is an important development to support the ongoing enhancement of the BOA’s governance processes by filling identifiable skills gaps and to bring relevant, non-clinical experience onto Council. We are delighted that Bertie Leigh moves from Lay Member to Lay Trustee and that Paul Buckley, formerly General Medical Council, joins us as a new Lay Trustee.

• Changes to Council Members terms of office. This facilitates continuity within Council and removes the need to be retired from Council for a period of time before seeking re-election. Trustees wishing to continue for a second term will have to stand for election in the same way as all other candidates. Trustees have the choice not to stand for concurrent terms of office and if necessary stand for a further period of three years at a later date, but the overall term of office will still be limited to six years. This does not preclude anyone from standing for a position as an Officer at a later date.

We really appreciate members taking their time to attend the AGM and helping ensure that we achieved the required quorum for making important governance changes. We are looking at ways of developing the AGM to allow more time for discussion with the BOA leadership, details to follow. If there is anything you would like to see included please contact us at info@boa.ac.uk.