New BOA Trustees (2023 – 2025)

Paul Banaszkiewicz

Paul graduated from Glasgow University, completing his basic SHO surgical training in the Merseyside Deanery and then undertook specialist registrar training on the North East of Scotland training programme. He was appointed as Hip and Knee arthroplasty surgeon at Queen Elizabeth hospital Gateshead in 2004.

He is passionate about training and medical education being a fellow of Higher Education Academy, fellow Academy of Medical Educators and has a Master’s degree in Medical Education.

He is an RCSEng member for the appointments accreditation committee (AAC) and RCSEng quality assurance and accreditation assessor for courses seeking RCSEng course accreditation.

Paul is visiting professor at Northumbria University this role acts as an interface between the academic roles Northumbria University provides and his own clinical oriented background that provides a practical focus for research.

He has been a strong supporter of the BOA Futures Leadership Programme and the BOA annual Travelling Fellowships. He is a keen supporter of BOTA being regularly involved with their annual instructional course and sponsor of BOTA travelling fellowships.

Paul is the main editor and author for three FRCS (Tr&Orth) related exam books that are international best sellers and have won several BMA book awards. He co-ordinates an annual six-day intensive FRCS (Tr&Orth) revision course at Newcastle. In recent years Paul has run its international equivalent for overseas trainees with courses taking place in Dubai, India, Singapore and Jordan.

For many years Paul was involved in humanitarian work in Northern Iraq regularly visiting the region to undertake neglected hip and knee arthroplasty surgery. This gave him a greater appreciation and understanding of our own health care system. Many patients would have continued to struggle due to a lack of local expertise and resources to pay for expensive surgery.

Through the contacts he has made overseas Paul is keen to develop the international profile of the BOA.

In his spare time, Paul is a keen runner, skier, gardener and Burnley FC fan.

Andrew Manktelow

Andrew trained at the Royal Free and RNOH before moving to Nottingham in 1999. As part of a busy trauma group for many years, his practice is now based around hip surgery. His clinical interest in hip and hip revision surgery started in London and developed during a year in Boston, at MGH. The scope of his unit provides an understanding of the issues that confront all orthopaedic practice. Andrew has been Head of Service for Elective Orthopaedics at NUH since 2019.

Andrew’s clinical work provides research opportunities and forms the basis of his educational activities. He travels widely to demonstrate and discuss his practice. Andrew set up the Nottingham Revision Course in 2007. Recently, work with the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network (EMSON) has received attention nationally and internationally.

Andrew was President of the British Hip Society between 2018 – 2019, and was elected a Trustee on the BOA Council in 2019. Sitting on the Orthopaedic Committee and reporting on PHIN and FIPO, he has really enjoyed his role. Andrew is delighted to have been re-elected to Council this year and is very keen to further his contribution, specifically to review how the BOA can support colleagues on issues relevant within the Independent Sector.

Married to Claire, a GP and with four beautiful and tolerant daughters, Andrew has little time to spare away from my work. When quiet, he enjoys travelling, music, gardening, (watching) sport and planning future revisions. Encouraged to submit a less formal picture, Andrew chose a ‘stylish’ image taken while wandering around Petra in Jordan, a place he hugely recommends to offset the stress of a busy orthopaedic life.

Andrea Sott

Andrea Sott is working as a Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant at Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust and the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre SWLEOC since 2004.

Andrea leads her Trust’s large planned Care division as Medical Director and is Surgical Director at SWLEOC. In all her roles she strongly promotes excellent surgical care and senior clinical leadership to continuously improve services for our patients.

As a leader Andrea has been instrumental in achieving national top performance in hip fracture care, MSK elective recovery and patient waiting times providing mutual aid to more challenged UK regions.

Andrea maintains a GMC portfolio as an active and enthusiastic Trainer. She is Senior Examiner for the JCIE, past Surgical Tutor and current AAC panel member for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, continuously inspiring students, trainees and colleagues to take up professional and leadership roles in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. Andrea is host to a well-established BOA Future Leaders Programme CCT F&A fellowship and has been invited as director/faculty to several BOFAS and BOA courses and meetings.

She has published many papers in her field. As member of the SWL executive R&D committee, she oversees several NIHR studies some as PI, advocating evidence-based surgery at all times.

Married to Simon with three children, Andrea enjoys a busy family life, running, paddle boarding, boating and baking with their own chicken’s eggs.

As the only female surgeon at SWLEOC she is keen demonstrate that a flourishing orthopaedic career, senior leadership positions and happy fulfilling family life are indeed achievable to all.

Grateful to the voting members Andrea wants to bring to the BOA Council her considerable surgical, professional and leadership experience, and strong work ethics to which ever position is allocated to her, promoting diversity and sustainability in surgery.

New Honorary Treasurer

Ian McNab

Ian McNab trained at the London Hospital Medical College and then as an SHO in London, Sussex and Oxford. His higher orthopaedic surgical training was on the Pott rotation, based on St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals. It spanned the transition into SpR training and he was ‘the last SR’! He undertook hand and upper limb fellowship training in Oxford and then during a year in Melbourne.

He was appointed in 2000 as a Consultant Hand Surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals Trust. He works in an excellent integrated team of thirteen T&O and Plastics hand consultants and closely with other T&O colleagues.

He has a keen interest in teaching, as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford, and as Head of the Oxford Hand Fellowship Programme. He has served on the Training Interface Group for Hand Surgery, on the UK Hand Diploma Committee, as a Diploma examiner and as past chair of the AOUK Hand & Wrist Courses. In 2007 he was awarded and undertook the prestigious BSSH Stack Travelling Fellowship in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and USA.

Ian has also served on: the BOA Board of Specialist Societies, Professional Practice, Education, Trauma and Research Committees; BOA Council (2014-25) and as BOA Honorary Treasurer (2022-25); as RCS/BOA Regional Specialty Professional Adviser (proposing the motions at the 2014 RCS EGM on Health & Social Care Act); the BSSH Research & Audit, Diploma, Instructional Course and Trauma Committees, BSSH Council (2009-12 & 2017-25), BSSH Honorary Secretary (2020-25); as BMA LNC Chair, Regional & National Consultant Committees, Chair BMA Orthopaedic Sub-Committee and as BMA T&O Subspecialty Lead (2019-24).

Ian’s wife Frances is a consultant anaesthetist – with an interest in acute pain (management)! Previously he enjoyed rowing and mountaineering but now usually undertakes more gentle travel, navigational car rallies and hill-walking.

He believes the BOA must continue to develop strong leadership, with pro-active policies and actions, and to work collaboratively with other bodies, to improve T&O services and training amongst the maelstrom of NHS changes and challenges – he will focus his energies and experience on helping the BOA to deliver.