Honorary Fellowships

The BOA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Honorary Fellowship, which will be presented at BOA 2023 Congress.

Nigel D Rossiter

Aformer Trauma Orthopaedic surgeon with the British Army, Nigel is a recently retired Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon in Basingstoke, where he was Clinical Director and lead for Trauma.

He is the Chair of Trustees and Medical Director of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation, and founder of his hospital charity. Nigel sits on the board of GACI at the WHO. He is on the Permanent Council of the G4 Alliance and has addressed the UN General Assembly. He is also on the Faculty Advisory Board for the Faculty of Remote Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, plus the Oxford University Global Surgery Group.

He is the founding President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society, a founding Fellow of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association and an Emeritus International member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association. He also led the setting up of the South Central Trauma Networks in England.

He is also on the International Consensus panel for VTE prevention and was on the NICE VTE group.

Nigel reviews clinical trials for NIHR and papers for a number of publications: BJJ, Injury, JBJS, Bone & Joint Research, and others. He is also a founder, director, and past Chair, of Incision Medical Indemnity; Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Open Medical; medical adviser to Rams Rugby and co-authored many of the BOASTs.

He has been international AO faculty and chaired the AO Advances & Principles Orthopaedic Trauma education in UK and Ireland. Nigel co-authored the original STEP course and has been a Basic Surgical Skills tutor.

He has been named Trainer of the Year for the Wessex area twice, “NHS Shine Awards Inspiring Educator of the year” finalist twice and recipient of a Hippocrates Award for excellence in the field of medicine from Who’s Who – in which he is listed.

Professor Sarah (Sallie) Lamb

Sallie Lamb is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter. An internationally recognised scholar in ageing, disability and rehabilitation, she is also an experienced methodologist in the area of clinical trials and high-quality evaluation of health care practice.

Sallie has a strong commitment to improving the lives of older people through excellent research that answers difficult questions, and can inform policy making and commissioning. She works to ensure research is translated into practice, and to drive up the quality of methods and reporting used in medical research. Sallie has mentored and supervised many early career scientists, and is a strong advocate for team working and gender equality in the workplace.

Tim Wilton

Tim Wilton studied at Oxford and University College Hospital qualifying in 1978. His orthopaedic training was in Cardiff, Nottingham, and Derby where he was appointed Consultant in 1990. He specialised in lower limb arthroplasty immediately. Tim became the first Clinical Director of the orthopaedic unit in Derby in 1993.

Tim was elected Treasurer of the BASK (2000-2005), Hon Secretary (2006-2009) and President (2011-2013). He also was a founder member of the European Knee Society.

Tim was elected to BOA Council (2007-2010) and to the Presidential line in 2013, serving as President of the Association 2015-16. He also was the Robert Jones lecturer in 2016. In addition, he helped establish the process for Elective Care Reviews to address problems with arthroplasty outcomes.

Furthermore, he was Chairman of the Bone and Joint Publishing group having been on the Editorial Board and subsequently the Council of management of the BJJ for most of two decades. He has lectured widely on TKR operative technique, kinematics and balancing the knee, and outcomes of joint replacement from registry data.

Tim was a design consultant to Smith+Nephew for the Journey TKR, gaining considerable insight into the design, development and manufacture of orthopaedic implants.

For many years Tim has focused mainly on patient safety related to medical devices and served on NJR Steering Committee 2003-2007. He was on the Safety of Devices Committee, and currently advises the MHRA and the FDA about arthroplasty devices. He also helped set up ODEP for knees while he was BASK President and remains actively involved in Beyond Compliance.

Tim retired from active clinical work in May 2021 after 43 years in the NHS. He was appointed Medical Director to the NJR in 2019 and maintains ongoing connection with the health service, not only due to his role with the NJR, but also advising the Independent Medical Expert Group of the MoD.