Honorary Fellowships

The BOA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Honorary Fellowship, which will be presented at BOA 2024 Congress.

Andrew Carr

Professor Andrew Carr ChM DSc FRCS FMedSci is a surgeon and clinical scientist, whose work over 40 years has influenced the evaluation of surgical procedures including the increased involvement of patients in assessing clinical outcomes. The Oxford Scores are used globally to direct health policy. He has pioneered the use of large-scale randomised trials of surgery including the controversial use of placebo surgical controls. He holds the Nuffield Professorship of orthopaedics at Oxford University, is a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford and was head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences for 21 years during which time it grew to over 450 research staff and PhD students.

Professor Carr was born in Bradford and studied medicine at Bristol University before training in Sheffield, Oxford and Melbourne. He founded and directed the Botnar Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences and was Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit. He was Divisional Director of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre during its merger to form Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and was instrumental in the move of the Kennedy Institute to Oxford. He is a Nuffield Medical Trustee, a Trustee and Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bristol University and one of the 25 most cited surgical researchers globally with over 40 publications in the Lancet, BMJ, Science Translational Medicine, Cell and Nature Biotechnology. He has received numerous national and international awards, is an NIHR senior investigator and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Lisa Hadfield-Law

Having spent 20 years in clinical practice and 20 years in surgical education, Lisa Hadfield-Law has been immersed in both cultures and has, therefore, been in a unique position to provide educational and leadership support. She has managed an orthopaedic/trauma service at a teaching hospital and has insight into the circumstances and challenges facing surgical teams.

A surgical educator since 1992, Lisa has trained over 15,000 surgeons in all surgical specialties from 68 different countries across Europe and the rest of the world. She has 20 years of trauma nursing experience both in the UK and abroad and was Head of Nursing at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. She served as BOA Education Advisor from 2012 to 2024.

Lisa continues as a Surgical Educator in the UK and abroad and is currently Education Advisor to AOUK&I. Her current focus is leadership for surgeons and dentists and she leads the Future Leaders Programme both for the BOA and for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd). She is also a Convenor for the RCSEd Foundations in Surgical & Dental Leadership programmes. Lisa is Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers for RCSEd and serves on the Faculty of the Surgical Trainers Advisory Board.

Brigitte Scammell

Professor Scammell retired in 2022, having dedicated 40 years of service to the NHS, with 26 years as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and as a clinical academic at the University of Nottingham. She trained in Birmingham, Southampton, Basingstoke and Lord Major Treloar Hospital, Alton, and completed her training with a fellowship in lower limb arthroplasty and trauma in Toronto. As a clinical academic she received a Lord Dearing award for teaching and learning excellence; served as the Admissions sub-Dean for Medicine, interviewing future medical students at home, in Malaysia and Thailand; became the first female Professor of Orthopaedics in the UK; and the first female Dean and Head of School of Medicine, University of Nottingham. She feels very fortunate as academic life brought opportunities to teach in China and present team research across the world. She has supervised more than 35 DM/PhD students, being especially proud when students received prizes for their work. Academically she has most enjoyed the reward that comes from teaching and mentoring students, and staff, to overcome challenges and achieve their dreams.

Professor Scammell has also served as the Secretary and President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, and on national committees including the British Foot and Ankle Society, the British Orthopaedic Association, and the Surgical Advisory Committee. She was honoured to receive the BORS President’s medal and the Tony Mitchell medal from the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society in 2022, and last year she was thrilled to receive an Award of Fellowship ad hominem of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. She is grateful to be able to lead an active ‘retirement’. She has two part-time roles, as a trustee/board member for the charity Framework Housing Association providing a full range of services to homeless people, and as Director of the Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She continues to supervise PhD students and mentor medical students. This still allows time to pursue her hobbies, and to spend time with friends and family.

Presidential Merit Award

The BOA is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Presidential Merit Award, which will be presented at BOA 2024 Congress.

Sarah Stapley

Sarah has been a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics since 2004, based in Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust and has had a diverse training pathway including fellowships in Wrightington and Toronto. She served with the Royal Navy for 33 years, frequently leading health care delivery in isolated and extreme locations with limited resources. Sarah understands how education, and the effect a good mentor has on an individual, and this has continually driven her to encourage trainees of all levels to seek their potential. She has undertaken roles as Surgical Tutor, Training Programme Director at both core and higher specialty level, and as Defence Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics. Sarah has undertaken several unusual leadership roles, as a Deployed Medical Director (Camp Bastian Hospital) in Afghanistan, Consultant Advisor in Trauma and Orthopaedics to the Royal Navy and as the UK Representative on the NATO COMEDS futures advisory panel. She has also sat on the National Selection Design panel for ST3 interviews and still interviews regularly for both levels of trainee.

Sarah has been a member of the BOA since she was a trainee. She has sat on the BOA Education Committee, as a Council member and now as the Council member for BADS. She is the co-opted BADS Council member from the BOA.