New BOA Trustees (2025 – 2027)

Ajay Malviya

Ajay Malviya is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon based in the North-East of England, working within the Northumbria Trust, where he specialise in hip preservation surgery. In addition to his clinical work, he is an active researcher and an FRCS Examiner. Over the past decade, Ajay has had the honour of serving on the BOA Education and Careers Committee in various roles, including as the UKITE lead and, most recently, as the Vice-Chair. He has been closely involved in the committee’s expansion and its efforts to introduce new initiatives aimed at enhancing education, training, and engagement. Through his commitment, he has seen the significant positive impact of UKITE on many trainees and the success of numerous orthopaedic surgeons across the country. This journey has been fulfilling, allowing Ajay to maintain a harmonious balance between his clinical duties and other pursuits.

Ajay’s advocacy for ensuring surgical quality and measuring outcomes remains steadfast. As the former Chair of the National Arthroplasty Hip Registry (NAHR), he takes great pride in having played a pivotal role in its evolution from a developing registry to a model of excellence at both national and international levels. While he holds traditional values dearly, he remains open to new ideas and suggestions.

As a member of the Council, Ajay would passionately advocate for the modernisation of orthopaedic training to make it a model of excellence that is exemplary to the rest of the world. Additionally, he believes that NHS organisations should support surgeons in improving quality by ensuring there are adequate resources to collect outcome data. Every trust in the UK should have an outcomes team dedicated to measuring surgical quality.

Deepa Bose

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.

She is Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma and Orthopaedics in the UK, which advises on the curriculum and other matters pertaining to training.

She is the Past Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern UK, a specialist society of the British Orthopaedic Association, which focuses on teaching orthopaedics in low resource countries.

She has been on the Emergency Response Team of UK Med, a first response team for international disaster relief, since 2012. She regularly participates in humanitarian projects in Guyana, Gaza and Ukraine.

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. She would also like to support UK orthopaedic surgeons who carry out humanitarian work.

Leela Biant

Leela is Academic Head of the department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant T&O Surgeon, Manchester University Hospitals. She is Co-Director of the Northwest Joint Preservation Centre, a King James IV Professor, and Immediate Past-President of BASK.

Leela trained in London with fellowships in Sydney and London. Her thesis was entitled ‘Articular Cartilage Injury and Repair in the Young Adult Knee’ and her award winning research focuses on biological regenerative surgery and advanced joint replacement. Leela is on the SAC of ORUK, an ICRS Senior Fellow, and founded the ICRS Global patient registry. She is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the UK Biological Knee Society, an ABC Travelling Fellow in 2010 and BASK Travelling Fellow in 2014. Leela has previously been on the Medical Advisory Committee of the NJR.

Leela stood for Council to try to improve the working lives and daily stressors of all colleagues in the NHS, Hybrid, Private and Academic Sectors. This includes the scrutiny of case numbers without clinical context, publishing of unverified data about a surgeons practice that they have no control of, and do not have the time nor the ability to alter, stifling bureaucracy, time-sapping untargeted email and communications so surgeons have ‘been informed’, and rising costs and indemnity cover of a practicing orthopaedic surgeon without parallel rises in remuneration. Our work is joyful and important. Our time is better spent looking after patients, training the next generation and advancing care with meaningful audit and research.

Peter Giannoudis

Professor Peter Giannoudis is the Professor and Chairman of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical School of the University of Leeds.

He has served in positions of responsibility including, President of the British Trauma Society (2003-2007), President of the European Society of Pelvis and Acetabulum (2007-2012), President of the European Society Tissue Regeneration in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (2018-onwards), Chair of the International Committee of Orthopaedic Trauma Association (USA) (2012-2019), Chair Global Research Commission AO Foundation (2024-onwards), and Editor In Chief of Injury Journal (2010-onwards) and Journal Trauma Case Reports (2014-onwards). He has published over 800 peer review publications and 14 Orthopaedic and Trauma textbooks. His H-index is 131 with 64,745 citations.

Professor Giannoudis is a regular international keynote speaker having delivered over 450 lectures around the globe. He is a visiting professor in 21 Universities worldwide. In 2024, he was included in the King’s New Year’s Honours list and received the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services in trauma and orthopaedic surgery in the UK.

Peter is delighted to be elected as a Trustee of the BOA. He feels it is a great honour and is looking forward to contributing to the important challenges facing our profession including maintaining adequate workforce, supporting the training and education of our members, promoting high quality research, strengthening the relationship with the government to improve patient care and to raise the profile of the Association internationally.

Rhidian Morgan-Jones

Rhidian trained in Cardiff at the University of Wales, College of Medicine as it was then, qualifying in 1989. His training rotation was between Oswestry and Stoke-on-Trent and included fellowships in Johannesburg and Sydney.

Rhidian has spent his Consultant career working on orthopaedic infection and revision knee replacements in Cardiff. He recently ‘transferred’ across the border to work in Colchester and help establish the Regional Revision Knee Network.

Rhidian has a strong interest in education at all levels and continues to lecture widely. He has had the pleasure of founding and running national knee infection meetings from which he continues to learn from his peers. A personal philosophy, when possible, has always been to organise cross-speciality meetings, which broadens one’s perspective and heightens respect for colleagues in other medical and non-medical areas.

Now living in Essex, he remains as Welsh as ever but perhaps a little less partisan than before. Professionally and personally, although life continually changes, he could not be happier than at present.

Rhidian is delighted to be re-elected as a BOA Trustee and hopes to contribute and support our profession in any way he can.

Sebastian Dawson-Bowling

Sebastian Dawson-Bowling is a hip and knee surgeon at Barts Health in London, specialising in complex primary and revision arthroplasty. He also undertakes arthroscopy to both joints, and works within the Royal London Hospital major trauma service. Sebastian is a BJ360 Editorial Board member, sits on the NJR Regional Clinical Coordinator and Editorial Committees, and is an FRCS(Tr&Orth) examiner.

Outside clinical practice, his passion within orthopaedics has always been training/mentoring future generations. Whilst BOTA President, Sebastian strongly encouraged medical student attendance and participation at orthopaedic educational events. He subsequently cofounded London Undergraduate Orthopaedic Society, and contributed to establishing BOMSA.

Away from work, Sebastian’s loves in life are his family (wife Emma, a psychiatrist, and children Elspeth and Daniel), opera, food and wine. He is also a qualified rowing umpire.

Sebastian is honoured to be elected to BOA Council. The BOA now has perhaps more influence than at any previous time, which he feels we can use to powerful effect, ensuring the right training and working conditions for members at all career stages – from those caring for young families, or sitting exams (or both!); to consultants fighting to defend standards of care for their patients against increasing management interference; or seeking to undertake leadership or educational roles.

He looks forward to contributing to the Association’s excellent work to guide, support and safeguard trainees; it has been with this foremost in mind that he stood. In doing this, the BOA will continue simultaneously to ensure highest possible standards of patient care for generations to come.