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The Orthopaedic Trauma Society

Launched in August 2013 at the Trauma Symposium, our aim is to play a key role in maintaining and advancing the standards of Orthopaedic Trauma in the UK.

We provide;

  • A forum for Orthopaedic Trauma surgery.
  • A focus for Orthopaedic Trauma research, training and education.
  • The UK’s largest and leading scientific meetings for Orthopaedic Trauma.
  • The representative body for British Orthopaedic Trauma to Government, national bodies and organisations, and international organisations.

Learn more about our Committee and its members

Executive committee
Education committee
Policy committee
Research committee
International Committee
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Executive Committee

The executive committee is made up of our Chair, Chair-elect, secretary and Treasurer, alongside our group’s leads which you can see further details about on this page.

Find out more about each committee member below. 

Xavier Griffin
Past President
Bio

Xavier Griffin

Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at QMUL and Barts Health, having joined in August 2020 as the inaugural chair of Bone & Joint Health. Xavier’s vision is for world-class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician-scientists to realise their aspirations.

Xavier has been awarded over £12m of research funding and over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is a recognised research leader in the management of hip fractures and is excited to have launched the WHiTE PLATFORM study with colleagues at the University of Oxford. Xavier is Chief Investigator for a number of National Institute Health Research-funded clinical trials, having led 9 in the last 5 years and supported a further 5.

Xavier is driven by having a meaningful impact on patient care; his research is focused on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new and existing treatments to improve bone and joint health and has been cited by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. He has a passion for developing methodologies which harness the speed, power and efficiency of routinely collected data but are coupled with the great advantages of randomisation.

Xavier’s clinical expertise is orthopaedic trauma surgery specialising in pelvic and acetabular fractures. He enjoys working as part of the team at the busiest orthopaedic trauma hospital in Europe – The Royal London. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1999 before attending medical school at the University of Oxford, Xavier trained in orthopaedic surgery as a National Institute of Health Research integrated clinical academic fellow. Xavier completed a world-renowned clinical fellowship in Melbourne, Australia specialising in complex fractures of the pelvis and hip. Prior to joining Bone & Joint Health Xavier was Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital major trauma centre.

Outside of work Xavier can be found mountain biking or rock climbing usually with his young sons in tow!

Additional major roles

• Chair, Barts Bone and Joint Health Research Group

• CO-chair, SICOT Research Committee

• Chair, British Orthopaedic Trauma Society Research Committee and President Elect

• Oversight Group Member for the Data Monitoring Committee for NIHR159676 – The PORTRAIT trial

• British Orthopaedic Association member, Fragility Fracture Liaison Service National Audit

• Member, BOA Research Committee

• Chair, Research and Innovation Committee of NHS England Outcomes and Registries Programme

• Co-theme Lead for Precision Musculoskeletal Care Theme of NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre

• RCS England and British Orthopaedic Association Surgical Specialty Lead (Orthopaedic Trauma) for Research

Qualifications

FRCS (Tr & Orth), PhD (Medicine), BA (Hons) First Class (Cantab)

Social Media accounts

Twitter: @xlgriffin

Instagram: griffin.xl
Andrew Gray
President
Bio

Andrew Gray
Khitish Mohanty
Secretary & President Elect
Bio

Khitish Mohanty

Khitish is an Orthopaedic Trauma surgeon, based at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. After completing a trauma fellowship in Calgary, Canada, Khitish was appointed as a consultant in 2004 and has since provided tertiary service for pelvic-acetabular injuries in South Wales. Khitish has been the training programme director for the Welsh deanery and currently the clinical director for Orthopaedic trauma at the designated major trauma centre. Khitish has been a founding member of the Orthopaedic Society and is actively involved in various teaching and training events. His mission is to grow the society and make it more inclusive.
Lynn Hutchings
IOTA Liaison / Research Committee
Bio

Lynn Hutchings

Lynn Hutchings is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust. She works solely with trauma patients, with specialist interests in orthoplastics, pelvic and acetabular trauma, and polytrauma.

She has always been interested in the complexity of multiple and severe injuries, completing a Masters in trauma sciences, and a Doctorate in Oxford focused on major trauma physiology, winning awards from NIHR and the American College of Surgeons. After surgical training in Oxford and Bristol, she completed trauma fellowships in the UK MTCs of Oxford and Coventry, and overseas at Vancouver General Hospital.

She has been on the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association (IOTA) Steering Committee since 2023. In addition to representing the UK, she has co-ordinated the European submissions for comparative international reviews on different aspects of trauma care.

She has also been heavily involved in the BOA working group on radiation safety, and has been working in conjunction with the UKHSA and other agencies to ensure orthopaedic trauma is a safe working environment for all.
Neil Ashwood
Treasurer
Bio

Neil Ashwood

Professor Neil Ashwood is based at the Research Institute at Wolverhampton University and as an Upper Limb Surgeon at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and has been a consultant for over 20 years.

He has published extensively on upper limb trauma and the orthopaedic complications of disease such as the impact on the body from leprosy and tuberculosis. Currently at Wolverhampton he is working as part of collaborative on bioengineering and the development of metamaterials.

He is a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Neil has been Associate Medical Director and Surgical Tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) .He is an ATLS instructor for the RCS and sits on the Subspeciality Orthopaedic group at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is happy to help any budding researchers develop their ideas and sign post them to the appropriate help whatever the size of the project.

 
Nathanael Ahearn
Education Lead
Bio

Nathanael Ahearn

Nathanael Ahearn is a Severn Deanery trainee, who has MTC Consultant level experience in Coventry and Bristol. He works as a consultant specialising in trauma and knee surgery at Torbay Hospital in South Devon. He has a keen interest in medical education and mentoring future generations of orthopaedic surgeons, being a member of the Academy of Medical Educators and is completing a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals. He is also passionate about his role as BOA Senior Culture and Diversity Champion.
Caroline Hing
Research Lead
Bio

Caroline Hing

Caroline trained in Medicine at University College London with an intercalated BSc(Hons) in Anatomy & Developmental Biology. She completed her Orthopaedic and Trauma training on the Pott Rotation based at Barts and The London Hospitals with a further period of training at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital whilst completing an MD, doctoral thesis on patellofemoral instability. She also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering awarded by the University of Wales. Her fellowships included trauma at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and knee surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in London.
Caroline has subspecialty interests in knee surgery, especially patellofemoral instability and in trauma. She is a Professor of orthopaedics at St George’s University London with research interests in patellofemoral instability and trauma. She has established a patellofemoral service within St George’s Hospital for local and regional referrals. She was clinical director for corporate outpatients at St George’s Hospital from 2019-2024 and she leads for research in orthopaedics in the trust, having supervised over 50 orthopaedic trials. She has developed trauma research infrastructure within St George’s including research physiotherapists, clinical trials managers and research fellows. She is co-editor in chief of The Knee Journal. As part of AOUK she chairs research and careers development. She lectures nationally and internationally on patellofemoral instability and trauma as well as publishing scientific papers.
Kenan Kursumovic
Policy Committee
Bio

Kenan Kursumovic

Kenan Kursumovic is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Stoke University Hospital with a subspecialty interest in pelvic and acetabular trauma surgery and lower limb arthroplasty.

He is the OTS executive committee member for Policy and OTS representative on the BOA Trauma committee.

Originally from Sarajevo (Bosnia) he studied medicine (MBBS) at St. George’s Medical School in London and completed his higher surgical training in the East of England Deanery (rotating through Cambridge, Peterborough and Bury St. Edmunds). He undertook an out of programme year for training as Senior Registrar (ST8) at the Royal London Hospital, before embarking on fellowships in North Bristol, Nottingham and Melbourne (Australia), with a focus on complex limb and pelvic & acetabular trauma and lower limb arthroplasty. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow in centres of excellence in the United States, Canada and Germany.

He also holds BA and MA degrees from Cambridge University, where he read Economics.

He has a passion for teaching and training and has delivered structured MSK teaching programmes for medical students and is faculty on FRCS exam preparation courses.

In his free time, he enjoys the great outdoors and skiing with his family and friends.
Sunit Patel
Comms and Website
Bio

Sunit Patel

Mr. Sunit Patil has been a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire since 2013. After graduating from India, he undertook higher surgical training in the Northern Deanery and later did trauma fellowships at Edinburgh and Toronto. His clinical interests include pelvic and acetabular fractures, polytrauma, and peri-articular fractures . He is the deputy programme director for Warwick Orthopaedic Surgical Training Programme. Mr. Patil has been involved with the OTS since 2013, and served as its treasurer between 2017 and 2021.

Education Committee

The OTS delivers a comprehensive trauma revalidation program at the BOA annual congress. This rolling program covers all aspects of orthopaedic trauma that surgeons on the general on-call rota will face.

Coupled with this, the OTS provides trauma research updates and discussions regarding the delivery of trauma care and policies over several sessions at every annual congress.

We have a great link with BOTA, with the OTS delivering the trauma component of the BOTA instructional course for the last few years and receiving great feedback.

The OTS annual meeting is the flagship event in the society’s calendar. Our meeting moves location every year but is always a popular event and is routinely sold out. The style is typically case discussion and interesting debate around delivery of trauma care in the UK. We typically have one or two special guest speakers, and the meeting welcomes all from both trauma unit and MTC. This meeting is a must for the trauma interested orthopaedic surgeon.

The OTS is also regularly invited to participate at many international meetings, including in 2018, the German Orthopaedic Association annual meeting (DKOU) – the largest orthopaedic conference in Europe, where we delivered a symposium on the evolution of trauma care in the UK. The OTS has also presented at traumacon 2020 and been an invited society at the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association meetings.

Learn more OTS Education and the wider Education Committee

OTS Education
Nathanael Ahearn
Education Lead
Bio

Nathanael Ahearn

Nathanael Ahearn is a Severn Deanery trainee, who has MTC Consultant level experience in Coventry and Bristol. He works as a consultant specialising in trauma and knee surgery at Torbay Hospital in South Devon. He has a keen interest in medical education and mentoring future generations of orthopaedic surgeons, being a member of the Academy of Medical Educators and is completing a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals. He is also passionate about his role as BOA Senior Culture and Diversity Champion.

Research Committee

The OTS, with its broad membership across the generality of United Kingdom Trauma, is ideally placed to shape and influence the research agenda within the speciality.

The role of the Research Committee is to coordinate and signpost research activity within our community. This covers clinical effectiveness research, but also basic science and translational research as well as innovation. The Research Committee is there to develop young research talent and support seasoned investigators. By this means we can provide the Society with an overview of the direction of travel of research within our speciality. We provide a portal for advice and for the distribution of meaningful research findings for the membership through social media.

Learn more OTS Research and the wider Research Committee

OTS Research
Caroline Hing
Research Lead
Bio

Caroline Hing

Caroline trained in Medicine at University College London with an intercalated BSc(Hons) in Anatomy & Developmental Biology. She completed her Orthopaedic and Trauma training on the Pott Rotation based at Barts and The London Hospitals with a further period of training at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital whilst completing an MD, doctoral thesis on patellofemoral instability. She also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering awarded by the University of Wales. Her fellowships included trauma at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and knee surgery at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals in London.
Caroline has subspecialty interests in knee surgery, especially patellofemoral instability and in trauma. She is a Professor of orthopaedics at St George’s University London with research interests in patellofemoral instability and trauma. She has established a patellofemoral service within St George’s Hospital for local and regional referrals. She was clinical director for corporate outpatients at St George’s Hospital from 2019-2024 and she leads for research in orthopaedics in the trust, having supervised over 50 orthopaedic trials. She has developed trauma research infrastructure within St George’s including research physiotherapists, clinical trials managers and research fellows. She is co-editor in chief of The Knee Journal. As part of AOUK she chairs research and careers development. She lectures nationally and internationally on patellofemoral instability and trauma as well as publishing scientific papers.

Communication and Website

The website has been redesigned and is still at an early stage.  What we would like to do is to add as many relevant sections.  We are trying to promote UK trauma courses as well as the available trauma fellowships.  We would like to have a rolling journal update to make it easy for readers to keep up-to-date.   Some case examples along with trauma webinars are all in the pipeline.  classic and relevant papers can also be made available.  Historic Re validation lectures at the British Orthopaedic Association and also lectures from past meetings should be available in the member’s section.  Open to suggestions about how we can improve this and please contact me on: andrew.gray1@nhs.net‘

Sunit Patel
Comms and Website
Bio

Sunit Patel

Mr. Sunit Patil has been a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire since 2013. After graduating from India, he undertook higher surgical training in the Northern Deanery and later did trauma fellowships at Edinburgh and Toronto. His clinical interests include pelvic and acetabular fractures, polytrauma, and peri-articular fractures . He is the deputy programme director for Warwick Orthopaedic Surgical Training Programme. Mr. Patil has been involved with the OTS since 2013, and served as its treasurer between 2017 and 2021.

Policy

The Orthopaedic Trauma Society is the official body representing trauma orthopaedics in the UK, as recognised by the British Orthoapedic Association, NICE, NHS England, and the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association.

It has represented the UK, as part of the guest nation status, for the North American Orthopaedic Trauma Association in 2017, and the German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in 2018. It acts as a stakeholder for NICE clinical guidance and quality standards, and its members represent trauma and orthopaedics on numerous national and international panels. This produces standards and consensus, directs research initiatives and leads on education and revalidation.

Learn more OTS Policy 

OTS Policy
Kenan Kursumovic
Policy Committee
Bio

Kenan Kursumovic

Kenan Kursumovic is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Stoke University Hospital with a subspecialty interest in pelvic and acetabular trauma surgery and lower limb arthroplasty.

He is the OTS executive committee member for Policy and OTS representative on the BOA Trauma committee.

Originally from Sarajevo (Bosnia) he studied medicine (MBBS) at St. George’s Medical School in London and completed his higher surgical training in the East of England Deanery (rotating through Cambridge, Peterborough and Bury St. Edmunds). He undertook an out of programme year for training as Senior Registrar (ST8) at the Royal London Hospital, before embarking on fellowships in North Bristol, Nottingham and Melbourne (Australia), with a focus on complex limb and pelvic & acetabular trauma and lower limb arthroplasty. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow in centres of excellence in the United States, Canada and Germany.

He also holds BA and MA degrees from Cambridge University, where he read Economics.

He has a passion for teaching and training and has delivered structured MSK teaching programmes for medical students and is faculty on FRCS exam preparation courses.

In his free time, he enjoys the great outdoors and skiing with his family and friends.

International OTA

IOTA was established on October 11, 2017 in Vancouver, Canada to fulfill the following goals: 

  • Promote international orthopaedic and musculoskeletal trauma care, including patient care, education, and research. 
  • Allocate venues for and monitor progress of a triennial International Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual (IOTA) Meeting. 
  • Organize a face-to-face meeting at each triennial meeting and each Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Annual Meeting. 
  • Provide a means for Member organizations to enhance international collaboration in research, education, teaching, and program development. 
  • Support the development of Orthopaedic Trauma organizations globally.
Lynn Hutchings
IOTA Liaison / Research Committee
Bio

Lynn Hutchings

Lynn Hutchings is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust. She works solely with trauma patients, with specialist interests in orthoplastics, pelvic and acetabular trauma, and polytrauma.

She has always been interested in the complexity of multiple and severe injuries, completing a Masters in trauma sciences, and a Doctorate in Oxford focused on major trauma physiology, winning awards from NIHR and the American College of Surgeons. After surgical training in Oxford and Bristol, she completed trauma fellowships in the UK MTCs of Oxford and Coventry, and overseas at Vancouver General Hospital.

She has been on the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association (IOTA) Steering Committee since 2023. In addition to representing the UK, she has co-ordinated the European submissions for comparative international reviews on different aspects of trauma care.

She has also been heavily involved in the BOA working group on radiation safety, and has been working in conjunction with the UKHSA and other agencies to ensure orthopaedic trauma is a safe working environment for all.

BOA Trauma Link

Fostering collaboration and communication between the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and the British Orthopaedic Association. Their primary goal is to ensure the shared goals of both organisations—advancing orthopaedic trauma care, education, and research—are aligned and actively pursued.

Key aspects of this role include:

  • Representing the OTS at the BOA Trauma Committee meetingsRepresenting the OTS at BOA meetings and vice versa, ensuring that trauma-specific issues are well-represented.
  • Facilitating joint initiatives, including educational programs, conferences, and policy development.
  • Acting as a conduit for feedback, suggestions, and updates between the two organizations, promoting transparency and teamwork.
  • Supporting the integration of trauma-focused content into BOA projects and ensuring OTS members benefit from BOA resources.

This role underscores the importance of partnership within the orthopaedic community, helping to drive innovation and improve outcomes for patients across the UK.

Kenan Kursumovic
BOA Trauma Group Link
Bio

Kenan Kursumovic

Kenan Kursumovic is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Stoke University Hospital with a subspecialty interest in pelvic and acetabular trauma surgery and lower limb arthroplasty.

He is the OTS executive committee member for Policy and OTS representative on the BOA Trauma committee.

Originally from Sarajevo (Bosnia) he studied medicine (MBBS) at St. George’s Medical School in London and completed his higher surgical training in the East of England Deanery (rotating through Cambridge, Peterborough and Bury St. Edmunds). He undertook an out of programme year for training as Senior Registrar (ST8) at the Royal London Hospital, before embarking on fellowships in North Bristol, Nottingham and Melbourne (Australia), with a focus on complex limb and pelvic & acetabular trauma and lower limb arthroplasty. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow in centres of excellence in the United States, Canada and Germany.

He also holds BA and MA degrees from Cambridge University, where he read Economics.

He has a passion for teaching and training and has delivered structured MSK teaching programmes for medical students and is faculty on FRCS exam preparation courses.

In his free time, he enjoys the great outdoors and skiing with his family and friends.