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New BOA Trustees (2022–2024) Cheryl Baldwick I have been a consultant in North Devon for 13 years and have a full clinical practice in general trauma and my subspecialist interest of shoulder and elbow surgery. I have been involved in medical education, spending several years as our Foundation Training Programme Director and developing new Specialty Registrar posts in T&O at my Trust. I have also had a number of medical leadership positions and have just been appointed to a Deputy Medical Director role. Since 2014, I have been a member of the BOA Trauma Committee, contributing to the development of BOASTs and chairing a number of multi-disciplinary hip fracture reviews around the UK. The next few years pose immense challenges for us as orthopaedic surgeons as we try to recover elective services after the pandemic while continuing to provide excellent trauma services across the country. The BOA has an integral role to play in this process and it is important to me that Council represents surgeons from a wide variety of units around the country, including strong trauma representation. I work in a small rural Trauma Unit and, while involved in the BOA, I have always highlighted issues relating to smaller units and promoted generalisability in the guidance the Trauma Committee has released. n
Deepa Bose Ms 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: osteomyelitis, malunion, non-union, limb lengthening and deformity correction. Deepa is currently Vice Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma and Orthopaedics, and the lead for CESR approval process. She has also contributed to the revision of the curriculum. She holds an MSc in Medical Education and has been admitted to the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of RCS Edinburgh, as well as being a member of the Academy of Medical Educators. She is involved in national selections for core and orthopaedic surgery, and sits on ARCP panels for both. She was regional training programme director for core surgery in West Midlands from 2015 – 2019. Deepa is the Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern UK, a specialist society of the British Orthopaedic Association, and a charity which focuses on teaching orthopaedics in low resource countries. She is co-director of the postgraduate orthopaedic training programme in Guyana. Deepa also visits Gaza as part of the UK limb reconstruction team of the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. She has been on the Emergency Response Team of UK Med, a first response team for international disaster relief, since 2012. 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. n
14 | JTO | Volume 09 | Issue 04 | December 2021 | boa.ac.uk
