Volume 04 / Issue 03 / September 2016
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JTO News and Updates
CSOS Annual Meeting 12th-13th May 2016 This two day meeting, which is open to all serving and retired British military orthopaedic surgeons plus invited guests, brought together trainees and consultants, past and present from all corners of the UK to sunny Plymouth. The first day comprised an instructional course for registrars with updates on trauma, focusing on management in the deployed/austere environment to ensure the hard-won lessons from Afghanistan continue to be passed on the next cohort of military T&O consultants.
There was also a fantastic presentation from Mr Steve Bale (military liaison to the SAC) with particularly astute advice on how to approach the exam: having recently sat both parts, this struck home and I’m sure those approaching the exam will be significantly better prepared for it. The second day was a scientific meeting with multiple research presentations. The senior members of the audience, including past BOA Presidents, the current BOA CEO and Vice President, senior AO faculty
and multiple Professors all commented on the outstanding quality of both the presentations and their subject matter. Prizes were awarded to Major Taff Edwards (Philip Fulford award, best paper The Biomechanics of Blast Related Amputee Heterotopic Ossification: computational modelling and physical experiments), Surgeon Lieutenant Pippa Bennett (Pete Templeton award, best trainee - Combat hindfoot fractures in UK military 2003-2014: Injuries, management and short-
term outcomes) and Captain Sarah Stewart (Best clinical paper - Hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement in the military cohort). The meeting was rounded off with an outstanding formal dinner at the Royal Marines Barracks Stonehouse Officers’ Mess made unforgettable by the hosting Colour Sergeant. We look forward to our next meeting in May 2017 in Edinburgh and hope to see as many colleagues there as can make it.
Annual Meeting Indian Orthopaedic Society UK The 18th annual meeting of IOS (UK) was held at Leicester on 8th-9th July 2016. This meeting was attended by 150 delegates and invited speakers.
Ahrens) and lower limb (Prof Keith Willett, Ananda Nanu and Prof Colin Howie).
The highlights of Friday were Medico-legal (Claire Petts, Richard Power and Nikhil Shah) and Bone and Joint infection sessions (Mike Reed, Andrew Swann and Patrick Laing).
Saturday afternoon invited lectures included non-union (Badri Narayan), avascular necrosis (Prof Peter Giannoudis), controversies around hip (Martyn Porter) and knee (Prof Simon Donell). The clinical leadership lecture was given by Anthony Clayson. These talks were followed by invited guest speakers from India (Sudhir Kapoor, President Indian Orthopaedic Association and Dr S S Agrawal, President Indian Medical Association).
Saturday morning was dedicated to evidence-based Trauma and Orthopaedics for upper limb (Prof Joseph Dias, Prof Amar Rangan and Philip
The conference dinner was held at Marriott Leicester and included dance performances from various parts of world. It was announced by
There were three free paper sessions. The Best and second Best Paper awards were won by Manish Kiran from Liverpool and Veronica Roberts from Leicester. The Best Poster was awarded to Mr R S Khakha from Lewisham.
The organising team of IOS UK 2016 at the conference dinner in the Leicester Marriott
Anand Arya, President, Indian Orthopaedic Society UK that the name of this organisation will change in future to the British Indian Orthopaedic Society (BIOS).
This meeting received great feedback. Prof Colin Howie described it as an excellent meeting which was well attended with good questions from the participants.