Speakers

Matthew Costa PhD, FRCS (Tr&Orth) Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal interventions and he is Chief Investigator for a series of randomised trials supported by grants from the UK National Institute of Health Research and Musculoskeletal Charities. His work has been cited widely, and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. 

Mazdak's research focuses on understanding the biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and designing advanced protective devices. Working in collaboration with neurologists and neurosurgeons Mazdak works to better understand the micro-mechanisms of brain injury and their link with cognitive outcome after injury. This research will enhance the understanding of mechanisms of TBI and their link with short-term and long-term clinical outcome after TBI. In addition, it will accelerate enhancement of protective devices and environments, leading to reduced death or disability due to TBI. Mazdak is developing a research programme on the optimal design of energy absorbing liners for TBI mitigation, which will inform next generation helmets as well as other applications in aerospace, automotive and defence industries.

Surg Capt Rickard graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1992 conducting his higher surgical training in Bristol, Cape Town and Glasgow. He obtained his FRCS (Clinical Surgery in General) from the Edinburgh College in 1999 and his intercollegiate Fellowship in Plastic Surgery in 2006. He was elected an ad eundem Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2011. He has held an Honorary contract at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth since 2008, where his clinical interests include the management of soft tissue sarcoma and lower limb trauma and reconstruction.

Surg Capt Rickard has deployed four times during operations in Afghanistan, on the final occasion in 2014 as the Deployed Medical Director of the joint UK/US/Danish Role 3 Medical Treatment Facility in Camp Bastion. In 2011 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and in September 2014 as the joint Royal College of Surgeons / Defence Professor of Military Surgery. In this position, he manages a broad research portfolio covering all surgical specialities except Trauma & Orthopaedics. Surg Capt Rickard’s personal clinical academic interests include the prevention of secondary injury following resuscitation of severe trauma and the reconstruction of complex injuries. He also has operational research interests in national interoperability and in real-time physiological monitoring of combatants.

BSc MB BChir FRCS (SN) FIMC FRGS MRCA

Mark Wilson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and PreHospital Care Specialist working at both Imperial College (mainly St Mary's Major Trauma Centre) and on London's Air Ambulance. His specialist areas are acute brain injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early management. He also specialises in IT (having developed a number of web based referral systems).

Mark underwent self imposed prolonged training, as an anaesthetist and a GP, before his neurosurgical career, but even now likes to maintain a broad medical interest.

His research is mainly into the brain in hypoxia (using it as an injury model) in humans. 

Professor Karim Brohi is Director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, and a Consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust. He is also the Clinical Director of the London Major Trauma System. 

Spyros Masouros is a Lecturer in Trauma Biomechanics in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. He received his first degree (Diploma, MEng equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering in 2004 from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his PhD in biomechanics in 2008 from Imperial College. Since then Spyros has worked in, and supervised projects related to, finite element (FE) modelling of human joints, material characterisation of soft tissues of joints, physical models of lower limb injury and their mitigation, design of arthroscopic devices, and engineering education.

Between 2010-12 Spyros was the ABF The Soldiers' Charity Research Fellow, acting as the engineering lead within a multidisciplinary group comprising clinicians, scientists and engineers, looking primarily at lower limb injury mechanics and injury mitigation technologies. This motif has carried over since the Fellowship, only now in addition to the lower extremity the research interest is also on injury to the pelvis and the spine.

Claire E Webster MBChB MRCS RAF

Claire Webster graduated as a doctor in 2008 and is currently employed by the Royal Air Force as a Medical Officer, being selected for sponsorship during medical school. Her interest is within vascular and trauma surgery, pre hospital care, genitourinary trauma and reconstruction, renal transplant and general paediatric surgery.  In addition Claire has a special interest in undergraduate and postgraduate medical training.

Claire is currently undertaking a PhD programme at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies.

Jan Jansen is a consultant general surgeon and intensivist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and an honorary consultant trauma surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, London. He is also a consultant in the reserve forces. In 2009 he was awarded a Queen's Commendation for his service in Afghanistan.

Jan's undergraduate training took place in London and his postgraduate training in Scotland, with fellowships in Johannesburg and Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Jan currently holds a NHS Research Scotland fellowship, to support his research on trauma systems. His other research interest is trauma resuscitation.

Surgeon Captain Sarah Stapley QCVS MB ChB FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Tr & Orth) DM Royal Navy

Currently the Defence Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics, and working as a clinical consultant since 2004 with the Portsmouth NHS Trust, Sarah has deployed on operations to Iraq and Afghanistan on six occasions and to sea on multiple contingencies.  Her current interests are heterotopic ossification, fracture non-union, protective clothing development and trainee advancement.

Professor Anthony Bull FREng is Director of the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies and Head of Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His personal research programme focuses on the basic mechanics of joints including the tissues of joints and the mechanics of joints within the whole musculoskeletal system.his research team investigates ways to develop new technologies to diagnose and treat pathologies and trauma. 

MA(Oxon) BM BCh DM FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Plast) 

Shehan is the Chief of Service (Plastics, Orthopaedics & Major Trauma Services) at St Mary’s Major Trauma Centre London and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. A Triple Fellowship trained British Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Shehan specialises in hand and wrist surgery, cosmetic surgery, general plastic surgery and complex limb reconstruction. Throughout his career, he has trained in the UK, USA and Australia as well as working overseas in war and disaster areas. Shehan is a member of the British Army Reserve, serving with Airborne Forces. He has deployed to Afghanistan twice and has been involved in the care of military personnel in the UK.