Gagori is currently the Post CCT Limb Reconstruction and Bone Infection Fellow at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. Her clinical interests are the management of complex trauma, non-union, deformity correction and bone infection.

She obtained her undergraduate medical qualification, with an intercalated PhD, from the University of Nottingham in 2012. She went onto completing her basic surgical training, in London and Nottingham, and Higher Specialty Training in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the West of Scotland. She has been awarded the AO International Trauma Fellowship to Shock Trauma Centre in Baltimore, BLRS Travelling Fellowship to South Africa, and the LLRS International Adult Travelling Fellowship.

In her spare time, she enjoys exploring the great outdoors with her children and dog.

…on limb reconstruction since 1998 in Musgrave Park Hospital, in the Belfast Health and social care trust
She graduated in Occupational Therapy in 1995 and began working in Belfast City Hospital in a rotational post, moving to orthopaedics in Musgrave Park Hospital Belfast in 1998. During 1998 Jillian developed the role of OT for Ilizaorv patients and was appointed to a new post as a Senior 1 OT, later being upgraded to Clinical Specialist OT. Having a post which focuses only on Limb reconstruction is unusual in OT and has allowed scope to fully develop the role, and provide support to paediatric and adult patients throughout the limb reconstruction journey.
Jillian has promoted OT in Limb Reconstruction by speaking at various conferences and training courses both locally and nationally and is keen to get more OTs involved in the service, where both mental health and physical OT skills can help improve quality of life for these patients.

…within the largest Major Trauma centre at The Royal London Hospital. With over 10 years’ experience and interest in treating complex limb reconstruction in both adults and paediatrics she is working to gain her Masters in surgical care practice.
Jade is a significant member of the Limb Reconstruction multidisciplinary team, contributing to the enhanced limb reconstruction pathway for limb reconstruction inpatients and running nurse led outpatient clinics. Jade has been instrumental in shaping the service delivery and providing direct care for complex trauma, bone infection and congenital deformities patient group. With a background working as a senior nurse on the plastics and trauma ward Jade has extensive experience and skill caring for complex wounds and works closely within the orthoplastic team.

… Leeds Teaching Hospitals since 2002, having completed surgical training in Bath and Bristol and following fellowship training in the Ilizarov method at the Ilizarov Scientific Centre in Kurgan, Russia.

Mr Britten’s clinical practice includes the treatment of severe lower limb fractures and post-traumatic limb reconstruction including non-union, mal-union and deformity, limb length inequality, bone loss and amputation.

He is the Immediate Past President of the British Limb Reconstruction Society and he has just finished his three year tenure as Chair of the British Orthopaedic Association Medico-legal Committee.

In 2018 Mr Britten was awarded the taught degree of Master of Laws with Distinction in medical law and ethics by De Montfort University Leicester.

His other interests include Nottingham Forest FC, Leeds Rhinos RLFC, modern languages, old Gothic Hammer Horror films, Formula One racing and the castles of Northumberland.

… Surgeon, specialising in paediatric and adult congenital and acquired limb deficiency and deformity correction.
He graduated from St. Bartholomew’s Medical College, London in 1993. He undertook Basic Surgical Training on the Barts surgical rotation before his Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar training on the Royal London Hospital rotation. He undertook a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Great Ormond Street and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals, with a Masters Fellowship at the Ilizarov centre in Kurgan, Russia. He was appointed as a consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2005.
Mr Calder has published extensively in peer-review journals and written several book chapters covering a wide range of topics including limb lengthening and deformity correction techniques and optimisation of function following amputation. He is regularly invited to lecture in national and international meetings.
He is the current President of the British Limb Reconstruction Society and Associate Medical Director of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. His research interests remain in improving outcome following limb reconstruction procedures and raising professional standards in surgical practice.

…(India) as well as a Master’s and a PhD in Experimental Medicine from the University of British Columbia. She is a Research Associate in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Chhina is an experienced clinical researcher with extensive experience in pediatric orthopaedic research, specializing in patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, implementation of patient reported outcomes, patient engagement and knowledge translation. She is co-founder of the International Limb Differences Network and the scientific lead for the International Limb Difference Registry. Dr. Chhina led the development and validation of LIMB-Q Kids, a novel, internationally validated patient-reported outcome measure designed to capture the experiences of children with lower limb differences. She is currently leading the development of a new PROM to measure children’s satisfaction with their prosthesis. She has also directed several large international multicentre collaborations to support various initiatives including translation and cross-cultural adaptation of PROMs, and implementation of PROMs across diverse healthcare settings.

Her research leadership extends to mentoring trainees, supervising research teams, guiding grant development, and strategic planning of program-level research priorities. Dr. Chhina is the current Chair of the ISOQOL’s Child Health Special Interest Group, where she contributes to advancing global scholarship and methodological work in child health outcomes research. In addition, Dr. Chhina is also a member of the Research Committee for the Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society.

…and the Limb Reconstruction team at the Royal London Hospital – a Major Trauma Centre. An experienced physiotherapist who has a specialist interest in Orthopaedics, Trauma and Plastics surgery and the patient’s subsequent inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation.
Dan runs limb reconstruction specific physiotherapy outpatient clinics, specialising in rehabilitation of patients in circular frame or monorail external fixation, whilst also experienced in rehabilitation of internal lengthening nails and other forms of internal fixation and osteotomy management within Limb Reconstruction. Working closely with the Limb Reconstruction Consultants, Limb Recon CNS team, Bone infection unit, Orthoplastics MDT and also working in the Limb Reconstruction clinics ensures significant outcomes for our patient population.
Support is given to our patient population whilst there are an inpatient through an enhanced recovery pathway for Limb Reconstruction at the Royal London Hospital.

Prior to joining the Limb Reconstruction team, I was the specialist physiotherapist for the trauma and orthopaedic department at the Royal London Hospital. Also completing major trauma rotations as a senior physiotherapist through Trauma and orthopaedics, Major Trauma, MSK outpatients, Neurosurgery and NeuroTrauma ACCU at the Royal London Hospital.

… Paediatric Orthopaedics at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also the fellowship director for the department of Orthopaedics at BCCH and director of the Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Trauma Course. Previously, he was President of the Canadian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society.

Dr. Cooper treats a multitude of complex congenital and acquired limb differences including Fibular Hemimelia, Tibial Hemimelia, Congenital Femoral Deficiency, Legg-Calve-Perthes (Perthes) Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Morquio-B. His clinical practice primarily focuses on limb lengthening and reconstructive surgery. His research interests include pediatric hip disorders, lower limb deformities, patient-reported outcomes, complications associated with limb reconstruction, trauma, medical imaging, and the use of machine learning to improve clinical diagnosis and assessment.

Dr. Cooper is the founder of the International Limb Differences Network (ILDN), a global collaboration of healthcare professionals and researchers dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with limb differences. He also serves as the clinical lead for the International Limb Differences Registry. In addition, Dr. Cooper co-lead the development of LIMB-Q Kids, an internationally validated patient-reported outcome measure designed to capture the experiences of children with lower limb differences. By integrating clinical outcomes with patient-reported outcome measures, Dr. Cooper evaluates the effectiveness of surgical interventions and seeks innovative strategies to enhance the quality of life for children with limb differences.

…medical education. Organised and delivered the MSK examination component of the 3rd year curriculum at BSMS. Aiming to secure speciality training post in T&O over the coming months.

…Orthopaedic Hospital. After graduating from the University of Birmingham, she completed her junior rotations at King’s College Hospital before specialising in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. She subsequently joined Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where she developed extensive experience managing both acute orthopaedic conditions and complex, persistent pain presentations.
In 2021, Grace joined the Limb Reconstruction team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where she works with both adult and paediatric patients. In recent years, she has focused on refining and developing the limb reconstruction physiotherapy service.
Grace holds a Masters degree in Advanced Physiotherapy. Her professional interests include paediatric mental health and evaluating physiotherapy outcomes for patients undergoing limb reconstruction.

…reconstruction and bone and joint infections. He completed advanced fellowships at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore) and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals in the UK. His clinical expertise spans deformity correction, limb lengthening, and the management of chronic osteomyelitis and infected non-unions using Ilizarov and hexapod techniques. An active academic, he has published widely on osteomyelitis and advanced (PET-CT), and regularly presents his research at national and international conferences.

…and Barnsley District General hospital which are now NHS foundation trusts. He currently works full time at Sheffield Children’s Hospital since 2016 and also does general adult foot and ankle surgery in his private practice with paediatric orthopaedics. His special areas of expertise are Paediatric limb reconstruction, DDH and hip disorders, Skeletal Dysplasias apart from delivering general orthopaedics and trauma. He runs specialised clinics in the areas of Limb deficiencies, Skeletal dysplasia, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Achondroplasia with other disciplines.

In the last few years, he has taken a special interest in doing charitable work in the developing world. The first of his teaching and charitable operating was done in Malawi in June 2008 training orthopaedic surgeons of 9 African countries and live operating teaching sessions. He is a Chairman and President of the 4th World Congress of the combined Societies of ASAMI-Br & ILLRS and current Secretary of the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic surgery. He served as Examiner and International Examiner for the Intercollegiate Board examinations FRCS (TR & Orth).

Loïc Fonkoué is a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Yaoundé General Hospital in Cameroon. He serves as a Lecturer at the University of Yaoundé I and as a Scientific Collaborator at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
His clinical practice focuses primarily on trauma surgery, bone and joint infection, and knee and hip arthroplasties. His research interests center on fracture-related infection in low-resource settings, open fractures, bone reconstruction and global trauma care.
Dr. Fonkoué maintains active national and international scientific collaborations and is the author or co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. He holds a PhD and remains strongly committed to advancing orthopaedic trauma research and education in Africa and beyond.

…specializing in adult and paediatric limb reconstruction and major trauma. After qualifying from the University of Oxford in 2001, he completed his surgical training in Leeds and underwent advanced fellowship training in Brisbane and Sheffield.
Currently, he serves as the Lead Clinician for Paediatric Orthopaedics at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and holds the national role of Treasurer for the British Limb Reconstruction Society. His expertise includes complex limb lengthening, deformity correction using the Ilizarov method, and managing acute trauma. Recognized for his clinical excellence, he provides specialist care across Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital and Spire Leeds, where he is dedicated to restoring mobility and improving patient outcomes.

…treatment, using techniques such as the llizarov frame and Taylor spatial frame.

Mr David Goodier qualified from the Royal London Hospital, In 1985, and after various junior jobs in plastic surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and abdominal surgery settled on a career in orthopaedic trauma surgery.

He was appointed consultant at The Royal London Hospital in 1996. As the home of the first medically staffed helicopter emergency service in the UK, Mr Goodier spent 15 years of his career as lead for orthopaedic trauma, working with the most severely injured patients, and taking a lead role in the management of the bomb blast victims of the 7th July 2005 terrorist attacks. Today, The Royal London Hospital remains the busiest centre for polytrauma in the UK.

He was on the executive committee of the BLRS for many years, including two years as president. He lectures on national and international trauma courses, and spent 10 years on the examination board for the FRCS (Tr&Orth) final fellowship examination assessing the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons.
While at The Royal London Hopistal, Mr Goodier’s reputation in complex trauma saw him receive referrals from all over the UK, for patients whose cases were deemed too complex to be dealt with elsewhere, or who had undergone surgeries that had ‘gone wrong’.

This led to him learning and developing techniques in limb salvage surgery, and then travelling to the Ilizarov Institute in Siberia, twice, to review the techniques being utilised there.

Since resigning from the Royal London after 15 years, he started working at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2011 where he is proud to be part of a world class team of limb reconstruction surgeons.

…, major trauma service for the NHS serving a diverse and multi-cultural population. His clinical interest is in complex lower limb trauma and management of bone deformity, infection, defect and non-union

Alexi is passionate about delivering clinical research and is a principal investigator for the NIHR funded SOLARIO trial. His research portfolio includes numerous publications in leading peer reviewed journals and international presentations. He is committed to advancing his field through clinical-academic collaborations with leading units. He is trained in the application of Ilizarov technique, software assisted hexapod frames and intramedullary limb lengthening devices.

He qualified from Barts and The London School of Medicine completing his Trauma and Orthopaedics training with the prestigious Percival Pott rotation. Throughout training and fellowship, he worked in leading London Major Trauma Centres and Limb Reconstruction Units including the Royal London Hospital, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

He is teaching faculty at various regional and international courses including our MSc in Trauma Sciences and delivers training in developing countries. He is our Unit’s lead on the joint Limb Reconstruction Fellowship with the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He is a member of the British Limb Reconstruction Society and AO Trauma.

…training in trauma and limb reconstruction.

Maritz obtained his undergraduate qualification from the University of the Free State, South Africa. After working at various centres around South Africa and the United Kingdom, he completed his specialist orthopaedic training at the University of Cape Town. This was followed by a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Cape Orthopaedic Trauma Group at Vincent Pallotti Hospital. He then travelled to London to work in the Limb Reconstruction Unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. During his time there he gained experience in all aspects of limb reconstruction in adult and paediatric patients, including deformity correction, limb lengthening and the treatment of non-unions and bone infections. He returned to Cape Town to take up a consultant position at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town. He also joined the team at the Cape Orthopaedic Trauma Group. He assisted setting up dedicated Bone and Joint Infection Units at both Groote Schuur Hospital and Vincent Polotti Hospitals for the management of bone and joint infections by a multidisciplinary team.

… University of Nottingham and Nottingham Children’s Hospital. He started his medical training in Cardiff at the University of Wales College of Medicine. During this time, he intercalated at University College London with a BSc in Medical Physics and Bioengineering, before returning to Wales to finish medical school and then foundation rotations.

Mr Marson moved to the Severn Deanery for Core Surgical Training before securing an Academic Clinical Fellowship in the East Midlands. This led to a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship in Nottingham to deliver a core outcome set for childhood limb fractures and a clinical post-CCT fellowship at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

He has an active research interest in understanding outcomes following orthopaedic injury and rehabilitation, orthopaedic infections, and is a co-investigator for the ODD SOCKS trial. Ben has published over 50 journal articles and is an active reviewer for several journals. He has been compiling the Cochrane Corner for this journal since October 2023.

…his 6th birthday.
He graduated without distinction from the Welsh National School of Medicine, completing higher surgical training in Manchester and fellowship training in Sydney. He was appointed to the Consultant staff at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children in 2004 and is involved in the management of paediatric patients with a special interest in limb deformity and trauma.
He is British Orthopedic Association President 2025-6

… training in Merseyside. He has also worked in Melbourne as well as visiting units in Cape Town, Fukushima, Baltimore, Munster & Milan to develop his specialist practice in limb reconstruction in children and adults.

Since 2019, Nick has worked in specialist tertiary referral limb reconstruction centres in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. His practice includes the management of acquired and congenital pathologies of the upper and lower limbs.

Nick is the chief investigator for the ODD SOCKS study, a multi-centre NIHR trial investigating the management of Salter Harris II fractures of the distal tibia in children (www.oddsocks.org). He is also the chair of national cadaveric educational courses endorsed by the BLRS: North West Open Tibial Fracture Management course (www.opentibia.org) and the Current Controversies in Paediatric Limb Reconstruction (CCPLR).

Outside of work Nick spends the majority of time standing on the side of football and rugby pitches watching his sons, with the rest of the time spent maintaining midlife crises including long distance running (since before it was cool) and riding motorbikes (trying to look cool).

…the University Hospital Southampton, as well as the Wessex Nuffield and Southampton Spire Hospitals. He is internationally fellowship trained in the conditions he treats.

…his undergraduate studies at Durham University before studying medicine at Newcastle University, graduating in 2012. He completed his core surgical training and higher surgical training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Orthopaedic program. In addition to his higher surgical training, he spent time out of program at St George’s Major Trauma Centre, under the mentorship of Mr Alex Trompeter.

Further to this Mr Robertson has completed two periods of international and UK based specialist fellowship training.

An international fellowship in Cope Town at Groote Schuur Hospital with Mr Martiz Laubscher and Tygerberg Hospital with Mr Nando Ferreira provided exposure to high volumes of trauma, fracture related infection, deformity and non-union management.

A UK fellowship at the world renowned Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, under the mentorship of Mr Peter Calder, Mr David Goodier and Mr Jonathan Wright provided exposure to a breath of elective limb reconstruction surgery in adults and children including deformity correction, limb lengthening and stature lengthening.

By completing fellowships with both a trauma and elective limb reconstruction focus, Mr Robertson is able to draw on techniques applied in both settings to provide a holistic approach to the care of the trauma and limb reconstruction patient.

…at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, specialising in limb reconstruction. He is involved with the British Limb Reconstruction Society (BLRS) and contributes to research, including identifying priorities in limb reconstruction surgery.

…Hospital. She has a MSc in Contemporary Nursing.

Since qualifying as a nurse in 1994 she has specialised within the fields of Rheumatology and Orthopaedics. Working within the trauma environment at the Royal London Hospital she became a Limb Reconstruction Nurse Specialist in 2005, leaving to become a member of the team at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2012. Anna was the Nursing and AHP representative on the executive committee of the British Limb Reconstruction Society between 2018 and 2020.

Anna’s research interests include pin site care and Patient Reported Outcome Measures. She is very proud to be a part of the RNOH team.

…bone and joint infection. She is part of the Limb Reconstruction Unit at Stanmore.

She qualified as a doctor in 2008 from King’s College Hospital with distinction and is an Associate of King’s College. She has an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her specialist orthopaedic training in the East of England rotation, winning trainee of the year in 2017. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She has completed sub-specialist fellowships in major trauma and orthoplastics (King’s College Hospital), bone infection (Oxford Bone Infection Unit and Sinai Hospital Baltimore), acute adult limb reconstruction (Royal London Hospital) and paediatric and elective adult limb reconstruction (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital).

Alongside her clinic work, she leads the work of King’s Global Health Partnerships in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This long-term partnership works with the ministry of health in health systems strengthening to improve the quality of care in the Kongo Central province. This work has been recognised with a King’s Alumnus of the Year award in 2018.

Her research interests include: bone and joint infection and particularly their management in low resource settings, global surgery, health systems strengthening and health economics.

She is committed to the delivery of excellent surgical care in the NHS and to improving access to safe, timely and affordable surgery in areas of the world where it is most needed.

…position of Honorary Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London. His specific clinical interests are the management of complex fractures, bone infection, non-union, deformity correction and limb lengthening. He works closely with plastic surgeons for many cases. He has a regular ortho-plastic-microbiology MDT clinic as well as delivering the region’s amputation service.

Alex graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school in 2003. He completed his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in the South West Thames rotation in 2012. He won the Sir Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the FRCS examinations in 2011. Alex undertook specialist fellowship training in trauma and limb reconstruction in the UK (Liverpool and Chertsey) and overseas (Calgary, Canada). He was awarded the Braun travelling fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, by the British Orthopaedic Association, and a travelling fellowship to the Oxford Bone Infection Unit by the British Limb Reconstruction Society.

Alex is actively involved in education locally, nationally and internationally. He regularly teaches and lectures in his specialist areas. He has previously been an MBBS module lead, is currently co-section head for Clinical teachers, and co-chairs a musculoskeletal anatomy BSc module at SGUL. He is Training Program Director for the South West London Orthopaedic Rotation. He is involved at a national level in policy making and improving patient care. Alex is also actively involved in academic research and is widely published in his field. In his spare time he tries to go running, learn the guitar, coach cricket and make salami.

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…His practice includes non-spinal paediatric orthopaedic conditions including limb deformity, neuromuscular conditions, hip pathology and disorders of the foot. His NHS practice is at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital where alongside children’s orthopaedics, he also sees adults with congenital and acquired limb deformities requiring limb lengthening or reconstruction techniques.

He graduated from his medical degree at University College London, with honours in 2006. Whilst as a Specialist Registrar he completed his higher orthopaedic training on the Percivall Pott rotation. On obtaining his FRCS he was awarded the Arthur Edward Burton memorial prize for the best performance in the written examination. During his training, Mr Wright gained experience in paediatric orthopaedics and limb reconstruction at several centres including Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal London Hospitaland the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Mr Wright completed two international fellowships, firstly at the Ilizarov Scientific Centre for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Kurgan, Russia, where he worked on the use of circular fixators for deformity correction and limb lengthening. Subsequently he undertook a 12-month fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedics at the Starship Children’s hospital in Auckland, New Zealand.

His research interests including paediatric congenital and acquired deformity along with outcomes and registry data in limb reconstruction. He has published multiple scientific papers and book chapters in orthopaedic textbooks.