31 March - 1 April 2025
Join us in the heart of Edinburgh for the Second International Edinburgh Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Conference, taking place in 2025.
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Join us in the heart of Edinburgh for the Second International Edinburgh Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Conference, taking place in 2025. This two-day event offers a comprehensive exploration of health, sports, and orthopaedic advancements.
The Edinburgh Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Conference will address a number of the most pressing topics in sports medicine, bringing together orthopaedic surgeons, sports medicine doctors, physiotherapists, general practitioners, researchers and those interested in the wellbeing of athletes. This conference will once again deliver a world class international faculty, and with focus on three principal themes: managing osteoarthritis in the athlete (osteotomy and joint replacement), ACL and associated injuries (ligament, cartilage and meniscus), and ACL injury prevention.
This event will provide a unique opportunity to network with leaders in sports, orthopaedics, and sports medicine, offering practical insights for healthcare professionals working to optimise athlete health and enhance patient outcomes across various settings.
If you would like to attend the gala dinner, please make sure you choose the ticket type that includes this. Dinner will include an 'Athlete's Voice' session.
Abstracts
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Ticket Pricing
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Ticket Type
Cost
Online
£95
Ticket Type
Cost (1 Day)
RCSEd Members, IOC Members & BASEM Members
£125
RCSEd Members, IOC Members & BASEM Members + Dinner
£180
Non Members
£150
Non Members + Dinner
£215
Full Time Student
£75
Full Time Student + Dinner
£130
Ticket Type
Cost (2 Days)
RCSEd Members, IOC Members & BASEM Members
£190
RCSEd Members, IOC Members & BASEM Members + Dinner
£245
Non Members
£240
Non Members + Dinner
£295
Full Time Student
£100
Full Time Student + Dinner
£155
Presenters 2025
Name
Biography
Mr Sanjay Anand
Sanjay is a Consultant Knee Surgeon who works at the Orthteam Centre in Manchester and Fortius Clinic in London. He looks after amateur and professional athletes from a variety of sports clubs including football, rugby, netball, hockey and Team GB Athletes. He has a particular interest in ACL reconstruction, osteotomies around the knee, treatment of early cartilage damage/osteoarthritis in the young patient and management of fat pad problems, patellar tendinopathy and anterior knee pain.
Miss Morgan Bailey
Morgan is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon working between University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites. She is the Hampshire Ambassador for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play and the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women.
Dr Sheree Bekker
Sheree is a distinguished scholar specialising in sports injury prevention and gender equity in sport. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. Sheree’s research is widely recognised for its innovative approach, particularly her application of socio-cultural and feminist theories to Sport and Exercise Medicine. As Co-Director of the Feminist Sport Lab, Sheree is instrumental in leading international collaborations that are developing inclusive and equitable safety standards in sport. Her work is published in numerous high-impact journals, including the British Journal of Sports Medicine and The BMJ.
Miss Heather Binnington
She is Head of Sport & Exercise Medicine at the University of Edinburgh Sport & Exercise department, leads Edinburgh Sports Clinic (formerly FASIC), and combines this with a clinical role as Advanced Practice Physiotherapist with a background in sports physiotherapy and orthopaedic medicine. Heather worked in orthopaedic, musculo-skeletal and specialist sport roles within the NHS, club and SRU age-grade rugby before moving to private practice, gaining clinic experience and leading the medical services for the University’s high performance sport programme. Heather also worked as lead physiotherapist with Scottish Hockey, for the Scotland Men’s Hockey team from 2014-2019, supporting their international programme and promotion back to European Championships.
Dr Jonny Gordon
Jonny is an Emergency Medicine consultant based in the Major Trauma Centre at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. He has worked with the Scottish FA since 2002 becoming Chief Medical Officer in 2023. He is a consultant to UEFA and FIFA; writing and course directing the Football Doctor Education Programme for UEFA and the FIFA Emergency care course. Jonny is CEO of ScribePro a digital medical records company based in Glasgow and founding director of Promote Medical, a company that designs and manufacturers emergency care bags.
Tom Hughes
TBC
Dr Kate Jackson
She is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician and co-founder and trustee for the youth sport injury prevention initiative Power Up To Play. Over the last 20 years Kate has worked in many areas of SEM including 5 years of SEM research at the University of Oxford, NHS MSK clinics, UK Sports Institute, the MOD, England Netball and Hockey team travel and at London 2012. During her 6 years as Academy and Women’s Doctor at Oxford United FC she saw first-hand the physical, psychological and social impact of ACL ruptures in youth players. This sparked her interest in ACL injury prevention and in particular in the widespread use of a structured, evidence-based, injury prevention warm-up to reduce ACL injuries at all levels of sport.
Dr Enda King
He combines his roles as a Sports Physiotherapist, Strength and Conditioning Coach, researcher, and educator through his work with individual athletes and elite teams across a spectrum of sports and disciplines. Through his base at the renowned FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Aspetar, Qatar, Enda combines his clinical and research work through the use of 3D biomechanics and high-level residential rehabilitation to optimise performance and efficient recovery after injury. He has worked with athletes and consulted for teams across a wide variety of disciplines including rugby, football, AFL, NBA, NFL, UFC, boxing, jockeys and GAA. His greatest areas of expertise lies within hip and groin related injury, as well as knee / ACL rehabilitation, and he is committed to performing innovative research to develop robust methods for injury prevention and rehabilitation in elite sport.
Dr Robert F. LaPrade
Robert is a Complex Orthopaedic Knee and Sports Medicine Surgeon who practices at Twin Cities Orthopedics in Edina and Eagan, Minnesota. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota. Robert is known as a specialised clinician scientist who has utilised his comprehensive research on sports medicine injuries to improve patient care and invent novel ways to treat knee problems. Many of the surgeries that he has devised have been performed worldwide. He has special expertise in treating posterolateral knee injuries, PCL tears, revision ACL reconstructions, meniscal repairs and transplants, MCL injuries, multiple ligament knee injuries, knee osteotomies, fresh osteoarticular allografts, and other difficult complex and revision injuries.
Dr Christina Le
She is a Physiotherapist and Researcher with a special interest in knee injuries. Her clinical experience combined with her personal experience of recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury inspired her to pursue a PhD. In 2022, she completed her PhD which examined health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of youth athletes following a sport-related knee injury. Christina is now a post-doctoral researcher for Project ACL, a collaborative research endeavour with FIFPRO, the Professional Footballers Association, Nike, and Leeds Beckett University, that aims to reduce ACL injuries and increase player availability in professional women’s football.
Professor Dominic Meek
Appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2003, Dominic works at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He is a specialist in hip reconstructive arthroplasty surgery, in particularly young and complex revision surgery and hip resurfacing. He undertook a fellowship in adult hip reconstruction at the Department of Lower Limb Arthroplasty, Vancouver University Hospital and was awarded the British and American Hip Societies Travelling Fellow and the ABC Fellowships. Dominic is an Honorary Professor at Glasgow University, immediate Past President of the British Hip Society, President of the West of Scotland Orthopaedic Research Society (WoSORS) and co-founder of the Glasgow Orthopaedic Research Society (GLORI) for fundamental science research at Glasgow University.
Dr Mary Mulcahey
She is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in shoulder and knee surgery and sports medicine. She is a New Hampshire native, who received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She completed her orthopaedic residency at Brown University. Mary then went on to do a fellowship in sports medicine at San Diego Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine. She is Professor and Chief of Sports Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. She is also Director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Program at Loyola.
Dr Alastair Nicol
Alastair spent over 35 years in the British Army, initially with Airborne and Special Forces, and then in Rehabilitation, culminating as Clinical Director at the iconic Headley Court before his final role as Director of Defence Rehabilitation. During that time he squeezed in three Olympics, four Commonwealth Games, Match Doctor at the Rugby World Cup final in 2015, and is now one of the most experienced Match Doctors in international rugby. In his semi-retirement he supports the DPW Tour golf and is now working in Motorsport as the Mercedes Race Team Doctor in Formula 1 and looking after 16 drivers, six in Formula 1, across five teams, including Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and George Russell. He is walking proof that unicompartment knees can be successful if done at the right time, to the right person. For the record, the ACL is the only ligament he has left in that knee!
Dr Philip Robinson
He is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor University of Leeds and Leeds Biomedical Research Centre. He is President-Elect of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR). He has previously been President of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists (BSSR) (2018-2020) and Clinical Director for Leeds Radiology (2011-18). Dr Robinson has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers, 25 book chapters and 1 textbook. His main research interests include: sports acute and overuse injuries (particularly groin, hip, knee and ankle pain), clinical effectiveness studies as well as sarcoma imaging and management.
Ms Chloe Scott
Chloe is a Consultant Hip, Knee and Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and is Editor-in-Chief of Bone and Joint Research. Clinically she has specialist interests in complex knee arthroplasty surgery and periprosthetic fracture management. Her research interests include arthroplasty outcomes, periprosthetic fractures, robotic surgery, finite element analysis and knee biomechanics in which she has over 100 publications. She was awarded the Hunter Doig medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020. She is an advocate for diversity in surgery and is involved in diversity projects both in the UK and America and is a member of Pride Ortho.
Mr Tim Spalding
Tim is a Knee Surgeon in the Midlands at Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital and in London at the Cleveland Clinic London. His focus is on ligament reconstruction and knee preservation covering meniscal repair and meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, osteotomy, and novel Ortho-Biologics. He is past president of the International ACL Study Group. Following Fellowship in Toronto, consultant career started in the Royal Navy in 1995, followed by University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2000, initiating meniscal transplantation and lead a well-respected fellowship program, and research program before leaving in 2021. He has pioneered several new techniques, has over 100 publications and 12 book chapters. He leads the UK National Ligament Registry for ACL surgery, now transitioning into a mandatory national registry. Internationally, he co-leads the International Meniscal Reconstruction Forum (IMREF) and the ICRS Cartilage Foundation. He is co-organiser of the Sports Knee Surgery biannual conference since 2003.
Ms Ciara Stevenson
She is a Consultant Specialist Knee Surgeon from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Having completed orthopaedic training in Northern Ireland, she then undertook two fellowships in Sports Knee and Arthroplasty Surgery, the first with Dr Peter Myers at the Brisbane Orthopaedic Sports Medical Centre (Australia), the second with Mr Tim Spalding at University Hospital Coventry, England. Ciara works in a level 1 Major Trauma Centre and a private sports knee clinic in Belfast. Her clinical practice includes knee dislocations/multi-ligament knee injury, patella re-alignment, meniscal repair/transplantation, osteotomy and arthroplasty. She is committed to training orthopaedic surgeons and won Trainer of the Year Northern Ireland Award in 2024. She was also awarded the prestigious ABC travelling fellowship from the British Orthopaedic Association in 2024.
Mr Luke Tollefson
Luke is the head of research for Dr. Robert F. LaPrade at Twin Cities Orthopedics in Edina, Minnesota. He specialises in knee research with emphasis on the meniscus, ligaments, osteotomies, and biomechanical testing.
Mr Andy Williams
Sports knee surgeon at Fortius Clinic, London / Reader at Imperial College London and well known for treating elite athletes, Andy has 145 peer-reviewed publications and his h-index is 45. He was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. Current research focuses on inflammatory response to knee injury, biomechanics at Imperial College, and outcomes of surgery in elite athletes. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. He sits on the Editorial Board American Journal of Sports Medicine, previously that of the BJJ, and also is on the Board of Directors of ISAKOS. He will be president of the ACL Study Group in 2030. Andy was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper and is the first British Surgeon admitted to the Herodicus Society.
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