FOS is delighted to have an excellent selection of eminent orthopaedic consultants and trainees speaking at the 3rd Annual FOSC.

Mr. L. A. David MBBS, MRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Lee David is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. He completed his training in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery on the South East Thames Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Specialist Registrar rotation and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. His areas of sub-specialist interest include hip and knee arthroplasty, revision surgery and trauma. He has published book chapters and papers in peer review journals and has presented numerous research papers at national and international scientific meetings. He also has an active interest in teaching and training and is a Royal College of Surgeons Tutor. He is currently a member of the Royal Society of Medicine Orthopaedic Section Council and was previously the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association representative on the Specialist Advisory Committee and the Intercollegiate Specialty Board of Examinations.

Professor Tim Briggs MB BS (Hons), MChOrth, FRCS (Ed.), FRCS (Eng.) 

 Professor Briggs is the medical director of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. His special interests are bone and soft tissue tumours, comprehensive cartilage transplantation. primary and revision hip and knee replacement and reconstruction of the lower limb. He qualified in 1982 obtaining Honours in Surgery and winning a number of prizes, and was appointed at the RNOH as a Consultant in 1992.
He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and was Editorial Secretary of the British Orthopaedic Association. He has a special interest in autologous chondrocyte transplantation around the knee and is one of the clinical leaders in this field in the UK. He has an interest in sports injuries and is one of the surgeons for the Arsenal men’s and Arsenal lady’s football clubs. 

Mr Ian Stephen

I am a retired consultant orthopaedic surgeon. I qualified from Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1968 and did my orthopaedic training in Bristol, Exeter, Truro and Montreal. I practiced in East Kent from 1983 until 2005, including time as Chairman of the Medical Staff Committee and Clinical Director of Trauma and Orthopaedics. I developed a special interest in foot and ankle surgery and I was President of the British Orthopaedic Foot Surgery Society 2000-2001.

At the Royal Society of Medicine I was President of the Orthopaedic Section 2004-2005 and then vice Chairman and Chairman of the Academic Board 2005-2010, during which time I served on the Council of the Society. I remain a Council member of the Sections of Orthopaedics and the History of Medicine.

I am Chairman of the Board of East Kent Medical Services Limited, which provides private medical services in East Kent. I am a Governor of the Expert Witness Institute and Archivist of the British Orthopaedic Association. I have recently become an Assessor for the Membership Governance Programme at the Medical Protection Society and I am currently President of the Hunterian Society.