Education and Training Committee

Committee Terms of Reference

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Rob Poulter

Chair 2025 - 2027

 

 

Susan Stevenson

Committee Member 2023 - 2025

Susan is a Consultant Hand and Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. She completed a TIG fellowship in Newcastle and a fellowship in Sydney. Susan has an interest in education and training, has been TPD for Plastic Surgery in the North East and is a current plastic surgery SAC member and FRCS (Plast) examiner.

 

Kalpesh Vaghela

Committee Member 2024 - 2026

Kalpesh is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. He completed his orthopaedic training in London on the Percivall Pott rotation followed by fellowships at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby and the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. His main interests are medical education, complex trauma and wrist arthroscopy.

 

 

Hugh Wright

Committee Member 2024 - 2026

 

 

 

Carol Chan

Committee Member 2025 - 2027

 

 

 

Tereze Laing

Committee Member 2025 - 2027

 

Invited Members

 

Peter Willett:  

Public and Patient Initiative (PPI) Representative

Peter had an academic career and is now Emeritus Professor of Information Science at the University of Sheffield.  He has a personal interest in hand surgery and acts as the patient representative on the Committee

 

Abdul Hassan 

BOTA Trainee representative

Abdul is a ST7 Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar within the Severn Deanery. He is the BOTA representative for the BSSH Education and Training Committee as well as the Instructional Course Committee.

He was previously the Severn BOA Diversity Equality and Inclusion Junior Champion and has completed two months working in The BSSH LION Hand Project in Malawi at the beginning of this year during an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE)

 

Kiron Koshy   

PLASTA Trainee representative

Kiron is an ST7 Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery within the North East Deanery. He is the PLASTA representative for the BSSH Education and Training Committee as well as the Instructional Course Committee.

Kiron is passionate about Hand and Nerve Surgery and will be commencing the Hand and Nerve                                                              Fellowship at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham in 2025. 

 

Debbie Miles      

 BAHT representative

Debbie is a Physiotherapist and Accredited Hand Therapist with 15 years clinical experience in hand therapy.  She has also served on the BAHT education sub-committee for 12 years including two as chair, and currently works full-time teaching in higher education at the University of Essex whilst also pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Physiotherapy.

 

Alan Middleton       

 Interface Committee in Hand Surgery Chair

 

Committee Dates 2025

Thursday 6th March

Thursday 25th September