Wessex Gauvain June 20th 2025

Program

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Registration

09:00 – 09:30

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Introduction

09:30 – 09:35

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The Wessex Orthopaedic Medical Student Society

09:35 – 09:40

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Session 1 Free Papers – Chairs: Miss Joanne Round and Mr Sushmith Gowda

09:40 – 10:30

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09:40 The Portsmouth Experience of 13 Years of EXOGEN Use

Adam Williams, Vicky Parker, Fransiska Guerreiro, Christopher Hand

Queen Alexandra Hospital

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09:50 Can we assess ankle syndesmosis instability with the NanoNeedle camera?

Ahmed Ahmed, Richard Dimock, Daniel Marsland, Robin Elliot

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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10:00 Intramedullary Nails in Trochantric A1/A2 fractures in a high-volume trauma centre yields low mortality and re-operation rates

Ahmed Farghaly, Ping Cheng, David Higgs, Simon Tilley

University Hospital Southampton

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10:10 Ambulatory Orthopaedics at University Hospitals Dorset

Kate Nicholls, Christopher Haskell, Nikki Kelsall

University Hospitals Dorset

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10:20 The impact of co-locating Orthoplastic services at a major trauma centre on the management of Gustilo-Anderson grade IIIB and IIIC tibial fractures

Matthew Flintoft-Burt, Olivia Morgan, Matthew Towner, Nicholas Hancock

University Hospital Southampton

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Coffee and Trade Stands

10:30 – 11:00

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Session 2 Free Papers – Chairs: Mr Christopher Jordan and Mr Alex Chowdhury

11:00 – 12:30

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11:00 Mid-Term Outcomes of the Scheker Distal Radioulnar Joint Prosthesis: A Single-Surgeon Series

Kizzie Peters, Laura Smythe, Sherif Fetouh, Oliver Townsend, David Warwick

Southampton General Hospital

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11:10 Correlating SPECT-CT Findings and Underlying Pathology in the Painful Total Ankle Replacement

Tom Ranaboldo, Richard Dimock, Robin Elliot, Daniel Marsland

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Basingstoke)

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11:20 Comparative Outcomes of Medial UKR and HTO for Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis: A 5-Year Analysis

Ahmed Khalaf, Benjamin Zakaria, Leonidas Vachtsevanos.

Salisbury District Hospital

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11:30 Wrong level spinal surgery: how to reduce the risk.

Christopher Wilson, William Stockley, Mr Guy Barham

Salisbury District Hospital

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11:40 Patient-reported Outcomes of Intra-articular Hyaluronic Acid Injection for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Cohort Study

Derrick Zhan Ng, Claire Kennedy, Jeremy Rushbrook

Queen Alexandra Hospital

 

11:50 Joint School as a measure of reducing inpatient stay and improving patient experience in day case total hip arthroplasty.

Judith Buchan, Henry Goodier, Susie Baker, James Smith

Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust

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12:00 Outcomes of 1st CMCJ prosthetic arthroplasty – Our experience after adopting a new procedure

Moustafa Mahmoud, Matthew Oh, Duncan Avis

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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12:10 Intraoperative Complications of Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (ALIF): A 10-Year Single-Surgeon Experience Performing Their Own Approach

Omer Nasim, Ahmed Khalaf, Guy Barham

Salisbury District Hospital

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12:20 Development and Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Minimal Important Change in Oxford Knee Score after Arthroplasty

Andrew Coppola, Nimra Akram, Bilal Qaddoura, Zohra Bouchamaoui, Venkatesh Tata, Nick Clement, Ferrante Neri, Deiary Kader

South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre

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Lunch and Trade Stands

12:30 – 13:30

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Guest speaker Glenn Hunter

13:30 – 14:00 Guest speaker Glenn Hunter

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Session 3 Free Papers – Paediatrics and Basic sciences Chairs: Mr Matthew Barry and Mr David Clarke

14:10-15:10

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14:10 Healing Smarter: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Bioresorbable Implants for Paediatric Forearm Fractures

Ghaith Al-Dairy Florence Eastwood, Firas Raheman, Ghaith Al-Dairy, Pranai Buddhdev, Maria Popescu, Clare Henney, Liz Hunwick

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust / Broomfield Hospital

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14:20 The Environmental Impact of Fracture Neck of Femur 

James Whitehouse, Salih Elhag, Ollie Turner, Alexander Aarvold, Robert Jennings

University Hospital Southampton

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14:30 Radiation Exposure and Lifetime Cancer Risk of Young People Undergoing Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) Treatment.

Olivia White, Fiona Wall, Andrew Cottam, Alexander Aarvold

University Hospital Southampton

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14:40 Joint Effort: Enhancing Musculoskeletal Examination Confidence through a Reverse-Classroom Workshop

Peter Garus, Jack Hurst, Oliver Townsend, Alex Thomas

University Hospital Soouthampton

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14:50 BOA AI in Orthopaedics Hackathon

Rory Ormiston, Henry Goodier, Lucy Bailey

University Hospital Southampton

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15:00 Uses of augmented reality in surgical consent and patient education – A systematic review

Thomas Evans, Adam Turna, Thomas D. Stringfellow, Gareth G. Jones

St Mary's Hospital, IOW NHS Trust

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Coffee and Trade Stands

15:10 – 15:30

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Session 4 Free Papers – Chairs: Mr Nicholas Hancock and Miss Joanna Higgins

15:30-16:30

15:30 The case for consent clinics: a review of current practice in a busy Foot & Ankle service

Aliabbas Moosa, Sanskrita Sashikanth, Matthew Oh, Richard Dimock, Daniel Marsland, Robin Elliot

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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15:40 Use of eConsent to Improve Consenting for Elective Orthopaedic Procedures

Bethany Sykes, Tara Edwards, Neil Marshall, Jonathan Kosy

Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital

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15:50 Trauma & Orthopaedic Outpatient Clinic - Quality Improvement Project

Michael Wilson, V Yannoulias, Peter Ward

Dorset County Hospital

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16:00 Barn Theatres: A Novel Learning Environment For Orthopaedic Surgeons

Rhian Bevan, Richard Galloway, Louise Nordin, Mike kent, Kieran Gallagher,

University Hospital Dorset

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16:10 Dual Consultant Operating in F&A, the way of the future??

Sophie White, Elliot, Daniel Marsland

HHFT

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16:20 Foot and Ankle Corticosteroid Injection Clinic - Service Evaluation

Terrence Soh, Nikki Kelsall, Charlene Roslee, Conrad Lee, Ajay Chourasia

University Hospital Dorset

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BOTA update

16:30-16:40

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Trainer of the year

16:40-16:50

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TPD Address and Prizes

16:50-17:10

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Drinks reception 19:00

Dinner 19:30