Faculty
Anastasios Nikolaides
Anastasios Nikolaides
Dr A. Nikolaides is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specialised in Hip Trauma, Lower Limb Periprosthetic Trauma, Paediatric Trauma as well as Reconstructive Surgery of the Knee and Hip.
He graduated from Thessaloniki Medical School in 1990 and started his internship in Orthopaedics and Trauma the same year in the United Kingdom.
He is the Head of the Femoral Fragility Fracture Service based at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital the biggest in UK treating 1200 Hip and Periprosthetic Fractures annually with a special interest in MIPPO techniques.
Since 2023 he is the Director of a Femoral Fragility Fellowship the only one currently available in UK.
He is a Guest Editor of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Journal.
He is a dedicated Lower Limb Arthroplasty with a special interest in Kinematic Alignment Total Knee Arthroplasty and Hip Arthroplasty.
He is Honorary Associate Clinical Professor Birmingham University and Member of the Academy of Medical Educators in recognition of his achievements as e Medical Educator.
Maria Diehl
Maria Diehl
María is an endocrinologist with Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires where she provides care to patients with bone diseases both in the inpatient and outpatient settings, leads the Fracture Liaison Service and participates in the Hip Fracture Institutional Audit. She is a professor in the Osteology Career at the Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano and the Asociación Argentina de Osteología y Metabolismo Mineral (AAOMM) among other teaching activities.
She is part of AAOMM's Fracture Prevention and Rare Bone Diseases study groups.
María coordinates the Argentinian Hip Fracture Network (RAFCA) and contributes to the development of the Argentinian Hip Fracture Audit. "Programa Pasos".
She is part of FFN's Regionalization Committee for Latin America and of the Secondary Prevention and Hip Fracture Audit advisory groups.
She actively works to set up networks in order to promote registries and multidisciplinary models for fracture care and prevention, aiming at improving patient outcomes and resource utilization.
Carmelinda Ruggiero
Carmelinda Ruggiero
Dr. Ruggiero is professor of Geriatrics-Internal Medicine at University of Perugia, Italy. She is founder and head of the Orthogeriatric Unit of the Academic Hospital in Perugia, formally established in 2016, and of the Falls and Fracture Prevention Service, accredited as Post-Fracture Care Service by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, since 2017. She has been studying frailty, inflammation as underlying mechanism of age-related diseases, focusing on osteoporosis, bone-muscle interaction, fragility fractures and orthogeriatric acute and post-fracture care models. She developed and conducted regional educational programs in Orthogeriatrics for HC professionals and established Orthogeriatric curricula for Nursing Master Degree. Recipient of many National and International research grants. She is listed among top Italian scientists (150 publications in peer-review journal, 4200 citations and H-index 36). Dr Ruggiero is founder member and President of FFN Italy.
Matt Costa
Matt Costa
Matt Costa is Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions. He is Chief Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK NIHR, EU, Musculoskeletal Charities and the Trauma Industry. His work has been cited widely, and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Matt is Chair of the NIHR Clinical Research Network Injuries and Emergencies Specialty Group and the NIHR Musculoskeletal Trauma Trials Network. He is also a member of the NIHR HTA Research Board. He Chairs the British Orthopaedic Association Research Committee and is the Specialty Lead in Orthopaedic Trauma for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He is Associate Editor for Trauma and Research Methods at the Bone and Joint Journal.
Irewin A. Tabu
Irewin A. Tabu
He is the current chair of the Global Fragility Fracture Network Regionalisation Committee and President of Fragility Fracture Network (FFN)- Philippines. He earned his medical degree from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and subsequently trained at the University of the Philippines- Philippine General Hospital Department of Orthopedics. He underwent fellowship training in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty at the Brisbane Private Hospital and Queensland Bone Bank, and St. Vincent’s Clinic in Sydney, Australia. As well as further training in pelvis and acetabulum reconstruction surgery in Inselspital- Bern University Switzerland. Currently, he is the Chief of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital Orthopedic Trauma Division and the Head of the Philippine Orthopedic Association Osteoporosis and Orthogeriatric Working Group, and an Affiliate Research Associate Professor of the University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health-Institute of Aging. He is also a Council Member of the APOA Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis and Fragility Fracture Section, and a fellow of the Philippine Orthopedic Trauma Society, the Philippine Hip and Knee Society, and an AO Trauma Philippines Faculty.
Opinder Sahota
Opinder Sahota
Opinder Sahota is a Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Ortho-Geriatric Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals UK.
He leads a team of six ortho-geriatricians, in a department of 26 geriatricians, encompassing the care of older people with fragility fractures across the trauma and orthopaedic unit, regional spine unit and major trauma centre.
Nationally he is a Fellow of NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), recently appointed NICE guideline committee member (AI and Vertebral Fragility Fractures), and Bone Health representative on behalf of the BGS (British Geriatrics Society UK), on a number of external organisations. He is the co-chair of FFN UK
Internationally, he is the co-chair of the Vertebral Fragility Fracture SIG, Global FFN and member of the global FFN scientific committee.
Dato’ Dr. Joon-Kiong Lee
Dato’ Dr. Joon-Kiong Lee
- Deputy Medical Director, Chair of the Surgical Committee at Beacon Hospital, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
- President, Malaysian Bone Health Optimization Network (MyBONe)
- Immediate Past President, Fragility Fracture Network Malaysia (FFNM) with Distinguished Award for Leadership in Fragility Fracture Care 2024 and also the Lead for FFNM Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) Framework.
- Immediate Past President, Asia Pacific Osteoporosis and Fragility Fracture Society (APOFFS), a section of Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA)
- Past President of ISCD (International Society for Clinical Densitometry) with ISCD Dr. Paul D. Miller Service Award in 2018 and Dr John P. Bilezikian ISCD Global Leadership Award 2023, Course Lead for ISCD Orthopedic Osteoporosis and Densitometry Course.
- Past Chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) with the 2020 IOF President’s Award.
- Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance (APFFA) and Co-Editor of the APFFA Hip Fracture Registry Toolkit.
- Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) Global
- Founding and Past President of the Osteoporosis Awareness Society of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor (OASKLS) and also the Past President of Malaysian Osteoporosis Society (MOS)
- A member of the steering committee for the South East Asia, India and Hong Kong (SEAIHK) Bone Academy
Antony Johansen
Antony Johansen
Antony Johansen was the UK's first full time consultant orthogeriatrician, and has worked in the trauma unit of the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff since 1997. He has championed the specialty of orthogeriatrics; co-authoring the British Orthopaedic Association’s ‘Blue Book’ on Fragility Fracture, and the NICE Guidelines on Hip Fracture. Since 2013 he has been clinical lead for the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) at the Royal College of Physicians. As an honorary professor in Cardiff University his research interests embrace the whole field of geriatric medicine, with a focus on quality improvement for older trauma patients.
Jack Bell
Jack Bell
Jack is Principal Research Fellow and Advanced Dietitian at The Prince Charles Hospital in Australia, and an adjunct Professor at the University of Iceland. He enjoys working with all kinds of people around the globe to implement “SIMPLER” nutrition models of care into their local settings.
José Luis Dinamarca-Montecinos
José Luis Dinamarca-Montecinos
José Luis Dinamarca-Montecinos is the past chair of the FFN´s Scientific Committee (2023-2024). Chilean geriatrician, PhD and MSc in Social Gerontology, graduated from the Latin American Academy of Medicine for the Older Adult (ALMA). Head of the Orthogeriatric program at the Dr. Gustavo Fricke Hospital in Viña del Mar. Professor of Geriatrics and Orthogeriatrics at the University of Valparaíso. Creator and introducer of the concept of Dysmobility in Geriatrics, he is also a researcher in Orthogeriatrics, Vitamin B12 and Dysmobility, being author of several research articles, two books about Dysmobility and one about hip fractures and quality systems. Chief Editor of BHVM, the p2p-indexed scientific journal of the Lucas Sierra Foundation. Member of the Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology of Chile, the Chilean Society of Psychogeriatrics, and Honor member of the Paraguayan Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and the Colombian Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. Part of his time is dedicated to literature, being the author of the book of medical stories "Delantal de Médico" (The Physician's apron).
Rhona McGlasson
Rhona McGlasson
Rhona McGlasson is the Chief Operations Officer for the Fragility Fracture Network. She has an extensive history of implementing clinical change including many years as the Executive Director for Bone and Joint Canada where she has been responsible for working with the provincial governments across Canada to implement best practices in the management of musculoskeletal conditions, including rehabilitation and surgery. She also supported the implementation of the Good Life with osteoarthritis from Denmark (GLA:D™ Canada), a neuromuscular exercise program focused on reducing the impact of hip and knee osteoarthritis, across Canada. Rhona is a physiotherapist who has her degree from the University of Greenwich and her Masters in Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School.
Nicholas Taylor
Nicholas Taylor
Nicholas Taylor is Professor of Allied Health, a joint position between La Trobe University and Eastern Health in Melbourne, Australia. A physiotherapist by background, his research interests focus on interventions to increase physical activity for people recovering from fractures and how best to provide health services for rehabilitation.
Hui Min Khor
Hui Min Khor
Hui Min Khor is a consultant geriatrician and Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and has a special interest in orthogeriatric care, osteoporosis, dementia, and frailty in older adults.
She played a key role in developing the Malaysian Geriatric Hip Fracture Clinical Practice Guidelines 2023 and actively contributes to training healthcare professionals in multidisciplinary fragility fracture management.
Dr. Khor is a founding member of the Fragility Fracture Network Malaysia (FFNM) and actively involved in research on osteoporosis treatment and fracture prevention. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and co-organized major regional conferences to advance geriatric care, particularly for older adults with fragility fractures.
Ronald Wong
Ronald Wong
Dr. Wong is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and is the current Director of the Orthopaedic Learning Center and Director of Bone Quality and Health Centre at CUHK. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr. Wong has published > 85 international peer-reviewed journals including in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, Aging Cell, Acta Biomaterialia, and Obesity Reviews. He has many invited presentations at conferences and has obtained numerous competitive grants as PI for innovative research. He is currently the President of Asian Association for Dynamic Osteosynthesis and President of Fragility Fracture Network Hong Kong SAR. His major research interests are in Fragility Fractures, Osteoporosis, and Sarcopenia.
Sallie Lamb
Sallie Lamb
PROFESSOR SARAH (SALLIE) LAMB Member and Fellow of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (not clinically active)
Sallie Lamb is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, at the University of Exeter. Alongside her busy executive role, she maintains her research portfolio as Mireille Gillings Professor of Health Innovation, at the University of Exeter, Director, NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre and Deputy Director, NIHR National School for Primary Care, as well as Honorary Departmental Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.
Lora Giangregorio
Lora Giangregorio
Lora Giangregorio, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo, and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Bone Health and Exercise Science. She leads the Bone Health and Exercise Science Lab, or BonES lab. The BonES lab team leads research on physical activity for older adults and people with
osteoporosis. Dr. Giangregorio is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for Osteoporosis Canada. Dr. Giangregorio was on the leadership team that developed the
2020 Canadian 24-hour Movement Guidelines. She also led the Exercise Working Group for the 2023 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Osteoporosis and
Fracture Prevention in Canada.
Emma Sutton
Emma Sutton
Dr Emma Sutton is a clinical-academic Physiotherapist working in the United Kingdom. She qualified as a physiotherapist in 2001 from the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol. She completed a Masters (Advanced Practice) in 2009, a PhD at the University of Leicester on Quality Improvement in Surgery in 2017 and a clinical lectureship with the clinical trials unit at the University of Warwick (2021). She is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Emma’s current role is clinical academic lead for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Institute of Translational Medicine) and she is also an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Birmingham. Emma chaired the West Midlands Hub for the UK’s Council for Allied Health Professions Research 2019-2023 and she is a member of Q community – a connected community aiming to improve health care quality across the UK. Emma chairs the international Fragility Fracture Network – Fragility Fracture Recovery Research (FFRR) Special Interest Group and she lead the production of the global supplement Fragility Fracture Network: innovations in healthcare improvement | BMJ Open Quality (2023). Emma also sits on the FFN European Steering group. Emma has contributed to the book ‘Dysmobility in Geriatrics’ (Springer, 2024 Dysmobility in Geriatrics: Conceptualisation, Clinical Approach, and Aging Theory | SpringerLink). She was Chief Investigator on a HRA approved mixed methods Research Study called ARTHUR (avoiding readmission after hip fracture) which closed to recruitment in September 2024. Her publications and research covers a wide sphere including: patient and public involvement, reducing re-admission after hip fracture, prehabilitation for elective hip and knee surgery, and ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery).
Jose Ricardo Jauregui
Jose Ricardo Jauregui
Doctor received with Honors Diploma, from the National University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, on December 23, 1986.
Full residency in Internal Medicine, at the Carlos G. Durand Acute Hospital, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires; 1987-1991. Internal Medicine specialist.
Annual Course on Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Argentine Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics; 1990.
University Specialist Degree in Geriatrics and Gerontology from the National University of Buenos Aires; 1992-1994. University Specialist Title, UBA.
Fellow of the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Wales, United Kingdom. Tenured Prof. Ken Woodhouse, Accepting Prof. Anthony Bayer and Alan Sinclair; 1995.
Title of Specialist in Family and Preventive Medicine from the Argentine Association of Family Medicine, awarded by the National Academy of Medicine in 1998. Re-certified in 2003.
Bachelor's Degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Salamanca, Spain, April 2010. Qualification “Outstanding CUM LAUDE”.
Assistant Researcher of the University Institute, School of Medicine of the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires, 2010 to the present.
Doctor of Medicine degree, University of Salamanca, Spain; March 2012. “Outstanding CUM LAUDE” rating.
Academic graduated from the Latin American Academy of Medicine for the Elderly (ALMA), April 2012.
Pursuing Master's in Neurosciences at Tech University, 2022-2023.
President COMLAT-IAGG 2011-2015
Honorary Past President of Argentinean Society of Gerontology & Geriatrics since 2019
Professor in Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires University.
Full Professor, School of Medicine, University of La Matanza, Buenos Aires.
President of International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics, 2022-2026.
Frede Frihagen
Frede Frihagen
Frede Frihagen is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Østfold Hospital Trust and a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has been involved in FFN activities since the first Expert Meeting in Berlin in 2011. He is the Past President of FFN. His research interest as well as his clinical work include hip fractures, other injuries, quality improvement and secondary fracture prevention. He co-authored the Norwegian Guidelines for Secondary Fracture Prevention and the Guidelines for Interdisciplinary Hip Fracture Care.
David Keene
David Keene
Dr David Keene is a clinical academic physiotherapist specialising in the development and evaluation of complex interventions to improve the management of musculoskeletal injuries. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. He has held a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Developing Skills Enhancement Award. He is currently lead or co-investigator on several NIHR-funded multicentre clinical trials. His research has been published in high-impact general medical journals (Lancet, JAMA and BMJ) and in leading speciality journals.
Adam Gordon
Adam Gordon
Adam Gordon is Professor of Care of Older People at the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing, Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. He is the immediate past President of the British Geriatrics Society. He works clinically at Whipps Cross Hospital in NE London. He is interested in improved care pathways for older people living with frailty, particularly older people receiving long term care at home and in care homes and has been a leader in conducting trials, implementation studies, quality improvement and service development research with the long-term care sector.”
Karen Barker
Karen Barker
Karen Barker is a Consultant Physiotherapist and Head of Therapy at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals FT. She is a Professor of Physiotherapy at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) at the University of Oxford.
Karen has developed clinical, managerial and research interests in orthopaedics and trauma and continues to actively work across these areas.
She has a research interest in bone health, particularly vertebral fragility fractures; her other research interests are in chronic pain, joint arthroplasty, qualitative research and the implementation of research findings into clinical practice.
In 2013 she was awarded fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and in 2020 an OBE in recognition of services to healthcare.
Sarah Bolster
Sarah Bolster
My name is Sarah Bolster. I have been a registered nurse since 2011 and have specialised in acute pain management since 2016. With a background in general surgical, ear nose and throat (ENT), colorectal and gynaecology post-surgical nursing I recognised early on in my career that I had a passion for pain management and sought opportunities to gain experience and knowledge in this field as frequently as possible.
Olof Guony Geirsdottir
Olof Guony Geirsdottir
Professor of nutrition at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Food and Nutrition.
My research interests are the nutritional status of older adults and how nutrition can affect age-related loss of function. To gain insight into how dietary choices and nutritional status can impact the well-being and abilities of older individuals, particularly after hospitalization.
In addition, I have been part of the working group to publish the Icelandic recommendations for food and nutrition for older age groups Service (https://island.is/naering-radleggingar-landlaeknis/naering-eldra-folk ) and was part of the new Nordic recommendations for protein intake (https://www.norden.org/en/publication/nordic-nutrition-recommendations-2023 ).
Elizabeth Sampson
Elizabeth Sampson
I am an inaugural chair in the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA), Whipps Cross Hospital which is jointly supported by Queen Mary, University of London, Barts Health and Barts Charity. I lead on mental health, dementia and delirium. My research focusses on the complex interface between physical and mental health: liaison psychiatry, dementia and delirium in acute hospital inpatients and symptom management in advanced disease (epidemiology and health services research). I am also a consultant liaison psychiatrist at Barts and the Royal London Hospital.
I am vice-chair of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry Executive Committee and vice-chair of the European Delirium Association.
I studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and gained my MD from the Institute of Neurology at UCL. I was awarded a Medical Research Council Special Training Fellowship in Health Services Research and completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2006).
Sarah Connacher
Sarah Connacher
I trained at Southampton University and qualified with a Bachelor of Nursing in 2004. My early career was as a senior Trauma nurse at Oxford University Hospitals and then moving on to become part of the Oxfordshire Fracture Prevention Service with Professor Kassim Javaid in 2011, starting as a Nurse Specialist and now the Clinical Nurse lead for our Gold Standard FLS since 2020. My additional roles include Chair of the South-Central Fracture Reduction Group as well as Steering Group Chair for the implementation of a new ICB wide Fracture Liaison Service. I have presented locally, nationally, and internationally with a special interest in nurse leadership, running effective Fracture Liaison Services as well as the use of AI technology in the identification of high-risk fracture patients and use of anabolic agents in the management of these patients. I am working towards my MSc in Health Sciences, currently writing my dissertation through Oxford Brookes University.
Bruno Carvalho
Bruno Carvalho
Education
Graduated in Medicine from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra in 2003
Anesthesiology Residency at the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra concluded in 2010
Sports Medicin Post-graduated from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto in 2016
Master's student in Health Management and Economics at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra 2023/2025.
Projects
Board Member and founder of the Orthopedics Center at Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo since 2023.
Founding Vice-President of the Fragility Fracture Network Portugal in 2023
Clinical Director and founder of the Fragility Fracture Commission at the Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo since 2022.
Founding member and Assistant Director at the Biomedical Simulation Center of Coimbra until 2013.
Coordinator of the Portuguese National Hip Fracture Registry project
