Professor Jonathan Rees MB BS, FRCS (Eng), MD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
President - British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS)
Professor Rees graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, in 1992. He was appointed Clinical Lecturer to the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) in 2004 and then University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon in 2005. In 2014 he became Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Science at Oxford. In 2021 he became an NIHR Senior Investigator and was also appointed Institute Director of the Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences. In 2022 he was appointed Head of Department for NDORMS at the University of Oxford.
Besides his roles in Oxford, he has served on BESS Council since 2012 and held a NICE Fellowship for 3 years promoting guidelines and standardisation of patient care. He has authored numerous national guidelines and advises national organisations including the National Joint Register (NJR), British Orthopaedic Association, the MHRA and the NHSI Getting it Right First Time Programme.
In 2015 after raising funds, he led and completed a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for 'Surgery for Common Shoulder Problems'. This 18 month process brought together patients, carers and clinicians to set the top 10 UK research priorities for shoulder surgery. Responding to these wishes of patients and clinicians, Professor Rees now runs a research programme to help address these priorities in shoulder surgery including national surgical trials and analysis of large observational data cohorts from national registries.
Besides his busy university work, he continues to work as a Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford.
Ananth Ebinesan
Currently working as a Shoulder and Elbow surgeon and Clinical Director at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest Trust in the country. Prior to this, he was clinical lead at Manchester Royal Infirmary, a major trauma and tertiary referral centre for T&O. As an active BESS member, he currently serves on Council as the Communications and Web officer and has represented BESS at various forums. He has served on NICE committees in developing guidelines related to shoulder surgery and joint replacements.
Paul Cowling
Paul Cowling has been a consultant shoulder and elbow surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals since August 2016. He was previously a trainee in the North East, and completed fellowship level training at both Leeds and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He works at the major trauma centre in Leeds, and specialises in the treatment of complex upper limb trauma. He has published on shoulder replacement surgery, and is involved in research at Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Leeds University. He is a national panel member for ODEP for shoulder replacements, and the ’Beyond Compliance’ committee for the introduction of new shoulder replacement implants into the UK. He teaches Medical Ethics at the University of Leeds, and holds a position on the Ethics and Law Management Team (ELMT) Committee for the university’s medical school.
Sukhdeep Kaur Gill
Upon graduating from University of Wales College of Medicine in 2004, I undertook higher surgical training in Wessex, during which time I developed an interest in shoulder and elbow surgery. I undertook further specialist fellowship training in shoulder, elbow and hand surgery at the Upper Limb fellowship programme at Bristol, gaining experience and expertise in arthroscopic surgery, motion preserving reconstructive surgery and arthroplasty. Following this I undertook the Trueta Oxford Trauma fellowship, to further develop my skills in complex trauma.
I was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust, which I commenced February 2020. My practice consists predominantly of primary and revision elbow and shoulder arthroplasty and arthroscopy, but I remain part of the on-call orthopaedic team, dealing with both general trauma and complex upper limb trauma.
I am an active member of the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Elbow and Shoulder Society, the Orthopaedic Trauma Society and MotorSports UK. I am an educator and clinical supervisor from Foundation to higher surgical training, enjoy instructing on ATLS courses as well teaching at both junior doctor and registrar level regularly. I am the Surgical Tutor (RCSEng) at Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust, as well as the lead on the Locally Employed Doctor surgical rotation. I started as the Upper Limb editor for UKITE in 2021. In my spare time I work as a motorsport track doctor at various racing circuits, enjoy travelling with my family and exploring and cooking new cuisines.
Glenn Nielsen
Glenn Nielsen is a clinical academic neurological physiotherapist at St George’s University of London and St George’s University Hospital, where he leads a specialist NHS physiotherapy service for functional motor disorder. He began his career at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth Western Australia before moving to London and starting work at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2007. He was awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2014 and while working at the National Hospital he completed his PhD at the UCL Institute of Neurology on the topic of physiotherapy for functional neurological disorder (FND). He is currently leading a multicentre, single-blind, randomised controlled trial of specialist physiotherapy for functional motor disorder (physio4FMD.org) and an NIHR-funded observational study on functional somatosensory symptoms.
Ariane Schwank
Andy Wright
Andy was appointed as a Specialist Elbow Surgeon to Wrightington hospital in January 2020 & is the current Clinical Director for Trauma at the Trust. He is a Fellowship trained Specialist Elbow and Shoulder surgeon who started his Consultant career at Salford Royal, Major Trauma centre in 2019. He was awarded a first class honours degree from St Andrews University before completing his training at the University of Manchester. His Specialist Orthopaedic training rotation was in the North West of England before Fellowships in Wrightington and Florida Orthopaedic Institute in Tampa.
Andy is passionate about his specialist elbow practice. He has a tertiary referral practice within the North West & enjoys all aspects of complex elbow reconstruction. He is a course convenor of Wrightington cadaveric Elbow & Shoulder course & is a regular faculty member on international trauma courses.
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