Ben Ashworth
Ben is a dual qualified shoulder specialist who has over 20 years of experience working with athletes as a physio and strength coach in a wide range of performance environments.
Ben has worked in elite rugby at London Wasps, across Olympic sports in the lead up to London 2012 and spent six years as first team physiotherapist at Arsenal football club, before his most recent role as Performance Director in European football. He now runs his own Athletic Shoulder business based in London working with Major League Baseball, supporting an NFL shoulder injury taskforce and he also consults with teams and individuals based largely on his original published research, and through experience in athletic shoulder testing and training. Ben is currently working with patients at the ISEH and UNTIL in central London. He is furthering his research by undertaking a PhD at Liverpool Hope University, looking at the key determinants of throwing performance and the use of a system to optimise athlete health and performance in sports with high shoulder demands.
Richard Evans
I grew up in Cardiff and attended University in Nottingham, returning to Wales for my surgical training. I completed two fellowships in Shoulder Surgery and Sports Injury in Sydney, Australia. This practice trained me in the latest techniques in arthroscopic and minimally invasive surgery. I have been a Consultant for 20 years in South Wales.
I became involved in Sports as a medic when I was an A&E SHO helping out at Cardiff rugby. I subsequently became the team doctor for the Cardiff U21 team and for many years I was part of a small team of doctors providing pitch side care for Cardiff Rugby. For several years I have been a faculty member for PHICIS for the RFU and WRU.
I have been privileged to provide specialist shoulder input for the British and Irish Lions, the WRU, the RFU, the Welsh rugby regions and the majority of English Rugby Premiership teams in the South of England, as well as several football and cricket teams in the South of the UK.
I have a particular interest in shoulder instability and I see a large number of athletes with bone loss requiring management plans
Mark Falworth
Mr Falworth is a consultant shoulder and elbow surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic surgeon where he has been providing a complex primary and revision surgery service for nearly 20 years. He is actively involved in research and education and is author and co-author on numerous publications related to shoulder and elbow surgery. He lectures widely both in the UK and abroad and he currently holds the position of Chairman of the BESS Instructional Course Committee. He has previously been a BESS Council member and Honorary Treasurer to BESS from 2017 - 2021.
Lennard Funk
Len works as part of a large multidisciplinary upper limb unit at Wrightington Hospital and private practice in Manchester, UK. His interests include complex shoulder instability, athletic injuries, AC joint injuries and rotator cuff disease. Len routinely treats elite and professional athletes.
He is Honorary Professor at the University of Salford, where he is clinical lead for the Postgraduate Orthopaedic Programme. He is also involved in many research projects, published widely and lectures internationally. Len established and runs Shoulderdoc.co.uk and is passionate about patient information and education, as well as providing the best quality of care through a multidisciplinary team.
For more information, please see www.lenfunk.com
John Geoghegan
I qualified from Nottingham University Medical School in 1997, trained in Nottingham and Derby before completing my fellowship at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit in 2008. I was appointed as a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009. I work within the Nottingham Shoulder & Elbow Unit and the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, Queens Medical Centre where I am on the Orthopaedic Trauma rota and clinical lead for shoulder trauma. I am a Member of the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, at Loughborough University where I have a shoulder & elbow clinic. I have a large secondary and tertiary referral practice including primary, complex and revision shoulder arthroplasty in the young and elderly, shoulder injuries and trauma.
Cameron Hatrick
Cameron Hatrick trained at Clare College, Cambridge and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London qualifying as a doctor in 1990. He underwent Basic Surgical Training on the St Bartholomew’s rotation, London and then specialised in Orthopaedics on the South East Thames Orthopaedic rotation. He undertook two fellowships in Sydney, Australia, in 2000 sub-specialising in shoulder and hand surgery.
In November 1999 he was awarded the Walter Mercer Gold Medal and the Arthur Edward Burton Memorial Prize for his performance in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Orthopaedic Surgery. The following year he was selected as the British Orthopaedic Association ‘Young Ambassador’ to the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association at their annual congress.
In 2001 he was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton which later became University Hospitals Sussex. He has an interest in all aspects of shoulder surgery ranging from arthroscopic procedures to revision arthroplasty.
Teaching and Training is a particular interest of his. He is a faculty member of the Watanabe Club, which runs regular shoulder arthroscopy courses around the UK. He has organised regular arthroscopic and open surgical skills courses and delivered lectures to medical students at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
He is Medical Director of the Montefiore Hospital, is an ex-member of BESS council, is a member of the BESS instructional course committee and is an examiner for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam.
Ariane Schwank
My name is Ariane Schwank from Zurich Switzerland. I am a physiotherapy clinical specialist for upper extremity with 12 years of clinical experience. My passion is the shoulder and I have worked as advanced clinical practitioner for 7 years at the current workplace Canton Hospital of Winterthur. Also, I am a clinical researcher conducting my PhD at University of Antwerp in Belgium. In my thesis I focus the psychosocial aspect of rotator cuff related shoulder pain. The goal is to find modifiable prognostic factors that may influence the outcome and course of care post rotator cuff repair. Another big project was the consensus statement on return to sport after shoulder injury, which I am going to unravel at the BESS conference in Wales.
Shantanu Shahane
Shantanu is a Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder and Elbow surgeon at the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust and also Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He has completed a fellowship at Wrightington Hospital, a centre of excellence for surgery of the upper limb and a further six months as a fellow at the Cappagh Hospital, Dublin to obtain further training in surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints. He has also since visited various centres of excellence around the world including the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, USA), Fondren Clinic (Houston, USA), DeBeer clinic (Cape Town, South Africa) to further his knowledge of surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints.
He is a member of British Shoulder & Elbow Society (BESS). He is an associate editor on the board of the ‘Shoulder & Elbow’ Journal. He has been on the panel of Instructional course held by BESS since its inception and has been a chairman for 2 years, during his tenure. He has also been on the Education Committee of BESS. Mr Shahane was also on the council of the British Elbow & Shoulder Society. He is on the faculty for arthroscopic and open surgery courses for the shoulder and elbow joints in the UK and overseas.
Mr Shahane also has a successful upper limb fellowship programme based at his NHS practice.
In February 2019, Mr Shahane was appointed Medical Director at One Health Group, ensuring the organisation continues to exceed the standards required to be a provider of NHS services.
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