Council
Council Membership:
- President: Callum Clark
- President Elect: Jitendra Mangwani
- Immediate Past President: Hiro Tanaka
- Honorary Secretary: Lyndon Mason
- Treasurer: Dave Townshend
- Media & Communications Director: Karan Malhotra
- Education Committee Chair: Anna Chapman
- Clinical Practice Committee Chair: Joel Humphrey
- Scientific Committee Chair: Sarah Johnson-Lynn
- Chief Operating Officer: Jo Millard
- Trustee: Steve Hepple
- EFAS Representative: James Ritchie
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Lead: Lauren Thomson
Additional Roles:
- Data Protection Officer (DPO): Chief Operating Officer
- Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO): Media & Communications Director
- Caldicott Guardian: Honorary Secretary
Callum Clark - President
Callum Clark is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Frimley Health NHS Trust. He was appointed in 2004 after training in Cambridge, London and Melbourne, Australia. He has held a number of leadership roles and runs a busy foot and ankle surgical practice since then. One of his keen interests is education, and he set up a successful postgraduate Foot and Ankle fellowship programme in 2007 and was elected to the BOFAS Education Committee in 2013 (re-elected 2016) which he chaired from March 2022 to January 2025.
Elected: November 2025
Jitendra Mangwani - President Elect
Jit Mangwani is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester. He undertook higher specialist training in orthopaedics on the Royal London Hospital rotation. He has a keen interest in medical research and education. He is chief investigator for several outcome studies on ankle fractures, Achilles tendon rupture and other foot and ankle conditions. He is principal investigator for a number of multi-centre national studies. He is currently leading BOFAS James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership project. He has been conferred the title of ‘academic champion and honorary fellow’ by University of Leicester. He serves on the editorial board of several reputable orthopaedic journals. His contribution towards research in foot and ankle conditions has been recognised with several national and international prizes. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored several chapters in books including AO manual of fracture management on Foot and Ankle Trauma. He is passionate about medical education and is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. He is regularly invited as a faculty to national and international courses and conferences. He is actively involved in the training and teaching of General Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals.
Elected: November 2026
Hiro Tanaka - Immediate Past President
Hiro Tanaka is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Newport, South Wales. He is passionate about improving the quality of surgical training and promoting clinical leadership in the NHS. He has contributed to the developments in BOFAS Education as well as the BOA. He was the BOFAS treasurer from 2019 to 2025 and is currently President Elect of the BOA. He co-directs the BOA Future Leaders Programme and is an FRCS (Tr & Orth) examiner.
Elected: January 2025
Lyndon Mason - Honorary Secretary
Caldicott Guardian
Lyndon Mason qualified from the University of Wales College of Medicine, completing his orthopaedic training in Wales before moving to Liverpool as a consultant specialising in Major trauma and foot and ankle surgery. Before joining Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, he completed BOFAS travelling fellowships in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, America and Carl Gustav Carus University, Dresden, Germany. In Liverpool, Prof Mason obtained the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Gold Fellowship Award. His pioneering research has become nationally and internationally recognised, winning over 30 regional, national and international prizes in the last 10 years. He has been awarded the Hunterian Professorship from the Royal college of surgeons in 2020 for his work on ankle fractures, the Robert Jones gold medal and Association prize in 2017 for his work on the evolution of the foot and the Jaques Duparc prize from EFORT for his work on discovery of a new foot ligament. Prof Mason has co-led work that has won the Chan Chen memorial prize, the highest award from the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society on 4 separate occasions. In 2023, Prof Mason achieved a National Clinical Impact Award Level 1 for contribution to safe and high-quality care and improvement of NHS services. Prof Mason is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Liverpool, where he is the undergraduate lead in Musculoskeletal disease for the School of Medicine. Furthermore, Prof Mason is a respected National educator, as an invited faculty member for courses by the British Orthopaedic Association, Royal College of Surgeons , AO, Royal Society of Medicine and British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. He was the BOFAS Clinical Practice Committee Chair until January 2025.
Elected: November 2026
Dave Townshend - Treasurer
Dave Townshend was born in Edinburgh and graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997. He has been a Consultant in the Northumbria NHS Healthcare Trust since 2010 where he is also the Clinical Director of Research and Development. Dave is the current Chairman of the BOFAS Scientific Committee, Visiting Professor with Northumbria University and an Honorary Senior Lecturer with University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His Research fellowship was at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Foot and Ankle Reconstruction fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dave’s research interests include outcomes of total ankle replacement, day case surgery and ankle arthritis networks.
Elected: November 2025
Karan Malhotra - Media and Communications Director
Senior Information Risk Owner
Karan Malhotra is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon working at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor with University College London. He graduated from Manchester with honours before beginning his core surgical and early registrar training in Yorkshire. He completed his registrar training on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Training Rotation, London. He undertook Foot & Ankle Fellowships in Singapore, Melbourne and Stanmore. He is actively involved with research, medical education and quality improvement. He currently has a complex, tertiary foot and ankle practice and regularly teaches on national and international courses and conferences. He is the recipient of multiple national and international prizes and is widely published. He has extensive experience with IT and databases and was co-opted to the BOFAS Outcomes Committee in October 2017 and the IT Committee in November 2019, then was elected as a full member in March 2021. He was elected as the BOFAS Media & Communications Director / Committee Chair in March 2024.
Elected: March 2024
Anna Chapman - Chair Education Committee
Anna Chapman is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire, with a specialist interest in Foot and Ankle surgery.She qualified from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals School of Medicine in London and completed her Orthopaedic training on the Warwick rotation. She undertook Fellowship training in Bournemouth and Bristol, and was appointed as a Consultant in 2012. She completed a Masters Degree in Medical Education at the University of Warwick in 2010 and continues to pursue her interest in all things educational. Anna is currently the Lead Training Programme Director for the West Midlands and is a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee, and the Portfolio Pathway Lead. She has served two terms on the BOFAS Education Committee (2015-2023) and was the Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for BOFAS from 2022 to January 2025.
Elected: January 2025
Joel Humphrey - Clinical Practice Committee Chair
Joel Humphrey is a Consultant Foot and Ankle Surgeon at Milton Keynes University Hospital. He graduated from Barts and The London Medical School, and completed his higher surgical orthopaedic training on the South-East Thames rotation. He undertook a foot and ankle reconstruction fellowship in Cambridge and a complex trauma fellowship in Oxford. He has a broad clinical practice, treating all conditions of the adult foot and ankle. He is passionate about patient outcomes post surgery and has been elected onto the BOFAS Clinical Practice Committee.
Elected: January 2025
Sarah Johnson-Lynn - Chair Scientific Committee
Sarah Johnson-Lynn is a Senior Lecturer with Hull York Medical School and an Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital, with interests in diabetic foot surgery and foot and ankle trauma. She graduated from Newcastle University and completed specialty orthopaedic training in the North East. Fellowships in foot and ankle surgery at Addenbrookes Hospital and in trauma and limb reconstruction at Leeds General Infirmary followed, as well as a British Orthopaedic Research Society travelling fellowship in Asia and Australia. She completed a PhD at Newcastle University, continues to lead clinical and qualitative research projects and teaches on the faculty of several national courses.
Elected: November 2025
Jo Millard - Chief Operating Officer
Data Protection Officer
Jo Millard is Chief Operating Officer for the British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society.
Her role is wide ranging and sees her working alongside the Education Committee, overseeing the organisation and running of 6 UK training courses and 4 International training courses each year. She has worked closely with the Scientific Committee, as PSP co-ordinator on the BOFAS Foot & Ankle Surgery PSP; and Clincial Practice Committee, as Data Protection Officer.
Jo also sits on BOFAS Council and works closely with the BOFAS Treasurer on the society accounts in addition to organising the Annual Scientific Meeting each year with the Society President.
Steve Hepple - Trustee
Steve Hepple is a NHS Consultant Foot & Ankle Surgeon, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery and recent Clinical Director Musculoskeletal Services at North Bristol NHS Trust. He trained initially in Sheffield and Bristol before undergoing specialist training in Brisbane and Dallas. He specialises in sports injury, trauma and foot & ankle surgery including ankle arthroscopy and replacement.
Steve served two terms as BOFAS Treasurer and is a BOFAS Past President. He is also a faculty member of AO trauma.
James Ritchie - EFAS Representative
James Ritchie is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon based in Tunbridge Wells and was appointed in 2005. He trained in the SE Thames Region and has undertaken a Specialist Foot & Ankle Fellowship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. He is committed to medical education and runs the South East Thames Foot and Ankle training programme and the Guy's Hospital Foot and Ankle Course.
Post Held Since: 2024
Lauren Thomson - Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Lead
Lauren Thomson’s journey into the world of foot and ankle surgery began after graduating from the University of Leicester. She honed her skills during her junior training in the West Midlands before returning to her East Midlands roots as an SPR. It was here, under the mentorship of the renowned Miss Patricia Allen, that Lauren discovered her passion for the intricate, ever-evolving challenges of foot and ankle surgery. Her dedication led to her being awarded the prestigious Gold BOFAS Fellowship, which took her to Sydney, Australia, for advanced training under the esteemed Dr Andrew Wines. Now based at Rotherham General Hospital, Lauren expertly balances her professional life with her love for adventure. Alongside her wife, Aoife, she delights in exploring the world, with frequent trips to Dublin to celebrate their shared love of travel, culture and a good quality Guinness.
Role Commenced: January 2025