Clinical Practice Committee


The role of the BOFAS Clinical Practice Committee is to support the Society and Council in developing suitable processes to collect patient outcome measures.

Responsibilities of the committee, more information on setting up outcomes, and participating in the BOFAS registry pilot can be found on the Registry pages:

  • Collection of data at local level
  • Patient consent
  • Collection of information into central BOFAS registry
  • Information governance
  • Publication of data
  • Registry funding
  • Liaison with other stakeholders including NJR
  • Be responsible for the long term strategy

 

Membership of Clinical Practice Committee:

Elected Members:
  • Chair:  Joel Humphrey
  • Secretary: Ben Hickey
  • Member: Shariff Hazarika
  • Member: Rajesh Kakwani
  • Member: Robbie Ray
  • Member: Peter Rosenfeld
Data Officers:
  • Caldicott Guardian: Lyndon Mason
  • Data Protection Officer: Jo Millard
Co-opted Registry Leads:
  • Co-opted: Lyndon Mason
  • Co-opted: Ed Wood
Co-opted / Working Group Members:
  • Co-opted: Andy Goldberg
  • Co-opted: Nilesh Makwana
 
Joel Humphrey - 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 was elected onto the BOFAS Clinical Practice Committee in March 2023.

Elected: January 2025

Ben Hickey - Secretary

Ben Hickey has been a Consultant Foot and Ankle Surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital since 2018 and is currently the National Clinical Lead for Foot and Ankle surgery in Wales. This involves chairing the foot and ankle clinical reference group with focus on implementing the National Clinical Strategy for Orthopaedic Surgery in Wales. He completed Orthopaedic training on the Wales rotation, then fellowship training in Melbourne and London. Mr Hickey has completed a research MD and MSc in Medical Education and enjoys keeping up to date with scientific literature. He reviews articles for several journals and regularly teaches on national foot and ankle courses.

Elected: March 2024 | Re-elected November 2026

Shariff Hazarika

Shariff Hazarika is a full time NHS consultant based at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, since 2012. He completed his specialty training in the North of England followed by a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in 2012 under Senthil Kumar. Mr Hazarika is an academic clinical educator for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and has taught on several national foot and ankle courses for consultants and trainees. He was the former clinical director for Clyde orthopaedic services and led through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the trauma services redesigned in 2021. Before this he held positions of clinical lead for trauma and the West of Scotland foot and ankle society chair. He maintains his interest in clinical research and audit and is passionate about driving standards of care for foot and ankle patients.

Elected: November 2025

Rajesh Kakwani

Rajesh Kakwani is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. He specialises exclusively in Foot and ankle disorders including sports injuries. He studied medicine and then did his post-graduation (Masters Degree) in Orthopaedics from the Mumbai University, India. He completed his MCh Orthopaedics degree from the University of Liverpool in 2006. He did his Higher Surgical Training from the Northern Deanery, gaining the FRCS (Orth) accreditation in 2012. He was fellowship trained in foot and ankle surgery at Bristol and Sheffield. He was awarded BOFAS Travelling fellowship to the Sigvard Hansen Foot and Ankle Unit, Seattle in 2014. He is and has been a Clinical and Educational Supervisor for the Orthopaedic Specialty Trainees and teaches in a variety of regional and national courses. He serves various national roles presently as well in the past such as BOFAS Education/Scientific committee member, National Orthopaedic Selection Design group member, National orthopaedic SAC Vice Chair. He is an examiner for the FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedic examinations.

Elected: November 2026

Robbie Ray

Robbie Ray graduated from Glasgow University School of Medicine. His orthopaedic training was on the prestigious Edinburgh rotation, then Fellowship training in Sydney, Australia and in Toronto, Canada. He is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the PRUH, Farnborough, part of King’s College Hospital London NHS foundation trust. He specialises in conditions and trauma of the foot and ankle, with a special interest in minimally invasive and keyhole techniques. He teaches at all grades from medical students to fellow consultants. He has given multiple national and international presentations including teaching for the European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS) and the Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Society (MIFAS). He is very interested in patient outcomes following surgery and research and has won multiple BOFAS outcomes awards and is highly published in the area of minimally invasive foot surgery.

Elected: March 2022  |  Re-elected: March 2024

Peter Rosenfeld

Peter Rosenfeld MBBS, FRCS (Orth) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon, formerly Head of the Foot and Ankle Unit at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and a founding consultant at Fortius Clinic, London. He is an active teacher and trainer on multiple national and international courses and has specialist interests in ankle replacement and minimally invasive surgery. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and remains deeply involved in education and innovation within his specialty.

Elected: November 2025

Jo Millard - Data Protection Officer & Chief Operating 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, organising and running 6 UK training courses and 2 International training courses each year; with Scientific Committee, as PSP co-ordinator on the BOFAS Foot & Ankle Surgery PSP; and Clinical Praactice 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.

Lyndon Mason - Co-opted Registry Lead & 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. 

Co-opted: January 2025

Ed Wood - Co-opted Registry Lead

Mr Edward V Wood is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon working in Chester and was appointed in 2009.  He trained in Mersey Region and has undertaken a Specialist Foot & Ankle Fellowship.  He is involved in SpR training and has an interest in Postgraduate Medical Education.  He was on the IT Committee for two terms and now sits on the Outcomes Committee.

Co-opted: March 2024

Andy Goldberg - Co-opted Member

Andy Goldberg graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College) in 1994 before completing his specialist training in trauma and orthopaedics in London with a specialist fellowship in complex foot and ankle disorders in Oxford, as well as overseas in centres of excellence across the USA and Europe. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at UCL where he runs several Master’s courses. He runs a pioneering research program exploring regenerative treatments including cartilage repair, stem cells in achilles tendinopathy and a national trial comparing ankle replacements against ankle fusion. 

Co-opted: November 2014

Nilesh Makwana - Co-opted Member

Nilesh Makwana is from Birmingham and qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1989. He completed his specialist registrar training in the Trent region and was appointed Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic surgeon at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Shropshire and the Betsi Cadwaldr University Health Board in 2001. He is a Specialist Foot and Ankle Surgeon treating all conditions of the adult foot and ankle. His area of expertise include forefoot surgery, mid and hindfoot reconstruction and arthroscopy. He has developed a specialist interest in Autologous Chondrocyte transplantation in the ankle. 

Co-opted: November 2025