Hip Fracture Audit

United Kingdom

Antony Johansen was the first UK consultant to be appointed as a full time 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, London.

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.

United Kingdom

Matthew Costa PhD, FRCS, FMedSci. 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 Lead Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). His work has been cited widely and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Matt is the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Trauma and Emergency Care and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is also Associate Editor for Trauma and Research Methods at the Bone and Joint Journal.

Matt is past President of the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society and past President of the Global Fragility Fracture Network.