Name & qualifications:
Mr Nigel D Rossiter MB BS FRCSEd(Tr&Orth) FFSTEd FIOTA

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Nigel is the Interim Chair of Trustees and was a previous Medical Director and past Chair of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation.

Previously in the British Army Nigel is now President of the Combined Services Orthopaedic Society.

He is a recently retired Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon in Basingstoke where he was Clinical Director and lead for Trauma.

He is a member of SELF – Surgical Educators Learners Forum: designing future global surgical education, particularly in low resource environments / low income countries.

He sits on the board of the Global Alliance for Care of the Injured (GACI) at the World Health Organization. He has been on the Permanent Council of the G4 Alliance and has addressed the United Nations General Assembly.

He is on the Faculty Advisory Board for the Faculty of Remote Rural & Humanitarian Healthcare at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Oxford University Global Surgery Group and the Wessex Global Health Hub. He was the founder of his hospital charity and Uganda formal Link.

He is a founder member of the “Oops meetings” – Learning from surgical mistakes.

He is the founding President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society.

He is on the International Consensus panel for VTE (Venous Thrombo-Embolism) prevention and was on the NICE (National Institute of health and Care Excellence) VTE group.

He is a founding Fellow of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association and an Emeritus International member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association.

He led the setting up of the South Central Trauma Networks in England.

He reviews clinical trials for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) / Health Technology Assessment (HTA) & papers for the Bone & Joint Journal, Injury, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (America), Bone & Joint Research, and others.

He is a founder, director, and past Chair, of Incision Medical Indemnity.

He is chair of the Scientific advisory board for Open Medical.

He has been medical adviser to Rams Rugby.

He is an Emeritus fellow of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and a founding fellow of the British Patello-Femoral Society.

He co-authored many of the BOASTs (British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma).

He has been international AO faculty and chaired the AO Advances & Principles in UK & Ireland. He is now an AO Faculty Coach. (AO – Orthopaedic Trauma global education group.)

He has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the BOA (the highest award in British Trauma & Orthopaedics), Trainer of the Year for the Wessex area twice, “NHS Shine Awards Inspiring Educator of the year” finalist twice, and, recipient of an Hippocrates Award for excellence in the field of medicine from Who’s Who – in which he is listed.

He co-authored the original Surgeons in Training Educational Program for the Royal College of Surgeons of England & has been a Basic Surgical Skills tutor.

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Awards:

• Combined Services Orthopaedic Surgery prize 1993, 1994, 1995
• Drummond scholar HM Forces 1996
• Wessex Orthopaedic Trainer of the Year 2010 & 2020
• Inspiring educator of the year finalist NHS Shine awards 2014 & 2015
• Hippocrates award for excellence in field of Medicine – Who’s Who 2013

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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