Distinguished Guest Speakers
 Presidential Guest Speaker
Professor Tim Briggs, MBBS (Hons), MD(Res), MCh(Orth), FRCS(Ed), FRCS(Eng)
Improving the Quality of Elective Orthopaedic Care – An International Problem
Thursday, September 29
10:40 am – 11:25 am
Professor Briggs qualified from The Royal London in 1982 with a distinction in surgery and prizes in anatomy and surgery. Appointed to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital senior registrar training programme in 1988 and then to the consultant staff in 1992.
He has served as clinical and surgical tutor and is currently the Training Programme Director responsible for over 50 trainees. He also chairs the North Central/North East London surgical training committee.
He is the current clinical lead and senior consultant for the sarcoma service with both a national and international reputation. This service has received a number of national awards for innovation in this area of practice. His clinical and research practice has focused on the management of sarcomas and complex hip and knee pathology. He was awarded his MD(Res) from UCL in 2009 and awarded an Honorary Professorship from UCL in the same year. He has published more than 150 papers and co-written/ edited a number of orthopaedic text books.
He was Medical Director at the RNOHT for 15 years and was instrumental in ending 30 years of uncertainty and securing a rebuild of the hospital. This has now started!
He is currently Chair of the National Clinical Reference Group for specialised orthopaedics, and Chair of the Federation of Specialist Hospitals. He has been seconded onto the steering committee of the National Joint Registry from 2014.
He was the President of the British Orthopaedic Association for 2014.
He authored the report “Getting it Right First Time”, looking at the ways of improving the provision of Orthopaedic care in England. This received Government funding to run as a national pilot. So far over 200 hospitals have been visited and all orthopaedic providers in England will be visited. The subsequent report will fundamentally change the delivery of orthopaedic care across the country and was published in March 2015.
He has also authored ‘’The Chavasse Report’’, which was launched in July 2014, which provides the solutions to improve the care of Armed Forces personnel, either serving or retired with musculoskeletal injuries, when discharged and reliant on the NHS for care.
He is married with three children, two of whom are at medical school. He played rugby at medical school, winning the Hospitals cup, and played for Blackheath in the 1980s. Now he enjoys farming, running a smallholding with his wife, and sailing.
Howard Steel Lecturer
 Ronald C. White Jr., PhD
Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural
Friday, September 30
9:03 am - 9:50 am
Ronald C. White Jr., is the author of A Lincoln: A Biography, a New York Times bestseller.
USA Today said, “If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. LINCOLN.”
He is also the author of Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
He has lectured at the White House and been interviewed on the PBS News Hour.
White earned his Ph.D. in Religion and History from Princeton University. He has taught at UCLA, Colorado College, Whitworth University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and served as Dean at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is a Fellow at the Huntington Library.
His latest book, American Ulysses, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant will be published by Random House in October.
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