Nathalie van der Velde is a consultant and full professor at the Geriatrics Department of the Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. She serves as principal investigator and leader of the research line ‘person-centered falls & fracture prevention’. Since 2022 she is a member of the Academic Board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS).

With regard to editorial tasks she has started as an Associate Editor for Age & Ageing in 2019 and has been appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief in 2022. Furthermore, she is an Associate Editor of the Annals of Medicine.

Nathalie is both nationally and internationally involved in activities to improve falls and fracture prevention. She chairs the EuGMS SIG Falls and Fractures and its Task and Finish Group on fall-risk-increasing drugs and starting this year she will represent the EuGMS at the board of the Fragility Fracture Network. She is also a co-chair of the steering group of the World Falls Guideline initiative, and co-lead its polypharmacy working group. Furthermore, She is a member of the organizing committee of the World Congress on Falls and Postural Stability.

On a national level, she is co-founder and chair of the board of the annual Dutch Falls Symposium. Besides, she chairs the Dutch SIG on Falls prevention and she is a member of the board of the Dutch Syncope and Autonomic Disorders group and of the steering committee of the Dutch Falls and Dizziness Guidelines cluster. She has (co-)authored various book chapters on falls prevention, syncope/TLOC and pharmacology/deprescribing and has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles.

She has received several awards: ‘top-cited article’ of JAMDA (2018); selection for several leadership programs (AMC: 2016; Dutch Geriatrics Society: 2015; Erasmus MC: 2009); best PhD Thesis in Geriatric Medicine (NVKG, 2007-2008); the British Journal Clinical Pharmacology prize best articles (2007); as well as several poster and presentation prizes.

Scientific publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6477-6209

Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at QMUL and Barts Health, having joined as the inaugural chair of Bone & Joint Health. Xavier’s vision is for worldclass excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations.

Xavier is a NIHR Clinician Scientist and has been awarded over £10m of research funding.His research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions.

Xavier serves in the Reserve Forces, outside of work he can be found mountain biking or rock climbing usually with his young sons in tow!

Celia Gregson is a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Musculoskeletal Research Unit, University of Bristol, an Honorary Consultant Orthogeriatrician at the Royal United Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Bath in the UK and a Senior Scientist at The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe. Her research spans the epidemiology of fractures, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and sarcopenia, including in sub-Saharan Africa, health service research particularly in relation to hip fracture care and the genetic epidemiology of extremes of bone density. She chairs the National Osteoporosis Guideline Group in the UK and sits on the Royal College of Physicians Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme Scientific and Publications Committee. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Lene Bergendal Solberg PhD MD is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Oslo University Hospital in the hip- and knee reconstruction unit and responsible for the hip fractures and orthogeriatric care. She is president of the FFN Norway and member of the Local Organizing Committee for the FFN Global Congress in Oslo. Her research interest is in the field of osteoporosis, bone metabolism and orthogeriatric care. She was one of the main researchers in the Norwegian Capture the Fracture Initiative (NoFRACT) targeting secondary fracture prevention in Norway and has co-authored the Norwegian Orthopaedic guidelines for secondary fracture prevention.

Dr Julie Santy-Tomlinson, is a registered nurse, now retired. She had a clinical career in orthopaedic and trauma nursing in the UK, moving to nursing education and research in 1995. Her areas of clinical/research expertise are fractures, wound management, pressure injury prevention, infection prevention, and professional ethics. Her PhD study focused on the diagnosis of infection. She has published widely across the fields of nursing and orthopaedic and trauma care. She has been a passionate FFN activist since its early days and has been involved in various projects relating to nursing and education. She has authored, co-authored and edited several books, and is co-editor of the Fragility Fracture Nursing book, alongside Karen Hertz. She has recently retired from her role as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, having retired from full time paid employment at the University of Manchester, UK in 2018. She previously worked at the Univertisy of Hull and the University of Bradford. She is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Nursing at Odense University Hospitals/University of Southern Denmark.

Julie A. Switzer, MD, FAOA, FAAOS, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon with specialization in upper extremity and geriatric orthopedics. Dr. Switzer served as Co-Chair for the AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline Workgroup on Hip Fractures in Elderly Patients; is a founding member and board member of the International Geriatric Fracture Society (IGFS), presently serving as President; is on the Board of the Fragility Fracture Network; and is on the Steering Committee of the AOA’s Own the Bone Program. Dr. Switzer recently retired as an Associate Professor from the University of Minnesota Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. She is Medical Director, Geriatric Orthopedics and TRIA Healthy Aging, with the HealthPartners Care Group. In this role, Dr. Switzer has spent the majority of her 20 year orthopedic career dedicated to establishing and leading an interdisciplinary, protocol-driven Geriatric Fracture Care Program, with a primary career goal to make a substantive difference in the field of geriatric orthopedics. This has been accomplished through a focus on enhancing care for older fracture patients in the perioperative period; preventing subsequent fractures in elderly fracture patients; and working with vulnerable populations of elders with musculoskeletal problems. Her work on Healthy Aging focuses primarily on the comprehensive care of arthritis, the most common chronic musculoskeletal condition of aging. Dr. Switzer is Course Director of the bi-annual, Geriatric Orthopaedic Fracture Conference, started one of the first Geriatric Orthopedic Trauma Fellowships in the US, and has also been involved in multiple national and international presentations. She has over 70 publications and chapters mostly related to bone health and musculoskeletal care in the senior population.

David Marsh is a retired professor of orthopaedic surgery, now living in Umbria, Italy. He was active in the field of fragility fractures in the UK, driving the establishment of the National Hip Fracture Database as the first co-chair of its steering group; the British Orthopaedic Association and the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society awarded him Honorary Fellowships for this work. Internationally, he chaired the Osteoporotic Fracture Campaign of the International Society for Fracture Repair since 2002 and was then the founding president of the Fragility Fracture Network in 2011. Multidisciplinary care has always been his theme, particularly the collaboration between orthopaedics and geriatric medicine, tackling both fragility and frailty in the older fracture patient. His current role in the FFN is chair of the Regionalisation Committee, focusing on the establishment of National FFNs that can drive the implementation of the three pillars of the orthogeriatric approach: acute co-management, rehabilitation and secondary prevention.

Karen Hertz is a registered nurse, working in the UK NHS as an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP).

She has worked for 36 years in a variety of roles in Trauma and orthopaedics, however her passion is for fragility fracture nursing and inter-disciplinary care. She has been actively involved in both the Global and National Fragility Fracture.
She has co-authored a number of Journal articles, book chapters and books on Fragility fracture management and allied subjects. Including co-editing Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Nursing: Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Nursing Holistic Care and Management of the Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Patient due to be published in autumn 2023.
She is actively involved with the professional development and education of nurses, including educational activities within FFN.

Dr Javaid is an honorary consultant adult rheumatologist and Associate Professor in metabolic bone disease at the University of Oxford. He specializes in common and rare metabolic bone diseases. He is the clinical lead for Oxford Fracture Prevention Service, and the national Fracture Liaison Service Audit for England and Wales and co-chairs the Capture the Fracture programme. He is the clinical lead for the Oxford Rare bone disease service for adults and the Musculoskeletal Genomic Clinical Interpretation partnership. His research interests include the epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases with a focus on rare bone disorders, vitamin D and secondary fracture prevention.

Jenny is a NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer joining Barts to lead collaborative research whilst completing her training in Orthopaedic Surgery. Working within the OHDSI data science community, she uses large routinely collected datasets to improve our understanding of surgical treatments and the use of surgical devices.

Jenny is leading a group of 9 international hip fracture registries to identify global outcomes following surgery. She is also leading projects to generate evidence for underrepresented communities and rare orthopaedic diseases by combining Barts Health data with global partners.
Jenny undertook her PhD in Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford and was funded by Versus Arthritis Clinical Research and MRC Doctoral Training Fellowships for this work. She focussed on the epidemiology of hand conditions which is now quoted in NHS guidelines for patients.During the Covid-19 pandemic she was also a core member of an international group of researchers investigating emerging pandemic treatments that changed national policies in Europe and the US.
Jenny studied undergraduate medicine at Exeter College, Oxford and undertook basic medical and surgical training in London. She graduated with distinction from Masters of Surgical Education at Imperial College, London and began training in Academic Orthopaedic surgery as a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Oxford in 2014.

She lectures for the Masters in Surgical Science & Practice and DPhil in Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, and aims to bring this expertise to East London. Outside of surgery, she spends her time as head chef and playdate social secretary to a 3 year old.