Dear All,
I'm honoured and delighted to be the society's President, and I am looking forward to working with you all in the future. Indeed it is the future that is a priority of mine as President - I want us to be able to futureproof the Society and to be able to support students and early career researchers to become leaders in the musculoskeletal field - and beyond!
In looking to the future we need to be cognisant of our past and where we have come from. With this in mind I would like to thank the out going President Prof Kate Ward - both personally and on behalf of the BRS membership and community for her many years of service to BRS - she will be a tough act to follow! Thanks also to our outgoing committee members Amy Naylor, Janet Brown, and Scott Dillon.
In addition, our Society will be 75 years old next year! The first scientific meeting was held on 6 June 1950 at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Great Portland Street - with the Society originally being born as the Bone and Tooth Society or BATS as it was fondly know as. Whilst the name may have (contentiously) changed, the ethos and spirit of the Society has not. We are massively looking forward to celebrating the evolution of our Society at the annual meeting in Edinburgh next year - so look out for future newsletters with more details of the meetings. We are also looking for any "memorabilia" or pictures people have to share of the Society from the past 70+ years! Watch this space!
Finally, it gives me great pleasure to welcome to the BRS committee the following members: President-Elect Duncan Bassett from Imperial, Becky Andrews (Sheffield, clinical ordinary member), Karan Shah (Sheffield, non-clinical ordinary member), Lucie Bourne (Brighton, non-clinical NI rep) and Judith Bubbear (Stanmore, clinical ordinary member).
We have some exciting events planned throughout the year - so please keep an eye out on the website and your inboxes for the next newsletter (sign up here ).
We are always welcome to hear from our members, so please do feed-back any ideas to info@boneresearchsociety.org on how we can improve the BRS and support you further.
Very best wishes,
Allie
Professor Alison Gartland
President of the BRS
Contact: a.gartland@sheffield.ac.uk
