Faculty
Dean Boyce
Swansea, UK
Dean Boyce is Clinical Director of the Welsh Hand & Peripheral Nerve Surgery and the Welsh Centre for Plastic Surgery & Burns. He was appointed in 2003 after training in South Wales, the West Midlands, Manchester, Wrightington, and Sydney, Australia. He has a strong academic background, having been awarded a Hunterian Professorship for research into human and foetal scarless wound healing. His current research areas mirror his clinical interests in peripheral nerve & brachial plexus surgery, congenital hand surgery, upper limb cerebral palsy and Dupuytren's disease. He is heavily involved in postgraduate training and is currently selection lead for the UK ATP Fellowships in Hand Surgery. He is a Council Member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, and Chair of Education & Training for the British Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.
Maurizio Calcagni
Zürich, Switzerland
Mr Calcagni is a specialist in Hand Surgery, FMH, and a specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, FMH. He is presently Vice-Chairman Div. of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Secretary General of the FESSH (2017-2020) and next-President of the Swiss Society for Hand Surgery (2020-2022). He has 100 publications in indexed journals, 30 non indexed journals and 23 book chapters. He is teaching at University of Milan, University of Zurich, he is chairman of the Handflaps Course and Tendon Suture Course (Zurich) and is frequently invited speaker at many national and international Courses
Nick Downing
Nottingham, UK
Nick Downing has been Consultant Hand and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital Nottingham, and the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, UK since 2002. He trained in hand surgery in Nottingham and Derby in the UK and in Sydney, Australia. He has a broad hand surgery trauma and elective practice with particular interests in distal radius and carpal injuries. He is a member of the Council of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) since 2012. 
Christian Dumontier
Guadeloupe/Paris, France
Christian Dumontier is a
medical doctor, having a diploma in microsurgery, hand surgery, general surgery, DEA medical ethics. He is a PhD (Docteur en sciences de l’université, Ethique et droit de la santé - 2006), Associate professor (Paris) since 2002, associate member of the academy of surgery (2006) and professor of the university (2012). He is working for a private practice in Guadeloupe Island (French west indies) since may 2014. He has 102 publications in Medline and 19’ non referenced publications (book chapters,…) 797 oral presentations, of which 55 in international congresses. Experimental research area: Laser an microsurgery, Bone morphogenic protein. Clinical research activity: hand and face allotransplantantion (with Pr Lantiéri). He is responsible for the hand and upper limb diploma (Universities of Paris, Bobigny, Versailles, Lille, Strasbourg and Besançon), Arthroscopie monitor for the French Society of Arthroscopy, Teaching in Rehabilitation schools, nurse schools, medical school. He is also teaching in medical ethics (laboratoire de Paris Descartes)
Jonathan Hobby
Basingstoke, UK
Mr Jonathan Hobby is a consultant Hand & Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT. He is the honorary secretary of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He graduated from St. Thomas's Hospital in 1989 and did his postgraduate training on the St Bartholomew's surgical rotation and Cambridge Orthopaedic rotation. He completed an MD thesis on the clinical effectiveness of MRI of the wrist and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2001. He was awarded the Graham Stack travelling fellowship in 2009 and was an ASSH international travelling fellow in 2010. He has served on the BSSH council, chaired the BSSH research and audit committee, and was chair of the BSSH Instructional courses for series seven. His research interests include wrist imaging, hand outcome measures, small joint arthroplasty and the influence of psychological factors on hand surgery.
Steven Hovius
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Steven Hovius is currently a part time staff member at Radboud University, Medical Centre Nijmegen and Xpert Clinic, Hand and Wrist Centre Rotterdam. He was formerly the Professor and Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery at the ErasmusMC University Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and general surgeon. He has strong interest in hand and wrist surgery, more specific congenital hand differences, peripheral nerve pathology, tendon transfers, Dupuytren's Disease He is (Co)Author of 281 international publications (pubmed), 35 other publications, 32 chapters in international books and 7 chapters in national books. He is editor of 3 books, 15 national publications in Journals, promotor of 56 PhD theses, having 130 international invitations to present lectures. reviewer at many international journals (including Lancet, Hand journals, PRS, etc), and organizer of many national and international meetings. He is one of the past secretary generals of FESSH (1999 – 2002).
Alex Lluch
Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Àlex Lluch was born in Barcelona in 1970. Decided to dedicate to Hand Surgery since attending a tendon and nerve reconstruction surgery as a first year medical student. After his Residence period in Orthopaedic Surgery & Trauma in Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona), trained in Hand & Wrist Surgery with his mentors Alberto Lluch and Marc Garcia-Elias in Institut Kaplan (Barcelona) combined with frequent formation visits around the world. Currently he is the Chief of the Hand. Wrist & Peripheral Nerve Unit in Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and co-director of Institut Kaplan. He has special interest in the painful wrist and carpal instabilities, reason why he has contributed to create the International Wrist Biomechanics Study Group. He is member of the Relationship Committee of FESSH. 
Dai Newington
Swansea, UK
Consultant Hand Surgeon in Swansea, UK. I am a member of BSSH and the current President of our Society (2019). I have a strong interest in undergraduate & postgraduate teaching and have lectured at many national & international conferences on a wide variety of subjects relating to Hand & Wrist surgery. I chaired the advanced training post/fellowship group for the JCST/RCS (2014-17). I am a current member of the BSSH Education & Training committee. I am a dedicated member of FESSH & BSSH delegate to the Society 2015-18. I am delighted to be a faculty member of the FESSH Academy.
David Shewring
Cardiff, UK
David Shewring is a Consultant Hand Surgeon appointed in Cardiff in 1994. He trained in Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery in Southampton, Cambridge, Cardiff and Oxford.
He serves on FESSH Council as Chairman of the Education and Training Committee. He is currently Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) and led the successful BSSH bid to host the 2022 Joint IFSSH/IFSHT Congress in London, which will be its first time in the UK. He was president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand for 2018.
Outside medicine, his interests include the cultivation of citrus, oenology and, now that he can't play anymore, watching his sons play rugby.
Gill Smith
London, UK
Gill decided on a career in hand surgery as a 3rd year medical student. After registrar training in Birmingham, with hand fellowships in Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby, Christine M Kleinert Institute for hand and microsurgery in Louisville and in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, she was appointed as a substantive consultant to Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury.
She has run the congenital hand practice in Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2007, temporarily ran the service for Edinburgh and has supported other services.
She now works part- time between Great Ormond Street Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, with a practice concentrated on the upper limb, combining both plastic surgery and orthopaedic approaches to care.
Her research interests include radial ray dysplasia, epidermolysis bullosa and Apert syndrome.
She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally. She is an active member of the American and British hand societies
Pierluigi Tos
Milan, Italy
Specialized in Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic & Reconstructive SurgeryHead of the Hand Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery Unit, Orthopaedic Institute Gaetano Pini-CTO di Milan, Italy
Chairman of FESSH Hand Trauma Commettee since 2017
Former President of the Italian Society for Microsurgery
President of the Italian Group of Microsurgery and Limbs Reconstruction of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics
Contract Professor of the University of Milan School of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
International Delegate for the Italian Society for Surgery of the Hand (SICM) at IFSSH
European Delegate for the Italian Society for Microsurgery at the EFSM
President of the Italian Editorial Commission of the Italian Society for Hand Surgery
Deputy Director and Scientific Board of the Italian Journal of Hand Surgery (Rivista Italiana di Chirurgia della Mano) - official journal of SICM (Italian Society for Surgery of the Hand)
Former President of the Teaching Commission for the Italian Society for Microsurgery and Hand Surgery
Erik Walbeehm
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Erik Walbeehm trained in the Erasmusmc in Rotterdam and did a fellowship in Manchester, UK. He defended his PhD thesis in peripheral nerve regeneration in 2004. He worked as a consultant Plastic - and Hand surgeon the Erasmusmc from 2006. From 2013 he is working in the Radboudumc and the Xpert Clinic in Nijmegen.
