Deepa Bose

PTCF Ambassador

Deepa Bose MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth), MSc Orth Eng, MSc Med Edu

Ms. Deepa Bose has been a consultant in orthopaedic trauma and limb reconstruction at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, since 2009. She completed an MSc in Medical Education from Cardiff in 2010 and has been a regional training programme director for core surgery in West Midlands.  She is currently Vice Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Trauma & Orthopaedics. With a desire to promote and encourage teaching in orthopaedics in developing nations, Deepa gained the Diploma in Medical Care of Catastrophes from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 2011.  She is the Chairman of World Orthopaedic Concern UK, a specialist society of the British Orthopaedic Association, and a charity which focuses on teaching orthopaedics in low resource countries. She has been on the Emergency Response Team of UK Med, a first response team for international disaster relief, since 2012.

‘I saw first-hand the effect the PTC course had on participants in Uganda; it increased their knowledge and confidence in managing life-threatening conditions in trauma situations’.