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Keynote and invited speakers include: 

Dr Uazman Alam

University of Liverpool

 Dr Uazman Alam is a Senior Clinical Lecturer (Assoc. Prof level) at the University of Liverpool and an  Honorary Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Alam is recognized as a world-leading expert in diabetic complications, primarily diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy. He has published over 110 manuscripts in high-impact journals, including The Lancet, over the last 12 years. In 2019, he was honored with the Clinical Research Award from NeuroDiab, an international diabetic neuropathy organization.

 Dr. Alam’s clinical research interests focus on diabetes and its related complications, specifically diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy. He runs a regular weekly diabetic foot MDT clinic. Given his expertise, Dr Alam sits on the editorial board of Diabetes Therapy and is the topic/associate editor for Clinical Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine (the Royal College of Physicians Journal)


Dr Uazman Alam

Dr Elisavet Andrikopoulou

University of Portsmouth

Dr. Elisavet Andrikopoulou is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (UK). Elisavet holds a PhD in health informatics. She has won several awards including the HDR UK Collaborathon 2020. Elisavet has a computer science and law background as well as a master’s degree in research in simulation modelling. Elisavet has worked in Greece, Germany, Belgium and the UK in a number of positions varying from law apprentice to database administrator and IT consultant.

Current research interests involve healthcare decision making support and improving the quality of life of people with long-term conditions using technology specialising on personal health records. Elisavet is a member of BCS and IET, and her teaching focuses mainly on data visualisation and data analytics.


Elisavet Andrikopoulou

Professor Richard Jones

University of Salford

Professor Richard Jones leads the Knee Biomechanics and Injury research theme at the University of Salford and is also the Biomechanics research lead at the Manchester Institute for Health and Performance (MIHP). Richard has authored over 100 research papers in the fields of footwear, orthoses, pathological and healthy gait, musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Richard is a member of the Versus Arthritis Musculoskeletal Disorders Research Advisory Group and is internationally recognised in the field of knee osteoarthritis. Richard has been utilising motion capture for the past 25 years ensuring that the biomechanical information gained has clinical applications. Within his role at the Manchester Institute of Health and Performance (MIHP), Richard leads on return to activity and sport biomechanical assessments ensuring that biomechanical outcomes are inputted back to the clinical teams to ensure mitigation of future risk and post-traumatic degenerative conditions. 


Professor Richard Jones

Professor Mark King

Loughborough University

 Dr Mark King is a Professor of Sports Biomechanics in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University investigating optimum performance and minimising injury risk across a broad range of sports including gymnastics, cricket, athletics, badminton, swimming and tennis. In Cricket Mark has collaborated with the England and Wales Cricket Board for nearly 20 years covering a broad range of cricket areas from power hitting in batting and optimal performance in spin bowling through to optimal pitch length for junior cricketers and optimising fast bowling performance / minimising injury risk.  Mark has a breadth of experience with international groups; Chair of the International Society of Biomechanics Technical Group on Computer Simulation for eight years, Director of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, Director of Badminton England, an invited member of Badminton World Federation’s Injury Prevention Working Group and International Cricket Council’s Bowling Legality Group.


Professor Mark King

Dr Samra Pjanic

Institute for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Bosnia and Hercegovina

Dr Samra Pjanic is a PRM specialist and has worked in the Institute for physical and rehabilitation medicine „dr Miroslav Zotovic“ in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina since 2011. Her work is focused on the treatment of pediatric patients, especially children with spinal deformities. She completed numerous educations regarding scoliosis treatment options: PSSE (Schroth and SEAS therapy) and bracing (Cheneau and Sforzesco brace). According to SOSORT guidelines, she is considered to be an expert in conservative scoliosis management. In 2020 she became the first international ISST instructor for physicians. She is also a member of ISST and ScoSym board.  In 2022 she completed a PhD in Physical and rehabilitation medicine. Her doctoral research investigated the effects of Cheneau Sobernheim brace in the conservative treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. 


Samra-Pjanic

Dr Adam Shortland

Evelina Children’s Hospital, London

Adam is the consultant clinical scientist at the One Small Step Gait Laboratory (since 1998)  and Reader in Clinical Biomechanics at King’s College London (since 2017). His team were the first to use 2D and 3D ultrasound to evaluate musculoskeletal pathology in children and young people with cerebral palsy. At the One Small Step Gait Lab at Guy’s Hospital, we incorporate ultrasound routinely to measure muscle volume and to evaluate muscle quality in our patients to inform our clinical reports. Adam has approaching 100 peer-reviewed full research articles, multiple book chapters and has recently co-authored a book in the musculoskeletal system in cerebral palsy. Adam is also the programme director for the MSc Clinical Sciences (Engineering) at King’s.


Dr Adam Shortland

Dr Ilias Theodorakos

Aalborg University

Ilias Theodorakos received his MEng in Applied Mathematical and Physics Science from National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2011 and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2017. The topic of his thesis was the internal and external passive stabilizers of the ankle joint complex. During his doctoral research he evaluated the influence of ankle ligaments and braces on the ankle joint kinematics and kinetics. Later, he joined IFSTTAR in Lyon, France as postdoctoral researcher to address sitting biomechanics related questions. He has been a postdoctoral researcher with the department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University since 2021. He is currently involved in the design of subject specific knee implants optimized to provide post operative knee stability and the development of experimental and computational procedures for the acquisition of noninvasive, in vivo knee laxity measurements. His research interests include the design and evaluation of interventions for improving people’s quality of life and the development of methodologies for accurate and noninvasive in vivo measurements.


Dr Ilias Theodorakos