Teaching surgeons, from the table up
Professional Education, Knee, EMEA
I design and run hands-on knee courses for surgeons across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
I started as a scrub nurse in the UK, spent seven years in the field with Johnson & Johnson in Spain, and since 2025 I have worked in Professional Education at the Johnson & Johnson Institute in Solothurn. What I teach comes from what I saw at the table.
Each cabinet holds a course or programme I run. Open a door to see the implant, how many courses I ran in 2026, how many surgeons came, and what they said.
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Course figures: 2026 course plan, courses that ran. Hip and LCO: LCO register, 15 September 2026. Implants and robot are drawn generically, for illustration only.
Surgeons from across the region ask to watch an expert faculty surgeon operate. I take every request, match it with the right faculty and see it through to the day in theatre.
As at 15 September 2026. Source: LCO requests register.
Each stitch on this suture is one live case observation completed this year; the dashed ones are already scheduled. Hover over a month, or tap it, to see it.
61
observations completed in 2026January to 15 September. Another 22 are scheduled.
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After the course
+90%
More feedback received after I introduced a post-course engagement strategy.
With the global team
Sample timeline
LCO web proposal
One register instead of a spreadsheet: every request, its status and its faculty, with a live report by market and speciality.
I am organising a shoulder symposium for more than 100 surgeons to celebrate the anniversary of the DELTA XTEND reverse shoulder system. This is everything that goes into it. Details are sample
100+
surgeons from across EMEA, one day about the reverse shoulder: where it came from, how it is done today, and what comes next.
Building the day with the faculty chairs: the story of the reverse shoulder, today's indications and technique, and what comes next.
In progressInviting and briefing the speakers and the surgeons who will lead the hands-on stations.
In progressWorking with the country teams across EMEA to nominate and invite more than 100 surgeons.
NextVenue, travel, hotels and catering for more than 100 people, coordinated end to end.
BookedSawbones stations so every delegate practises the technique, not only hears about it.
PlannedCommunication before the day, and the post-course engagement that lifted feedback by 90% on my LCOs.
PlannedThe news that changes what surgeons ask me about on my courses, straight from DePuy Synthes.
Software on the VELYS Hub that uses AI to read images and find anatomical landmarks in total hip replacement, with real-time leg length, offset and cup position. The surgeon keeps the final say.
Why it matters hereVELYS is growing beyond the knee: it is the platform surgeons work on in my VELYS Advanced course.
Read the releaseDePuy Synthes agreed to acquire rights to Gemtrack, a tracking technology for shoulder, hip and knee designed to replace line-of-sight infrared and bulky pinned arrays, pending development and regulatory approval.
Why it matters hereFewer pins and arrays would change the robotic workflow surgeons practise with me.
Read the releaseA tissue-sparing instrumentation system for total shoulder replacement, available in the US, designed for movement as early as day one after surgery.
Why it matters hereShoulder is moving fast, and it is the subject of the symposium I am organising.
Read the releaseFrom surgeons, faculty and country teams.
Hands-on knee courses at the Johnson & Johnson Institute in Solothurn: Introduction to Kinematic Alignment on ATTUNE, VELYS Advanced, Sigma Partial Knee, and the new ATTUNE Revision pilot. I also coordinate Live Case Observations across EMEA.
Courses are by invitation, through the DePuy Synthes team in each country. This site does not take registrations.
At the Johnson & Johnson Institute in Solothurn, Switzerland, on the EMEA campus: an anatomy lab, practical rooms and a 130-seat auditorium.
A visit in which a surgeon watches an expert faculty surgeon operate on real cases in theatre. I match each request with the right faculty and technique, agree the dates and follow up afterwards.
Through the local DePuy Synthes team, who send the request to me. In 2026 requests came from 21 markets, from India and the Middle East to the UK.
Write to me and I will tell you how faculty are chosen for each course.
No. It is my personal site and the views here are my own.
Vigo, Spain. Working across EMEA.
Mockup: dashed = sample data