This past year I had the honor of serving as the President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. My commitment to the AAOS has included 12 years of service on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and as Chair of the Council on Advocacy. I also continue to serve as a national spokesperson for AAOS Winter Injury Prevention, Health policy matters and Practice management.

My special interests include lower extremity sports medicine, hip and knee arthroplasty, integrated practice models and orthopaedic health policy.

Additionally, I have had the opportunity to serve as an advisor to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These roles included the AAHKS specialty society representative to the American Medical Association's Relative Update Value committee, and the Commission on Ambulatory Payment Classification.

I am an instrument-rated pilot, an avid salt-water fisherman and active volunteer with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Aviation Wing, Flotilla 11-9.

My wife, Katie Doremus Halsey is a personal trainer with a focus on nutrition and sports specific training. We live, work and play year-round in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard.

Together, we have two wonderful adult children, Stephen Thomas Halsey (UVM 2010) and Kristen Ueland Halsey (Boston University School of Medicine-Physician Assistant Program 2017) who is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Orthopaedics faculty, with Luke Oh, M.D. in the Sports Medicine Center.

Rod and Jude live in Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. Rod has a lower limb reconstructive and sports practice and Jude is a General Practitioner with an interest in Women’s Health. They also run a viticulture business with a vineyard in the Marlborough region, three and a half hours north of Christchurch.

Their two children, Andrew and Anna, aged 30 and 28, theoretically independent, live in Toronto and Auckland respectively.

Shared interests include gardening, viticulture and generally growing things. They both ski and play golf, Rod has a keen interest in tennis, all forms of fishing and hunting, and other outdoor pursuits. Jude has a particular interest in tramping and needle craft and both enjoy travel to various parts of the world.

Professor Philip Turner has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon based at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK since 1990. He is the senior surgeon in the department and specialises in all aspects of knee surgery having established a tertiary referral unit for complex knee problems.

His clinical interests are in sports injuries of the knee, complex knee ligament reconstructions, the arthritic knee in younger patients, disorders of the patello-femoral joint and the failed knee replacement.

He is a Council and Executive member of the BOA and President from 2018 to 2019. He has previously been the North West Orthopaedic Training Programme Director, Head of the School of Surgery, Chair of the Confederation of Post-Graduate Schools of Surgery for all surgical specialties across the UK and Chair of the BOA Training Standards and Curriculum Committee.

He has been involved in surgical education throughout his career and has been the Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations which runs the final qualification examinations for all surgical specialties in the UK and Ireland. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers of the RCS Edinburgh in 2016.

He is active in promoting research and service delivery in his role as a domain clinical lead in the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and Chair of the Greater Manchester Orthopaedic Alliance. He is the clinical lead for the transformation of elective orthopaedic services for Greater Manchester which serves a population of 3 million. He holds an Honorary Professorship in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Salford.