Nurse Practitioner Angela Pearce 

LET’S ARTICULATE, ALIGN AND UNITE
Angela N Pearce MS, RN, FNP-C, ONP-C
Angie is the president of the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses (NAON). She received her Diploma in nursing from the Middlesex hospital school of nursing and the University of London, UK. Angie then came to Texas, USA and began her orthopaedic nursing career. In 2001 she received her Master of Science degree from Texas Woman's University with a Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate (FNP-C). In 2007 she became Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner Certified (ONP-C).

Angie currently works at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas as a trauma/orthopaedic nurse practitioner in a level one trauma center, including both inpatient and outpatient settings. In 2013, Angie was elected to the NAON executive board as a director and then re-elected as president elect for a three-year term in 2016.

She is a published author and works both locally and nationally in her orthopaedic organization. She is a national and international speaker. Angie is married to Ray, her husband and best friend for many years, and is the proud mother of three sons and Nana to three fabulous grandchildren including a granddaughter.  

Professor Fiona Wood

Professor Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for the past 20 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA). She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA, Professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia, and co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation.

Professor Wood’s greatest contribution and enduring legacy is her work pioneering the innovative ‘spray-on skin’ technique (Recell), which greatly reduces permanent scarring in burns victims.

Fiona was named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003. In 2005 she won the Western Australia Citizen of the Year award for her contribution to Medicine in the field of burns research. That same year her contribution to burns care was recognised through Australia’s highest accolade when she was named Australian of the Year for 2005. Fiona is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science. Fiona is married to fellow surgeon Tony Kierath and is mother to four boys and two girls.

Guest Presenters

Dermott Collopy

ROBOTICS IN JOINT REPLACEMENT
Mr Dermott Collopy is a Perth-based surgeon specialising in hip and knee replacement, revision arthroplasty, and pelvic and acetabular trauma. He completed his advanced surgical training at Royal Perth Hospital. After gaining FRACS Ortho in 1994, he undertook three years of overseas fellowship training in the area of hip and knee arthroplasty and revision surgery, initially at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford UK, followed by the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, and finally a fellowship in pelvic and acetabular trauma at Parkland Memorial Trauma Centre, Dallas Texas. Mr Collopy is the immediate Past-President of the Arthroplasty Society of Australia, and past Chairman of the WA State branch of the AOA, and AOA Branch Director for WA, the Continuing Orthopaedic Education Committee, and the National Joint Replacement Registry Committee. His research interests are in hip and knee implant design and fixation, and was one of the design surgeons on the Emperion revision hip system, the Triathlon knee system and the AccoladeII hip system. He, together with one of his partners, Mr Gavin Clark, is involved in developing robotics in knee and hip replacement.