Laura Deriu

Children’s Orthopaedic Consultant, Leeds Children’s Hospital

Miss Laura Deriu has been a Children’s Orthopaedic Consultant at Leeds Children’s Hospital since 2015.

She did her higher surgical training in Rome (Italy) and underwent fellowship training in the United States and United Kingdom. She enjoys the generality of paediatric orthopaedics, but has a particular interest in trauma, hip conditions and foot deformities.

Miss Deriu is a keen trainer and is highly involved at regional and national level. She was awarded the BOTA TOTY in 2020-2021.

She is the Chair of the Education Committee of the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedics Surgery and is highly involved in organising and coordinating local and national educational events.

She loves travelling, reading, dancing, cooking and looking after her friends and family.

Pranai Buddhdev

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mid & South Essex NHS Trust

Mr. Pranai Buddhdev is an internationally fellowship-trained and recognised specialist in paediatric orthopaedic surgery and young adult hip preservation working at Mid & South Essex NHS Trust. He’s on the Executive board of the Hip Hope Network, an international organisation promoting paediatric hip health worldwide and on the education committee for BSCOS.  

Zachariah Silk

Consultant Spinal Surgeon

Mr Zacharia Silk is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He specialises in the treatment of spinal deformity in children and adolescents, with interests in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and complex paediatric spinal conditions, including neuromuscular and syndromic scoliosis. He trained and worked in London and Oxford, and completed subspecialty fellowships in the UK, including the National Spine Fellowship in Leeds, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, as well as in the USA. He is passionate about education, clinical leadership, improving communication with children and families, and supporting the next generation of spinal surgeons.

Vitty Bucknall

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Alderhey Children's Hospital Trust

Miss Bucknall trained in Birmingham before further graduating from the University of Dundee with honours in Orthopaedic Sciences. Following this, Miss Bucknall joined the Edinburgh Orthopaedic Programme where she completed her higher surgical training. 

Miss Bucknall went on to complete her fellowship in paediatric orthopaedic surgery at Alder Hey where she joined the team as a consultant. 

During training, Miss Bucknall received a number of national prizes for research and education and was awarded the Scottish national prize for best trainee. Miss Bucknall has served as President to the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association and has sat as council on the boards of the British Orthopaedic Association, the Intercollegiate Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Joint Committee of Surgical Training. 

Miss Bucknall is avid about surgical education and delivers both international and national conferences and teaching as well as being a nationally invited guest speaker. As a member of the Selection Design Group, Miss Bucknall continues to organise national recruitment to orthopaedic training. 

Miss Bucknall has a specialist interest in paediatric hip surgery from birth to adolescence. 

Morgan Bailey

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton Children's Hospital

Morgan Bailey completed a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at University Hospital Southampton. She also completed a research fellowship for the British Association for Surgery on the Knee, with a focus on patellofemoral pathology, for which she was awarded the BASK President's Award. She works between University Hospital Southampton and Portsmouth University Hospitals as part of a paediatric orthopaedic hub and spoke practice. She has a special interest in all paediatric and adolescent knee pathology and provides a paediatric acute knee service across both sites. 

She is a Trustee for the injury prevention charity Power up to Play, as well as sitting on a national working group for injury prevention. She is the Chair for the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. She has a passion for injury prevention in children and young women, and gender parity in the diagnosis and management of ACL injuries. 

Stephen Ng Man Sun

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Stephen is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, specialising in complex foot disorders, DDH and neurodisability. He studied medicine at University College London and underwent training on the North-west London rotation before completing a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He has also undertaken the Fred Deitz Clubfoot Fellowship. He was appointed as a consultant in 2019.

Sachin Rastogi

Consultant in Pain Management & Anaesthesia, Great North Children’s Hospital

Sachin Rastogi is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne with a specialist interest in paediatric pain management. He trained in Manchester and completed postgraduate anaesthesia and pain training in the North West Deanery, followed by fellowships in paediatric pain and paediatric anaesthesia at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, and a regional anaesthesia fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital, Canada. He returned to Newcastle in 2013 and went on to establish and lead the paediatric complex pain clinic at the Great North Children’s Hospital, a multidisciplinary service for children and young people with persistent pain. He was credentialled in Specialist Pain Medicine in 2025 and is a member of the Faculty of Pain Medicine Training and Assessment Committee, serving as UK Paediatric Pain Lead. Alongside his clinical work in paediatric and adult neurosurgical anaesthesia, he has contributed to publications in paediatric pain including BJA Education and chapters in the Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Pain, with additional interests in regional anaesthesia, neuromodulation, and mindfulness-based approaches