2.45pm – 4.15pm BST, 18 September 2025 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
Room: Room 11A
Specialist Society
Session Title: BSS/BASS Revalidation Session
Session Description: Join us for our dedicated Revalidation Session at BOA Congress, designed to support orthopaedic surgeons in maintaining and demonstrating their professional competence. This session will provide practical guidance, updates and opportunities to engage with peers.
Chair & Co-Chairs: Shivan Marya and Shreya Srinivas
Agenda:
14:45 - 15:00 Paediatric Trauma including AARD and/or torticollis Shivan Marya
15:00 - 15:30 Lumbar-pelvic trauma and sacral fractures Ed Bayley
15:30 - 16:00 Foot drop and / or stenosis with bladder symptoms Rohit Shetty



Paediatric spine fellow, Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital, BASS Trainee Representative


Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Sheffield Children's NHS Trust
Shreya is fellowship trained spinal surgeon with a busy clinical practice in adult trauma, tumour, and paediatric deformity. She is one of few female surgeon members of BSS and has keen interest to be a surgeon educator. She is actively involved in training surgeons of the future and believes its important they see “someone like you” and is a strong advocate of mentorship. She works in an increasingly diverse surgical profession but wants to work towards a creating an equitable workplace inside and outside the operating room.

BSS Education Lead and Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Sheffield
Consultant Spinal Surgeon with interest in paediatric deformity at Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery. Clinical educator and supervisor to medical students. Current BSS education rep and member of the Spinal TIG committee. Previously a consultant at Sheffield Children's Hospital for four years where he was a pastoral tutor to medical students and Spinal Governance Lead.

Paediatric spine fellow, Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital, BASS Trainee Representative
Shivan is the Paediatric spine fellow at Royal Manchester Childrens' Hospital and has a subspecialty interest in paediatric scoliosis. He completed his Orthopaedic training in India and was awarded the Silver medal by Maharashtra University Health Sciences. He has done spinal fellowships at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the combined neurosurgical-orthopaedic Manchester Spine Fellowship at Salford Royal Hospital.
He is the BASS Trainee representative and ODEP Spine trainee representative. He enjoys teaching and training of resident doctors and has organised and participated in local, regional and national teaching sessions on a range of spine surgery related topics.

Mr Rohit Shetty is a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon, with a special interest in complex spinal surgery. Mr. Shetty was appointed as Consultant spinal surgeon to the Whittington Hospital and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London in 2010. He now works full time at the Whittington Hospital in North London.
He graduated from India in 1995. He obtained his Masters in Orthopaedic Surgery, and was awarded the Gold Medal in Orthopaedic surgery.
He underwent Orthopaedic training in London from 2002. He completed a Diploma from the University of Brighton and was awarded Distinction in 2006. He passed his FRCS Intercollegiate T&O Board exams in 2007.
Rohit is fellowship trained in all aspects of spinal surgery. He completed spinal fellowships at Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and a short term fellowship at Inselspital and Schulthess Swiss Olympic Medical Centre in Switzerland.
Mr. Shetty’s specialization includes the conservative and surgical management of adult degenerative neck and low back pain. His main sub specialty area of interest is Adult Reconstructive Deformity.