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.

Clare Carpenter

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Clare has been a Paediatric Orthopaedic consultant at the Noah's ark Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, since 2012. There is no greater job satisfaction than the generality of paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, coupled with the reward of treating children. Cardiff has been a major trauma centre for children since September 2020.
She has been actively involved in education since a junior trainee and this has culminated in her appointment as Training Programme Director in August 2023 to the Welsh Deanery. A role which she finds a privilege and energising to constantly be in touch with training and the trainees.
Recently she has become the BSCOS Secretary and contributes to the Paediatric Orthopaedic community across the UK.

Piers Mitchell

Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon

Mr Piers Mitchell is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon with qualifications in medicine, biological anthropology, and medical history. He has taught at Imperial College London and the University of Sydney before moving to the University of Cambridge in 2009. From 2011 to 2020, he taught the course Human Evolution and Health in the Department of Archaeology.
He is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, serves on the editorial board of Parasitology, and is the founding editor of the Cambridge University Press book series Cambridge Texts in Human Bioarchaeology and Osteoarchaeology. He served as President of the Paleopathology Association from 2015 to 2017, the international organisation for the study of ancient disease.
As a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon , he has made significant contributions to clinical research and guideline development. He has served as Chair of the Research Committee of the British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery, led the BSCOS Consensus Project on Paediatric Musculoskeletal Infection, and has published extensively on the diagnosis, management, and outcomes of paediatric musculoskeletal infections. His clinical and academic work bridges paediatric orthopaedics with broader interests in infectious disease, human evolution, and the history of medicine.

Tim Theologis

Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences / University of Oxford

Mr Tim Theologis has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Oxford since 1996 and a Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford since 1999. His clinical and research work focuses on children with cerebral palsy and neuromuscular disorders.
Tim’s previous research has led to the development of the Oxford Foot Model, a biomechanical model for the study of foot motion during walking. This has been adopted internationally by researchers, clinicians and the motion analysis industry as the standard tool for analysis of foot motion in children and adults. The development of the Oxford Foot and Ankle Children's Questionnaire, a validated measure of foot-related disability, was also an important milestone in the understanding of paediatric foot conditions and their impact on lifestyle.
The 'keyhole' or 'minimally-invasive' technique in performing both bony and soft tissue procedures as part of multi-level surgery in children with cerebral palsy has been developed through research at the Oxford Gait Laboratory. It involved surgical techniques which were used in other conditions in children but had not previously been used in the context of surgery in cerebral palsy.
In 2016 Tim led the development of a Research Committee under the auspices of BSCOS, the British Society of Children's Orthopaedic Surgery. He has led the development of research priorities in children’s orthopaedics at national level, including a James Lind Alliance priorities setting project on lower limb surgery in children with orthopaedic conditions.
Since 2017 Tim has dedicated more time in clinical research in paediatric orthopaedics, focusing on cerebral palsy, clinical outcomes and paediatric osteoarticular infection. He completed the CPinBOSS study and is Chief Investigator in 3 other HTA/NIHR funded multi-centre studies, namely PICBone, SPELL and ROBUST. Tim is also supervising the development of a core outcome set in paediatric orthopaedics, the CELLOS study.

Saul Faust

Professor of Paediatric Immunity and Infection, University of Southampton