Children’s Orthopaedics Glasgow
Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultants
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Miss Alexandra Smith
Miss Smith trained in Cambridge and London before doing orthopaedic specialist training in Southern England (Wessex). Her fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics was at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in Glasgow, Scotland.
She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a member of British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery.
Miss Smith has a particular interest in the treatment of Child and Adolescent hip conditions. Clinics are mainly held on a Wednesday afternoon.
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Miss Claire Murnaghan
Claire Murnaghan has been a Consultant at Yorkhill and then RHC since August 2009, having completed her Orthopaedic training in the West of Scotland, with Paediatric Fellowships in Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.
She has a general Paediatric Orthopaedic interest plus hips, especially DDH and Perthes and I was part of the National Paediatric Brachial Plexus team until 2022 but will now be taking over the Arthrogryposis service from a retiring colleague.
Claire Murnaghan is a Clinical and Educational supervisor for our West of Scotland Trauma and Orthopaedic trainees and outside the hospital has been a member of the Subspeciality Training Committee for several years, now moving up to act as Chairperson.
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Mr David Rowland
David Rowland's medical training was in Cambridge. He completed basic surgical training in London then moved to Yorkshire for his specialist training in Orthopaedics.
He undertook fellowships at Sheffield Children's Hospital before being appointed to a Consultant post in Glasgow.
His particular specialist interest is limb reconstruction (the use of different techniques to adjust the shape or length of limbs either after injury or where a difference has been present for many years, sometimes from birth).
He is a member of the British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery, the British Limb Reconstruction Society and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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Mr Innes Smith
Mr Smith graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and completed higher surgical training in Trauma & Orthopaedic surgery in the West of Scotland. Thereafter, he undertook specialist fellowship training at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Paediatric Orthopaedics), Sydney, Australia, and UniSports Orthopaedics (arthroscopic surgery and sports injuries), Auckland, New Zealand.
Mr Smith was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, in 2019. In addition to a general paediatric orthopaedic practice, he has a subspecialist interest in paediatric and adolescent knee injuries. Since his appointment, he has established a busy arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery service and runs a dedicated paediatric and adolescent knee clinic. He now provides a tertiary referral service for ligament reconstruction, patella stabilisation, meniscal surgery and acute knee trauma in children and adolescents. He is also a member of a specialist team that assesses and treats children presenting with clubfoot deformities.
Mr Smith has a keen interest in both scientific and clinical research. Following completion of a PhD at the University of Edinburgh investigating the role of Staphylococcus aureus toxins (bacterial toxins) in the cartilage destruction associated with septic arthritis, he has maintained a research interest in musculoskeletal sepsis.
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Miss Janet McCaul
Miss McCaul’s medical training was in Glasgow. She completed basic surgical training and her specialist training in Orthopaedics in the West of Scotland.
She undertook fellowships at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, and at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) in Glasgow, before being appointed as a Consultant in 2015.
Her paediatric orthopaedic special interests include Major Trauma and Neurodisability work, including participation in the West of Scotland Clinical Gait Analysis Laboratory where she is Joint Clinical Lead. She is also an Executive Committee member of the Cerebral Palsy Integrated Care Pathway Scotland (CPIPS).
She is a member of the British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery, the British Society for Surgery in Cerebral Palsy, the Clinical Movement Analysis Society (UK) and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
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Miss Kim Ferguson
After graduating from the University of Glasgow, Miss Ferguson completed the majority of her orthopaedic training in the West of Scotland. During this time she also worked in the paediatric orthopaedic unit in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, prior to its relocation to Little France. Miss Ferguson undertook two visiting fellowships to the US, to the Ponseti Clinic, University Hospital Iowa as well as Shriner’s Hospital Philadelphia. After completing her training in the UK, Miss Ferguson completed a fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics at The Children’s Hospital, Westmead in Sydney,
Miss Ferguson is a member of both the British Orthopaedic Society and the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedics.
Miss Ferguson works in both NHS Lanarkshire and the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. Her speciality interest is paediatric orthopaedics
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Mr Mohamed Osman
Mr Osman received his basic and higher orthopaedic surgical training in Egypt followed by completion of two years fellowship at Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow.
He finalised his MD degree in Perthes’ disease and started his paediatric orthopaedic consultant post at Minia University Hospital in Egypt in 2011. He has been working as an orthopaedic consultant in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow since 2018 and he is an honorary clinical senior lecturer in Glasgow University. Mr Osman is an ad eundem fellow of the Royal college of Surgeons in England, member of the British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
Mr Osman’s specialist interest is in the management of children with cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular disorders in addition to the management of foot and hip problems in children and adolescents.
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Mr Daniel Porter
Daniel Porter's medical training was in Edinburgh. He completed specialist training in Orthopaedics in Oxford, undertaking fellowships in Birmingham and in Japan prior to being appointed to a senior lecturer and honorary consultant post at Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh in 2002. From 2014 to 2023 he was Director of the department of orthopaedic surgery in a large teaching hospital in Beijing. He continues to hold a professorial position at Tsinghua University, China.
His particular specialist interest is orthopaedic tumours and tumour-like conditions.
He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the British Orthopaedic Association.