Mike Reidy is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon based in Aberdeen. He trained at Glasgow University, undertaking higher surgical training in the East of Scotland before completing a fellowship at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Since August 2019 he has held a consultant post at both the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Woodend Hospital. He specialises in paediatric orthopaedics with a focus on childhood hip and neuromuscular conditions.

Passionate about education, he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is involved in several national and international research studies and is an active member of the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery.

In 2023, Mike was awarded both the Scottish and UK Trainer of the Year awards by The Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma and the British Orthopaedic Trainees’ Association.

Outside of medicine, he is a Trustee for The Archie Foundation, a children’s health charity supporting children and families in Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, and surrounding areas.

• Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital
• Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Woodend Hospital

• MBChB, University of Glasgow
• MRCS
• FRCS (Orthopaedics)
• Higher Surgical Training in Trauma & Orthopaedics, East of Scotland
• Fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedics, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

• General Medical Council (GMC number): 6163158
• British Orthopaedic Association
• British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery

• The role of gender in operative autonomy in orthopaedic surgical trainees (GOAST): a national collaborative project (2023)
• Examining the effectiveness of examination at 6–8 weeks for developmental dysplasia: testing the safety net (2018)
• Enhanced detection services for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Scottish children 1997–2013 (2018)
• Balancing training and outcomes in total knee replacement: a ten-year review (2017)
• Trends in surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip before and after introduction of improved detection pathways: a population-based cohort study, Scotland 1997–2014 (2017)
• Enhanced recovery programmes for lower limb arthroplasty in the UK (2017)
• Should we abandon routine blood tests? (2017)
• A comparison of surgical exposures for posterolateral osteochondral lesions of the talar dome (2016)
• Do trainee surgeons have an adverse effect on the outcome after total hip arthroplasty? A ten-year review (2016)
• Corticosteroid injection of the arthritic hip: what is the indication? (2015)
• Causative organisms in revision total hip & knee arthroplasty for infection: increasing multi-antibiotic resistance in coagulase-negative Staphylococci (2014)
• Are we missing post-thrombotic syndrome? An orthopaedic perspective in lower limb arthroplasty (2012)