Our team

Mr Wainwright is a graduate of Leicester University Medical School. He undertook his orthopaedic training in the Oxford region and a clinical fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Mr Wainwright was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic surgeon in 2003.

Specialist interests

• Children's hip disorders
• Disorders of growth and development
• Bone tumours

Mrs Buckingham is a graduate of Bristol medical school. She undertook her orthopaedic training the South West of England followed by a clinical fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.

Mrs Buckingham was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2007.

Specialist interests

• Cerebral palsy
• Children's upper limb disorders
• Children's hip disorders
• Clubfeet

Mr Kothari is a graduate of both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He undertook his orthopaedic training in the Oxford region followed by a clinical fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

He was appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic surgeon in 2019.

Specialist interests

• Disorders of the foot and ankle
• Children's hip and knee disorders
• Bone tumours

Mr Max Mifsud is a graduate of the University of Malta medical school. He undertook his orthopaedic training in Malta first, and then in the Oxford Deanery.

He underwent two clinical fellowships in Oxford (one in Bone Infection and Limb Deformity, and another in Paediatric Orthopaedics), a Sarcoma and Complex Joint Reconstruction fellowship in London at the Royal National Orthopaedic Centre of Stanmore, and a research fellowship in Cerebral Palsy at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Mr Mifsud has been a consultant in Oxford since 2022. He is fluent in English, French and Maltese.

Specialist interests

• Neuromuscular disorders including cerebral palsy
• Bone tumours and complex joint reconstruction
• Children, adolescent and young adult hip disorders
• Limb deformities and bone infections
• Paediatric trauma