What problems can cavovarus foot cause?

By Mr Sam Weston-Simons
Paediatric orthopaedics

Mr Sam Weston-Simons is a leading consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeon based in London. He specialises in the treatment of congenital malformations, skeletal dysplasia and limb abnormalities and deformities in children. He is also expert in paediatric foot, ankle and hip disorders as well as all aspects of paediatric orthopaedic trauma. 

Mr Weston-Simons qualified in medicine in 2004 at the Royal Free and University College Hospital School of Medicine, having also achieved a bachelor’s degree with honours in pharmacology. He then went on to receive invaluable experience in various international appointments and developed a specialist interest in paediatric and developing world orthopaedics. This included six months at the Beit-Cure Orthopaedic Children’s Hospital in Malawi where Mr Weston-Simons volunteered as a fellow and a six month trauma fellowship in South Africa, which he both established and carried out as part of the orthopaedic program.

After completing further speciality training in London and the south east of England, Mr Weston-Simons completed a further fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada specialising in paediatric orthopaedics in 2017 and another in paediatric limb reconstruction at Sheffield Children’s Hospital the following year. He was appointed as a children’s orthopaedic consultant at London’s Evelina Children’s Hospital in 2020 where he has since established a limb reconstruction unit. He sees private patients at The Portland Hospital and the Cromwell Hospital.

Mr Weston-Simons’ numerous academic contributions are published in peer-reviewed journals. He has been an ATLS course instructor since 2011 and regularly trains medical students in ward-based and surgical skills in both formal and informal settings. His excellence in his field has been recognised with various awards and esteemed fellowships, including the Amulree award with elective bursary which he received during his time at medical school.

Mr Weston-Simons is a member of a number of esteemed learned bodies including the British Limb Reconstruction Society and the British Orthopaedic Association. He was appointed as member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2007 and as fellow in trauma and orthopaedics in 2016.