Miss Morgan Bailey
MBBCh Bsc FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Specialty
Paediatric trauma and orthopaedics
Sub-specialty
Knees
Education and training
Miss Bailey graduated from Cardiff Medical School in 2011 and trained across London, Oxford and Wessex. She completed a paediatric orthopaedic fellowship at University Hospital Southampton. She also completed a research fellowship for the British Association for Surgery on the Knee, with a focus on patellofemoral pathology.
Experience
Miss Bailey works between Portsmouth University Hospital and University Hospital Southampton as part of a hub and spoke service for paediatric orthopaedics. At UHS she is part of the paediatric trauma on call service. Here she holds fortnightly specialist kids’ knee clinics, with acute knee appointments for urgent soft tissue knee injuries such as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. She works closely with a specialist paediatric knee physio, Emma Martin who runs a parallel clinic. She manages the full spectrum of paediatric knee pathology in under 18s, with a special interest in arthroscopic (key hole) surgery.
Awards and prizes
BASK President’s award 2022
Research
Miss Bailey’s main research interest is in ACL injuries in women and teenage girls. She chairs the Women’s ACL Orthopaedic Steering Group. This is national group linked with the British Orthopaedic Association and the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, looking to increase the evidence base relating to ACL injuries and their management in this patient group. She is also a co-principal investigator for the REPPORT trial at both UHS and QA, looking at patellofemoral instability, representing the adolescent group on both sites.
She is involved in teaching, both supervising local trainees and as part of the Wessex deanery in their regional teaching and in their ARCP process.
Miss Bailey has an active role in the charity Power up to Play, an injury prevention charity advocating an evidence based warm up to reduce serious knee injuries in children. She is the Hampshire ambassador, running training sessions for grass roots coaches with a team of other doctors and physios.
Contact
You can email Miss Bailey's secretary Helen Williams on 023 8120 5758 or email paedorthopaedics@uhs.nhs.uk.