Mr Sujay Dheerendra

Mr Sujay Dheerendra is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and The Walton Centre in Liverpool, a post he has held since January 2025. His principal clinical expertise encompasses paediatric and adult spinal surgery, with particular experience in adult degenerative spinal conditions and spinal deformity, including scoliosis and kyphosis.

His practice involves the comprehensive assessment and surgical management of patients with complex spinal conditions, working within multidisciplinary teams to determine appropriate treatment and optimise patient outcomes. His experience spans both paediatric and adult patients and includes the application of advanced surgical techniques in spinal surgery.

Mr Dheerendra has particular experience in complex spinal deformity and degenerative surgery, with his wider clinical and research activity encompassing lumbar decompression, thoracic spinal conditions, vertebral fractures, metastatic spinal disease and metastatic spinal cord compression. He has also undertaken work relating to complex deformity correction techniques, including osteotomy and spinal instrumentation.

His senior experience is further supported by his previous role as Clinical Lead for spinal surgery at Oswestry.

Mr Dheerendra’s clinical interests centre on the assessment and surgical management of complex spinal conditions across paediatric and adult patients. A significant area of his practice is spinal deformity, particularly scoliosis and kyphosis, alongside the management of adult degenerative spinal conditions.

His specialist experience encompasses complex deformity correction and spinal reconstruction, including osteotomy and instrumentation techniques. He also has experience in the management of lumbar spinal conditions requiring decompression and has undertaken work involving thoracic spinal pathology.

Further areas of specialist interest include vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis or metastatic disease and the management of metastatic spinal cord compression. His practice is underpinned by comprehensive patient assessment, patient safety and multidisciplinary working, particularly where spinal conditions require complex surgical decision-making and treatment.

Mr Dheerendra has an established record of research and publication across spinal and orthopaedic surgery. His published work includes research on cervical myelopathy and outcomes following lumbar decompression, while his work has been presented at national and international meetings including NASS, Eurospine, BritSpine and the British Scoliosis Society.