Gateshead Experts

David Elson

2016 International Faculty member David Elson will be speaking at the Northern Osteotomy Masterclass event, 23-24 June 2016. visit www.northernosteotomy.co.uk for more details

David Elson is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead. He was a trainee in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle. In order to gain specialist expertise he deliberately chose fellowships in the high volume knee osteotomy centres at Cardiff and Hampshire.

This put David in a unique position to combine the results from these centres, work which has been presented at the BASK, BOA and ISAKOS conferences in 2015 (see osteotomy results video). David strongly believes that the techniques of knee osteotomy should be refined in light of patient outcomes and to this aim; he has been the driving force behind the United Kingdom Knee Osteotomy Registry (www.ukkor.co.uk). This is an initiative designed to capture meaningful outcome data which should influence future surgical techniques in years to come.

David has several publications in the field of knee surgery and has presented at numerous national and international conferences. He has aspirations to improve the message about knee osteotomy as a highly successful surgery.