Clinical Director

Prof. David Deehan,
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Appointed as a consultant in trauma and reconstructive knee surgery Newcastle Hospitals 2000.
Graduate of Edinburgh Medical School
MD in surgical immunology Aberdeen University
Lecturer in Orthopaedic surgery Leicester under Professor Gregg
Fellow in Knee Surgery NSOSM Sydney 1999
MSc Bioengineering Strathclyde 2006
Personal chair in Orthopaedic Surgery Newcastle University 2009
Co-founder of the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre (NSTC)

Interests
Biomechanics of the knee (ongoing collaboration with Imperial College London)
Polyethylene science (in conjunction with Durham University)
Outcome from revision knee surgery failed end stage arthroplasty (multicentre UK centre)
Collaborative work with Prof Foster on salvage surgery for JIA
Multicentre studies on adolescent musculoskeletal injury in UK football academies
Biochemistry of acute knee injury and local homeostatic response mechanisms (in conjunction with Alisdair Sutherland Aberdeen University )

Position
Full time knee surgeon
Co-director NSTC