Hand surgery is a specialised sub-division within Orthopaedic and Plastic surgery. The hand, wrist, elbow and nerves are infinitely complex.

David Warwick has published over 30 papers in referred journals, has a research doctorate (MD) from Bristol University in 1995 and was awarded a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999. He is a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and a member or the British Orthopaedic Association. He regularly reviews academic papers for research journals, and he lectures at home and abroad. He holds the European Diploma of Hand Surgery, winning the medal for best candidate in 2004.

David Warwick looks after Southampton Football Club players and Hampshire Country Cricket Club players with hand injuries and problems. He works with the Army Training and Recruiting Agency to enable soldiers who have hand problems to get back to duty.

In 1990, he worked as a Senior House Officer in Plastic and Hand Surgery at the Welsh Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns. In 1997, he worked as the Hand Surgery Fellow with Mr Peter Burge at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. In 1998, he went on to work as the Hand and Microsurgery Fellow with Professor M.Tonkin at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

He has written several papers on hand, wrist and nerve injuries. David has authored chapters on Hand and Wrist problems in the most recent edition of the surgical textbooks 'Bailey and Love', and 'Apley's System of Orthopaedics' (the largest selling textbooks of their class), the Oxford Textbook of Orthopaedics, and a chapter entitled "Peripheral Nerve Injuries" in the book 'Outcomes in Orthopaedics'. He is curently writing the Oxford Handbook of Hand Surgery.

David Warwick is chairman of the Bristish Society for Surgery of the Hand Education and Training committee. He is a member of the BSSH Research and Audit Committee and the BSSH instructional course committee. He is a member of the educational board of the Journal of Hand Surgery and also of the Journal of bone and joint surgery.

He is a member of Faculty on the AO Wrist and Hand Course, which is an International system of teaching how to repair injuries in the wrist and hand. He also teaches on the Derby Hand Course, the Royal College of Surgeons Advanced Hand Course and the British Society for Surgery of the Hand Intructional Course.

As part of Continuing Medical Education, he regularly attends meetings and courses.

He has a current research programme based at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.