Professor David Warwick

Current Practice

David Warwick is Consultant Hand Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton since 1998 as well as visiting Hand Surgeon to the States of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey. He is Club Surgeon for Southampton Football Club.

David has looked after hand problems for many elite teams such as Southampton Football Club, Hampshire County Cricket Club, GB Hockey, GB Sailing, British Diving. His particular clinical interests are Dupuytren's disease, thumb, finger and wrist joint replacement, rheumatology, distal radio-ulnar joint problems, hand trauma and wrist instabilities.

He works with leading law firms to provide advice on the medical aspects of injury and medical negligence.

Personal

David Warwick was born in 1962 and attended Southend High School for boys in Essex, where he obtained A grades in Latin, Greek and Ancient History Advanced Level studies, before reading Medicine at Southampton Medical School (1980-86). He is married and has three children. He learned to fly with the RAF. He enjoys driving his sports car, cycling, skiing, keep fit and travelling. Most of all he enjoys time with his wife and three children.

He was a bronze donor for the University of Southampton Centre for Cancer Immunology. He has supported a child at the Albella Children's home in Northern India for many years. He is an Advocate for Trinity, a charity for the homeless in Winchester, to which his book royalties are donated.

Training

David trained in basic surgery in Bristol, and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1989 in London. He then specialised in Orthopaedic Surgery for the next seven years as a Registrar and Senior Registrar on the South West Regional Training Scheme. He qualified as an Orthopaedic Surgeon (FRCS Orth) in 1996 and then undertook specialised training in Hand and Wrist surgery in Oxford UK and Sydney Australia. He was appointed as a Consultant at Southampton University Hospitals in 1998, Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2008 and Professor in 2012.

Awards

His teaching, research, and administrative contributions were rewarded by the University of Southampton with an Honorary Professorship in 2013. His NHS contribution has been rewarded with a Bronze Clinical Excellence award in 2012 renewed in 2016. He was awarded the Gold Medal in the European Diploma of Hand Surgery in 2004 and was awarded the Hunterian Professorship in 1998 for his work on Orthopaedic Thrombosis.

He is the current President Elect of the International Federation for Societies for Surgery of the Hand. Most recently he has been President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (2020), President of the British Association of Hand Therapists (2017) and Chair of the FESSH Training Committee (2009-2014).

He has keenly promoted interdisciplinary working with Hand Therapists, with publications on Therapy led services in mallet finger, Dupuytren's Disease and carpal tunnel syndrome.

David has been Examiner to the Singapore Hand Examination, and Visiting Professor to many Hand Societies across the world. He was the International Guest Lecturer to ASSH in 2021.

Contributions

He was President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 2020 and is President Elect of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, a senior office in world hand surgery.

David is a prolific researcher and teacher. He reviews about 30 papers per year; he has served on several prestigious journal editorial Boards.

David has published 89 papers in peer reviewed journals with an H index of 41.

He is on the Editorial Board of the BJJ and served 2 terms on the Editorial Board of the JHS(E). He has written 34 book chapters and is Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Hand Surgery (2009, 2018), the European Textbook of Dupuytren's Disease (2015) and Apley & Solomon's System of Orthopaedics and Trauma (2001, 2010, 2017, 2021). He is currently Principal Investigator on 4 studies and leads the Clinical Orthopaedic Research Group in Southampton.

David Warwick is Club Surgeon for Southampton Football Club.

My Team

My approach to practice and delivering the best for my patients is centred on a team effort. When you contact the Hand Clinic, my personal assistant Rachel will make an appointment to suit you. My own dedicated Hand Therapy team will provide very thorough support. If you need surgery then my anaesthetic colleagues use the latest anaesthetic techniques such as ultrasound-guided blocks and wide awake anaesthesia to avoid a general anaesthetic if you choose.

I am always happy to respond to a telephone call or email at any time to discuss any aspects of your care.

0345 4505 007 or [email protected]

Curriculum vitae

A short biography and the full medico-legal CV are both available to download.

• Concise CV / short biography (PDF)
• Full medico-legal CV (PDF)
• Dupuytren's-specific CV (PDF)

Registration & indemnity

Patients are entitled to check a surgeon's credentials. Both are published here rather than on request.

• General Medical Council registration, with a licence to practise and entry on the Specialist Register (PDF)
• Professional indemnity certificate (PDF)

Areas of expertise

• Dupuytren's disease
• Rheumatology (hand and wrist)
• Distal radio-ulnar joint problems
• Hand trauma
• Wrist instabilities