ofessor 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, 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.
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 and Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2008.
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.
David is the immediate past President of the British Association of Hand Therapists. 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.
He has been Visiting Professor to the Australian Orthopaedic Association, South African Society for Surgery of the Hand and Polish Hand Society.
Contributions
He is was President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 2020. He is the current Secretary General of the International Federation for Societies for Surgery of the Hand, a leading role in world hand surgery. 
David is a prolific researcher and teacher. He reviews about 40 papers per year; David is recent Associate Editor of the Annals of the 
Royal College of Surgeons and is on the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Hand Surgery and the Bone and Joint Journal.
David Warwick is Club Surgeon for Southampton Football Club
My Promise To You
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 colleague Dr Max Jonas will explain everything to you and make the procedure perfectly safe.
I am always happy to respond to a telephone call or email at any time to discuss any aspects of your care.
