Clinical Director

Professor David Deehan

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Professor David Deehan has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in revision and complex knee disorders at Newcastle Hospitals since 2000.

He completed his training in Newcastle, with time spent in Australia and Germany.

He holds degrees from Edinburgh (MBChB) Strathclyde (MSc) and Aberdeen (MD DSc) and is the chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Newcastle University.

He is a co-founder and co-director of the NSTC (since 2007).

Additionally he has driven the creation of the Newcastle Retrieval Centre (2015).

Interests are revision and robotic surgery, biomechanics of the knee and immunotribological aspects of host implant interaction.

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