The Bristol Knee Clinic and Sports Injury - St. Joseph's Hos

Born in Manchester and trained in Bristol and Oxford, David obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was awarded The British Orthopaedic Association Prize and Robert Jones Medal. He is a regular instructor and lecturer at training courses. He is often invited to speak at international meetings and instructional courses and can be said to be internationally renown in Orthoapedic Surgery. He has published widely, particularly on knee ligament reconstruction and the use of minimally invasive techniques. Having played professional basketball and represented his country (Basketball for England Juniors and Rugby for Lancashire under 19's) and still a keen sportsman, he has a particular interest and reputation in the field of sports injuries.

Trained at Guys Hospital Medical School London, qualifying in 1976, He did his post graduate training in medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care in Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol and was Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Virginia USA 1983-84. He has been Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Bristol Royal Infirmary since 1987 and is currently Director of Anaesthesia. He is a post graduate examiner of the Royal College of Anaesthesia and lectures frequently both in this country and overseas on his particular research interest of intravenous anaesthesia. He was the chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee at the BUPA Hospital Bristol from 1993-1996 and has recently been appointed President of the Society of Intravenous Anaesthesia UK.

He trained at the Charing Cross Hospital in London and is qualified in both surgery and radiology. Previously the Research Senior Registrar in Magnetic Resonance Imaging he is a consultant radiologist based at the Bristol Royal Infirmary specialising in orthopaedic and sports medicine radiological imaging. As a qualified radiologist and surgeon he is able to provide a specialist service in reporting on plain X-Rays, CT scans and in particular Magnetic Resonance Scans (MRI). His lectures at national and international meetings on MRI. He is a sports enthusiast and active participant in all water sports.