Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

 

David Warwick is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Southampton University Hospitals, UK. He received his medical degree from the University of Southampton. He has been researching orthopaedic thromboembolism since 1991. This work led to a Hunterian Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons and a Doctorate from the University of Bristol.

 

He has published 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, has written several invited articles, and has presented at dozens of national and international meetings. He is a co-author of the THRIFT guidelines (1998), International Consensus Statement (Angiology 2001), and the forthcoming International Consensus Statement revision. He reviews papers on orthopaedic thrombosis for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and is co-author of the latest edition of Apley’s System of Orthopaedics. He lectures regularly on orthopaedic thromboembolism in Britain and abroad. He was co-chairman of the Global Orthopaedic Registry from 2003 until 2005.

 

Most recently, he has been an invited Instructor at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a Witness to the UK Parliamentary Enquiry into Thromboembolism, and an Expert Advisor to the Department of Health Working Group on venous thromboembolism. Dr Warwick serves on the editorial board of the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.