David Elson MBChB, MRCS, FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
NHS @ Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK
Nuffield Health @ Newcastle Nuffield Hospital
Ramsay Healthcare @ Tees Valley and Cobalt Hospitals

BOA - British Orthopaedic Association
BKS - Biological Knee Society (Secretary and Treasurer) 
BASK - British Association for Surgery of the Knee (ex-exec committee)

BOSTAA - British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma & Arthroscopy Association
ESSKA - European society of sports traumatology, knee surgery and arthroscopy
OTS - Orthopaedic Trauma Society

Co-Convener - Northern Osteotomy Masterclass (www.northernosteotomy.co.uk)
Director - Which Orthopaedic Implant Ltd (www.whichorthopaedicimplant.com)
Chairman - UK Knee Osteotomy Registry (www.ukkor.co.uk)

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David Elson is a dedicated knee surgeon with a sub specialist interest in joint preserving (biological) knee surgery.  He has been an NHS consultant in Gateshead, UK for six years.  He trained in the North East of England with UK fellowships in Cardiff and Hampshire.

As a fellow he was the driving force behind the establishing the United Kingdom Knee Osteotomy Registry.  UKKOR was established to improve patient outcomes from knee osteotomy as an alternative to knee replacement in arthritic knee conditions.  David has served on the Quality Outcomes Committee of the British Orthopaedic Association, the execuutive committee of the British Association for Knee Surgery and is now the secreatry and Treasurer for the Biological Knee Society

He has experience in all aspects of knee surgery including cruciate ligament reconstruction, re-alignment osteotomy, cartilage restoration, meniscal repair and transplantation.  He performs approximatey 250 knee operations each year.
Links
The photographic knee pain map is an instrument to locate knee pain.  Since its publication in 2011 it has been made freely available and researchers from all over the world have used it to increase our understanding of the location of knee pain
In the last five years I have been co-convener for the Northern Osteotomy Masterclass which has grown to become the largest cadaveric osteotomy course in the world
As a fellow I established UKKOR the world's first national registry dedicated to collecting outcome data for knee osteotomies.  I currently act as the chairman for the registry steering committee