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Prof Damian Griffin

Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

BM BCh MA MPhil FRCS FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Practises at: Three Shires Hospital

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Professional Profile

Professor Griffin is the Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery at the University of Warwick. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge, a medical student at Oxford, and trained at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and in Dallas in the United States. He was awarded the prestigious EFFORT (Europe) and ABC (USA) travelling fellowships to represent the UK.

Professor Griffin helped to set up Warwick Medical School, and now leads one of the largest orthopaedic research groups in the UK, developing and testing the effectiveness of new techniques, especially in keyhole and minimally invasive surgery. He is one of the international innovators in minimally invasive surgery in the hip, including arthroscopic (keyhole) repair of injuries, treatment of early arthritis, and the use of stem cells to repair cartilage damage. He led the most ambitious ever clinical trial of arthroscopy for hip impingement, a £3M study in 31 hospitals in UK and Australia, which was reported in the Lancet in 2018. He was the Director of Education for the International Hip Preservation Society, developing expertise in this new hip surgery across the world.

Professor Griffin is a Colonel in the Army Reserve. In a varied career he has commanded a battalion of the RIFLES and 202 Field Hospital. He was awarded OBE in the Queens Jubilee Birthday Honours in 2022.

Clinical Interests

Professsor Griffin is a practical surgeon; he works privately in Warwick, Northampton and London. He has a highly specialised practice treating young and middle-aged people with hip problems, and leads a team that provides the largest such service in the UK. Focusing entirely on these problems, he treats a wide range of professional and recreational athletes.

He performs a full range of hip surgery, including hip arthroscopy, femoral and acetabular osteotomy (PAO), surgical dislocation for reshaping and cartilage repair, labral repair and labral grafting, sciatic nerve decompression in the deep gluteal space, hamstring repair, hip replacement and hip resurfacing.

Professional Memberships

  • British Medical Association
  • Royal College of Surgeons of London
  • British Hip Society
  • ISHA – The International Hip Preservation Society
  • ICRS – International Cartilage Repair Society

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