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Professor Damian Griffin
OBE MBM BCh (Oxon) MA MPhil (Cantab) FRCS (Tr&Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic and Specialist Hip Surgeon
Professor Damian Griffin is the founder and lead doctor of the Hip Arthroscopy Clinic.
He gained a First Class degree in Physiology at Cambridge, and then studied Medicine at Oxford. He trained as an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford and the United States, and then returned to Cambridge to study and research the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal disease.
Professor Griffin moved from his consultant post at Oxford to become the foundation professor at Warwick Medical School in 2002. In the years that followed, he developed a new academic department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery with a clear research focus on the assessment of the clinical effectiveness of surgery.
As a busy clinical surgeon, Professor Griffin’s particular passion is the practical application of hip arthroscopy to address problems in young, active or athletic people. After twenty years of working in this area, hip arthroscopy and hip-preserving surgery has become almost his entire clinical practice and a major part of his research.
In 2016, Professor Griffin played a leading role in defining how femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI) can be recognised, treated and managed by the global medical community. The international consensus on FAI syndrome was called the Warwick Agreement, and was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Professor Griffin went on to lead the largest ever randomised control trial of hip arthroscopy, and the first to demonstrate the benefits of the surgery for people with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome. The trial was commissioned by the UK National Institute of Health Research, and was prompted by the need to provide an evidence base for the increasing use of hip arthroscopy in the UK (a need that is felt around the world), and was designed to compare the clinical and cost effectiveness of hip arthroscopy with ‘best conservative care’.
He is an internationally recognised expert, regularly teaching and lecturing all over the world, and drawing patients for specialist opinions and surgery from the UK, Europe and elsewhere. Professor Griffin was awarded the OBE in the Military Division of the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his work with the Army Medical Services.
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Professor Damian Griffin is the founder and lead doctor of the Hip Arthroscopy Clinic.
He gained a First Class degree in Physiology at Cambridge, and then studied Medicine at Oxford. He trained as an orthopaedic surgeon in Oxford and the United States, and then returned to Cambridge to study and research the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal disease.
Professor Griffin moved from his consultant post at Oxford to become the foundation professor at Warwick Medical School in 2002. In the years that followed, he developed a new academic department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery with a clear research focus on the assessment of the clinical effectiveness of surgery.
As a busy clinical surgeon, Professor Griffin’s particular passion is the practical application of hip arthroscopy to address problems in young, active or athletic people. After twenty years of working in this area, hip arthroscopy and hip-preserving surgery has become almost his entire clinical practice and a major part of his research.
In 2016, Professor Griffin played a leading role in defining how femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI) can be recognised, treated and managed by the global medical community. The international consensus on FAI syndrome was called the Warwick Agreement, and was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Professor Griffin went on to lead the largest ever randomised control trial of hip arthroscopy, and the first to demonstrate the benefits of the surgery for people with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome. The trial was commissioned by the UK National Institute of Health Research, and was prompted by the need to provide an evidence base for the increasing use of hip arthroscopy in the UK (a need that is felt around the world), and was designed to compare the clinical and cost effectiveness of hip arthroscopy with ‘best conservative care’.
He is an internationally recognised expert, regularly teaching and lecturing all over the world, and drawing patients for specialist opinions and surgery from the UK, Europe and elsewhere. Professor Griffin was awarded the OBE in the Military Division of the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his work with the Army Medical Services.
