MD MCh (Orth)

Consultant Orthopaedic, Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon. Professor and Chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Research and Learning Centre – at Brunel University, West London. Director of the Reading Shoulder Unit, an international centre of excellence for shoulder and elbow surgery, Reading, United Kingdom. The unit is recognised worldwide, as a clinical, academic and research centre. Ofer Levy studied medicine at the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem and his orthopaedic surgical training at Sheba Medical Centre, Israel. He is assistant editor, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, On the Editorial board of the International Journal of Shoulder Surgery. Special External Examiner, the national university of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Awarded UK national bronze clinical excellence award in 2006. Awarded the Kessel best research award of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society 2010. Member of the British and Israeli Orthopaedic associations. He is a founder member of the Israeli Shoulder and Elbow Society, a member of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) and corresponding member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society (ASES) – for outstanding contribution in the field. Organises international courses on shoulder surgery, for arthroscopic surgery and shoulder arthroplasty. He has published over 400 scientific papers and presentations, written chapters to books on shoulder surgery and invited to lecture worldwide.