Dr Geoff Davies

Consultant Sports Physician
MRCGP MSc (Sp Med) FFSEM (UK&I)

Dr Geoff Davies is a private Consultant Sports & Orthopaedic Physician at Vale Healthcare - South Wales' leading private hospital and private clinics on Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Primarily based in the Cardiff region, Geoff is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of sports injuries as well as general orthopaedic & musculoskeletal problems for patients throughout South Wales.

He currently provides Sports Medicine services to the MOD at Bulford Regional Rehabilitation Unit as well as within the NHS at the Musculoskeletal Treatment Team, based in Barry Hospital in the Vale of Glamorgan. He also provides regular private consultations at BUPA Wellness Sports Injury Clinic at the Barbican in London.

He has a Masters degree in Sports Medicine from Bath University and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine at Royal Colleges both in the UK & Ireland. He is regularly involved in teaching in Sports Medicine to medical students, GP’s & physiotherapists. He is a clinical tutor on the Bath Sports Medicine MSc course and also provides teaching input on the Cardiff Sports Medicine MSc at UWIC.

Geoff has an extensive previous broad experience in General Practice which helps him to provide a holistic management package for his patients. Although he may regularly provide private consultant treatment for elite & professional athletes he is equally at home treating “the person next door” and he fully realises that these patients are equally important.

He is currently Sports Physician to Cardiff Blues rugby as well as the Wales U18 rugby squad. In such environments he is very familiar with multidisciplinary team approach and feels such an approach ultimately enables the patient to get best treatment. In his role as a Sports Physician, he enjoys such a team approach with other colleagues, including, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Radiologists, Physiotherapists and Podiatrists. He is looking forward to providing such a multidisciplinary approach at the Bay Clinic.

Whilst Geoff can provide private medical care for a wide variety of Sports Injuries and Orthopaedic medical problems, his special interests include, groin pain, overuse tendinopathies, cardiac screening as well as all aspects of knee & shoulder injury.

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Mr Tim Owen

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon - Hip and Knee Replacement Specialist
MB.BCh. FRCS. FRCS(Tr and Orth)

Tim Owen is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in hip surgery and knee surgery, at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital for Cwm Taf Trust, in south Wales and as a private hip and knee consultant at Vale Healthcare, near Cardiff, South Wales.

Tim has been a consultant for 14 years and has extensive experience in all aspects of lower limb surgery (including hip and knee surgery). He is therefore well qualified to offer advice in all aspects of lower limb orthopaedic surgery. His specialist field is hip and knee replacement surgery, particularly hip replacement and revision hip replacement surgery. He has an interest in joint replacement in the young adult and has performed resurfacing hip replacement for a number of years. In his South Wales NHS practice he performs a high volume of joint replacements annually. He believes it is essential for the modern day joint replacement surgeon to maintain their level of expertise by performing high volume surgery. All patients are reviewed for life.

At undergraduate level Tim trained in Cardiff qualifying in 1986. He performed the early part of his surgical training in South Wales before performing his specialist training in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne between 1991 and 1996. He then completed a specialist hip replacement fellowship in Chicago, USA. Tim has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals in this field, and has presented at a number of international meetings. He travels regularly to various international centres to maintain his knowledge and expertise.

Mr Owen performs all types of hip replacement according to the patients needs including resurfacing replacements, uncemented, cemented and hybrid hip replacements. He is a trained specialist Revision Hip and Knee Replacement Surgeon, and is referred complex primary joint replacements and revision hip and knee replacements by numerous colleagues in South Wales. Tim has also trained Registrars in Joint Replacement on the All Wales Orthopaedic Training Programme for a number of years.

He has a number of active research projects and is currently reviewing all of his work, now with meaningful follow up for publication.

As well as joint replacement, Tim still maintains a General Orthopaedic Practice including Trauma Surgery, participating in regular on calls at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. He feels it is important to maintain a trauma practice for the modern day orthopaedic surgeon, and specialises in trauma surgery to and around the hip, in all age groups.

A keen sportsman from his university days, Tim still regularly runs, skis, rides horses and has recently cycled from Lands End To John O’Groats in 9 days for charity.

Mr David J Pemberton

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
MB.BCh. F.R.C.S. F.R.C.S. (Orth)
 

David Pemberton is a private Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Vale Healthcare - South Wales' premier private clinics and private hospital for orthopaedic surgery, near Cardiff. Mr Pemberton practices from both the Vale Hospital and Cardiff Bay Clinic, and has a special interest in lower limb surgery particularly knee surgery. Since being appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, South Wales, in 1995 he has increasingly sub-specialised in knee surgery and in particular soft tissue injuries to the knee. He therefore has extensive experience in reconstruction of injured knees, especially in sports people of all levels.

With over fifteen years of experience at Consultant level and with the benefit of a year’s specialist Fellowship training in Adelaide, South Australia, David has maintained his interest in sport through his management of sports injuries, with a particular passion for rugby in Wales. He is Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Welsh Rugby Union, and the Ospreys regional side. He also maintains strong professional and social links with Pontypridd Rugby Club and has close associations with several other premiership and first division sides.

Indeed until last year David was still playing rugby at veteran level until yet another injury caused at least a temporary postponement with plans to continue playing until he is 50. Nonetheless he can personally recommend the reconstructive skills of his Orthopaedic colleagues at Vale Healthcare!

Sports injuries however are only a small part of his clinical practice, with the majority of patients requiring intervention for degenerative conditions, in particular knee cartilage tears and arthritis. Despite specialising in knee surgery, David still performs a lot of hip replacement surgery and indeed is one of the pioneers of ceramic bearing hip implants in Wales. He is now pioneering the utilisation of inter-positional implants for early knee arthritis in young, active patients and dual compartment replacements for knee arthritis preserving the patient’s own cruciate ligaments.

David is a firm believer in patient choice, which is why he was a founder member and Director of the Vale Clinic. He is proud to have taken this experience to Vale Healthcare, which is an unique model of a Consultant based and Consultant led clinical service. He maintains an interest in education through regular General Practitioner meetings as well as teaching at Undergraduate and Post-Graduate level and has travelled to international meetings to demonstrate cruciate ligament reconstruction techniques.

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Mr Ajay Sharma

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Ajay Sharma is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in shoulder and knee surgery. He brings broad experience and expertise in orthopaedic surgery to his private orthopaedics practice at Vale Healthcare - South Wales' leading private clinics and private hospital - having provided specialist orthopaedic treatment to South Wales patients for over 14 years, and his specialist interests include keyhole shoulder surgery for rotator cuff injuries, instability of the shoulder, impingement and frozen shoulder, keyhole surgery for various knee injuries and arthritis, unicompartmental knee replacement, total knee replacement, kneecap replacement, total revision knee surgery .

Mr Sharma is a member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society and was awarded the prestigious Senior International Travelling Fellowship for 2010. This fellowship has given him the chance to visit the best shoulder surgeons in the world to learn and share the latest techniques in shoulder surgery and evaluation of complex shoulder problems. He has also received training from various British shoulder surgeons during his clinical visits to the Centres of Excellence in Britain.

Ajay has extensive experience in all aspects of knee replacement and keyhole surgery. He was a high volume knee replacement surgeon while working at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, South Wales, and has continued with his special interest in knee surgery, as a Consultant with the Cwm Taf Trust also in South Wales.

In addition to training in the UK he has also received training in the United States of America and Europe, and was one of the first surgeons to train in computer assisted knee surgery in South Wales. Ajay is actively engaged in teaching medical students and junior surgeons, nationally and internationally. He is a faculty member for AO International Trauma courses and a Royal College of Surgeons trainer for Acute Trauma and Life Support. He is an honorary clinical tutor at Cardiff University. He has published several papers in international journals and keeps his knowledge up to date by attending courses and conferences throughout the world.
 

Mr Rhys Williams

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
MB BS (Lond). FRCS Ed(Orth)

Rhys Williams is a Consultant Orthopaedic Shoulder & Knee Surgeon at Vale Healthcare - south Wales's leading private healthcare facility in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Mr Williams runs private knee clinics and private shoulder clinics from both the Vale Hosptial and Cardiff Bay Clinic, and specialises in arthroscopic (keyhole) and minimally invasive surgery of the shoulder and knee, as well as general shoulder and knee surgery and trauma.

Rhys's shoulder surgery and knee surgery use advanced arthroscopic methods he developed during clinical visits to leading centres in the UK and Europe, and on his fellowship in Adelaide, Australia. His special interests include shoulder dislocations, frozen shoulder, arthritis, rotator cuff tears and sports injuries of the shoulder. Rhys has an extensive knee surgery practice treating sports injuries of the knee, and arthritis. His specialist knee practice includes cartilage transplant surgery, ligament reconstruction, realignment and replacement of the knee.

Rhys routinely treats elite and professional athletes, with a particular interest in shoulder and knee injuries in Rugby and contact sports, with a large experience in treating professional sports people. He is an Honorary Surgeon to the Welsh Rugby Union, Cardiff Blues and Cardiff City Football Club.

He is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Tutor at Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust in South Wales and Welsh National School of Medicine. He is also a knee and shoulder Surgeon at Vale Healthcare. In addition to his surgical qualifications, Rhys is a member of an international teaching faculty for knee surgery. He regularly performs live surgery broadcasts to worldwide destinations and teaches surgeons both in the UK and abroad. Rhys lectures nationally and internationally on Knee and Shoulder Surgery, Sports Injuries and Computer Assisted knee surgery. He is published widely in medical journals.

Rhys runs a private orthopaedic surgery practice in the state of the art facilities at Vale Healthcare's private clinics and private hospital in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Here, together with his orthopaedic colleagues, physiotherapists and Radiologists, they offer a one-stop diagnostic service for shoulder and knee injuries and diseases. He strongly believes in a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and treating patients with knee and shoulder problems.

He is involved in teaching on Postgraduate degrees for surgeons, therapists and sports clinicians in Orthopaedics, and is a faculty member for the Sports and Exercise degree courses at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff - UWIC - and the MSc course in Bioengineering at Cardiff University. Rhys continues to be closely involved in clinical research at The University Hospital of Wales and Cardiff University, and strongly believes in continuing professional development.
 

Mr Chris Wilson

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
MB BS, BSc, FRCS, FRCS (Orth)

Chris Wilson is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, and runs private clinics at Vale Healthcare's Vale Hospital (in the Vale of Glamorgan) and in the Cardiff Bay Clinic (south Wales).

Chris is an experienced knee and trauma surgeon in the University Hospital Cardiff and in Vale Healthcare, south Wales' leading private clinics and private hospital. As a private consultant at Vale Healthcare, Chris specialises in all forms of knee and sports surgery. His satisfied patients range from Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes, international rugby players, professional footballers, golfers and ice hockey players through to less active people with more chronic disabilities who have seen the liberating benefits of joint replacement surgery.
 
He greatly enjoys his role as a private surgeon alongside his NHS practice in South Wales, and the variety and challenges they offer. No two patients are alike and Chris is a strong believer in the value of careful listening and assessment, and thorough investigation prior to any treatment decisions.
 
Chris is innovative and is experienced in the newer techniques of stem cell grafting for articular cartilage defects, meniscal repair and transplantation, athroscopic ligament reconstruction, computer-guided knee replacement, partial knee replacement and re-alignment osteotomy.
 
He has developed several novel techniques and has published these in specialist medical journals, along with other related research. He is active in teaching , training and assessing junior doctors and trainee surgeons and teaches on courses locally, and at the Royal College of Surgeons. He has lectured at national and international meetings. He teaches and examines on the MSc in Sports Medicine at UWIC.
 
Chris established a service working closely with physiotherapists for acute knee injuries in his NHS practice and this has proved very popular and successful. He will be starting the same sort of facility, along with his colleagues, at the Vale Healthcare. He is a member of various specialist societies here, and in the USA and Europe, and he is on the specialist register of the GMC.

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