Professor Ofer Levy, MD MCh (Orth) FRCS

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon

Ofer Levy studied medicine at the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, from 1976 - 1982. After completion of his military service he continued his general surgical training at Kaplan Medical Centre in Rehovot, Israel. He then moved to Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomerfor his higher surgical orthopaedic training programme.

In 1992 he was appointed instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, where his work included significant research into both clinical and basic sciences.

In 1995 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief of The Shoulder Surgery Service at Soroka Medical Centre in Beer Sheva, Israel, whilst at the same time being appointed lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Faculty of Health Science at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.

In 1997, on sabbatical leave from Ben-Gurion University, he worked with Stephen Copeland at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and in 1998 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Together with Stephen Copeland they established the Reading Shoulder Unit.

He is now a Director of the Reading Shoulder Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital & Berkshire Independent Hospital and has been awarded the National Bronze Clinical Excellence Award since 2006.

He was Professor of Associate, Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research at Brunel University, London 2008-2016 and since 2020, he has held the position of Professor of Orthopaedics, The Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 
Israel.

He is the assistant editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and associate editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty.

He is a founding member and the first secretary 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. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (ad eundem), Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and Israeli Orthopaedic Association. He is an honorary corresponding member of many shoulder and elbow societies including the Brazilian, Argentinian, Chilean, German, Polish, and South African (the Giraffe club).

He has published extensively scientific papers, presentations and written chapters for books on shoulder surgery. He has developed and introduced numerous arthroscopic and open novel surgical techniques, including resurfacing shoulder replacement. He developed and designed the Verso, stemless reverse total shoulder replacement and was instrumental in the development of numerous new surgical instruments and devices.

He currently lectures worldwide.

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