Matthew Sala Email & Phone Number

Mr Sala has been a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon since his appointment at North West London Hospitals Trust in 1999. He is the Clinical Lead in Shoulder Surgery for the North West London Hospitals Group, offering advice and support to other orthopaedic surgeons about the management of complex upper limb conditions and injuries.Selected to provide specialist upper limb injury advice for the London 2012 Olympic Athletes.Appointed Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School at Medicine in 2001. His work has helped pioneer minimally invasive, arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery in the upper limb and he performs more than 90% of all soft tissue repairs in this way. He is part of the Steering Group for the development of Equinoxe (Exactech) Total Shoulder Replacement Arthroplasty and Trauma range of implants and provides an international training facility for surgeons globally to attend for teaching. He is one of the few surgeons in this country with experience using collagen patch augmentation grafts in rotator cuff repair surgery; and also has extensive experience using synthetic ligament reconstruction in the treatment of acromioclavicular joint injuries.Mr Sala studied medicine at the University of Liverpool Medical School. Appointed as Orthopaedic Registrar on the North Thames rotation including University College Hospital, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals. Awarded the qualification of FRCS, and then FRCS(Orth) in 1997; and the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in 1999.Clinical fellowship based at the University of Toronto and St Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Canada, in complex shoulder surgery and upper limb trauma. As part of this fellowship he travelled to the Upper Limb and Hand Unit, London, Ontario, the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City.

Listed skills include Surgery, Sports Injuries, Orthopedic, Clinical Research, and 23 others.