Oday Al-Dadah

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, South Tyneside Hospital & Newcastle University

Oday Al-Dadah is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at South Tyneside Hospital with a special interest in reconstructive knee surgery and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University. He’s from Ayrshire and graduated from Dundee University Medical School. He completed his higher surgical training as a specialist registrar on the Cambridge training programme. He then completed sub-specialist fellowship training at the Professorial Knee Unit in Southampton and also the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol. 

His consultant practice includes all aspects of knee surgery ranging from sports injuries to joint replacement surgery. Arthroscopic cartilage and meniscus surgery ranging from meniscectomy and meniscal repair right through to allograft meniscus transplant and cartilage transplant surgery of the knee. His ligament surgery armamentarium includes anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as medial collateral ligament and postero-lateral corner reconstruction. For young adult patients with arthritis he performs peri-articular knee realignment osteotomies including high tibial osteotomy and distal femoral osteotomy. He performs a high number of partial knee joint replacements using minimally invasive techniques encompassing medial and lateral uni-compartmental knee replacement, patello-femoral joint replacement and segmental bi-compartmental knee replacement. He led and developed the highly successful and innovative day case joint replacement programme at his hospital. He has considerable experience in complex primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He also has an interest in complex knee trauma including peri-articular and peri-prosthetic knee fractures and knee dislocations. He is experienced in paediatric knee surgery too. He also performs surgery for patella instability including medial patello-femoral ligament reconstruction, tibial tuberosity transfer and trochleoplasty. 

Oday Al-Dadah completed his Doctorate Thesis on the topic of cruciate ligament and meniscus surgery during his research fellowship within his time as a specialist registrar. He has presented his research both nationally and internationally and has won numerous prizes and gold medals for best podium presentations. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals. He has successfully supervised many research fellows at Newcastle University most of whom achieve distinctions and merit level awards for their thesis. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Knee journal where he has the privilege of working with an international editorial board of esteemed academic knee surgeons from all over the world. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and privileged to be an executive board member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK).