David Warwick trained in anatomy and then orthopaedic surgery in Bristol, with specific hand surgery training in Chepstow with Phil Sykes as an SHO, in Bristol as a Senior Registar with Ian Leslie, and with Fellowships with Peter Burge in Oxford and Michael Tonkin in Sydney. David has been Consultant Hand Surgeon at University Hospital Southampton since 1998 as well as visiting Hand Surgeon to the States of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey and Orthopaedic Surgeon to Southampton Football Club. He is involved daily in the clinical management of complex hand and wrist problems with a particular interest in the DRUJ, Dupuytren’s, joint replacement and orthopaedic hand trauma. His teaching, research, and administrative contributions were rewarded by the University of Southampton with an Honorary Professorship in 2013. His NHS contribution has been rewarded with a Bronze Clinical Excellence award. He holds a Doctorate from the University of Bristol (1995) on thrombosis in orthopaedics. He was awarded the Hunterian Professorship in 1998. He was awarded the Gold Medal in the European Diploma of Hand Surgery in 2004. In 2018 he was awarded Life Membership of the International Dupuytren Society and in 2020 he was awarded a Doctorate for his work in Dupuytren’s disease.