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Biography
Will Eardley is an academic orthopaedic surgeon. He has a specialist interest in orthopaedic trauma surgery and the management of post-traumatic complications including fracture fixation failure, nonunion, deformity and osteomyelitis.
Mr Eardley holds several senior positions of responsibility within United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma :
- Examiner, JCIE for the FRCS(Tr&Orth)
- Vice-Chair Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Speciality Board
- Orthopaedic Clinical Lead, National Hip Fracture Database of England, and Wales
- National Major Trauma Registry (NMTR) Orthopaedic Lead
Mr Eardley has an acknowledged reputation in orthopaedic trauma research, publishing numerous papers, letters, and book chapters. He has personally published over eighty peer-reviewed PubMed cited papers and is separately listed as collaborator on over twenty more.
Special interests
- Academic orthopaedic surgeon
- Trauma surgery
- Management of post-traumatic complications including fracture fixation failure, nonunion and osteomyelitis
Training
- MBChB MSc PgCertMedEd DipSEM(UK&I) MD MFST(RCSEd) FRCSEd(Tr&Orth)
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Mr Eardley trained in surgery throughout Northern England and completed his education with a year of fellowship experience before being appointed as Consultant Surgeon to the South Tees Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust in 2014.
Having left the British Army in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after nineteen years of service, Will has worked in an operational capacity in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sierra Leone.
He completed a master’s degree (MSc) investigating fracture distribution in Road Traffic Accidents. He has also completed a formal period of study at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, successfully defending his thesis to be awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD). He is research active and is co-applicant on several NIHR funded research trials. Sporting injury and rehabilitation have always been a side-line to his work and he had achieved both the PGCert from Cardiff School of Sport and the DipSEM(UK&I) of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Education and Training are another dimension of his non-clinical work. He has been awarded the PgCert in Medical Education and the MFST of the RCSEd. He runs the placements for the Northern Deanery Orthopaedic Rotation.
In his NHS practice, Will consults on acute and chronic trauma management, with a range of patients under his care for significant limb injuries. Post traumatic deformity, fixation failure, nonunion and infection account for the bulk of his clinical work.
Mr Eardley operates at both The James Cook University Hospital major trauma centre, Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.
Publications
Surgical Interventions for treating intracapsular hip fractures in older adults: a network meta-analysis
Lewis, Macey, Stokes, Cook, Eardley and Griffin (2022)
Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews
Surgical Interventions for treating extracapsular hip fractures in older adults: a network meta-analysis
Lewis, Macey, Stokes, Gill, Cook, Eardley, Parker & Griffin (2022)
Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews
Research priorities for the management of complex fractures: a UK priority setting partnership with the James Lind Alliance.
Bretherton, Claireaux, Gower, Martin, Thornhill, Johnson, Silvester, Kearney, Baxter, Dixon, Giblin, Griffin & Eardley (2021)
BMJ Open
Evidence-based orthopaedic trauma care in the United Kingdom: Guidelines, registries, carrots and sticks.
Griffiths, Dixon, Egglestone, Edwards, Handley, Trompeter  and Eardley (2021)
European Journal Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
Smoking and the patient with a complex lower limb injury
Morris, Marlborough, Montgomery, Allison and Eardley (2021)
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