Mr. Duncan Tennent FRCS(Orth) qualified from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1992. After training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, he spent a year on an arthroscopic fellowship in Virginia, USA. He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St. George’s Hospital, London in 2003. He also holds appointments as Shoulder Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police and as a visiting Lecturer to Orthopaedic Research of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA.
His particular interests are arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder and elbow and he also spends much of his time on complex reconstructions of both joints following trauma. He has written a textbook of arthroscopic surgery as well as publishing a number of scientific articles on the subject and holds the patent for a revolutionary arthroscopic technique for reconstruction of the Acromio-clavicular Joint.
He lectures both nationally and internationally on shoulder and arthroscopic surgery and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate surgery at St. George’s Hospital. He chairs the Board of Surgical Education at the Medical School and is an examiner for undergraduate medical finals (MBBS). He also runs the Basic Surgical Skills course for junior surgeons and the Surgical Approaches to the Shoulder and Elbow Course both at St. George’s Hospital.
Mr Tennent reviews for a number of specialist journals including the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and the Journal of Arthroscopy.
