Mr Dafydd Taff Edwards

Mr Dafydd (Taff) Edwards is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon based at the Royal London Hospital. He is also the currently serves as the Clinical Lead for Hand Surgery at Barts.

He offers specialist hand, wrist, and elbow surgery, as well as medical treatment for severe injuries and an elective hand, wrist, and elbow surgery service.

His clinical interests are in the following areas:

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Ganglion cyst removal
• Sports injuries
• Elbow reconstruction
• Dupuytren's disease
• Nerve and ligament conditions
• Rheumatoid Arthritis of the hand, wrist or elbow

Mr Taff Edwards is an ortho-plastics fellowship trained Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in routine and trauma upper limb surgery. Mr Edwards is currently a Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, a Major Trauma Centre where he offers outstanding care to severely injured patients as well as an elective service in Hand, Wrist and Elbow surgery.

He is currently the Clinical Lead for Hand Surgery at Barts Health NHS Trust. His background extends from experience and training at the DGH and Trauma Centre Level, and has undertaken the yearlong prestigious British Society of Surgery to the Hand (BSSH) Advanced Training Fellowship based at Wrightington hospital where he specialised in wrist/hand surgery, hand/wrist plastic surgery, hand/wrist/elbow sports injuries, complex elbow reconstruction and peripheral nerve injury.

Mr Edwards has an extensive background in numerous local and international hospitals where he practised in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Emergency Medicine, including trauma hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan. He studied for his research Doctorate at Imperial College London from 2014 to 2016 for which he was awarded The Alexander Medal Presented by Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester; The Premier Award of the British Army medical services for professional work of outstanding merit.

He is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London on the Master in Trauma course. His professional knowledge and skills are constantly kept up to date and is reflected in his recent publications and book contribution, notably an author for the latest edition of Grays Anatomy (2019).