Professor Ofer Levy

Mr Ofer Levy is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in the shoulder and elbow. He is director and co-founder of the Reading Shoulder Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and also sees patients privately, including at the Berkshire Independent Hospital and Spire Dunedin Hospital in Reading.

He graduated from the Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem in 1982, gaining first prize in surgery. After completion of his military service at the rank of Major, he continued his general surgical training at Kaplan Medical Centre in Rehovot, Israel, and later moved to Sheba Medical Centre, Tel Hashomer, for higher surgical orthopaedic.

In 1992, he was appointed instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, where his work included significant research into both clinical and basic sciences. In 1995 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief of the Shoulder Surgery Service at Soroka Medical Centre and lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Faculty of Health Science at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.

In 1997, on sabbatical leave from Ben-Gurion University, he worked with Stephen Copeland at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. In 1998 he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and together with Mr Copeland, they established the Reading Shoulder Unit.

This is a world-leading centre of excellence for state of the art procedures such as shoulder resurfacing and stemless reverse total shoulder replacement. He is also expert in minimally invasive surgery including keyhole arthroscopic techniques. Professor Levy has invented and was involved in development of a number of new surgical instruments and devices.

He is also a founding member (and first secretary) of the Israeli Shoulder and Elbow Society, a member of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and the British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS) and corresponding member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and Israeli Orthopaedic Association. He has been extensively published and lectures worldwide and also trained many surgeons in shoulder surgery.

• Shoulder Surgery
• Total Shoulder Replacement
• Acromioclavicular reconstruction
• Shoulder Resurfacing
• Shoulder Arhroscopic Surgery
• Rotator Cuff Repair
• Elbow Surgery
• PRP Injection

• Shoulder Surgery
• Shoulder Pain
• Shoulder Instability
• Elbow Problems
• Sports Injuries
• Tennis Elbow