Personal Profile
Mr David Goodier is a London based Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a particular specialist interest in the complications of fractures.
He qualified from The Royal London Hospital in 1985 and also worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital as lead consultant for orthopaedic trauma for 15 years, and as Head of Department for 3 of those years.
The Royal London is the home of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, giving an unparalleled experience of the management of the most severely injured patients. It was this that led Mr Goodier to an interest in the management of 'problem fractures' including non-union, deformity, and post-traumatic shortening.
In December 2011 he left The Royal London to take up the post of Consultant in Limb Reconstruction Surgery at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he still maintains an NHS practice.
Mr Goodier has an extensive Limb Reconstruction practice, using the Ilizarov frame and the Taylor Spatial Frame, and is one of Europe's most experienced users of the Precice Intramedullary Limb Lengthening Reconstruction System. He also lectured throughout the UK and worldwide on these techniques and routinely see 'second opinion' cases of injury in the NHS and privately, as well as provide expert medicolegal opinion for both plaintiffs and defendants.
Mr David Goodier has been a member of council of the British Limb Reconstruction Society for several years, and President of the Society from 2018 to 2020, and spent 10 years as an examiner for the FRCS(Tr&Orth) exam.
