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About Mr Wael Elsaify
Personal Profile
Mr Wael Elsaify is a Consultant General, Breast and Endocrine Surgeon at Woodlands Hospital in Darlington. He sees NHS, self-pay and insured patients.
He trained in Endocrine and Breast Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary which is part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As well as practicing at Woodlands Hospital, he is a Consultant General, Breast and Endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal) Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital, part of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust.
He spent a year as a Fellow in Oncoplastic Breast and Endocrine Surgery at the Nightingale Centre University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2011, he has been the lead Endocrine Surgeon at the James Cook University Hospital Foundation Trust, with a large thyroid and parathyroid practice.
Mr Elsaify works closely with a team of endocrinologists to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal dysfunction. He routinely performs gallbladder removal surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy - keyhole surgery) for gallbladder disease. He also carries out open and keyhole hernia repair surgery and excision of skin lesions, lumps and bumps.
He trained in all aspects of endocrine and breast surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He then spent a year as a fellow in Endocrine and Breast Surgery at the Nightingale Centre University Hospital.
Currently, Mr Elsaify runs a wide-ranging general surgery practice in the NHS, based at James Cook University Hospital. He has been employed as a fully-accredited Consultant Breast, Endocrine and General Surgeon since 2011. He is also the Lead Clinician for Endocrine Surgery. He has performed over 1,000 thyroid and parathyroid procedures.
Clinical Interests
- Breast surgery
- Breast pain
- Breast lumps, including fibroadenoma
- Breast conserving surgery
- Breast reconstruction
- Risk reducing and skin sparing mastectomy
- Nipple inversion and discharge
- Thyroid surgery
- Thyroid nodule/goitre, including large retrosternal goitres
- Parathyroid surgery
- Gallstones and gallstone disease
- Adrenal surgery
- Hernia surgery, including inguinal, femoral, abdominal wall, groin, ventral
- Graves disease (hyperthyroidism)
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Axillary node clearance (a procedure to remove lymph nodes from the armpit to check for cancer)
- Neck exploration
