Mr Saad Elashry

Mr Saad El Ashry has 21 years of experience and holds a substantive post as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Birmingham. He specialises in upper limb surgery and general trauma. His sub-specialities are shoulder, elbow and hand including shoulder arthroscopic cuff repair, stabilisation for recurrent shoulder dislocations, shoulder replacement and ACJ arthritis
He has also performed many hand surgeries including trapeziectomy for base of thumb arthritis with ligament reconstruction, scaphoid non-union, carpal and cubital tunnel surgeries, trigger finger, ganglions and Dupuytrens contracture.

Training and Appointment

Mr El Ashry graduated from medical school at Alexandria University in Egypt. He had his initial Orthopaedic training at Alexandria University Hospital - Egypt and completed his training in the UK, passing the Royal College of Surgeons FRCS exams in 2014.

He subsequently completed two prestigious fellowships, one for the shoulder/elbow at University Hospital Birmingham where he learnt arthroscopic cuff repairs, shoulder replacements and complex upper limb trauma. 

His Bristol fellowship taught him how to approach and treat a variety of hand and elbow problems including tendon, ligament reconstruction and arthritis. 

Mr El Ashry has also travelled around the UK, Europe, Canada and United States, visiting surgeons and centres of excellence and attending scientific meetings and conferences to keep up to date with the latest surgical techniques.

Publications and Teaching

Mr El Ashry has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and presented in national and international meetings. He is keen on teaching and training and is an accredited trainer by the GMC, frequently teaching medical students from Aston and Birmingham Universities.

Current Practice

Mr El Ashry tailors patient treatments in accordance with their needs to give them the best possible outcomes. He always involves his patients in decision making.

Mr El Ashry is the safety lead and ED communication lead for the orthopaedic department at SWBH.

Patient feedback

"I cannot praise this doctor and the team enough. Great care since the minute I went in for day surgery. Fully explained the procedure, the after care and any - if any side effects that could happen. I was put at ease from the very start until the minute I left."

"Mr El Ashry is an exceptionally caring doctor: from the time he did my shoulder replacement, and the follow up visits to the trauma clinic, I have been put at ease and had everything explained to me. I cannot praise him and his staff enough."

Mr Elashry has a special interest in shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist treatments including arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair and arthroscopic shoulder stabilisation techniques including arthroscopic Bankart Repair.

• British Elbow and Shoulder Society
• Royal College of Surgeons