Personal Profile
Mr Wael Elsaify trained in Endocrine and Breast Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Consultant General, Breast and Endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal) Surgeon at James Cook University Hospital /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 multidisciplinary approach to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal dysfunction. Mr Elsaify 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.
Mr Elsaify trained in all aspects of Endocrine (thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal) and Breast Surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He then spent a year as a fellow in Endocrine and Breast Surgery at the Nightingale Centre University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Fellowship South Manchester University Hospital 2009).
Currently Mr Elsaify runs a wide-ranging General Surgery practice in the NHS, based at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, where 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 a thousand thyroid and parathyroid procedures.
His special interests are in: breast disorders, breast lumps, breast pain and management of breast cancer.
