Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Full time Orthopaedic Surgeon with an interest in knee reconstruction and lower limb trauma

Co-Founder and Director of the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre / Translational Unit based at Freeman Hospital

Qualifications

MD (Aberd) MSc BioEng(Strath) FRCS(Tr & Orth)

Research Interests

Biomechanics of the knee

Basic science of and outcomes following revision/salvage knee arthroplasty

Polyethylene behaviour in knee replacement

Modulation of the host response to graft integration in ligament reconstruction

Musculoskeletal injury in the immature athletic skeleton and risk of arthrosis

• Deehan DJ, Dowen DJ, Sprowson AP, Ferguson LC, Prathalingam NS, Isaacs JD, Birch MA, Oldershaw RA. Differential Release of Heterogeneous Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Populations from Haemarthrotic Traumatic Knee Injury. American Journal of Stem Cell Research 2012. In Press.
• Cloke D, Moore O, Shab T, Rushton S, Shirley MDF, Deehan DJ. Thigh Muscle Injuries in Youth Soccer Predictors of Recovery. American Journal of Sports Medicine 2012, 40(2), 433-439.
• Holland JP, Waugh L, Horgan A, Paleri V, Deehan DJ. Cadaveric Hands-on Training for Surgical Specialties: Is This Back to the Future for Surgical Skills Development?. Journal of Surgical Education 2011, 68(2), 110-116.
• Moore O, Cloke DJ, Avery PJ, Beasley I, Deehan DJ. English Premiership Academy knee injuries: Lessons from a 5 year study. Journal of Sports Sciences 2011, 29(14), 1535-1544.
• Jameson SS, Reed MR, Dowen D, Deehan DJ, James P, Serrano-Pedraza I. The burden of arthroscopy of the knee: A contemporary analysis of data from the English NHS. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume 2011, 93(10), 1327-1333.
• Merican AM, Ghosh KM, Iranpour F, Deehan DJ, Amis AA. The effect of femoral component rotation on the kinematics of the tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joints after total knee arthroplasty. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2011, 19(9), 1479-1487.
• Jameson SS, Baker PN, Gregg PJ, Reed MR, Deehan DJ. The use of national databases for the analyses of knee arthroplasty. The Knee 2011, 18(6), 359-360.
• Cloke DJ, Ansell PS, Avery PJ, Deehan D. Ankle injuries in football academies: a three centre prospective study. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2010, (epub ahead of print).
• Deehan DJ, Salmon LJ, Russell VJ, Pinczewski LA. Endoscopic single-bundle posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Results at minimum 2-year follow-up. Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery 2003, 19(9), 955-962.
• Siddique MS, Rao MC, Deehan DJ, Pinder IM. Role of abrasion of the femoral component in revision knee arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume 2003, 85B(3), 393-398.
• Candal-Couto JJ, Deehan DJ. The accessory bands of Gracilis and Semitendinosus: an anatomical study. The Knee 2003, 10(4), 325-328.
• Bansal P, Deehan DJ, Gregory RJH. Diagnosing the acutely locked knee. Injury 2002, 33(6), 495-498.
• Deehan DJ, Pinczewski LA. Endoscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a four strand hamstring tendon construct. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2002, 47(1), 428-436.
• Deehan DJ, Siddique M, Weir DJ, Pinder IM, Lingard EM. Postphlebitic syndrome after total knee arthroplasty - 405 patients examined 2-10 years after surgery. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica 2001, 72(1), 42-45.
• Sutherland AG, Deehan DJ. Urinary soluble IL-6 receptor levels after cardiopulmonary bypass. Cytokine 2000, 12(9), 1441-1443.