Mr David Sainsbury
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
MBBS BMedSci(Hons) MSc FRCS(Plast)
GMC Number: 6027189 - Date of Registration: 07/08/2002
Background
Mr Sainsbury is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon based in the North East. Having initially trained at Newcastle University Medical School he undertook specialist plastic surgery training in the North East. He undertook Fellowships in Paediatric Plastic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada) and Advanced Training in Cleft Surgery in the UK.
Mr Sainsbury has worked as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle since 2016. He is an Honorary Lecturer in the Wound Healing and Tissue Repair Unit (Cardiff University) and is an examiner for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery) examination.
Specialism
Mr Sainsbury has a broad range of plastic surgery expertise from minor procedures to complex reconstructive facial surgery.
In the NHS, his specialist interests include cleft lip and palate in children and adults, skin tumours, ear reconstruction, vascular malformations and emergency burn care.
At Skin Surgery Clinic Newcastle, Mr Sainsbury offers skin cancer screening and surgery, a number of ear and earlobe treatments, upper eyelid lift surgery, scar management and removal of moles and other skin lesions.
