David Metcalfe

LLB MSc DPhil MRCP MRCS MRCEM

Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine

Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College
Decision Editor, Emergency Medicine Journal
Social Media Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety

David is a Clinical Lecturer and Specialty Registrar in Emergency Medicine within the Thames Valley School of Emergency Medicine. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard's Center for Surgery and Public Health and an Oxford-UCB Prize Fellow at the University of Oxford. His doctoral work was awarded the AOUK&I Trauma Research Prize and the Syme Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was elected Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2020.

His research interests lie in national clinical audit, health policy evaluation, evidence synthesis, and clinical risk prediction.

Recent publications

The management of suspected scaphoid fractures in the UK: a national cross-sectional study.
Journal article

Dean BJF. and *On behalf of the SUSPECT study group None., (2021), Bone jt open, 2, 997 - 1003
Response to comment on ‘Is It safe to manage acute cholecystitis nonoperatively during pregnancy? A nationwide analysis of morbidity according to management strategy’
Journal article

Rios-Diaz AJ. et al, (2021), Annals of surgery
Reassessing the July Effect: 30 years of evidence show no difference in outcomes
Journal article

Zogg C. et al, (2021), Annals of surgery
Learning from England's Best Practice Tariff: Process Measure Pay-for-Performance Can Improve Hip Fracture Outcomes.
Journal article

Zogg CK. et al, (2021), Ann surg
Are We out of the Woods after Discharge? Nationwide Clostridium Difficile Infection Burden after Major Operation
Conference paper

Rios-Diaz AJ. et al, (2020), Journal of the american college of surgeons, 231, S87 - S88

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