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 prestigious Nightingale Centre University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.
Currently Mr Elsaify runs a wide-ranging general surgery practice based at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, where he has been employed as a fully accredited consultant Oncoplastic 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, Thyroid and Parathyroids disorders, Breast lumps, Breast pain and Managament of Breast cancer.
Mr Elsaify works closely with an experienced team of endocrinologists to offer a multidisciplinary approach to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal dysfunction.
Mr Elsaify routinely performs gallbladder removal surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy, jet hole surgery) for gallbladder disease, gall stones. He also carries out open and keyhole hernia repair surgery and excision of skin lesions, lumps and bumps.
Specialities
Breast surgery:
- Breast pain
- Breast lump
- Fibroadenoma
- Nipple inversion
- Nipple discharge
- Breast cancer
- BRCA mutations
Risk reducing mastectomy, breast conserving surgery, skin sparing mastectomy, sentinel lymph node biopsy, axillary node clearance, therapeutic mammoplasty, breast reconstruction, Braxon mesh and Savi scout localisation technique.
Thyroid surgery:
- Thyroid nodule, goitre, Graves’ disease
- Thyroid cancer (papillary, follicular and medullary cancer)
- Retrosternal goitre
Parathyroid surgery:
- Minimal invasive parathyroid surgery
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Familial hyperparathyroidism
- Redo parathyroid surgery
- Secondary hyperparathyroidism
Adrenal surgery:
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy
- Surgical management of phaeochromocytoma, Conn’s syndrome, cushing
- Adrenal cancer
General surgery:
- Key hole surgery
- Gall stone disease, biliary colic
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Hernia surgery: inguinal (groin) hernia, femoral, ventral and para-umbilical hernia
- Laparoscopic hernia repair
Training
MBBCh (Hons) 1994
Master degree in surgery MSc 1999
Fellowship of the royal college of surgeons Glasgow. FRCS (Glasg) 2000
Fellowship of the royal college of surgeons Ireland. FRCSI 2001
Fellowship of the royal college of surgeons FRCS (Gen Surgery) 2009