Tim Spalding

Mr Tim Spalding is a specialist knee surgeon focussed on knee injuries, meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, ligament reconstruction, osteotomy, and use of novel Ortho-Biologics. He spent the first part of his career with the Royal Navy, becoming consultant in 1995. Specialist training was in Oxford and his knee surgery fellowship was in Toronto. He subsequently joining University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2000, before leaving in Sept 2021 and taking up a post at Cleveland Clinic London where he is now a Professor of orthopaedic surgery. He has pioneered several new techniques and currently has over 110 publications and 12 book chapters. He leads the UK National Ligament Registry for ACL surgery. Internationally he is Past President of the ACL Study Group, and co-leads the European Allograft Initiative and the ICRS Cartilage Foundation.