Mr Andy Williams

Andy Williams MB, BS; FRCS (Orth.), FFSEM(UK)                   Knee surgeon at, and founder of Fortius Clinic, London; Reader at Imperial College, London; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford.   Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Peters Myers / McMeniman. Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore ’97-00 then 15 years as consultant at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.    Exclusively ‘sports knee’ surgery. 90% of patients are professional athletes- he is the usual knee surgeon for many teams including the majority of English Premiership football and rugby clubs. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles: some award-winning, as well as many other publications. A study of knee motion employing weight-bearing, ‘dynamic’ MRI was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2005-2006. Current focus is on the MCL after a period of work on the anterolateral soft tissues with relevance to ACL injury, and improving clinical outcomes in elite athletes. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. His h-index is 46.  He is a renowned teacher and lecturer. He sits on the Board of Directors of ISAKOS, and serves on their finance and knee: sports and preservation committees. He is second vice-president of The ACL Study Group and so will be president in 2030. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously the Editorial Board of The Bone and Joint Journal, as well as The ESSKA Sports Committee.  He was previously on the executive of The British Association for Surgery of The Knee. In 2002 he was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship. He was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper in 2011. He is the first UK member of The Herodicus Society, a U.S. sports surgery society.

Sports knee surgery including soft tissue, and osteotomy. Not knee replacements.