Nationality British Specialism Ligament injuries | Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Education King's College Hospital | |
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Full Name Andrew Michael Williams Born March 14, 1964 ( 1964-03-14 ) England, United Kingdom Institutions Imperial College London; Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Notable prizes The Times’ Britain’s Top Surgeons 2011; Honorary Reader, Imperial College London 2010; Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2005-2006 | ||
Andrew "Andy" Michael Williams (born 14 March 1964) is a British knee and sports surgeon who specialises in ligament injuries. He is known for treating professional athletes, including Premier League footballers. and English Premiership rugby union players. Williams is a Reader at Imperial College London and co-founder of London musculoskeletal health centre Fortius Clinic. He was named in The Times’ 2011 list of Britain’s top surgeons.
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Biography
Williams qualified as a surgeon at King's College Hospital, London in 1987. He completed his orthopaedic training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore in 1996, before undertaking a year-long fellowship in Brisbane, Australia in 1996-97.
On returning to the UK in 1997, Williams was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. From 2000 to 2014, he was a consultant Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. In 2011 Williams co-founded Fortius Clinic, a London musculoskeletal care centre, with a group of other leading orthopaedic surgeons and radiologists including Jonathan Webb and James D. F. Calder.
Williams is also a researcher and lecturer on knee-related issues. He is a Reader at Imperial College, London and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, University of Oxford.
In 2014 Williams became a member of the ESSKA (European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) Sports Committee. He is also a board member at The Bone & Joint Journal and a reviewer for The American Journal of Sports Medicine. He was a lead editor on the 39th edition of Gray’s Anatomy.
Notable patients
Williams has treated a number of Premier League footballers and many at other levels, including Danny Welbeck, Andy Carroll, Theo Walcott, John Terry, and Didier Drogba. He treated international cricket players Andrew Flintoff and Shoaib Akhtar in 2009, former England rugby union captain Lawrence Dallaglio in 2011, and British Olympic snowboarder Billy Morgan in 2014.