| Birth Name: | Andrew Michael Williams |
| Birth Date: | 14 March 1964 |
| Birth Place: | England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | King's College Hospital |
| Occupation: | Orthopaedic surgeon |
| Specialism: | Ligament injuries |
| Work Institutions: | Imperial College London |
| 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.[1] and English Premiership rugby union players.[2] 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.[3]
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 with Dr Peter Myers.[4]
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.[5]
In 2014 Williams became a member of the ESSKA (European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) Sports Committee.[6] He was also a board member at The Bone & Joint Journal[7] for which he remains a reviewer as he is for The American Journal of Sports Medicine.[8] He was a lead editor on the 39th edition of Gray's Anatomy.[9]
Williams has treated a number of Premier League footballers and many at other levels, including Virgil van Dijk, Danny Welbeck,[10] Andy Carroll,[11] Theo Walcott,[12] John Terry,[13] David Turnbull[14] and Saša Kalajdžić. He treated international cricket players Andrew Flintoff[15] and Shoaib Akhtar[16] in 2009, former England rugby union captain Lawrence Dallaglio in 2011, and British Olympic snowboarder Billy Morgan in 2014.[17]