Prof. Williams specialises in all knee conditions except joint replacement.
He works with many sports professionals including most English Premier League football, and Gallagher Prem rugby clubs teams. He has particular expertise in knee ligament problems and sports-related knee injury. He is a renowned lecturer and prize-winning researcher of knee-related issues. He was named in 'The Times' Britain's 100 Top Doctors, in December 2011.
Recent and current appointments
- Fortius Clinic
- Honorary Reader, Imperial College, London
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Services, University of Oxford
- Visiting Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds
Publications, lectures and teaching
- Lead editor of the 39th edition of Gray’s Anatomy
- Published over 200 scientific articles
- Published numerous award-winning studies on knee motion and ligament / meniscal anatomy and surgery
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- Lectures nationally and internationally on knee surgery
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Positions of Responsibility
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine Editorial Board Member since August 2020
- ISAKOS: board of directors’ member since 2023
- ISAKOS: finance committee since 2023
- ISAKOS: member of ‘Knee: Sports and Preservation’ Committee since 2019
- ACL Study Group 1st Vice President 2024 (President 2030)
- ACL Study Group Committee: Board Member since 2020- European Member at Large
- ESSKA Sports Committee currently since 2014
- ESSKA Meniscus Consensus Project Steering Group member 2015-16
- ESSKA Allograft Consensus Project Steering Group member since 2019
- ESSKA Accredited Teacher since 2019
- Founder and board member Fortius Clinic, London 2009 - 2021
- Member of Editorial Board JBJS (British): 2007–10 and BJJ: 2014-18
- The British Association of Surgery of The Knee Executive Committee Member 2004 –07
- Member Clinicians’ Arts Advisory Board, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 2013- 2015
- Trustee Fortius Research and Education Foundation since 2017
- International Teacher for fellows of the Chilean Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma (SCHOT) since 2017
- Board member Innovate Orthopaedics – a UK-based orthopaedic device company
- Founder: Annual Fortius /Dutch Arthroscopy Association Exchange Fellowship since ’08
Society memberships
- ACL Study Group 1st Vice-President
- (President 2030)
- Australian Knee Society
- British Orthopaedic Association
- British Association for Surgery of the Knee (Executive Committee Member 2004-07)
- British Patellofemoral Society (Founding Member)
- British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association (Founding Member)
- European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) (Member of Sports Committee)
- Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (Founding Fellow)
- Herodicus Society (First British Member)
- International Society Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, And Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) (Member of Knee Sports and Preservation Committee)
- Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England