Mr Tim Bishop is a fellowship-trained complex Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon.

His practice includes all aspects of spinal surgery, including surgery for cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral pathology. He has special interests in adult and paediatric spinal deformity, metastatic spinal disease and spinal trauma.

Tim Bishop qualified from St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1994. Having completed his basic surgical training, he went on to carry out specialist training in orthopaedics in the South West Thames region.

As a Spinal Surgeon, Tim Bishop regularly performs microdiscectomy for disc prolapse, spinal decompression for stenosis and spinal fusion (cervical and lumbar) for neurogenic pain. He is also skilled in performing complex spinal trauma, tumour stabilisation, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for spinal tumour, osteoporotic fracture and fusion for scoliosis and kyphosis.

Since his appointment as a Spinal and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at St George’s Hospital in 2009, Tim Bishop has worked to expand and develop the spinal service there. St George’s has now become one of London’s four major trauma centres, is the regional tertiary referral centre for metastatic spinal disease and a regional centre for scoliosis treatment.

Tim Bishop is the Clinical Director for the surgical directorate at St George’s and President of the St George’s Hospital Medical School Rugby Football Club.

Areas of expertise

• Spine deformity adult and paediatric
• Metastatic spinal disease
• Degenerate spinal disease (lumbar thoracic cervical)
• Revision spinal surgery

Current and recent appointments

• Consultant Spinal Surgeon - St Georges Hospital London 

Publications, lectures and teachings

• Multiple peer review publications
• Faculty on international conferences
• Teaching for spinal surgeons, junior doctors and medical students

Society memberships

• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Association of Spine Surgeons (BASS)