Simon Thompson is an award-winning consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in knee and sports injury procedures. He has years of experience and is widely published in medical journals, winning awards for his research. Alongside his private practice and NHS positions, he has medically represented professional rugby and premiership level football teams and is also a reviewer of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Mr Thompson’s passion for sport can be seen in his work both in practice and in research, and he is a member of multiple international sports trauma associations. His expertise is world-renowned and he is sort after for high profile athletes including sports injuries in gold medal Olympians. Patients describe him as professional, driven and approachable.

• Consultant Knee Surgeon & Senior Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

• MD (Res) Imperial College London, 2014
• FRCS(Tr&Orth) Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2012
• MRCS(Eng) Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2005
• MSc in Surgical Technology and Orthopaedics, Imperial College London, 2005
• MBBS Imperial College London, 2002
• BSc(Hons) Imperial College London, 2000

• FRCS, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Association of Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• Medical Defence Union (MDU)
• The Australian Knee Society (AKS)
• European Society of Sports, Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA)
• The International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedics Sports Medicine (ISAKOS)

• Fast Bowler’s knee – anteromedial articular impingement THOMPSON SM (In press) JEO 2020
• The influence of full thickness supraspinatus tears on abduction moments: the importance of the central tendon Thompson SM, et al. Shoulder and Elbow Surgery 2017
• Twenty-Year Comparison Outcome Data of a Longitudinal Prospective Evaluation of Isolated Endoscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Either Patellar Tendon Or Hamstring Autograft Roe J, Thompson SM, et al. Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine Oct 2016
• Twenty-Year Outcome of a Longitudinal Prospective Evaluation of Isolated Endoscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Patellar Tendon Or Hamstring Autograft Thompson SM, et al. Am J Sports Med. 2016
• The prevalence of proximal hamstring pathology on MRI in the asymptomatic population Thompson SM, et al. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, 2016 DOI 10.1007/s00167-016-4253-4
• Radiographic Osteoarthritis, Clinical Outcomes and Re-Injury 20 Years after ACL Reconstruction: A Prospective Study Of Hamstring and Patellar Tendon Grafts L Pinczewski, L Salmon, S Thompson, A Waller, J Linklater, J Roe. The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 03/2016; 4(1 Suppl)
• Arthroscopic assisted reduction and fixation of a posterior cruciate ligament avulsion using Endobutton Thompson SM et al. Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma Vol 6 (2016), Article ID 235954 3 Pages doi:10.403/jot/235954
• Catastrophic failure of the femoral condylar prosthesis in total knee arthroplasty Thompson SM, Railton G. Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma Vol. 6 (2016), Article ID 235951, 4 pages doi:10.4303/jot/235951
• Finite element analysis: a comparison of an all-polyethene tibial implant and its metal-backed equivalent. Thompson SM, et al. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, 2016 24(8),2560-2566
• The Natural History of Biointerference Screw Cyst and New Bone Formation in Anterior Cruciate LigamentReconstruction: 16-Year Follow-up. Thompson SM, Fung S, Wood D. Am J Sports Med. 2016 Jan;44(1):113-7. doi: 10.1177/0363546515608479.
• A novel reduction method for all inside posterior horn meniscal repair Thompson SM, Pinczewski LA. Arthrosc Tech 2015. Oct;4(5):e423-e424
• Avascular necrosis complicating chondral resurfacing techniques: A Case Series Thompson SM, et al. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2015 Jul 23. [Epub ahead of print]