Mr Al Getgood

About Mr Al Getgood

Mr Getgood specialises in knee surgery excluding replacement procedures, bringing extensive experience with professional and amateur athletes. He has served as Chief of Surgery at Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in Doha, Qatar, and as Fellowship Director at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine clinic in London, Ontario, Canada. Originally from Northern Ireland, he trained in Edinburgh, Cambridge and Coventry before relocating to Canada in 2012. As an Associate Professor at Western University, he secured over $10 million in research grants and is co-principal investigator of the STABILITY 1 and 2 trials, with multiple research awards including the J Edouard Samson Research Award (2021), the AJSM Hughston Award (2023), and the AOSSM O'Donoghue Sports Injury Award (2019).

Qualifications: MBChB MPhil MD FRCS(Tr&Orth) DipSEM

Recent and current appointments

• Fortius Clinic London
• Research Professor, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
• Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Sports Medicine and Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy journals
• J Edouard Samson Research award from the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation in May 2021, the premier research award for career research in Canadian Orthopaedics
• The American Journal of Sports Medicine Hughston Award in 2023
• The American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM) O’Donoghue Sports Injury Award in 2019
• The International Society of Arthroscopic Knee surgery and Orthopaedic Sports medicine (ISAKOS) Jan Gillquist Award in 2019
• ISAKOS Albert Trillat Young Investigator award in 2017