Mr Simon Ball

About Mr Simon Ball

Mr Ball specialises in sports knee injuries, complex ligament reconstruction, and re-alignment surgery. He has extensive experience managing professional athletes across Premiership Football, Rugby, Cricket, Netball, Hockey, and Olympic sport. He is actively involved in research and innovation, with recent focus on medial collateral ligament studies in ACL injuries, and sits on the BASK Research Committee and the Fortius Research Committee. He is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, and was previously a keen footballer, representing England Independent Schools and captaining the football club at Cambridge University.

Qualifications: MA FRCS (Tr&Orth)

Recent and current appointments

• BASK Research Committee
• Fortius Research Committee
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust
• Service Director, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust
• Clinical Lead, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Multiple Book Chapters
• Regularly presents at national and international meetings
• Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor
• Regular faculty member on Orthopaedic courses

Society memberships

• British Orthopaedic Association
• Royal College of Surgeons
• British Patellofemoral Society (founding member)
• British Medical Association