Dr. Kurt Spindler completed medical school and an orthopaedic residency, including one year of basic research training, at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a one-year orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1991. He is currently Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical School, Director of the Vanderbilt Sports Medicine Center and the Orthopaedic Patient Care Center, and serves as Head Team Physician for Vanderbilt University’s NCAA Division I varsity athletes. His clinical expertise includes the evaluation and treatment of all sports medicine injuries, especially arthroscopic knee and shoulder reconstruction. His active basic science research focuses on the difference between extraarticular (MCL) and intraarticular (ACL) ligament healing and the role of tissue engineering and growth factors to modulate repair. His practice and clinical research includes prospective long-term follow-up of anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions, and he initiated the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) in 2001.

Dr. Spindler is an active member of numerous regional, national and international orthopaedic and sports medicine professional organizations. He is an AOSSM Board Member, Chairman of NFL Charities Grant Review Committee, Program Chair of the 2004 AOA Annual Meeting, Chairman of ISAKOS Communications Committee, and Chairman of AOSSM Subcommittee on Research Awards. He has also served as an ad hoc grant reviewer for NIH multiple times over the last several years. He was honored to be an Exchange Fellow in 1996 for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Traveling Fellowship. In 1999 he was chosen as one of five orthopaedic surgeons from the United States for the six-week American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellowship sponsored by the American Orthopaedic Association throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1998 he was honored to receive the Orthopaedic Chief Residents’ Teaching Award. Dr. Spindler’s educational activities include Co-Chairmanship of the Advanced Team Physician Course of the AOSSM in 2000-2002 as well as the Complex Knee Course of the AAOS in 2002 and 2003, Co-Editor of Sports Medicine Digest, and participation on the editorial board and review of articles for several scientific journals.

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