Tim Spalding is a specialist knee surgeon at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK, and Honarary associate Proffesor at the University of Warwick

His sub-specialist interest in knee surgery is in sports injury of the knee, covering arthroscopic surgery and anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction;and reconstructive knee surgery including meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, osteotomy and partial or total knee replacement. He has been involved with meniscal reconstruction since fellowship with John Cameron in Toronto in 1995 and subsequent work with Rene Verdonk, both pioneers of meniscal transplantation. Having performed over 200 meniscal transplant, current research examines the chondroprotective effect of transplantation and optimisation of the surgical technique.