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Kurt P. Spindler, MD

Associate Chief, Clinical Research
Cleveland Clinic
Franklin, OH, United States

Dr. Spindler is the Associate Chief, Clinical Research for the entire Cleveland Clinic organization. In this role, he is dedicated to the development, implementation, oversight, and optimization of clinical research enterprise wide (Ohio, Florida, London, Abi Dhabi). In addition to having maintained a clinical and surgical practice in orthopaedic sports medicine, he has also been a D1 team physician, an educator, professor, and mentor to clinician scientists and clinician scholars across all fields of medicine. He has been an NIH funded researcher since 2006 with multiple competitively funded grants. He is an active reviewer for the NIH and has served as a permanent member of two NIH study sections. Additionally, Dr. Spindler has led the development of a scientifically valid, cost-effective, and scalable clinical outcome tracking system called OME. This prospective patient-reported outcomes capture system helped transform clinical research, as well as clinical practice. Dr. Spindler helped develop Cleveland Clinic as a leader in Clinical Outcomes (OME), Multicenter Studies (MOON and BEAR MOON), and Musculoskeletal Research. Finally, Dr. Spindler has been and continues to be an active member and leader in regional, national, and international orthopaedic and sports medicine professional organizations. In 2022, he was appointed the 50th President of AOSSM. He currently serves as co-chairman of the ORS/OREF/AAOS CSCDP and co-chair of the PROMs Taskforce for AAOS. He has published over 325 peer-reviewed publications and presented over 700 talks principally on clinical outcomes, evidence-based medicine, and knee ligament healing. Dr. Spindler received the Kappa Delta award in 2012, 2019 and the AOSSM O’ Donahue award in 2001, 2014, 2017.

His clinical expertise includes evaluation and treatment of all sports medicine injuries and being a team physician. His surgical focus is on arthroscopic knee surgery, especially ACL reconstruction

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