Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Kurt P Spindler, MD

Cleveland Clinic Florida
Hillsboro Beach, FL UNITED STATES

March 7, 2022 Dr Spindler graduated for Rutgers College as Henry Rutgers Scholar in Zoology with Highest Distinction. He completed medical school and an orthopaedic residency, including one year of translational research training, at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a one-year orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He then spent 22.5 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where for over a decade he was Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. He led the development of Vanderbilt Sports Medicine as the Director since 1993 as well as served since 1992 was the Head Team Physician for Vanderbilt University’s SEC Division I athletic program. He was awarded the Schermerhorn Endowed Chair in Orthopaedics and was recognized as the SEC team physician of the year in 2007. In January of 2014 he moved to Cleveland Clinic as Vice-Chair of Research and Director of Orthopaedic Outcomes to further develop a scientifically valid, cost-effective and scalable clinical outcome tracking system, OME, to transform clinical practice. A goal was to build research funding, especially NIH research in musculoskeletal diseases for the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute. He continues to develop Cleveland Clinic as a leader in Musculoskeletal Multicenter Research. In May of 2021, Dr. Spindler has been appointed, after an extensive external search, as Medical Director of Clinical Research and Outcomes for Cleveland Clinic Florida. He moved to Florida to embark on this new journey. He will join the department of Orthopaedic surgery with his clinical practice at Coral Springs and St Lucie West. His regional research and outcomes will be at Krupa beginning May 1, 2021. In his new role, Dr. Spindler will maintain an active NIH funded clinical research program, develop and mentor clinicians and provide leadership to integrate and grow the clinical research program across the CC Florida region. He will also manage the Outcomes Measures and Evaluation system (OME), Cleveland Clinic’s ongoing prospective cohort capture system of the Outcomes Research Center. Enhancing evidence-based research requires large-scale, comprehensive, prospectively-collected cohort data with high rates of follow-up including validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) as well as highly skilled database personnel, which are not broadly available to the disease-specific scientific community today. OME cohort aims to directly impact clinical practice, develop shared decision making models based on outcome calculators, increase the number NIH caliber funded investigations, educational opportunities, and support pilot research projects utilizing PROMs across the CC Florida region. Along with continuing his clinical practice presence in sports medicine and orthopedics. Dr. Spindler has been and is an active member and a leader in numerous regional, national, and international orthopaedic and sports medicine professional organizations He has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications and presented over 600 talks principally on clinical outcomes, evidence-based medicine, and knee ligament healing. He has received the Kappa Delta award in 2012, 2019 and the AOSSM O’ Donahue award in 2001, 2014, 2017. He is a NIH funded researcher since 2006 with five competitively funded grants and has been active reviewer for the NIH and served as a permanent member of two NIH on study sections. His clinical expertise includes the evaluation and treatment of all sports medicine injuries, with specific surgical focus on arthroscopic knee surgery especially ACL reconstruction.

7/9/2024 09:30 - 09:36	High Lonesome Barn	Session IV: Meniscus Lecture Successful Medial Meniscus Repair Reduces KOOS Knee Pain 10 Years after ACLR in the MOON Cohort: Exploring the Consequences of Subsequent Surgery with Casual Medial Analysis Faculty
7/9/2024 10:50 - 11:15	High Lonesome Barn	Session VII: ACL Revision Cases Moderator
7/9/2024 10:50 - 11:15	High Lonesome Barn	Session VII: ACL Revision Cases Panel ACL Revision Cases Presenter