Tim Bishop qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School in 1994. Having completed his basic surgical training he went on to specialist training in orthopaedics in the South West Thames region. In addition he undertook two specialist fellowships, the first in New Zealand working at the Waikato District Hospital specialising in orthopaedic and spinal trauma. The second at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore where he worked with some of the leading complex spinal surgeons in the UK specialising in adult and paediatric deformity. He was appointed as a spinal and orthopaedic trauma surgeon at St George's Hospital, Tooting in 2009 and also works at The Elective Orthopaedic Centre, Epsom. Since his appointment to St George's he has helped to expand and develop the spinal service there. In particular in the fields of spinal trauma, metastatic spinal disease and complex spinal deformity. Over this time St George's has become one of London's four major trauma centres and has increasingly close ties with the Royal Marsden Hospital, and is now estabished as a centre for scoliosis treatment. His practice includes all aspects of spinal surgery, including surgery for cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral pathology. He has special interests in adult and paediatric spinal deformity, metastatic spinal disease and spinal trauma. As a Spinal Surgeon he performs the following procedures regularly: microdiscectomy for disc prolapse, spinal decompression for stenosis, spinal fusion (cervical and lumbar) for neurogenic pain, complex spinal trauma and tumour stabilisation, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty for spinal tumour/osteoporotic fracture and fusion for scoliosis/kyphosis.