Dr. Andreas Gomoll is an orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery and an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Cornell Medical School. He is double board certified in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine. Dr. Gomoll specializes in arthroscopic and open procedures of the knee and shoulder, such as ACL reconstruction, osteotomy, meniscus and cartilage transplantation, rotator cuff and instability repair. Born and raised in Munich, Germany, he received his medical degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, with additional training in orthopedic and trauma surgery in Cape Town/South Africa, and Oxford/UK. Dr. Gomoll completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, before joining the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He subsequently completed a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Rush University. After fellowship he joined the Cartilage Repair Center and Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he rose to Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Orthopedic Program of the BWH Center for Regenerative Medicine. He was recruited to join HSS in 2018. Dr. Gomoll has lectured and published extensively on the topic of biologic joint reconstruction and joint preservation through cartilage and meniscus transplantation. His main clinical and research interest lies in emerging technologies for joint preservation, most recently investigating the use of stem cells both in the lab and through randomized clinical trials.