Mr Christopher Stone

Consultant Plastic Surgeon

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    [Brief_CV] => Mr Stone is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon  at The Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. His NHS practice is mainly cancer-based, with sub-specialty interests in the management of malignant melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma. Mr Stone has a busy medico-legal practice in the South West of England, London and South Wales. He is a member of the Academy of Experts and the Expert Witness Institute and he has an LLM in medical law from Cardiff Law School. Mr Stone has regulatory experience having served as a member of the General Medical Council\'s Interim Orders Tribunal. He has published extensively in the plastic surgery literature over the past 15 years, including having written several textbooks. He is a full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).
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    [Brief_CV2] => Mr Stone was educated in West Sussex before attending medical school at Manchester University in 1985. He subsequently worked as an anatomy tutor at the university before embarking upon a general surgical training in teaching hospitals in the North West, gaining his Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England (FRCSEng) and Edinburgh (FRCSEdin) in 1994. He was also awarded a Master of Science degree (MSc), with distinction, by the University of London in recognition of scientific research undertaken at University College London between 1995 and 1996.

His plastic surgical training in Manchester, Oxford, Exeter and Plymouth provided experience in all aspects of reconstructive surgery including microsurgery. In 1999 he passed the Intercollegiate examination in plastic surgery - FRCS(Plast) - and was awarded a Certificate of Completion of Surgical Training in 2001 with accreditation on the General Medical CouncilÚs specialist register for Plastic Surgery.

Mr Stone was appointed as an NHS Consultant at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital in 2001. As an NHS consultant his work focuses mainly upon the management of malignant melanoma, including sentinel lymph node biopsy, and soft tissue sarcoma, serving as chair of the Peninsula Cancer Network Sarcoma Site Specific Group between 2006 and 2009. He was the regional Training Programme Director for Plastic Surgery between 2006 and 2007 and has published extensively in the plastic surgery literature over the past 15 years, including having written several textbooks.

Mr Stone is a full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).

Mr Stone has been engaged in medico-legal practice for ten years and has experience in giving evidence at court, the CoronerÚs court and at the GMC. He receives around 150 new instructions per year from a variety of sources including independent solicitors, secondary care NHS Trusts and the NHS Litigation Authority. He is a member of the Academy of Experts; the Expert Witness Institute; the Medico-Legal Society; and is a committee member of the Exeter & Devon Medico-Legal Association.


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TAE Accreditations

  • Expert Witness
  • Expert Determiner

Specialist Registers

  • Expert Determiner

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBChB (1990)
  • Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh FRCSEd (1994)
  • Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons (England) FRCS (1994)
  • Master of Science MSc (1996)
  • FRCS Plast (1999)
  • LLM (Cardiff) (2012)

Expert Witness Snapshot

Mr Stone is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon  at The Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. His NHS practice is mainly cancer-based, with sub-specialty interests in the management of malignant melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma. Mr Stone has a busy medico-legal practice in the South West of England, London and South Wales. He is a member of the Academy of Experts and the Expert Witness Institute and he has an LLM in medical law from Cardiff Law School. Mr Stone has regulatory experience having served as a member of the General Medical Council\'s Interim Orders Tribunal. He has published extensively in the plastic surgery literature over the past 15 years, including having written several textbooks. He is a full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).