Chris Dawson - Consultant Urologist MS FRCS LLDip

Consultant Urological Surgeon to Peterborough and Stamford NHS Foundation Trust and the Fitzwilliam Hospital

GMC Registration 3124838 || GMC Website

Service Offered

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  Private Referrals

  All consultations take place at the Fitzwilliam Hospital in Peterborough. For more information about the range of services offered and for directions to the Hospital as well as contact details please go to the Private Referrals page.

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  Medicolegal Work

  I have been engaged in medicolegal work since 2004 and have built up a large network of referring solicitors and agencies. I am happy to provide reports in clinical negligence and personal injury cases and also undertake work on behalf of defendants. For further details click here.

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  About Me

• Mr C Dawson, Consultant Urological Surgeon/Urologist, is employed by Stamford and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, and also sees Private Patients at the Fitzwilliam Hospital, Peterborough.

• He trained at University College, London and qualified in 1986 having taken an intercalated BSc in Immunology. Following his FRCS examination in 1990 he undertook a surgical registrar rotation in Portsmouth before starting his MS thesis at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London working for Mr HN Whitfield.

• On completion of his MS thesis he began his higher training in Urology at the Battle Hospital, Reading, moving on to the Institute of Urology in London, and then to Peterborough. During his time as a Senior Registrar in Peterborough he co-authored the ABC of Urology with Hugh Whitfield.

• Chris was appointed Consultant Urologist at the Edith Cavell Hospital Peterborough in December 1996. He has been Lead Clinician for the Department since 2003.

• Publications - Chris has continued to publish since his Consultant Post, most notably the award winning The Evidence for Urology which won first prize in the Urology section of the BMA Medical Book competition 2005, and the 2nd edition of the ABC of Urology. The 3rd Edition of the ABC of Urology was published in early Jan 2012 and was edited with close friend and colleague Janine Nethercliffe..

Other Interests

• Publications - Chris has continued to publish since his Consultant Post, most notably the award winning The Evidence for Urology which won first prize in the Urology section of the BMA Medical Book competition 2005, and the 2nd edition of the ABC of Urology. The 3rd Edition of the ABC of Urology was published in early Jan 2012 and was edited with close friend and colleague Janine Nethercliffe. A full CV and list of publications is available on request.

• The internet and related technology has always held a fascination for Chris and over the last few years since appointment as Consultant Urologist he has developed a number of websites including Medical Calculators (a resource containing free scripts for medical calculations) and Urology Information - the latter is a developing educational resource for primarily for patient use, but also for Medical Students, Urology Trainees, and Urology Nurses. Chris has also produced websites for other commercial clients, and remains interested in the internet as a training resource for Urology patients. Chris was a member of the website development team for the British Association of Urological Surgeons whose website went live in June 2010

• Chris has a wide range of sporting and leisure interests; He has run both the Madrid and Paris Marathons and competed in 3 Olympic-distance Triathlons. He holds a first dan black belt in Aikido and a brown belt (1st Kyu) in Shotokan Karate. Chris successfully completed his Private Pilot's licence with NSF Sibson near Peterborough in July 2008, and passed the IMC instrument rating in November 2011. On 11th May 2013 Chris completed the Mallorca 70.3 Half Ironman Triathlon in a time of 7hrs 23mins and 32 seconds. Chris is now in training for the Vitruvian Half Ironman Triathlon in August 2013..