Dr Michael Bone BSc(Hons) MB DCH FRCP
Consultant Physician
Dr Michael Bone has been a Consultant Physician (General Internal, Respiratory and Clinical Allergy) for over 30 years and still provides supervision of acute unselected medical intake at one of England’s consistently top performing NHS Trust Hospitals.
Over the years he has acted as clinical lead in asthma and COPD, lung cancer, tuberculosis and interstitial lung diseases and critical care medicine. He ran a pleural diseases service, initiating medical thoracoscopy in 1985 and inaugurated a joint rheumatological lung clinic in the early 1990s. With early training in paediatrics and immunology, he ran a joint allergy and asthma service for 16 years and remains an active member of the northern paediatric allergy group.
Dr Bone has been engaged in medico-legal assessments and reporting since 1982.
He has had extensive experience with occupational asthma and hypersensitivity reactions, such as farmers lung and industrial dust diseases, from his time at the MRC pneumoconiosis unit in South Wales and later in the Midlands. Over the last 18 years in the North East he has acquired extensive experience with asbestos related lung diseases.