Anthony Roberts OBE Plastic Surgeon

Anthony Roberts OBE. OStJ FRCS FRCSG FRSB FRGS (born 1938) is a British retired plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He was a consultant plastic and hand surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire from 1985 to 2001, and director of the Oxford regional burn unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He then worked for periods for the Ministry of Defence as a plastic surgeon and as a general surgeon during the years 2001 to 2005.

He was a lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Surrey and then returned to Cambridge University, and then to Oxford University to study medicine. After qualification in 1972 he trained in surgery and then plastic surgery, before becoming a consultant in 1985.

He was appointed an honorary professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He has worked or taught in 45 countries, and operated in 25 of them, across five continents.

He was awarded an OBE in 2012 for his work in wars and disasters, for his research and for his work and teaching around the world, as well as for his contributions to ornithology and to the community on the Isle of Wight.