Career
Chaloner qualified in Medicine from Oxford University in 1989. During his surgical training, he served in the British Army with 144 Parachute Squadron Royal Army Medical Corps and 23 Parachute Field Ambulance. He was deployed on active service to Rwanda (1994), Bosnia (1997) and Kosovo (1999) with the Airborne Brigade and retired in 2001 with the rank of Major.
He also frequently worked overseas for Medecins Sans Frontieres and the HALO Trust in Afghanistan, Mozambique, Angola, Sri Lanka and Iraq.
He published widely on the clinical and social effects of anti-personnel landmines and conducted basic research into the physiology of blast protection, much of which was published in the open literature. Chaloner was appointed consultant vascular surgeon at University College Hospitals London in 2002.
He currently holds an National Health Service post as a consultant vascular surgeon at Lewisham and Greenwich National Health Service Trust and runs a private practice Radiance Health, which operates from several hospitals run by BMI Healthcare. Chaloner pioneered endovenous laser surgery treatment for varicose veins in the United Kingdom, which has revolutionised the treatment of this common condition worldwide.
In 2003 he was the first surgeon in London and the South of England to use laser surgery to treat veins, four years after endovenous surgery had been introduced into the United Kingdom by Mark Whiteley.
He frequently lectures and teaches on the subject of minimally invasive vein surgery and is a faculty member on a variety of training programmes including for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Charing Cross International Vascular Symposium and the Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine. He continues to research in this field Chaloner took part in the British television programme The Choir: Sing While You Work on British Broadcasting Corporation Two in 2012.
