The full CV below is also available as a PDF for filing with the court under PD35, and as an appendix to any report. Terms of engagement and the current fee schedule are on the fees page.
Why I do this
What draws me to this work
What hooked me as a schoolboy is still what drives me. Everything a person needs to breathe passes through the organs I operate on, and a diagnosis in the chest — a lung cancer, a collapsed lung, a broken chest wall — frightens people in a way few others do. Lung cancer still kills more people in the UK than any other cancer, yet caught early it can be cured with an operation. Being able to offer someone that is a privilege I have never got used to. The same is true of problems that are not cancer but quietly ruin lives: rib injuries that stop someone sleeping, a slipping rib dismissed for years as “nothing”, a lung that keeps collapsing.
Born in Italy, I now practise in London as a consultant thoracic surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust) alongside my private practice. I have also sat on the other side of the desk: when my mother had skin cancer, I was the relative caring for her, asking the questions and waiting for the answers, and I know exactly how that feels.
My job is to explain it plainly, give you a clear answer on whether surgery is right for you and, if it is, do it as safely as it can be done — the way Mr Manché taught me.
Marco Scarci, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon · GMC 6159768
Current appointments
Where I practise
MD(Hons) · FRCS(Eng) · FCCP · FACS · FEBTS
Qualifications
Primary and postgraduate qualifications
Accreditation
Expert witness training and accreditation
Training
Bond Solon Medical Report Writing Completed 2012.Membership
Expert Witness Institute Member.Membership
UK Register of Expert Witnesses Registered.Clinical practice
Still operating, every week
Why it matters
My medico-legal opinions are drawn from current practice, not recollection of how a procedure used to be done.
“An expert who still operates is harder to attack on currency.”
Principal clinical interests
Medico-legal practice
A practice built on a deliberate cap
I take 4–5 reports a month — a limit I set myself, so that every instruction gets the time it needs rather than being fitted around whatever else is in the diary. Providing expert evidence since 2011, with over 300 reports produced to date.
Instructed by claimant, defendant and as a single joint expert, from firms across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and from as far as New Zealand. Instructed in criminal proceedings in the Crown Court and in foreign jurisdictions.
Instruction types accepted: clinical negligence (breach of duty and causation), personal injury (condition and prognosis), industrial and occupational disease, criminal proceedings (mechanism and survivability of chest injury), coroner’s inquests, and single joint expert instructions.
Academic and professional standing
Research, teaching and professional roles
Publications
Over 200 peer-reviewed publications, h-index of 38. See the full list on PubMed.
Editorial and textbook work
Five printed books, including a cardiothoracic surgery volume co-edited with Thanos Athanasiou and Dimitrios Magouliotis.
Society membership and office
Former Director of the annual congress, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS). Former member of the Thoracic Committee, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).
Teaching and training
Honorary Senior Lecturer, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
GMC-accredited trainer and assigned educational supervisor.
Press and recognition
As seen in
Awarded for outstanding contribution to clinical excellence, patient care and service development, assessed by an independent committee of senior clinicians.
The Independent
“Lung and chest surgery in London — expert insight from Mr Marco Scarci, one of the UK’s leading thoracic surgeons.”
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Luxury Lifestyle Magazine
“5,000 procedures, 170 publications, one NHS Excellence Award — the case for Mr Marco Scarci being Britain’s best thoracic surgeon.”
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London Insider
“No waiting lists, no rotating staff, no second opinions needed — why Marco Scarci is the UK’s top thoracic surgeon.”
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Daily Mail
“Scandal of patients dying from a cracked rib as the NHS fails to adopt a new surgical technique to prevent pneumonia.”
PressClinical and academic profiles
Professional indemnity
Cover and disclosure, stated plainly
Indemnity cover
I hold dedicated medicolegal indemnity cover through Primus Medical Indemnity, £10,000,000 any one claim and in the annual aggregate, current to 31 August 2027.
Regulatory disclosure
PD35 and the Guidance for the Instruction of Experts require disclosure of matters that might affect an expert’s credibility. I confirm there are no current or past regulatory findings against me.
Languages
English and Italian, neither needing an interpreter
English · Italiano
Examinations and conferences can be conducted in either without an interpreter, which occasionally matters in cases involving Italian-speaking claimants or Italian medical records.
Have this CV on file before you instruct
Download the full CV as a PDF for your records, or speak to me directly about a case.