Kevin R. Stone

American physician, orthopedic surgeon, clinician, businessman, and researcher

Kevin Robert Stone (born June 4, 1955) is an American physician, orthopedic surgeon, clinician, researcher, and company founder of The Stone Clinic and the Stone Research Foundation in San Francisco.²

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Born Jun 4, 1955.¹

About

Stone’s most notable inventions have led to:

the Collagen Meniscus Implant, the first successful and commercialized tissue-engineering template for re-growing the meniscus cartilage in the knee. This invention led to a public company, ReGen Biologics Inc.

the first glucosamine beverage, Joint Juice, which gained wide distribution through the United States selling over 1/3 billion cans and bottles for people with arthritis. This company has been sold to Post Holdings.

the first stem cell articular cartilage repair procedure called Articular Cartilage Paste Grafting which in long-term studies have demonstrated an 80% success rate at improving pain and function for people with arthritis.

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Companies

The Stone ClinicFounder⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedHarvard University³
Date not recordedStanford University School of Medicine³
Date not recordedUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill³
Date not recordedStanford University³
Date not recordedHarvard College³

Stone was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1955. He was educated at the Moses Brown School and Harvard College, class of 1977, where he led the Eliot House Crew to row at The Henley Regatta and played polo. As a cum laude biology graduate, he enrolled in the University of North Carolina School of Medicine graduating in 1981. He was trained at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital in internal medicine from 1981–82, then in general surgery at Stanford University Medical Center from 1982–83, and lastly in orthopaedic surgery at The Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency 1983-1986. He undertook a fellowship in research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York under Steven Arnoczky, D.V.M. and in knee surgery in Lake Tahoe under Richard Steadman, M.D., from 1986 -1987.

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Career

Occupation: surgeon.⁶

Date not recordedWorked at Harvard University⁴
Date not recordedFounded The Stone Clinic⁵

Personal life

BornJun 4, 1955, Providence⁷
CitizenshipUnited States⁸

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