A "godfather" of robotic surgery
John Wickham worked at Bart’s and at The Institute of Urology, London. He was a pioneer of PCNL and laparoscopic urology.
He is generally regarded as the "godfather" of robotic urological surgery, having designed the first autonomous TURP robot in the 1980s.
Living Witness Programme
In 2011, he was interviewed by Dominic Hodgson for a series called "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants", published in the British Journal of Medical & Surgical Urology (now, the Journal of Clinical Urology).
Download a full text of the interview
John Wickham talks about early experiments with lasers & ureteroscopes
John Wickham died from heart disease on 26 October 2017, after a long illness.
Read his "In Memoriam" tribute on the EAU website
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