Robert Whitaker (surgeon)

Robert H. Whitaker, FRCS, is a retired surgeon, who now works as a lecturer and dissection demonstrator at the University of Cambridge, and examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons.[1] He is the co-author of the book Instant Anatomy.[2]

Whitaker graduated with a BA degree in medical science from the University of Cambridge and continued his medical training at University College Hospital, London. He spent a year at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in the Urological Research Laboratories before returning to continue his training at the St Peters Hospital group in London. He was a Senior Lecturer in Urology at the London Hospital Medical School before starting work as a Consultant Paediatric Urology surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge in 1973. Since his retirement from the NHS he has worked with trainee surgeons and medical students at the University of Cambridge Department of Anatomy and is a senior examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons, the governing body of surgeons in England.

  1. ^ "Dr Robert Whitaker". Newnham College. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  2. ^ Whitaker, Robert H; Borley, Neil R (2016). Instant anatomy (5th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1119159384.