Sir Roger Vickers | |
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Born | 1945 |
Nationality | British |
Medical career | |
Profession | Surgeon |
Field | Orthopedics |
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Sir Roger Henry Vickers KCVO (born 1945) is a British orthopaedic surgeon, who had been part of the Medical Household as an Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and was later appointed Serjeant Surgeon. [1]
Roger Vickers is the son of Henry Renwick Vickers [2] (1911–1993), a noted dermatologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1950 and served as president of the British Association of Dermatology in 1966. [3] He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then trained at St Thomas's Hospital, earning his medical degree in 1970. [2]
Vickers became an orthopaedic senior registrar in 1977 and three years later joined St George's Hospital as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. [2] In 1992, he joined King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and the Medical Household as the Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and in 2006 he was appointed Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen. [2] He led Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's surgical team in 1998 when she underwent hip replacement surgery. [4] In 2003, he also performed an operation on Elizabeth II to remove cartilage from her knee and benign skin lesions. [5]
He retired from the Royal Household in 2010 [2] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in that year's Birthday Honours. [6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1975. [2]
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