Roger Vickers

Sir Roger Henry Vickers KCVO (born 1945) is a British orthopaedic surgeon.

He is the son of Dr Henry Renwick Vickers[1] (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.[2] He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then trained at St Thomas's Hospital, earning his medical degree in 1970.[1]

Vickers became an orthopaedic senior registrar in 1977 and three years later joined St George's Hospital as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. In 1992, he joined the Medical Household in 1992 as Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and in 2006 he was appointed Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.[1] He led Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's surgical team in 1998, when she underwent hip replacement surgery.[3] In 2003, he also performed an operation on Elizabeth II to remove cartilage from her knee and benign skin lesions.[4]

He retired from the Royal Household in 2010[1] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in that year's Birthday Honours.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1975.[1]

References
  1. "Vickers, Sir Roger (Henry)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. S. C. Gold, "Henry Renwick Vickers", Munk's Roll: Lives of the Fellows (Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  3. Jeremy Laurance, "Health: Crucial days in Queen Mother's fight for mobility", The Independent, 27 January 1998. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  4. "Update on the Queen's progress following her knee operation", The Royal Family, 12 December 2003. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 2010 (issue 59446), p. 3
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