- David Wilkie (surgeon)
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Sir David Wilkie
Sir David WilkieBorn 1882 Died 1938 Nationality United Kingdom Fields medicine Institutions University of Edinburgh Known for surgery Sir David Wilkie (1882-1938) was among the first of the new breed of professors of surgery appointed at a relatively young age to develop surgical research and undergraduate teaching. At the University of Edinburgh, he established a surgical research laboratory from which was to emerge a cohort of young surgical researchers destined to become the largest dynasty of surgical professors yet seen in the British Isles.[citation needed] He is widely regarded as the father of British academic surgery.[citation needed]
References
- Macintyre, Iain (November 2007). "Sir David Wilkie (1882-1938): surgeon, scientist and philanthropist". Journal of Medical Biography (England) 15 (4): 206–12. ISSN 0967-7720. PMID 18172560.
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