Richard Turner-Warwick


Richard Trevor Turner-Warwick is an internationally recognised British urologist who is most notable for his work in reconstructive urology.

Life

Turner-Warwick's father was a consultant surgeon who specialised in colonic surgery and in varicose veins and from an early age, Turner-Warwick decided that he was going to be a physician. He took his early education at Bedales School before matriculating to read medicine at Oriel College, Oxford in 1942. At Oxford he completed an honours degree in Natural science. In the third year, he was offered an additional year of education by the anatomist surgeon, primatologist and palaeoanthropologist Wilfrid Le Gros Clark who held the Chair of the Anatomy Department, to read for a BSc research degree in Neuroanatomy. His preclinical training was held at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
While at Oxford, Turner-Warwick found time to become a skilled rower. In this third year at Oriel College he became Captain of the Boat Club. In 1946 he was elected President of the Oxford University Boat Club which that year won The Boat Race.
It was at Oxford that Turner-Warwick met his future wife, Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, who was a medical student at Lady Margaret Hall. They were married in 1950 in St Dunstan-in-the-West when they both qualified. Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick would eventually become an internationally recognised thoracic physician. The couple had two daughters, Lynne who also took up a career in medicine and Gillian, who a ceramist.
Margaret Turner-Warwick passed away on 21 August 2017.

Career

Turner-Warwick took his pre-clinical training at Middlesex Hospital.
In 1958 Turner-Warwick won the Leopold Hudson Travelling Fellowship that enabled him to be appointed to a research position at Colombia Presbyterian Delafield Hospital.

Articles

These are Turner-Warwick's most cited articles:
Turner-Warwick received many awards during his career. In 1987 he awarded the Victor Bonney prize from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists that was named in honour of the prominent gynaecological surgeon Victor Bonney. In 1991, Turner-Warwick was awarded the Valentine Gold Medal of the New York Academy of Medicine. The Gordon Watson Medal was awarded the following year, from the Red Cross. In 2002 he received the William Didusch award that is awarded annually to recognise contributions to urological art. Turner-Warwick won the award for:

Societies

In 1953 he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons. In 1977 Turner-Warwick was elected to be the Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons.