Gordon Wishart

Gordon Cranston Wishart, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 September 1960, is a British breast and endocrine surgeon and clinical researcher. He studied at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, taking his MB ChB in 1983 and an MD in 1992 with a thesis on multidrug resistance in breast cancer. According to the source article he was Director of the Cambridge Breast Unit from 2005 to 2010 and has been Professor of Cancer Surgery at Anglia Ruskin School of Medicine since 2008. In 2010 he led the team that developed the PREDICT breast cancer treatment and survival model, and he founded the early cancer detection organisation Check4Cancer. Among his reported firsts, he identified in 1990 that P-glycoprotein was present in breast cancer, introduced early patient discharge with wound drains in place after breast cancer surgery in 1998, and pioneered minimally invasive parathyroid surgery as a day case in the United Kingdom.