Robin C. N. Williamson

Robin Charles Noel Williamson (born 1942) is a surgeon, Professor and Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Hammersmith Hospital in London, and a former Dean and president of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is the son of a Fellow of that society and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomews Hospital. In 1979 he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Bristol, and in 1987 he moved to a position as Professor and Director of Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He has served as senior editor of the British Journal of Surgery, editor of the journal HPB, president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, secretary-general and then president of the International HPB Association, president of the James IV Association of Surgeons, president of the European Society of Surgery and chairman of the London Clinic. He became associate dean of the Royal Society of Medicine in February 2001, dean in October 2002 and its president on 15 July 2008.