Robert Whitaker (surgeon)

Robert H. Whitaker, FRCS, is a retired surgeon who works as a lecturer and dissection demonstrator at the University of Cambridge and as an examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons. After a degree in medical science at Cambridge he trained at University College Hospital, London, spent a year in the Urological Research Laboratories at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and continued his training in the St Peter's Hospital group in London. He was a Senior Lecturer in Urology at the London Hospital Medical School before becoming a Consultant Paediatric Urology surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1973. He is co-author of Instant Anatomy, a student reference book of schematic diagrams, many drawn by Whitaker himself, that simplifies regions of human anatomy into quick summaries, and it has an accompanying website with images, podcasts and video teaching.