Professor David Cranston

David Cranston MA. MBChB. D.Phil (Oxon) FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Ed) David Cranston is Associate Professor of Surgery in the the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences in the University of Oxford and honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon in Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust. He qualified from Bristol University in 1975 and worked in Exeter and Bath before moving to Oxford . His special interest is in renal surgery and was awarded his D.Phil in 1986 for kidney transplantation based research. He is author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and five books including three on various aspects of the history of medicine. Since 2001, he has been clinical director of the High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Unit in Oxford which, with colleagues in the UK and China, is researching into a novel way of treating cancer without surgery. He has co supervised 20 research fellows for higher degrees. He was elected a governing body Fellow of Green Templeton College Oxford in 2006. He retired from formal NHS work in 2018 but continues in private practice Outside medicine he is chairman of the executive committee of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and a licenced lay minister in the Church of England. He is married with four children and five grandchildren. He enjoys walking running skiing and fishing.