Stuart Stanton (surgeon)
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24 October 1938
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| Born | Stuart Lawrence Richard Stanton 24 October 1938 |
| Died | 21 May 2024 (aged 85) |
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Stuart Lawrence Richard Stanton (1938–2024) was a British surgeon who pioneered urogynaecology in the UK. He was the professor of pelvic surgery and urogynaecology at St George's Hospital in London.
He researched and wrote extensively and trained many surgeons in techniques such as Burch colposuspension. As his students established the speciality in other countries, he was influential globally. He was especially supportive of Israel as he was Jewish and he spent most of his later life there. He was a fellow and founder member of the International Continence Society and other medical organisations.[1][2][3]
Stanton was born in Dagenham in Essex to a general practitioner (GP) and his wife, who lived over the surgery. He won a scholarship to the City of London School at age 10. The school had pioneered teaching of the sciences and Stanton excelled in these subjects.[4][5]
He then studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College for five years, starting in 1956. He had started to specialise in obstectrics there. He qualified as a doctor and developed his interest, working in several London hospitals. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1967 and Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1969.[6]
