Roger Vickers

Sir Roger Henry Vickers KCVO (born 1945) is a British orthopaedic surgeon.

He is the son of Dr Henry Renwick Vickers[1] (1911–1993), a noted dermatologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1950 and served as President of the British Association of Dermatology in 1966.[2] He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then trained at St Thomas's Hospital, earning his medical degree in 1970.[1]

Vickers became an orthopaedic senior registrar in 1977 and three years later joined St George's Hospital as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. In 1992, he joined the Medical Household in 1992 as Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and in 2006 he was appointed Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.[1] He led Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's surgical team in 1998, when she underwent hip replacement surgery.[3] In 2003, he also performed an operation on Elizabeth II to remove cartilage from her knee and benign skin lesions.[4]

He retired from the Royal Household in 2010[1] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in that year's Birthday Honours.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1975.[1]