Professor Christopher Woodhouse

Professor Christopher Woodhouse, MB, FRCS, FEBU.
Emeritus Professor of Adolescent Urology, University College, London
Christopher Woodhouse read medicine at Guy’s (University of London). He did his urology training at The Royal London with Professor John Blandy and at the Institute of Urology (St Peter’s Hospitals). Amongst several great mentors, the most influential was Sir David Innes Williams. In 1981 he became senior lecturer at the Institute and took on the care of Sir David’s patients as they grew into adult life. This practice developed into the first Adolescent Urology clinic in the world.
He was also appointed Consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital where he dealt mainly with pelvic cancers and bladder replacement
The Institute of Urology was subsumed into University College London in 1990 and he became Professor of Adolescent Urology in UCL in 2006.
After his retirement from academia in 2011, he was elected to Emeritus Professorship at UCL. He continued clinical work until 2014. He has had a lifelong clinical and research interest in the long-term outcome of congenital urological anomalies. He has published more than 300 papers, 75 chapters and four books. He has been visiting professor at universities and medical schools in many countries in most continents.