Professor David Cranston
Professor David Cranston is an Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College and Emeritus Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford. He earned his medical degree from Bristol University in 1975 and completed his DPhil in renal transplantation at Oxford in 1986 under the mentorship of Professor Sir Peter Morris.
Specialising in complex renal cancer surgery and in the urological complications of transplantation, Professor Cranston has also been instrumental in advancing High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) as a non-invasive treatment for solid tumours. From 2001 he served as the clinical director of the HIFU unit in Oxford collaborating with colleagues in the UK and the National Ultrasound Engineering Research Centre in Chongqing China to explore innovative cancer therapies.
In 2000 he was the first recipient of the βGolden Cystoscopeβ award given by the British Association or Urological Surgeons for his major contribution to Urology in the UK.
Throughout his career Professor Cranston has co-supervised 18 research fellows and authored over 100 peer reviewed publications David is author of popular medical history books including John Radcliffe and his Legacy to Oxford; Penicillin and the Legacy of Norman Heatley; William Osler and his Legacy to Medicine; Lord Nuffield and his Double Legacy and Peter Morris and his Legacy to Transplantation.
Outside of medicine, he is a licensed minister in the Church of England and is co-chaplain at the Oxford Centre for Mission studies. His personal interest includes skiing running hill walking and fly fishing.
