Nicholas Wilkes, MD, FRCA
Dr Nicholas Wilkes is a consultant anaesthetist at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals in the United Kingdom. His special interests cover the perioperative management of major surgical procedures such as transplant surgery and gynaecological oncology. He was trained as a doctor in Germany obtaining his MD from Hamburg University. For his anaesthetic training he joined the Royal Free Hospital and University College London in the UK. Dr Nicholas Wilkes became a specialist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) in 1997. After completion of his postgraduate training he spent some time in a dedicated research post. Dr Nicholas Wilkes presented the findings of my group at conferences in Cambridge, Amsterdam, Bergen, Barcelona, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Oxford, and London. He is an occasional reviewer for Clinical Science. He was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist at Oxford in 2002. He is a secretary to the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics Consultant Committee. After his appointment he founded the Oxford Transplant Group which he is still in charge of. This group provides anaesthetic services for kidney transplants, kidney-pancreas transplants, intestinal transplants, and multivisceral transplants.
