Major milestones in the development of British urology, a historical perspective

Mr Goddard is originally from Yorkshire and qualified from The London Hospital winning the Floyer Prize. Whilst there he also completed a BSc in the History of Medicine at The Wellcome Institute. His thesis on naval surgery in the Napoleonic War won the RSM History of Medicine Section prize in 1991. Basic surgical training in Plymouth was followed by a move to the University of Leicester where he was awarded an MD for a thesis on angiogenesis in bladder cancer and also won the 2001 RSM Geoffrey Chisholm Prize. He remained in the East Midlands for specialist urology training and was appointed as a consultant urologist to Leicester General Hospital in 2008.He designed and curates the online Museum of Urology for BAUS, is a member of the History Office of the EAU and a council member of the RSM Urology Section.

Mr Dinneen qualified from University College Cork (1983) achieving first place in surgery (Pearson Medal and John Kelly Prize in Clinical Surgery). He moved to the UK in 1987 initially working in Colchester General Hospital before moving to the department of urology in Great Ormond Street, where he did clinical research leading to an MD thesis (1995) on 'The Relationship between Renal and Vesical Function in boys with Posterior Urethral Valves'. Thereafter he joined the West London Urology training programme and was appointed to Chelsea and Westminster in 1995. He is a general urologist with a special interest in the surgical management of penile dermatoses, working closely with Professor Christopher Bunker for over 25 years.

He is the Immediate Past President and an active member of the section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine having served on the Council since 2004, he was Honorary Secretary in 2007/2008. He is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He is the honorary urologist to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, where he carries out regular clinics.