Dr John Castro

Career: house surgn UCH July-Dec 1965 (house physician Jan-June 1965), GP 1966; sr house surgn: Accident Service Luton and Dunstable Hosp Jan-June 1967, Hammersmith Hosp July-Dec 1967; res fell and hon urological registrar RPMS 1968-69, rotating surgical registrar Norfolk and Norwich Hosp 1969-71, scientific worker 1971-73 (Nat Inst for Med Res Mill Hill and Clinical Res Centre Harrow), res grant Cancer Res Campaign 1975, Arris-Gale lectr RCS 1975, hon conslt urologist Hammersmith Hosp 1975-79 (sr surgical registrar urology 1973-75), sr lectr in urology RPMS 1975-79 (tutor in surgery and lectr in immunology 1973-75), conslt urologist and transplant surgn 1979-; Patey Prize Surgical Res Soc 1973 and 1975, Univ Medal Univ of Hiroshima 1975, Ethicon Travel fellowship 1977; memb: Int Transplant Soc, BMA, Br Assoc of Urological Surgeons, European Dialysis and Transplantation Assoc, Euro Assoc of Urology; fndr memb Br Transplantation Soc, FRSM, FRCS (Edinburgh) 1968, FRCS (Eng) 1970

Books and Publications: Treatment of Benign Prostate Hypertrophy and Neoplasia (1974), Immunology for Surgeons (1976), Immunological Aspects of Cancer (1978), Treatment of Renal Failure (1980)