Rate My Professor Richard Smith

Professor J. Richard Smith is Professor of Practice at Imperial College London in the Faculty of Medicine. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1982 and completed further training in Scotland before moving to London in 1988. He held positions at St Mary’s Hospital and became a consultant at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in 1993, later serving as chief of gynaecology there. He moved to Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s Hospitals, where he specialises in gynaecological oncology, including gestational trophoblastic disease, ovarian germ cell tumours, cervical cancer, and vulval disease. He co-invented the radical abdominal trachelectomy procedure for fertility preservation in cervical cancer cases and the modified Strassman procedure for uterine tumours. His research has focused on uterine transplantation since the late 1990s, leading the UK’s first living donor womb transplant in 2023 as part of the Womb Transplant UK programme, which he founded and chairs.