Robert O. Hickman

Robert Othello Hickman (Monticello, Utah September 27, 1926–May 10, 2019) was a Seattle-area pediatric nephrologist and inventor of the Hickman catheter.

He served in the U.S. Air Force in the mid-1940s and married Lucy Jean Whitesides before going on to receive his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

He was part of a team that put the first patient in the world on kidney dialysis and broke ground developing catheters and shunts.[1] The Hickman catheter is currently used to deliver medication sub-cutaneously, particularly to cancer patients, as well as for the withdrawal of blood for analysis.

In 1991, he took a three-year sabbatical to serve as a church mission president. Seven years later, he took a second sabbatical as the doctor for the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, administering to about 800 students.[2]

Awards and recognition

The University of Washington Medical Center has endowed a chair in his honor.

References
  1. Biography on University of Maryland site
  2. Ibid.


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