Ahmed Amir Mohamed Fouad Azmy was a consultant paediatric urological surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. He was born in Kafr el-Sheikh in Egypt on 1 November 1939, the son of Mohamed Fouad, an engineer, and Sania Mahmoud née Hassan, a teacher. He was educated in the port city of Damietta, and went on to study medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo, qualifying in 1964. He first went to the UK in 1970, to train in paediatric surgery, later specialising in paediatric urology. He was a senior house officer and then registrar at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow from 1971 to 1973, then a registrar and subsequently a senior registrar at Westminster Children's Hospital from 1973 to 1978. For the next two years he was a senior registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and was appointed as a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow in 1980. He was also an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He retired in October 2004. He was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists, of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. At an international level, he was a member of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, the International Society of Paediatric Surgical Oncology and the European Society of Paediatric Oncology. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Over the course of his career he published over 120 publications on paediatric urology and oncology topics, and co-edited three text books: *Surgical emergencies in children - a practical guide* (Oxford, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994), *The surgery of childhood tumours* (London, Arnold, 1999) and *Hypospadias surgery: an illustrated guide* (New York, London, Springer, c2004). He travelled extensively to meetings in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. He regularly visited Egypt, operating at hospitals in Cairo and Alexandria. He was a well-known member of the Egyptian community in the UK and, in 2004, was president of the Egyptian Medical Society UK. Outside medicine, he was interested in photography and painting. He died from prostate cancer on 10 March 2011, aged 71, and was survived by his wife, Fatima Mohsen, a retired consultant radiologist, their daughter, Iman, and son, Ayman, and two grandchildren. His daughter is a consultant breast surgeon.