Norman William Struthers was chair of the urology department at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He was born in Kilbarchan, Scotland on 31 December 1927. His father, Ian Loudon Struthers, was a soft drink manufacturer; his mother was Mary Elizabeth Struthers. He attended Spiers’ School in Beith and then University of Glasgow Medical School, where he graduated in 1950 with a distinction in surgery. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a medical specialist and spent two years in Canada, gaining his licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada. He returned to Scotland, where he continued his studies in urology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Hammersmith Hospital in London. In 1963, he became a senior lecturer in surgery at the London Hospital Medical College. From 1964, he was a consultant urologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and a clinical fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 1968, he was awarded a urological prize by the British Association of Urological Surgeons. A year later, he moved to Toronto. Initially he worked with Bill Kerr as a fellow at the Banting Research Foundation. The following year, he joined Tommy Russell and Vince Colapinto at St Michael’s Hospital, and later chaired the urology department. He was also an associate professor at the University of Toronto (from 1986 to 1995). He retired in 1997. He was an early practitioner of kidney transplantation; he was a member of the team that performed the first renal transplant at Hammersmith Hospital and soon afterwards performed the first such transplant in Glasgow. But his true research passion was in urodynamics of both the upper and lower urinary tract. He established a urodynamic laboratory at St Michael’s and also collaborated with the division of neurosurgery and neurology, managing patients with spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis. Outside medicine, he loved to travel and to garden, and was a keen sportsman, from fly fishing to car racing, tennis, skiing and sailing. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. In March 1958, he married Barbara Mary Bruce. They had two sons – Alexander (Sandy) Norman and Ian Bruce – and four grandchildren, Jack, Peter, Emma and Norman. Predeceased by his wife in 2012, Norman Struthers died on 21 March 2015 at the age of 87.