Rohan Nauth-Misir was a consultant urological surgeon at University College London’s Institute of Urology, Middlesex Hospital. He was born on 10 January 1959, the first son of Roy Nevendra Nauth-Misir, a doctor, and Patricia Nauth-Misir née Green, a midwife. Both of his parents worked at Oldchurch Hospital in Romford. He had two younger brothers – Navin and Chandra. His spent his formative years in Romford but moved to Hornchurch soon after his father’s early death in 1971. Rohan did well at school. On passing his 11+, he was offered a place at the Coopers’ Company School in Bow, East London. At Coopers’ he did particularly well in the sciences and his natural ability in this area of study, combined with his family background, would prove to be the basis of his choosing medicine as a career. At secondary school he played the clarinet to a good level, took part in theatre productions and began his lifelong interest in photography. He never really did take to rugby, which was the school’s preferred sport. It was whilst he was at school – as a result of a merger between Coopers’ Company School and a local girls’ school – that he met his future wife, Anne. Good A level grades, coupled with academic prizes, secured him a place at the same medical school as his father, the London Hospital Medical College. His innate curiosity would get the better of him, almost from the start. He spent his first grant on a hard-to-get kit to build a Tangerine Microtan 65 computer, well before most of us had even heard the word ‘computer’. He qualified MB BS in 1983 (with an intercalated degree in pharmacology) and was placed on the Medical Register the following year. Rohan had a career in surgery in mind from the start. As was common in those days, he curated his own training with a series of short-term posts, both in the UK and in Bermuda. This gave him a very broad and in-depth surgical training, which formed the basis of his future pre-eminence as a urological surgeon. Once he had completed his time in the general specialties, he started to choose urology posts and, by doing so, set himself up as a very well trained and accomplished urological surgeon. We do not know what drove his interest in urology. What is certain is that urology, as a discipline, was a very prominent surgical specialty (through the leadership of John Blandy) at the London Hospital Medical College. In 1996 Rohan was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at the University College London Institute of Urology, which by that time had relocated from Covent Garden to the Middlesex Hospital. At the Institute of Urology, it did not take Rohan very long to develop a reputation as the go-to surgeon for difficult or complex cases. He developed what was, arguably, the country’s finest vascular access service, which meant that the rapidly growing renal medicine unit could offer dialysis to more and more patients, such was Rohan’s skill in securing reliable vascular access in the most challenging of cases. His generosity in helping colleagues with difficult cases did not go unnoticed. Having Rohan at your side during your first cystectomy or during a difficult nephrectomy always made the operation far less stressful, much easier and almost certainly improved the outcomes for patients. He never rushed an operation. His methodical, calm, parsimonious and anatomically precise approach made the difficult look easy, the challenging very simple. All of us became better surgeons with Rohan as our colleague and teacher. Some insight into what made Rohan such a complete surgeon lies in the way he chose to spend his time whilst not at work. He had an incredible ability to concentrate. His lifelong passion for photography illustrates this well. Not only did he take great shots – sometimes waiting all day for the light to become perfect – he would also take charge of the developing process and printing. In doing this he invariably rejected the straightforward and adopted processes that were hugely complex and time consuming, but delivered the precise effect he was after. Nothing else would do. From an early age Rohan was good with his hands and could think and work in three dimensions. He was great modeller, specialising in Second World War tanks and planes. He would place these in complex dioramas that he would design and create from scratch. As he got older, this interest in models morphed onto larger objects. He became an accomplished and, it might be said, rather fanatical, car restorer. Once mastered, and this is a recurrent theme in Rohan’s life, he sought out a new challenge. The next would be a pilot’s licence. He completed his first solo flight in 1990 and, although he never owned his own plane, he took great pleasure in flying friends and family over to France for a good lunch. In time, sailing replaced flying. He became a very accomplished sailor, and it was a sport he could enjoy with his wife, Anne, and more recently with his partner, Helen. In between the sailing and the surgery, Rohan ran the odd marathon, and took part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics. If this were not enough to keep him occupied, he started training in another profession entirely. In 2013, Rohan became a special constable in the Metropolitan Police, a position he took very seriously on the Saturdays and the Sundays that he dedicated to this mission. Family was hugely important to Rohan. Rohan and Anne raised two daughters, Roxanne and Alex (Alexandra). He was immensely proud of both. All of Rohan’s colleagues knew of their achievements both at school and in the martial arts competitions they participated in: they were unbeatable. Roxanne was rated number one whilst part of team GB in karate and Alex became world champion in her weight category in muay thai, a form of kickboxing. Following retirement from the NHS, Rohan finally moved out of London with Helen, to be near his daughter Roxanne and once again ended up next to the water– this time on the Medway. Rohan died on 1 September 2023 at the age of 64. He was survived by his partner Helen and his daughters.