Nicoll Lecture

HENDERSON_NICOLL

JAMES HENDERSON NICOLL (1863–1921)

James Nicoll was a pioneering paediatric Surgeon in Glasgow and is regarded as the ‘Father of Day Surgery’. He published a series of almost 9000 paediatric day cases in the British Medical Journal in 1909. The surgery of infancy. Br Med J. 1909; 2: 753-756.
James Nicoll, great technical surgeon, radical thinker, popular teacher and charming gentleman was truly the founder of modern day surgery.
The concepts he espoused were radical in their day yet accord well with the principles of day surgery 100 years later.
The invitation to give the Nicoll lecture at the biennial IAAS International Congress is one of the highest honours we can bestow on a colleague.

Our Nicoll Lecturers


2026 Dubrovnik Gamal Eldin Mohamed Educational activities of the IAAS to develop Day Surgery in CEE countries
2024 Oslo Johan Raeder Lessons (some) from the past – relevant to the future?
2022 Bruges Jan Eshuis Ambulatory Anaesthesia and Surgery before (and after) Nicoll: by fits and starts
2019 Porto Paulo Lemos “Is Ambulatory Surgery well known?
– from politicians to the common citizen …”
2017 Beijing Luc Van Outryve The CONCEPT of AMBULATORY SURGERY :Is it a renewing evolution ?
2015 Barcelona Fernando Docobo