John Douglas Pickard CBE FRCS FMedSci (born 21 March 1946[1]) is a British professor emeritus of neurosurgery in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of University of Cambridge.
[6] Pickard attended King George V Grammar School, Southport and then studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Physiology and Biophysics in 1967).
[10] His clinical practice included, at various times, subspecialty interests in neurovascular surgery, complex necks, hydrocephalus and tumours of the pituitary gland and IIIrd ventricle.
[17] Pickard was a member of the UK Government's Animal Procedures Committee and chaired a report into the assessment of cumulative severity and lifetime experience in non-human primates used in neuroscience.
[27] Pickard established and chairs the Impaired Consciousness Research Group in Cambridge,[28] which demonstrated that functional neuroimaging could be used to detect awareness in patients who are incapable of generating any recognisable behavioural response and appeared to be in a vegetative state.
[32][33] The formation of the Registry was funded by the UK Department of Health Medical Devices Agency and contains data on over 70,000 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt-related procedures.
[7] In 2010, Pickard was awarded the Guthrie Memorial Medal of the Royal Army Medical Corps[1] and named as one of Britain's top doctors by The Times.
[7] Pickard was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to neurosciences, neurosurgery and research for patients with complex neurological disorders.