Summary
 

Profile:

Having qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals, Mr Barber spent significant time gaining a wide general surgical skills base, before embarking on 6 years specialist urological training. This included time spent in research and teaching as a clinical lecturer in urology at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’s medical schools, based at King’s College Hospital. It was there that Mr Barber introduced the Greenlight laser to the UK and also began training in laparoscopic and other minimally surgical approaches.

 

His internationally recognised expertise in the Greenlight laser for treatment of the symptomatic prostate has led to his continued involvement in cutting edge developments in this and other technologies.

 

Mr Barber is the lead surgeon in the treatment of kidney cancer in Surrey and performs more than 100 laparoscopic or ‘key hole’ procedures on the kidney each year. He was instrumental in the arrival of the Da Vinci robot to Frimley Park Hospital as well as introducing laparoscopic cryoablation in the treatment of kidney cancers to the region, uniquely employing single port techniques both in this setting and in the management of more common conditions such as the symptomatic varicocele.

 

Memberships:

Chairman of the Urology Section of the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire Cancer Network

BMA

Royal Society of Medicine

The Royal College of Surgeons of England

British Association of Urological Surgeons (and subsections of oncology and endourology)

The Endourological Society

The Medical Protection Society

 

Areas of Expertise:

 

General urology

Lower urinary tract symptoms

Benign and malignant prostate disease

Investigation for prostate cancer

Laparoscopic and robotic surgery