Having qualified in 1994 from St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals I underwent six years of ‘basic’ surgical training in and around London. I subsequently went into a period of research into prostate cancer at the Institute of Urology, University College London. I was awarded an MD from the University of London for my thesis and published over 40 peer-reviewed papers, presented my work at national and international meeting and wrote and edited a number of books.

I started speciality training in Urology in 2003, based at St George’s hospital, spending five years in centres in the south of England gaining expertise in general urology and also developing a particular interest in prostate cancer, laser prostate surgery and stone disease. My colleagues and I were the first in Europe to describe template prostate biopsies to assist in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.  I am now a Consultant Urologist and perform over 100 template biopsy procedures a year, am involved with the early trials in prostate cancer focal therapy and perform radical robotic prostatectomy.

 

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Member of the British Urological Association

European Urology Association

British Prostate Group

BAUS subsection of Oncology

BAUS subsection of Endourology

Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons