My current role
I am the most experienced HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) surgeon in the UK, and have performed more than 4,000 procedures. I developed the TEV Technique and also a technique for sparing ejaculatory function. I am frequently invited to lecture on HoLEP in the UK and abroad and have convened annual HoLEP courses in Cambridge since 2005. Since 2015, I have also worked at the Princess Grace Hospital in London.
I was the founding President of the UK Holmium User Group (HUG). I designed and implemented the national HUG Training Programme for HoLEP, and have mentored many surgeons in HoLEP.
I have been involved in HoLEP research from its earliest days, and have published and presented widely on the subject.
I was also one of the first to perform Aquablation in the UK in 2016 as an investigator for the first WATER Study
Previous history
Before joining CUH in 2003, I worked in New Zealand where I completed most of my urology training
I moved from New Zealand to the UK to do a uro-oncology Fellowship at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2003. During my training in NZ, I spent a year learning HoLEP from the urologists who invented it (Peter Gilling and Mark Fraundorfer).
In 2004, I introduced HoLEP to Cambridge which was one of the first UK centres to offer it.
Membership and accreditations
I am a member/Fellow of the following:
- Royal College of Surgeons of Australia and New Zealand
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- British Association of Urological Surgeons
- European Association of Urology