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Biography
Mr Sanjiv Agarwal obtained his MBBS, MS (Gen Surg) qualification from India, and undertook urology training in the UK, gaining his FRCS (Gen Surg) and FRCS (Urol). He has undertaken fellowship training in uro-oncology and female urology at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI USA, and has a paediatric urology fellowship from the Sick Children’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Additional languages spoken: Hindi
Biography
Prof Hashim U. Ahmed qualified from the University of Oxford where he attended St Peter’s College and Linacre College. Whilst he was a student he was awarded the William Osler Prize in Medicine. He then held house office posts in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and University Hospital Manchester before returning to Oxford for an anatomy prosector post.
Prof Ahmed then held senior house jobs in surgery on the Royal Free Hospital London rotation followed by specialist registrar posts at West Middlesex Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Imperial College London, University College Hospital and Watford General Hospital as part of the Imperial College urology rotation.
He was a Pelican Cancer Foundation research fellow, followed by a Medical Research Council (MRC) clinician research training fellowship at University College London at which time a number of imaging and focal therapy trials began. His research interests are in health technology evaluation including multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), histoscanning, tissue type imaging, as well as therapeutic interventions such as high intensity focused ultrasound, irreversible electroporation, photodynamic therapy, cryotherapy and radiofrequency ablation.
He has completed numerous phase I/II clinical trials evaluating the role of focal therapy in prostate cancer and is lead principal investigator and co-principal investigator in a number of multicentre trials including the UK National Institute for Health Research-Health Technology Assessment (NIHR-HTA) funded National Cancer Research Network (NCRN) PROMIS study evaluating the role of multi-parametric MRI in men with a raised PSA using template prostate mapping as the reference standard. Also for NCRN INDEX, a multicentre focal therapy study using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) with three-year follow-up and NCRN FORECAST. He previously held a £1.2 million MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship for five years and currently holds a £2 million Senior Clinical Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.
He has been visiting professor to University of California, Los Angeles as well as Tokyo, Weill-Cornell and Detroit universities and has given over 30 plenary lectures at national and international urology, oncology and imaging meetings. The team he led recently was awarded the BMJ/BMA Innovation Award 2015 and the Health Services Journal Acute Sector Innovation Award 2016.
Biography
Mr Tamer El-Husseiny is a consultant urological surgeon at Charing Cross and St Mary’s hospitals. In addition to general urology he sub-specialises in the diagnosis and management of kidney stones, endourology (minimally invasive surgery) such as ureteroscopy and laser stone fragmentation, PCNL (keyhole surgery for kidney stones), HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate) and endourological management of upper tract urothelial cancer. He treats other upper tract abnormalities, including strictures and extrinsic obstruction. He also has special expertise in the use of different types of urological stents.
Mr El-Husseiny graduated with honours from medical school, he has then completed his basic surgical and urological training and was appointed as an assistant lecturer in urology. He underwent higher specialist urological training on both the London and West Midlands urology training schemes. In addition, he has also completed the prestigious two-year subspecialty endourology fellowship (Awarded by the Endourological Society, USA) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, specialising in the management of complex stone disease.
- MBBCh (Hons), 2002
- MSc (Urology), 2006
- MRCS, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2009
- Endourological Society Fellowship. Awarded by the
- Endourological Society, NY, USA. 2008 – 2010
- MD, 2011
- RCS (Urol), Intercollegiate Specialty Board, 2013
- Fellow European Board of Urology (FEBU). 2015
- Arabic
Biography
Ms Norma Gibbons qualified from University College Dublin in 1994 and undertook specialty urology training at St Vincent’s and Beaumont hospitals in Ireland. She had fellowship training at the University of Florida in Miami to gain additional experience in surgical techniques for bladder cancer. After working as a consultant urologist at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin following completion of specialist urological training in 2005, she subsequently undertook a further period of training in Australia to acquire advanced skills in laparoscopic renal surgery. She has been a consultant urologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2008. In addition she is chairperson of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust specialist bladder cancer multidisciplinary team.
Biography
Mr Milad Hanna went to medical school at Cairo University, Egypt in 1986. He obtained his FRCS qualification in Glasgow, Scotland in 1996 and his FRCS in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1996.
Additional languages spoken: Arabic
Biography
Mr. Hellawell is a consultant urological surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Northwick Park and St. Mark’s Hospital.
He trained in laparoscopic oncology at Imperial College and at the Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy fellowship in Leipzig, Germany with Professor Stolzenburg at the University of Leipzig.
In addition to general urology he has a sub-specialty interest in urological oncology including prostate, bladder and renal cancer. He has a high volume practice in laparoscopic pelvic oncology (laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and radical cystectomy) and upper tract laparoscopy (laparoscopic nephrectomy).
He provides a complete general urology service including surgery for benign prostate disease and renal stone disease. He maintains an academic interest in clinical research and has published book chapters and papers on prostate cancer and laparoscopic surgery.
Medical training
University of Oxford 1988 – 1994
Biography
Suks Minhas qualified from the University of Sheffield. He did his post fellowship training in Andrology at University College London. He obtained a research degree from the University of Leeds which was awarded with commendation.
Professor Suks Minhas is a Consultant Urologist and lead Andrologist at Imperial College London. He is an expert in male fertility and men’s health including disorders of the male genital system and testis cancer. A recipient of the prestigious Karl Storz Telescope, an award given to specialists who have made a significant and lasting contribution to British Urology, he is recognised as a key international opinion leader in his field. Professor Minhas specialises in treating problems affecting the male genitals and is one of the UK’s only dedicated andrological surgeons. In addition, he has published extensively on the subject, with over 170 peer reviewed papers, including a recent textbook on male sexual dysfunction. He has chaired over 80 scientific sessions at meetings both nationally and internationally and has given almost 300 invited lectures internationally. Suks is also referee to a number of scientific journals and a member of international guideline committees including the EAU guidelines on Male Sexual and Reproductive Health (2020). He is actively involved in the teaching and training of surgeons in the UK and co-ordinates fellowship training programmes. He is a board member of the European Society of Andrological Urology (ESAU). He is a firm believer of evidenced based practice and is co-chair of the European Association of Urology guidelines on male sexual and reproductive health. He was chairman of the British Association of Urological Surgeons Section of Andrology and is a faculty member of the European School of Urology.
Biography
Mr Roland Morley is a fully registered medical practitioner, holding bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery (MBBS) degrees from London University, St George’s Hospital Medical School (1977). He served a cadetship in the Royal Navy following graduation in 1982, and spent six years in the Royal Navy gaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of London in 1989. He then spent three years training in obstetrics and gynaecology, before undertaking research in uropathological aspects of female stress urinary incontinence, and then commenced urological training on the Wessex urological rotation, and was finally appointed to a consultant post at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust in 1998.
Mr Morley moved to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in October 2015. He is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, the International Continence Society and is president elect of the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is chairman of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Urology in the United Kingdom and oversees all urological training. He has just completed his term as chairman of the British Association of Urological Surgeons’ female urology and reconstruction section. Mr Morley has previously been divisional director of surgery and critical care at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and director of medical education. He is a member of the National Specialist Advisory Committee in Urology.
Mr Morley’s special areas of interest are female urology and benign reconstruction of the genitourinary tract. Approximately 75 per cent of his practice is now devoted to aspects of female urology and reconstruction including gender reassignment. He is presently a committee chair on the NHS England Mesh Review in urinary incontinence and prolapse surgery. He provides about 20 medico-legal reports yearly within this specialist area.