Personal profile
He holds Consultant contracts at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield and Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. He has a comprehensive practice of laparoscopic surgery for the treatments of prostate cancer and kidney disease with extensive experience of nerve sparing radical prostatectomy, partial and radical nephrectomy and pyeloplasty.
He holds a passionate commitment to achieving the highest quality outcomes, and his developments in laparoscopic surgical techniques for these operations have been published and presented internationally. Following his live demonstration of laparoscopic nephrectomy to the British Association of Urological Surgeons Section (BAUS) of Endourology in 2001, he was elected to office on the Executive Committee and subsequently developed the BAUS Laparoscopic training program.
He continues to train colleagues throughout the UK and abroad in this highly specialised field, operating as a mentor to consultant surgeons in over 20 other UK hospitals.