Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand

Website Editors

Marcus Drake

Marcus Drake is a consultant surgeon at the Bristol Urological Institute, Bristol, UK. His areas of subspecialty interest are Female and Reconstructive Urology, Male Incontinence, Neurourology and Urodynamics. He is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England. He is Chairman of the Urogenital Specialty Group of the UK’s Comprehensive Clinical Research Network, Co-chairman of the Neural Control Committee of the International Consultation on Incontinence, Editor-in-Chief for Urology in the Map of Medicine and Faculty member of the European School of Urology. He is an Editorial Board member for Neurourology & Urodynamics, UroToday and Autonomic Neuroscience. His basic science interest is in integrative physiology of the lower urinary tract and neural control of the bladder.

Robyn J S Webber MD FRCSEd(Urol)

Robyn Webber graduated from the University of Otago School of Medicine in New Zealand in 1987 and subsequently emigrated to the UK. She trained in urology on the East of Scotland training programme, and is now a consultant urological surgeon at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, where her subspecialty interests are endourology and male infertility.

RA (‘Frank’) Gardiner

RA (‘Frank’) Gardiner is an academic urologist with a personal Chair at The University of Queensland. He has been a Consultant Urologist at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital for over 25 years and has been actively involved in urological research for 30 years with a particular interest in prostate cancer. He is a Section Editor (FingerTip Urology) of BJUI and serves on the editorial boards of 3 other international journals as well as being actively involved in a number of national and international urological organisations.

Raj Persad

Raj Persad is a specialist Consultant Urological Surgeon in Bristol and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Lead Clinician for Urology at the United Bristol Healthcare Trust. Trained in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins (USA), Innsbruck (Austria) and Lund (Sweden). In addition to University and clinical commitments much time is spent visiting units in the developing world teaching and training junior doctors and healthcare professionals in his specialist areas of interest: Andrology and Male sexual health and Urological Oncology.

Richard Pearcy 

Consultant urological surgeon and andrologist. Plymouth Hospitals. Provides, with colleagues in Bristol, the regional specialist andrology service. Previously worked in Bristol. Trained in advanced andrological techniques at the Institute of Urology, London. Registrar SW region. Areas of interest include Peyronies disease, male infertility, erectile dysfunction and penile skin disorders. Academic interests include quality of life issues in urology as well as andrology.

Leyshon Griffiths

Leyshon Griffiths was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and University of Leicester, UK in 2002, where his subspecialist interest is Uro-oncology. For patients with non muscle-invasive bladder cancer, he has a special interest in finding a role for new technologies and optimising intravesical treatments. He has surgical interests in laparoscopic  excisional and ablative therapies forrenal cancer. He was the co-national lead for the ‘Do Once and Share programme for prostate cancer’, which will form the basis for prostate cancer care within the proposed National Electronic Health Record. His basic science interest is in improving our molecular understanding of progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer and to identify a role for novel targeted therapies.

Matthew Hotston

Matthew Hotston is currently a Specialist Registrar in Urology at Gloucester Royal Hospital, training in the South West of England. Following completion of surgical training at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, he undertook research at the University of Bristol in the form of a two year MD thesis, looking into the interactive effects of vascular risk factors and their treatment on the PDE5 enzyme, in the context of erectile dysfunction. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at national and international meetings. He subsequently commenced his Urology Specialist training in North West London, including The Royal Marsden Hospital, before transferring to the South West. His subspecialty interests include andrology, laparoscopy, and endourology. He is currently involved in giving educational talks to local General and Nurse Practitioners in the management of LUTS and ED in the community, as well as developing local ED management guidelines for South Gloucestershire. 

Ahmed Shaban Ahmed Shaban (MRCS)

He is a Urology Senior registrar at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, he has his undergraduate medical education and post graduate basic surgical training in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to coming to the UK working at Bristol Urological Institute and then moving to Sheffield focusing on a subspecialist training in Reconstructive and Female urology.