Senior Clinical Fellow in Urology - Stone

The department offers comprehensive care for the whole spectrum of Urology services and is split into 5 sub groups:

• Bladder & Renal
• Prostate
• Female Urology & Reconstruction
• Stone
• Andrology & Genito-urethral Reconstruction
Guy's Urology Centre is a large, dynamic and innovative urology department which has, as its primary ethos, improvement in patient care. We have developed specialist services in diagnostics, oncology, stone disease, andrology, and incontinence, and have an excellent track record for training surgeons in sub-specialist urology. For a number of years we have run a successful fellowship programme, preparing surgeons for independent practice in the UK or abroad. Please note that successful completion of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is our accepted minimum language requirement., Guy's has a long history of the surgical management of stone disease. The unit was an early adopter of ESWL and has continued to provide state of the art treatment of stone disease. It is a large unit providing care for the local population as well as specialist referrals. The unit manages over 300 emergency stone admissions/year and performs >1000 operative procedures annually. The specialist services provided include: the surgical management of stones in the respiratory-comprised in conjunction with the Lane Fox unit on the St Thomas' site, paediatric stone surgery at Evelina Children's Hospital, a unique multidisciplinary cystinuria service, endourology management of upper tract transitional cell carcinoma and malignant ureteric obstruction. The unit has always maintained a static lithotripter with access for emergency stone treatment. There are endourology lists 5 days a week in a dedicated fluoroscopy theatre, supported by specially trained theatre and radiography staff. The current team consists of 5 stone surgeons, 1 radiographer, 2 lithotripsy technicians and 1 nurse practitioner, in addition to the theatre and admin staff. The unit has received prizes and awards for research into cystinuria and also translational research alongside the medical physics team for a lithotripsy sensor to guide treatment. We have published numerous papers and presented widely on all aspects of the service.

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