Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy (PDF)

general surgery and obtaining FRCS in Yorkshire he obtained a Diploma in Urology while working at Royal Free Hospital. He secured an Honorary Lecturer position at Guys Hospital to develop robotic techniques in urology. Along with Mr John Wickham and colleagues from The Imperial College he developed The Probot, and carried out the first true robotic surgery in the world.

Shancheng Ren is a professor and urologic surgeon at the Department of Urology, Shanghai Changhai Hospital in Shanghai, China. After finishing his M.D. degree in Nanjing Medical University, he completed his joint Ph.D. degree from Second Military Medical University and University of California, San Francisco. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery for urologic tumors and multimodality treatment for prostate cancer. He has performed over 800 cases of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and has pioneered in single-port RARP and ambulatory prostatectomy in Asia. He is the Deputy Chairman of Urological Association of Asia (UAA) website and a member of the Uro-oncology - Prostate Subcommittee of the SIU Academy. He has been appointed as the Secretary General of the Chinese Urological Association (CUA) Youth Committee, as well as Chairman of the CUA Youth Committee Minimally Invasive Surgery Section and Deputy Secretary General of the Robotic Urology Section of CUA. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Shanghai Urological Association Youth Committee.

Dr. Pavan an Italian Urologist, fellow of the European Board of Urology since June 2017. In 2014, He was awarded the AUA-SIU exchange research fellowship after being selected from a pool of qualified Italian Urology residents. His main interests are minimally invasive surgery and uro-oncology. DI Gu is a consultant urological surgeon and an associated professor in the first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou medical university (GMU). After graduating MBBS from the Southern Medical University, Di completed his Masters in Biomedicine and Molecular Science in Kings' College London. He finished his residency program in Nanfang Hospital and obtained his PhD degree in the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou in 2013. At the same year, he won a Chinese national selection and became the first international trainee selected by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from China. He was then worked in Kings College Hospital London as a senior clinical fellow and a robotic fellow in University College Hospital London. He went back to China in 2019 and built up the urological robotic team in the first affiliated hospital in GMU since then.

Dr. Sridhar's main interests are in minimally invasive surgery, image guided surgery in Urology and digitisation of surgery and surgical education. Currently, he is a consultant urologist within the pelvic cancer team at UCLH focusing on bladder and prostate cancer as well as reconstructive surgery with a special interest in optimizing outcomes post treatment.