Department of Urology

Gillian Basnett

Gilly has been involved in all the cases of robotic prostatectomy. She is a trained surgical care practitioner and has taken an interest in men having this operation.

She is involved in a careful study we are doing looking at the outcomes of the operation, helping men to understand their input into the operation and what they need to do to ensure optimum results afterwards.

Andrew Doble  MS FRCS(Urol)

Andrew has a long-standing, specialist interest in prostate diseases, both benign and malignant. He is an expert in the management of prostate cancer, including diagnosis, transrectal ultrasound scanning and surgical treatment.

Andrew is the lead local investigator on ProtecT, a large randomised trial of treatment in prostate cancer. Andrew is leading the department’s involvement in brachytherapy, another minimally-invasive form of treatment.

Vincent Gnanapragasam

Further details awaited

Claire Johnston

Claire is our newest recruit to the post of Prostate Nurse Practitioner; she is primarily invoved in the assessment and follow-up of patients with prostate cancer.

David Neal  FMedSci MS FRCS

David has a life-long interest in the management of urological cancers, particularly prostate and bladder. He has generated over £35 million for urological research and was previously Director of Research in the Medical School at the University of Newcastle.

He came to Cambridge in 2002 with the aim of establishing a major national clinical and translational group studying urological cancers. Over the past twelve months he has been concentrating on implementation of robotic prostatectomy, having received funding from a number of national and local sources to buy a DaVinci Robot. He is now an expert in robotic prostatectomy having been trained in a number of European and American centres.

John McLoughlin

John joined Addenbrooke’s a couple of years ago, and is a Consultant Urologist at the West Suffolk Hospital. He has a long-standing research and clinical interest in the management of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. John is a member of the West Anglia Cancer Network and is particularly experienced in service improvement and design of services. He is also a member of the NICE Guideline Group for the management of prostate cancer and has published a large number of papers on prostate diseases and prostate cancer.

Nimish Shah  MS FRCS(Urol)

Nimish is an expert minimally-invasive surgeon and endoscopic urologist who has been involved in all cases of da Vinci prostatectomy carried out in Cambridge. He is trained in laparoscopic surgery and the management of stone disease. He trained in a number of centres in the UK and abroad in laparoscopic and robotic surgery.