Clinical interests
Prostate disease – benign and malignant, Kidney surgery – laparoscopic and open, laparoscopic pyeloplasty, Kidney cancer, Regular trainer on laparoscopic urology skills courses.
Consultant Urologist for The Urolift® System, a new, minimally invasive treatment that alleviates Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) symptoms.
Personal profile
Steve trained originally in London (St Bartholomew’s Hospital) and went on to specialist training in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford. He was appointed Consultant Urologist in Eastbourne and Hastings in 2008. He has a long track record of innovation and leading improvements for urology patients. He became the cancer lead for East Sussex Urology in 2009 and has been the clinical lead for urology in East Sussex since 2012. In 2015, he performed the first Da Vinci Robotic prostatectomy in Sussex. He also introduced Green Light Laser Surgery into East Sussex and the UroLift Procedure and MRI fusion biopsies.
He has written both the East Sussex prostate cancer patient pathway and also the East Sussex lower urinary tract symptom pathway. He undertook research into bladder dysfunction and offer consultations to general urology patients and uro-oncology patients.