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Urology staff

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Consultants

Mr Simon Brewster

• Principal hospital: Churchill
• Specialties: cancer surgery, urology
• Special interests: Consultant Urologist with a special interest in general urology; prostate cancer; prostate disease; prostate biopsy; radical prostatectomy; High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU).
• Research interests: clinical and molecular genetics aspects of prostate cancer.
• Biography: BSC 1st Anat. (Hons) London 1983; MB BS (Hons) London 1986; MD Bristol 1994; FRCS (Urol.) London (Intercollegiate) 1997.

Mr David Cranston

• Principal hospital: Churchill
• Specialties: cancer surgery, urology
• Special interests: High Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU); renal cancer and transplantation.
• Biography: Mr David Cranston D.Phil FRCS is a Consultant Urologist who trained in Bristol. He worked in Exeter and Bath before coming to Oxford in 1983 to do research in renal transplantation under the direction Professor Sir Peter Morris. He was awarded his D.Phil in 1986, and, after a clinical lecturer post in urology and transplantation, was appointed as Consultant Urologist at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford in 1991. He runs general urological clinics in Oxford and Banbury as well as specialist urological clinics for renal transplant patients. He has performed over 400 nephrectomies (operations to remove a kidney), including many from people who have donated a kidney to a relative in need of a transplant. He continues to be involved in the Oxford transplant programme. He set up an active research programme in 1992 with Professor Adrian Harris, Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and currently has a number of research Fellows looking at bladder and kidney cancer. For the last six years he has been involved in setting up a research programme looking at high intensity focussed ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of renal and liver cancers.

Mr Jeremy Crew

• Principal hospital: Churchill
• Specialties: cancer surgery, urology
• Special interests: Consultant Urologist with a special interest in general urology, uro-oncology, bladder cancer and the management of haematuria (blood in the urine).

Mr Jeremy Noble

• Principal hospital: Churchill/Horton
• Specialty: urology
• Special interests: Consultant Urologist with a special interest in general urology, lower urinary tract dysfunction, reconstructive surgery and female urology.

Mr John Reynard

• Principal hospital: Churchill
• Specialty: urology
• Special interests: stone and continence.

Mr Mark Sullivan

• Principal hospital: Churchill/Horton
• Specialty: urology
• Special interest: laparoscopic work.

Mr Stephane Larre

• Senior Lecturer

Prof Freddie Hamdy

• NDSS Professor

Nursing staff

• Urology Senior Nurse
  Mrs Jo Turner
• Clinical Nurse Specialists
  Miss Beverley Manning
  Mrs Julianne Hollidge 
• Nurse Practitioners
  Mrs Gill Verrall
  Mr Regdie Alvarez
  Mrs Jackie Redgewell
• Uro-oncology Clinical Nurse Specialists
  Miss Gemma Crane
  Miss Karena Le Monnier
  Miss Rose Southby
  Mrs Jane Neiderer