1987

The Geelong Hospital Symposium - Clinical Surgery, 1987

  1. Stone Disease, Today and Tomorrow
  2. Multi-disciplinary Interchange

1987

Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Country Meeting, Cowes, 1987

  1. Nephrostomy, Calculi and the Ureter.
  2. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Calculi.

1987

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Update, 1987

1987

Gastroenterological Society of Australia - AGM Alice Springs

1988

The Urological Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, 1988

  1. Nephrostomy, Calculi and the Ureter.
  2. Paediatric Endourology.
  3. The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticulae.
  4. Percutaneous Pyeloplasty in a Child Involving Combined Upper and Lower Urinary Tract Percutaneous Techniques.
  5. ESWL and the Bile Duct Calculi.

1988

21st AGM of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Taipei, 1988

1988

Urological Society of Australasia - W.A. Division

1988

R.A.C.S. (W.A. Branch) Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth.

1988

R.A.C.S. (Vic) City Scientific Meeting

1988

Urological Society of Australia - Victorian Country Meeting.

1988

7th Congress of the Asian Surgical Association, Penang, Malaysia

  1. The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticula.
  2. Paediatric Endourology - The Scope
  3. A Versatile Ureter-Ileal Splint.
  4. A Universal Nephrostomy Introducer.

1989

Urological Society of Australasia: 42nd Annual A.G.M. Melbourne

  1. The Place of Endoscopic Surgery in the Management of Upper Urinary Tract Transitional Cell Cancer.
  2. The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticula.
  3. Calculi in the Neuropathic Patient.
  4. Single Stage Nephrostomy Dilation - An Experimental Study (Co-author).
  5. Outpatient Retrograde Balloon Dilation of the Prostatic Urethra (Co-author).
  6. Calculi in Horseshoe Kidneys.
  7. The Management of Uretero Ileal Obstructions by Endourological Techniques.
  8. A Universal Nephrostomy Introducer.
  9. A Versatile Uretero Ileal Splint.

1989

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - A.G.M. , Melbourne

1990

Urological Society of Australasia 43rd A.G.M., Darwin

1990

Urological Society of Australia, Victorian Country Meeting, Mt. Buffalo

1992

Urological Society of Australasia - AGM Adelaide

1992

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - AGM Canberra

1992

10th World Congress on Endourology and ESLK - Singapore

  1. Endosurgery of the Upper Urinary Tract in Children (Plenary Lecture)
  2. The Holmium Laser in Urology.

1992

Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Section

(1) Annual City Meeting - RACS
An Assessment of the Holmium Laser in Urology.

(2) Annual Country Meeting - Cape Schank

  1. Paediatric Endourology (Video)
  2. The Holmium Laser in Urology (Video)
  3. Retroperitoneoscopy - A New Technique and Expansion Device.

1992

The International Society of Minimally Invasive Therapy - Dublin

1992

1st International Paediatric Endo-Surgery Workshop - Melbourne

1993

Academy of Paediatrics - Washington - USA

1993

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Forum Melbourne

1993

Urological Society of Australasia - Ureteric Calculi, Melbourne

1993

Urological Society of Australasia - A.G.M. -Annual Scientific Meeting, Hobart

  1. Experimental Extraperitoneal laparoscopy.
  2. Early Australian Experience with the Lithoclast.

1994

1st Viet Duc Workshop on Endourology - Hanoi Vietnam

1994

Endo Surgical Film Festival - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Faculty.

  1. Holmium Laser in Urology
  2. Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Uretero-lithotomy.

1994

Australian Military Medicine Association - 3rd AGM.

1995

Urological Society of Australasia -

1995

13th World Congress of Endourology and ESWL - (Israel)

1996

Urological Society of Australasia 49th AGM Canberra

  1. Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy of Ureteric Calculi using the Holmium Laser: Royal Melbourne Hospital Experience (Co-author).
  2. Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Calyceal Diverticulectomy (Co-author). Poster and Video
  3. Extraperitoneal Laparoscopy: Anatomical Dissections with Experimental Balloon Dilators.

1996

14th World Congress of Endourology and Shock Wave Lithotripsy -

  1. Percutaneous Renal Surgery - Complications.
  2. Do Your Own Percutaneous Nephrostomy.
  3. Alternatives for the Management of Calyceal Diverticular.
  4. The Percutaneous Management of Stones in Calyceal Diverticular (Co-author).

1997

Welsh Urological Society Scientific Meeting

2002

Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Section Annual Scientific Meeting

  1. Laparoscopic Nephrectomy - The Initial Learning Experience (Co-Author)
  2. Laparoscopic - Assisted Renal Biopsy (Co - Author)
  3. Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty - Early Experience (Co-Author)

2003

Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Section Annual Scientific Meeting

  1. Early Experience with Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty (Co-Author)

2004

Urological Society of Australasia - Annual General Meeting- Newcastle NSW

2004

Urological Society Australasia - Victorian Annual State Scientific Meeting

2004

RACS Skills Laboratory (Melbourne)

2005

Urolological Society of Australasia: ASM 2005 Melbourne

  1. Outcome from Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in a Spinal Cord Injured Population using a Singe Stage Dilator
  2. A New Surgical Technique for the Insertion of Testis Prostheses in Difficult Cases.

2005

23rd World Congress on Endourology and SWL - Amsterdam Netherlands 2005

Laparoscopic Controlled and Assisted Percutaneous Transperitoneal Endoscopic Extraction of Renal Collecting System Stone Calculi (co-author)

2006

7th   National Prostate Cancer Symposium - Melbourne

2007

RACS - USANZ (VIC) Workshop Skills
Director and Presenter

  1. Percutaneous Renal Access and Surgery - Workshop
  2. Open Stone Surgery – Lectures

2008

USANZ - Victoria State Meeting (Yarra Valley)

  1.  An analysis of the causes of Bladder Neck Contracture following open and Robotically assisted laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (co-author)

2009

Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (62nd AGM- Broadbeach-QLD)

  1. An analysis of the causes of bladder neck contracture following open and Robotically assisted gastroscopic Radical Prostatectomy
  2. New Technique of urethra-vesical Anastomosis during Robot assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (co-author)
  3. Posterior Development of the "Veil of Aphrodite'' during Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (co-author)
  4. Decreased HIV acquisition in circumcised men - The Role of the remnant foreskin (to-author)

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Scientific Papers and Lectures Presented

1983

Victorian Branch of Australasian Urological Society Annual Meeting

1984

Irish Urological Society Annual Meeting, Dublin

  1. Flexible Cystourethroscopy - Evaluation and comparison to conventional cystoscopy.
  2. Percutaneous Renal Surgery - The structural and functional effects in the dog kidney (First Prize for best paper at meeting).
  3. Percutaneous Renal Stone Surgery - Review of the clinical experience at Meath Hospital, Dublin (co-author).
  4. Ureteroscopy with the Rigid Endoscope.

1984

British Association of Urological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Dublin

  1. Spinal Cord Injury - 15 year follow up in 406 patients.
  2. Ex-situ Video Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Investigation of Renal Pathology.
  3. Experimental Ureterolithotripsy

1984

Second World Conference on Percutaneous Renal Surgery, Mainz, West Germany

  1. Ureterolithotripsy - An experimental model and assessment of electrohydraulic and ultrasonic ureteric stone destruction in dogs.
  2. The Structural and Functional Effects of Percutaneous Renal Access and Lithotripsy.

1984

Practical Percutaneous Renal Surgery and Radiology Course, Institute of Urology, London, U.K.

  1. Guest Lecturer and Practical Demonstrator
  2. ESWL: The Future

1985

Practical Percutaneous Renal Surgery and Radiology Course, Institute of Urology, London, U.K.

1985

Diploma Course in Urology, University of London, U.K.

  1. Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy.
  2. The Complications of Stone Surgery and Their Management.

1985

The Institute of Urology, London

1985

The Urological Society of Australasia 38th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide 1985

  1. The Use of Infrared Photocoagulation for the Closure of Radical Nephrotomies.
  2. Percutaneous Nephrostomy and Nephrolithotripsy: A functional and structural analysis.
  3. Ureterolithotripsy in the Dog Ureter.
  4. A Simple Aid to Ureteroscopy.
  5. A Scheme of Management for Upper Tract Calculi in a Modern Stone Treatment Centre.
  6. Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy, Functional and Structural Analysis (poster).

1985

Royal Society of Medicine, London

1985

International Society of Urology Annual Meeting, Vienna, 1985

1985

The Annual Senior Registrars Scientific Meeting, Portsmouth

  1. Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy.
  2. The Comparison of the Sapphire Photocoagulator and Vicryl Mesh for the Closure of Radical Nephrotomies.

1985

The British Association of Urological Surgeons, Eastbourne

  1. The Simultaneous Development of Percutaneous Renal Surgery and Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy: Comparisons, Combinations and Conclusions.
  2. Strategy for Management of Upper Tract Calculus Disease.

1985

The Irish Society of Urology and the Scottish Urological Society Combined Annual Meeting, Edinburgh

  1. ESWL: The British Experience
  2. PCNL and ESWL: Comparisons, Combinations and Conclusions.
  3. A Comparison of Vicryl Mesh and Sapphire Photocoagulation for the Closure of Radical Nephrotomies.

1985

The Kings College Hospital Uroradiological Conference, London. Guest Lecture.

1985

The Blackpool and Fylde Postgraduate Medical Centre: New Frontiers in Medicine

1985

The National Association of Theatre Nurses of England, AGM

1985

The Royal Society of Medicine - London

1985

XIV Conference of the European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association, Brussels

1985

Annual Conference of the American Association of Nephrological Nurses, San Diego

1985

XVI International Congress of Radiology, Hawaii, USA, 8012 July, 1985

1985

Edinburgh Urological Festival, August, 1985

1985

Royal College of Surgeons of England

1985

University of London Diploma Course in Urology

  1. Percutaneous Surgery
  2. Extracorporeal Lithotripsy

1985

Charing Cross Hospital Uroradiological Conference

1985

Marmara University , Istanbul, Turkey

1985

Pakistan Medical Association, Karachi, Pakistan

1985

Dow University College Medical School, Karachi, Pakistan

1986

University of Melbourne, Research Seminar Programme

1986

Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne

1986

Young Surgeons Forum, RACS., South Australia

1986

Renal Society of Australasia Educational Seminar, Austin Hospital

1986

Indonesian Urologists Association Continuing Education Programme: Urolithiasis. Surabaya, Java: Keynote Guest Speaker

  1. The Experimental Basis of Percutaneous Renal Surgery and the Clinical Applications of Endourology and ESWL.
  2. Antegrade Ureteroscopy.

1986

Urological Society of Australasia: NSW Division Annual Country Meeting, Orange, NSW: Principal Guest and Keynote Speaker

1986

Annual Country Meeting, Renmark, S.A. of the South Australian Branch of the Australasian Urological Society: Keynote Address

1986

Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

1986

Urological Society of Australasia Victorian Country Meeting, Queenscliff

  1. Percutaneous Pyeloplasty
  2. The Kinky Ureter and its Relation to Ureteroscopy (co-author, best paper).

1986

BAUS, London

  1. The Combination of Percutaneous Surgery and ESWL for the Treatment of Large Renal Calculi (co-author).
  2. The Complications of ESWL: Management and Prevention (co-author).

1987

Urological Society of Australasia, 40th AGM, Rotorua, New Zealand

Papers:

  1. Percutaneous Pyeloplasty.
  2. The Conservative Management of Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Cancer by Percutaneous Techniques.

Posters:

  1. The Y Puncture.
  2. Antegrade Ureteroscopy.
  3. The Effects of ESWL on Endourological Prosthesis.
  4. The Influence of Hip Flexion on the Course of the Ureter.
  5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Tract Calculi.

1987

Scientific Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators

1987

Radiographers Association of Australia. Update on Urinary Tract Imaging

1987

World Congress of Surgery, Sydney

  1. Percutaneous Pyeloplasty - The Australian Experience.
  2. The Management of Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer by Percutaneous Surgery.
  3. The Influence of Hip Flexion on the Ureter - An Aid to Ureteroscopy.
  4. Ureteric Calculi - Why do they pass ?
  5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Tract Calculi.

1987

The British Association of Urological Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1987, AGM

  1. 1500 Cases of Renal and Ureteric Calculi Treated in an Integrated Stone Centre (co-author).
  2. Hip Flexion and the Course of the Lower Ureter (co-author).

1987

The Gut Club, Melbourne, 1987

1987

Royal Melbourne Hospital Research Week, 1987