1987
The Geelong Hospital Symposium - Clinical Surgery, 1987
- Stone Disease, Today and Tomorrow
- Multi-disciplinary Interchange
1987
Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Country Meeting, Cowes, 1987
- Nephrostomy, Calculi and the Ureter.
- The Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Calculi.
1987
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Update, 1987
- Endourology (Invited Lecture).
1987
Gastroenterological Society of Australia - AGM Alice Springs
- ESWL of Bile Duct Calculi.
1988
The Urological Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, 1988
- Nephrostomy, Calculi and the Ureter.
- Paediatric Endourology.
- The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticulae.
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty in a Child Involving Combined Upper and
Lower Urinary Tract Percutaneous Techniques.
- ESWL and the Bile Duct Calculi.
1988
21st AGM of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Taipei, 1988
- Paediatric Endourology (co-author).
1988
Urological Society of Australasia - W.A. Division
- The Complications of Percutaneous Surgery.
1988
R.A.C.S. (W.A. Branch) Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth.
- The Use of ESUR for Renal and Biliary Stones (Invited Lecture)
1988
R.A.C.S. (Vic) City Scientific Meeting
- Recent Advances in Paediatric Endourology.
1988
Urological Society of Australia - Victorian Country Meeting.
- Single Stage Nephrostomy Dilation - An Experimental Study.
1988
7th Congress of the Asian Surgical Association, Penang, Malaysia
- The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticula.
- Paediatric Endourology - The Scope
- A Versatile Ureter-Ileal Splint.
- A Universal Nephrostomy Introducer.
1989
Urological Society of Australasia: 42nd Annual A.G.M. Melbourne
- The Place of Endoscopic Surgery in the Management of Upper Urinary
Tract Transitional Cell Cancer.
- The Management of Calculi in Calyceal Diverticula.
- Calculi in the Neuropathic Patient.
- Single Stage Nephrostomy Dilation - An Experimental Study (Co-author).
- Outpatient Retrograde Balloon Dilation of the Prostatic Urethra (Co-author).
- Calculi in Horseshoe Kidneys.
- The Management of Uretero Ileal Obstructions by Endourological Techniques.
- A Universal Nephrostomy Introducer.
- A Versatile Uretero Ileal Splint.
1989
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - A.G.M. , Melbourne
- Plenary Session "New Technologies"
- Invited Speaker "Minimally Invasive Urology"
1990
Urological Society of Australasia 43rd A.G.M., Darwin
- Transurethral Balloon Urethroplasty.
1990
Urological Society of Australia, Victorian Country Meeting, Mt. Buffalo
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty - A 4 year review of 66 cases.
1992
Urological Society of Australasia - AGM Adelaide
- "The Holmium Laser in Urology" - An initial evaluation.
1992
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - AGM Canberra
- Renal Calculi - Current Management (Invited Lecture)
1992
10th World Congress on Endourology and ESLK - Singapore
- Endosurgery of the Upper Urinary Tract in Children (Plenary Lecture)
- 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
- Paediatric Endourology (Video)
- The Holmium Laser in Urology (Video)
- Retroperitoneoscopy - A New Technique and Expansion Device.
1992
The International Society of Minimally Invasive Therapy - Dublin
- The Universal Holmium Laser
1992
1st International Paediatric Endo-Surgery Workshop - Melbourne
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty.
1993
Academy of Paediatrics - Washington - USA
- Paediatric Percutaneous Stone Removal, H.L. Tan, D.Webb, T.Merriman
1993
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons - Forum Melbourne
- Chairman. Early Urological Experience with Extra-peritoneal Laparoscopy.
1993
Urological Society of Australasia - Ureteric Calculi, Melbourne
1993
Urological Society of Australasia - A.G.M. -Annual Scientific Meeting, Hobart
- Experimental Extraperitoneal laparoscopy.
- Early Australian Experience with the Lithoclast.
1994
1st Viet Duc Workshop on Endourology - Hanoi Vietnam
- Co-Convenor and Presenter
1994
Endo Surgical Film Festival - Royal Melbourne Hospital
Faculty.
- Holmium Laser in Urology
- Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Uretero-lithotomy.
1994
Australian Military Medicine Association - 3rd AGM.
- Report of the first Viet Duc Endourology Workshop - Hanoi.
1995
Urological Society of Australasia -
(1) City Scientific Meeting
- Extraperitoneal Laparoscopy with Balloon Dilators.
(2) Country Meeting - Bendigo
- Holmium Lasertripsy of Ureteric Calculi.
Royal Melbourne Hospital Experience.
1995
13th World Congress of Endourology and ESWL - (Israel)
- The Technique of Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Diverticulectomy
(poster and video) Co-author.
1996
Urological Society of Australasia 49th AGM Canberra
- Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy of Ureteric Calculi using the Holmium Laser:
Royal Melbourne Hospital Experience (Co-author).
- Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Calyceal Diverticulectomy (Co-author).
Poster and Video
- Extraperitoneal Laparoscopy: Anatomical Dissections with Experimental
Balloon Dilators.
1996
14th World Congress of Endourology and Shock Wave Lithotripsy -
- Percutaneous Renal Surgery - Complications.
- Do Your Own Percutaneous Nephrostomy.
- Alternatives for the Management of Calyceal Diverticular.
- The Percutaneous Management of Stones in Calyceal Diverticular
(Co-author).
1997
Welsh Urological Society Scientific Meeting
- Ureteric Lithotripsy of Ureteric Calculi Using the Holmium Laser (Co-author).
2002
Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Section Annual Scientific Meeting
- Laparoscopic Nephrectomy - The Initial Learning Experience (Co-Author)
- Laparoscopic - Assisted Renal Biopsy (Co - Author)
- Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty - Early Experience (Co-Author)
2003
Urological Society of Australasia - Victorian Section Annual Scientific Meeting
- Early Experience with Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty (Co-Author)
2004
Urological Society of Australasia - Annual General Meeting- Newcastle NSW
- Recurrent PUJ Obstruction
2004
Urological Society Australasia - Victorian Annual State Scientific Meeting
- Outcome from Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in a Spianl Cord Injured Population using a Single Stage Dilator.
- Inserting Testicular Prostheses - A New Surgical Technique for Difficult Cases (Consultant Prize Winner)
2004
RACS Skills Laboratory (Melbourne)
Workshop 1
- Pyeloplasty by Open, Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Technique
Workshop 2
- Percutaneous Renal Access Workshop
- Basic Skills and Difficult Situation
2005
Urolological Society of Australasia: ASM 2005 Melbourne
- Outcome from Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in a Spinal Cord Injured Population using a Singe Stage Dilator
- 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
- Percutaneous Renal Access and Surgery - Workshop
- Open Stone Surgery – Lectures
2008
USANZ - Victoria State Meeting (Yarra Valley)
- 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)
- An analysis of the causes of bladder neck contracture following open and Robotically assisted gastroscopic Radical Prostatectomy
- New Technique of urethra-vesical Anastomosis during Robot assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (co-author)
- Posterior Development of the "Veil of Aphrodite'' during Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (co-author)
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Decreased HIV acquisition in circumcised men - The Role of the remnant foreskin (to-author)

Scientific Papers and Lectures Presented
1983
Victorian Branch of Australasian Urological Society Annual Meeting
- Glucagon and Ureteric Calculi - A clinical trial.
1984
Irish Urological Society Annual Meeting, Dublin
- Flexible Cystourethroscopy - Evaluation and comparison to conventional
cystoscopy.
- Percutaneous Renal Surgery - The structural and functional effects in the
dog kidney (First Prize for best paper at meeting).
- Percutaneous Renal Stone Surgery - Review of the clinical experience at
Meath Hospital, Dublin (co-author).
- Ureteroscopy with the Rigid Endoscope.
1984
British Association of Urological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Dublin
- Spinal Cord Injury - 15 year follow up in 406 patients.
- Ex-situ Video Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Investigation of Renal
Pathology.
- Experimental Ureterolithotripsy
1984
Second World Conference on Percutaneous Renal Surgery, Mainz, West Germany
- Ureterolithotripsy - An experimental model and assessment of
electrohydraulic and ultrasonic ureteric stone destruction in dogs.
- 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.
- Guest Lecturer and Practical Demonstrator
- ESWL: The Future
1985
Practical Percutaneous Renal Surgery and Radiology Course, Institute of Urology, London, U.K.
- Extracorporeal Lithotripsy - The future ?
1985
Diploma Course in Urology, University of London, U.K.
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy.
- The Complications of Stone Surgery and Their Management.
1985
The Institute of Urology, London
- The Surgical Management of Renal Calculi.
1985
The Urological Society of Australasia 38th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide 1985
- The Use of Infrared Photocoagulation for the Closure of Radical
Nephrotomies.
- Percutaneous Nephrostomy and Nephrolithotripsy: A functional
and structural analysis.
- Ureterolithotripsy in the Dog Ureter.
- A Simple Aid to Ureteroscopy.
- A Scheme of Management for Upper Tract Calculi in a Modern Stone
Treatment Centre.
- Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy, Functional and Structural Analysis
(poster).
1985
Royal Society of Medicine, London
- One Day Meeting: Advances in Stone Disease - Extracorporeal Shockwave
Lithotripsy.
1985
International Society of Urology Annual Meeting, Vienna, 1985
1985
The Annual Senior Registrars Scientific Meeting, Portsmouth
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy.
- The Comparison of the Sapphire Photocoagulator and Vicryl Mesh
for the Closure of Radical Nephrotomies.
1985
The British Association of Urological Surgeons, Eastbourne
- The Simultaneous Development of Percutaneous Renal Surgery and
Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy: Comparisons, Combinations
and Conclusions.
- Strategy for Management of Upper Tract Calculus Disease.
1985
The Irish Society of Urology and the Scottish Urological Society Combined Annual Meeting, Edinburgh
- ESWL: The British Experience
- PCNL and ESWL: Comparisons, Combinations and Conclusions.
- A Comparison of Vicryl Mesh and Sapphire Photocoagulation for the
Closure of Radical Nephrotomies.
1985
The Kings College Hospital Uroradiological Conference, London. Guest Lecture.
- The Investigation of the Effects of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.
1985
The Blackpool and Fylde Postgraduate Medical Centre: New Frontiers in Medicine
- Advances in the Treatment of Renal Stones.
1985
The National Association of Theatre Nurses of England, AGM
- The Management of Urinary Calculi (Invited Address)
1985
The Royal Society of Medicine - London
- ESWL: The British Experience.
1985
XIV Conference of the European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association, Brussels
- ESWL: The London Experience (Prize Abstract, co-author),
1985
Annual Conference of the American Association of Nephrological Nurses, San Diego
- ESWL: The London Experience (Prize Abstract, co-author)
1985
XVI International Congress of Radiology, Hawaii, USA, 8012 July, 1985
- The Roles of PCNL and ESWL in the Treatment of Urinary Calculi.
1985
Edinburgh Urological Festival, August, 1985
- ESWL: Effects on Catheters and Other Commonly Used Prosthesis.
1985
Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Management of Urinary Calculi
1985
University of London Diploma Course in Urology
- Percutaneous Surgery
- Extracorporeal Lithotripsy
1985
Charing Cross Hospital Uroradiological Conference
- The Experimental Basis of Percutaneous Renal Surgery and ESWL.
1985
Marmara University , Istanbul, Turkey
- The Basis of the Management of Calculi by ESWL and Endourology.
1985
Pakistan Medical Association, Karachi, Pakistan
- The Management of Urinary Calculi.
1985
Dow University College Medical School, Karachi, Pakistan
- Research into Endourological Lithotripsy and ESWL.
1986
University of Melbourne, Research Seminar Programme
1986
Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne
- Experimental and Clinical Aspects of Percutaneous and Extracorporeal Lithotripsy.
1986
Young Surgeons Forum, RACS., South Australia
- The Creation of Consultant Positions: Consultant, Hospital and Young Surgeon
Resistance.
1986
Renal Society of Australasia Educational Seminar, Austin Hospital
- Lithotripsy - The 1980's Approach to Renal Calculi
1986
Indonesian Urologists Association Continuing Education Programme:
Urolithiasis. Surabaya, Java: Keynote Guest Speaker
- The Experimental Basis of Percutaneous Renal Surgery and the Clinical Applications of Endourology and ESWL.
- Antegrade Ureteroscopy.
1986
Urological Society of Australasia: NSW Division Annual Country Meeting,
Orange, NSW: Principal Guest and Keynote Speaker
- Lithotripsy: The Common Questions.
1986
Annual Country Meeting, Renmark, S.A. of the South Australian Branch of the
Australasian Urological Society: Keynote Address
- Percutaneous Surgery, Theory and Application to ESWL, Calculus Disease and
Upper Ureteric Surgery.
1986
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
- The Management of Urinary Calculi and Research into Ureteric Peristalsis.
1986
Urological Society of Australasia Victorian Country Meeting, Queenscliff
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty
- The Kinky Ureter and its Relation to Ureteroscopy (co-author, best paper).
1986
BAUS, London
- The Combination of Percutaneous Surgery and ESWL for the Treatment of
Large Renal Calculi (co-author).
- The Complications of ESWL: Management and Prevention (co-author).
1987
Urological Society of Australasia, 40th AGM, Rotorua, New Zealand
Papers:
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty.
- The Conservative Management of Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Cancer by Percutaneous Techniques.
Posters:
- The Y Puncture.
- Antegrade Ureteroscopy.
- The Effects of ESWL on Endourological Prosthesis.
- The Influence of Hip Flexion on the Course of the Ureter.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Tract Calculi.
1987
Scientific Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators
- Stone Surgery: Smashed Forever.
1987
Radiographers Association of Australia. Update on Urinary Tract Imaging
- Urology - Surgical Options
1987
World Congress of Surgery, Sydney
- Percutaneous Pyeloplasty - The Australian Experience.
- The Management of Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer by Percutaneous
Surgery.
- The Influence of Hip Flexion on the Ureter - An Aid to Ureteroscopy.
- Ureteric Calculi - Why do they pass ?
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Urinary Tract Calculi.
1987
The British Association of Urological Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1987, AGM
- 1500 Cases of Renal and Ureteric Calculi Treated in an Integrated Stone
Centre (co-author).
- Hip Flexion and the Course of the Lower Ureter (co-author).
1987
The Gut Club, Melbourne, 1987
- ESWL and Biliary Calculi.
1987
Royal Melbourne Hospital Research Week, 1987
- ESWL of Bile Duct Calculi (co-author).