Personal Overview

Associate Professor David Webb practises as a Urological Surgeon in Melbourne.

Associate Professor Webb was born and educated in Melbourne, he was fortunate during his school and university days to spend considerable time on the land with his family jackarooing and working in vineyards in South Australia and outback New South Wales.

He obtained his MB,BS, undergraduate degree at Melbourne University through the Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical School.

During this time, he undertook elective terms at Singapore University and in New Zealand.

Before commencing advanced surgical training, Professor Webb spent his resident years at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and then gained extensive and varied experience at the Royal Women's Hospital, the Fairfield Hospital for Infectious Diseases, and worked as a Medical Officer in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

He then commenced his advanced surgical training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital travelling to London to study for his primary Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of London and obtaining his primary surgical Fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow.

He was able to include a stint as climber and medical officer to an Australian Mountaineering expedition to Island Peak in the Everest Region (6000metres).

David returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital for his formal urological training through the Royal .Australasian College of Surgeons and during this period was also a demonstrator in the Anatomy School at Melbourne University.

After obtaining his Fellowship at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology, David returned to Europe for post graduate studies.

He worked and undertook research in Dublin at the Meath Hospital and Trinity College where he performed the research for his Master of Surgery Thesis on percutaneous (keyhole) surgery of the kidney and the effects of lithotripsy (non invasive stone fragmentation) on the kidney.

He then returned to London for another year and a half as Lecturer at the Institute of Urology and had further post graduate training at the Devonshire Hospital and at Mainz in Germany where he learnt the then new treatment of extra corporeal shoclcwave lithotripsy (ESWL) for kidney stones. With this knowledge he returned to England to be involved in the establishment of Lithotripsy in the United Kingdom.

In 1986 David returned to Melbourne as Consultant Urologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Lecturer in Surgery at Melbourne University, and in that year he also joined the RAAF Specialist Reserve as Consultant Urologist (Squadron Leader), a post he still holds. Throughout his undergraduate and continuing career, teaching and research have been very much a part of Associate Professor Webb's life.

He has lectured in London, Karachi, Istanbul, Hanoi, Indonesia and most States of Australia as a visiting Professor, he has been on the editorial board of a number of Australian and international Urological Journals and has been involved in the development and establishment of the techniques and instruments for percutaneous kidney surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Austin Repatriation Medical Centre.

In recognition of this commitment, he was appointed an Associate Professor of Surgery by Melbourne University in 2004.

David has also been very involved in The Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand and The Royal Australian College of Surgeons. He has held posts including, Chairman of Training, Accreditation and Education (Victoria), Secretary of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (National), and is currently Chairman of the Victorian Division of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.

More recently, David has undergone training in the United States in Robotic (keyhole) Radical Prostatectomy using the da Vinci robotic system.

David's wide experience in open, minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery has allowed him to develop a number of particular interests, including the minimally invasive treatment of urinary stones, lithotripsy, treatment of cancer of the kidney, prostate, bladder and testis, microscopic vasectomy reversal and endoscopic surgery.

When not working David is at home with his wife and three children, playing Real Tennis or golf, or enjoying a walk, book, gardening or a glass of red wine!

Current Positions Held By Associate Professor Webb

  1. Associate Professor of Surgery Melbourne University
  2. Consultant Urologist, Austin Health (Austin Hospital and Repatriation Hospital Melbourne)
  3. Urologist - Royal Children's Hospital
  4. Consultant Urologist - Royal Australian Air Force, Specialist Reserve
  5. Consultant Urologist - Australian Defence Force Recruiting
  6. Director of Lithotripsy - Cotham Private Hospital
  7. Chairman - Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - Victorian Executive

Qualifications

  1. MB., BS., Melbourne University
  2. Diploma of Obstetrics - Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (UK)
  3. Master of Surgery - (Melbourne University) - by Thesis
  4. Part I - Surgical Fellowship - Royal College of Surgeons & Physicians Glasgow (Scotland)
  5. Part II -- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS - Urology)

Post Graduate Education

  1. Primary FRCS - Professors Slome and Stansfield Royal College of Surgeons London
  2. Endoscopic Surgery - Professor Blandy -London University
  3. Extra Corporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy - Professor Hohenfeller (Mainz University Germany)
  4. Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and Endo-urology - Institute of Urology London (Mr. J.E.A. Wickham)
  5. Laparoscopic Urological Surgery (Dr Jens Rassweiller)
  6. da Vinci Robotic Surgery - Intuitive Device Technologies. (California USA)

Medical Awards

Overseas Urology:

  1. Annual Prize for the Best Scientific Presentation, Urological Society of Ireland
  2. European Dialysis Nursing Association - Shiley Travelling Fellowship

Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - Victorian Division

  1. Best Overall Paper (First Author x 1: Second Author x 2)
  2. Best Consultant's Paper

Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - Annual Scientific Meeting

  1. Keith Kirkland Prize - Best Paper Co- Author
  2. President's Prize for the Most Significant Contribution to Adelaide ASM
  3. Alban Gee Memorial Prize - Best Poster

Military Award -

  1. RAAF "Commendation" - Awarded by the Director General of Defence Health for "outstanding performances as Specialist Urologist in the RAAF Specialist Reserve".

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons:

  1. Plenary Lecturer New Technologies AGM RACS
  2. Course Director - RACS Skills' Laboratory

International Workshop and Training:

  1. World Congress of ESWL and Endo-urology- Plenary Lecturer Singapore
  2. World Congress of Endo-urology - Melbourne- Endo-urology Workshop Director
  3. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - Director of Endo-urological Workshops
  4. United Kingdom - Institute of Urology - Lecturer and Demonstrator - Percutaneous Renal Surgery
  5. Royal College of Surgeons -England- Guest Lecturer, Diploma Course in Urology for te Royal College of Surgeons' Fellowship

Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - State Meetings

  1. Guest Speaker at the New South Wales, South Australian and Western Australian State Division Meetings.

Visiting Professorships -

  1. Indonesia: Indonesian Urological Association
  2. Pakistan: Karachi, Dow University
  3. Turkey: Istanbul, (Marmara University)
  4. Vietnam: Hanoi, Viet Duc Hospital - Director of the First Endo-urology Workshop in Hanoi.

Melbourne University -

  1. Anatomy Demonstrator
  2. Lecturer in Surgery
  3. Senior Lecturer in Surgery
  4. Associate Professor of Surgery (current)
  5. Tutor in Surgery and Urology -
  6. Clinical Instructor and Mentor

Previous and Current University and Medical Committees:

  1. Royal Melbourne Hospital - Foundation Member of the Council of Senior Medical Staff.
  2. Cotham Private Hospital - Director of Lithotripsy Deputy Chairman
    of Medical Advisory Council
  3. Epworth Hospital - Medical Advisory Council
  4. Medico-Legal Society of Victoria - Committee Member
  5. St George's Hospital Melbourne - Credentials Committee
  6. Urolgical Society of Australia and New Zealand -Victorian Division - Chairman of Training, Accreditation and Education
  7. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (National) - Member of Board of Urology
  8. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand - Honorary Secretary and Treasurer (two terms)
  9. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (Victorian Division ) Chairman
  10. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand Victorian Representative to the Federal Executive of the Urological Society of Australasia
  11. Australian Kidney Foundation - Board Member
  12. Urological Society of Australasia
  13. Conference Convenor
  14. Carey Baptist Grammar School

Medical Societies:

Current

  1. Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
  2. Royal Australian College of Surgeons
  3. Australian Medical Association
  4. Australia and New Zealand Association of Surgery
  5. Australian Military Medical Association
  6. Medico-Legal Society of Victoria

Previous

  1. British Association of Urological Surgery
  2. International Society of Urology
  3. European Urological Association
  4. International Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery (Foundation Member)

Medical Registration

  1. Victoria
  2. United Kingdom (Overseas Lists)
  3. Republic of Ireland

Previous Medical Appointments:

Heraldry and Logos

Professor Webb has designed logos for five International Meetings, and had these produced and also incorporated into official ties and scalves.

Others

Associate Professor Webb has an active interest in the Medico Legal Society having been on the Executive, and also through the RAAF in the Urological Management of Serving Members in the RAAF, Army and Navy.