Website Editors - BJUI.org

Marcus Drake is a consultant surgeon at the Bristol Urological Institute, Bristol, UK. His areas of subspecialty interest are Female and Reconstructive Urology, Male Incontinence, Neurourology and Urodynamics. He is a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England. He is Chairman of the Urogenital Specialty Group of the UK’s Comprehensive Clinical Research Network, Co-chairman of the Neural Control Committee of the International Consultation on Incontinence, Editor-in-Chief for Urology in the Map of Medicine and Faculty member of the European School of Urology. He is an Editorial Board member for Neurourology & Urodynamics, UroToday and Autonomic Neuroscience. His basic science interest is in integrative physiology of the lower urinary tract and neural control of the bladder.

Robyn Webber graduated from the University of Otago School of Medicine in New Zealand in 1987, and subsequently emigrated to the UK. She trained in urology on the East of Scotland training programme, and is now a consultant urological surgeon in Dunfermline, where her subspecialty interest is in the management of stone disease. She was previously editor of Urology News, and the website editor for the Postgraduate Journal of Medicine, and currently is also editor of SN Global, and deputy editor of Surgeons News. She is an examiner and question writer for both the MRCS and FRCS(Urology), and an external examiner at University College London for the MSc in Urology.

RA (‘Frank’) Gardiner is an academic urologist with a personal Chair at The University of Queensland. He has been a Consultant Urologist at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital for over 25 years and has been actively involved in urological research for 30 years with a particular interest in prostate cancer. He is a Section Editor (FingerTip Urology) of BJUI and serves on the editorial boards of 3 other international journals as well as being actively involved in a number of national and international urological organisations.

Raj Persad is a specialist Consultant Urological Surgeon in Bristol and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Bristol. Lead Clinician for Urology at the United Bristol Healthcare Trust. Trained in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Johns Hopkins (USA), Innsbruck (Austria) and Lund (Sweden). In addition to University and clinical commitments much time is spent visiting units in the developing world teaching and training junior doctors and healthcare professionals in his specialist areas of interest: Andrology and Male sexual health and Urological Oncology.

Consultant urological surgeon and andrologist. Plymouth Hospitals. Provides, with colleagues in Bristol, the regional specialist andrology service. Previously worked in Bristol. Trained in advanced andrological techniques at the Institute of Urology, London. Registrar SW region. Areas of interest include Peyronies disease, male infertility, erectile dysfunction and penile skin disorders. Academic interests include quality of life issues in urology as well as andrology.

Matthew Hotston is currently a Specialist Registrar in Urology at Gloucester Royal Hospital, training in the South West of England. Following completion of surgical training at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, he undertook research at the University of Bristol in the form of a two year MD thesis, looking into the interactive effects of vascular risk factors and their treatment on the PDE5 enzyme, in the context of erectile dysfunction. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at national and international meetings. He subsequently commenced his Urology Specialist training in North West London, including The Royal Marsden Hospital, before transferring to the South West. His subspecialty interests include andrology, laparoscopy, and endourology. He is currently involved in giving educational talks to local General and Nurse Practitioners in the management of LUTS and ED in the community, as well as developing local ED management guidelines for South Gloucestershire.

He is a Urology Senior registrar at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, he has his undergraduate medical education and post graduate basic surgical training in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to coming to the UK working at Bristol Urological Institute and then moving to Sheffield focusing on a subspecialist training in Reconstructive and Female urology.