National Speakers
Dr Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson is a Consultant Urologist at Royal Melbourne and Epworth Hospitals. He completed the FRACS after undertaking a fellowship in pelvic oncology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He worked as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London before returning to Melbourne in 2008. He is an examiner in physiology for the RACS, a member of the Academy of Surgical Educators and review for a number of journals including BJUI, ANZJS and World Journal of Urology. His is currently involved in research in the fields of Bladder Cancer and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.
Dr Janelle Brennan
Urological Surgeon, Bendigo Health, Bendigo, VIC
Dr Stephen Brough
Urological Surgeon, Urology North, Launceston, TAS
Dr Marcus Carey
Urogynaecologist, Royal Women’s Hospital and Private Practice, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Venu Chalasani
Urologist, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Professor Lewis Chan
Lewis Chan is head of urology and Conjoint Professor of Surgery at Concord Hospital in Sydney, Australia. His subspecialty interests are bladder dysfunction, female urology and urological imaging.
A/Professor Peter Chin
Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong; and
Urological Surgeon at South Coast Urology, Wollongong, NSW
Dr Ashani Couchman
Dr Ashani Couchman is a urological surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Hampstead Rehabilitation Hospital in the public sector as well as Continence Matters in the private sector. She is a sub-specialist in Transitional (adolescent) urology, Neuro-urology and Paediatric urology. Following graduation from Auckland Medical School in 2003 and completion of her surgical training in New Zealand she undertook high profile fellowships at the Institute of Urology (London), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London) and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (London) and Western General Hospital (Edinburgh).
Dr Anthony Eaton
Consultant urologist based in Hobart
Became Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in urology in 2003
Sub specialist interest in voiding dysfunction and a sacral neuromodulation
Previously served on the board of directors of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Sharon English
Urologist, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, NZ
Dr Eva Fong
Waitemata District Health Board and OneSixOne, Auckland, NZ
Dr Johan Gani
Dr Johan Gani is a urologist based in Melbourne, Australia, with appointments at Austin Health and Western Health. He completed his fellowship training in Sydney and Toronto, and has specialty interests in Neurourology, Functional Urology and in particular sacral neuromodulation.
Professor Peter Gilling
Urologist, Urology Bay of Plenty Consultant Urologists, Tauranga, NZ
Dr Tom Jarvis
Tom Jarvis is a urological surgeon at the Prince of Wales Public and Private Hospitals in Sydney’s inner east. He also consults for MS Australia and runs their state-based urology clinic. He completed his fellowship in voiding dysfunction, reconstruction and female urology at Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Centre and Weill Cornell Medical Centre/New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has a subspecialty interest in functional, reconstructive, neuro- and prosthetic urology.
Dr Anthony Kiosoglous
Dr Kiosoglous is a Urological and Reconstructive Surgeon at the Wesley Private, RBWH, and QE II Jubilee Hospitals. He completed a two-year fellowship in London, at Guy’s & St Thomas’, University College Hospital, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. His sub-specialty interests include Voiding Dysfunction, Incontinence, Vaginal Prolapse, Neuro-Urology, and Urodynamics. He is an International Presenter and Publisher, Journal Reviewer, and a Qld Committee Representative of RACS. He is a member of FUSAG (USANZ), EAU, CFA, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Qld, School of Medicine.
Dr Dominic Lee
Dr Lee is a fellowshipped trained VMO at St George Hospital with special interest in male and female reconstruction, incontinence and voiding dysfunction.
Dr Daniel Moon
Director of Robotic Surgery at Epworth Healthcare and Honorary
Clinical Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC
Ms Shan Morrison
Shan Morrison is one of nine Specialist Women’s, Men’s & Pelvic Health Physiotherapists in Australia. She is the director of Women’s & Men’s Health Physiotherapy, a Victorian private practice dedicated to providing evidence based management programs for pelvic floor disorders. Shan has been practicing exclusively in pelvic floor dysfunction for 23 years and has particular clinical interests in post-prostatectomy incontinence and female and male chronic pelvic pain.
Ms Naomi Noguchi
Naomi Noguchi, MBBS MPH, is an Associate Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney. Since receiving her medical degree in Japan in 2006, she has worked in urology and primary care with geriatric patients. Naomi undertook her PhD studies in epidemiology with the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project with a particular focus on older men’s urinary symptoms. Her research interests include the geriatric syndromes, frailty, lower urinary symptoms, and surgical outcomes in older people. Another passion of hers lies in teaching evidence-based medicine subjects.
Dr Helen O’Connell
Helen O’Connell is an academic Urologist from Melbourne. Fellowship trained in the US her primary clinical interest is in the reversal of LUTS following identification and treatment of the root cause. She is a full Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne, Head of Urology and Director of Surgery at Western Health where she leads a Fellowship in Functional Urology.
A/Professor Prem Rashid
Associate Professor Prem Rashid, started the Port Macquarie Urology Centre in 1997. It has rapidly grown to become a referral centre for urological care. He shares a broad interest in urological topics with prostate disease, lower urinary tract dysfunction and rehabilitation following treatment as a focus. His research area of prime interest is education and training; fostering the next generation.
Dr Anna Rosamilla
Urogynaecologist, Private Practice, Melbourne, VIC
Dr Joseph Schoeman
Urologist, Pelvic Medicine Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Dr Jeffrey Thavaseelan
Urologist, Perth Urology Clinic, Perth, WA
Dr Michael Whishaw
Consultant Physician in Aged Care Medicine at Royal Melbourne Hospital since 1990.
Consultant Continence Physician at Royal Park Continence Service at Royal Melbourne Hospital since 1990 and with Royal Melbourne Hospital Urology Department since 1992.
On the Scientific Organising Committee of 5 CFA National Conferences on Incontinence, including as Chair in 2011.
Special interests in incontinence in older adults, nocturia, urodynamics and neurogenic bladder. Current research interest in nocturia.
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