WEST SUSSEX UROLOGY - Key Persons
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- Home Doctor Tab Angela Birnie
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- Home Doctor Tab Dan Magrill
Dan Magrill grew up in Putney, and after going to school at St Paul's in London he studied medicine at St George's Hospital. His surgical training rotated through hospitals in London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and included an international fellowship in New York and six months spent in Perth, Australia. He was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at St Richard's in 2014.
His sub-specialist interest is in the management of stone disease and endourology, and he is an expert in the minimally invasive management of both benign and malignant diseases of the urinary system.
His research and publications have included work on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Prostate Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, Day Case Stone Surgery and Renal Cancer. He was part of the Oncology Team of the Year in 2010.
In 2019 he became Chief Clinical Information Officer for Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Dan is married to Rachel who works for the British Council, and they live with their sons in Chichester. In his spare time Dan enjoys playing golf, cycling, and skiing.
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- Home Doctor Tab James Hicks
James Hicks grew up in Newport, South Wales. He went to Rougemont School in Newport and then university at the Royal London Hospital. He completed his early surgical training at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester. After two years of research in urological cancer cell biology he underwent his specialist training in the cancer centres of Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth, where he developed his specialist interests in urological cancer surgery.
He is experienced in laparoscopic kidney and Robotic prostate surgery and has completed a laparoscopic fellowship in Leipzig, Germany with Professor Stolzenburg, one of the world leading surgeons and authorities in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. He is well published in the techniques, outcomes and complications of radical prostatectomy.
His interests include the management of kidney, bladder and prostate cancers and all aspects of core urological conditions. Having spent 3 years as the Clinical Lead for Urology for St Richard's and Worthing Hospitals, he now concentrates on the managerial roles of clinical lead for the Urology Cancer Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT), the clinical lead for governance for urology at St Richard's Hospital.
James performs laparoscopic and open surgery for all nature adrenal problems working closely with endocrinology colleagues in a multidisciplinary format. This also includes specialist anaesthetic support. James also works as a Consultant robotic surgeon in the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford where he performs specialist robotic prostate surgery for West Sussex patients with prostate cancer.
James lives in Chichester with his wife Victoria, also a surgeon in St Richard's Hospital and has 3 children. He is often found coaching the Chichester Rugby Club under 10's team on Sunday mornings or cycling on the South Downs.
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- Home Doctor Tab Barnaby Chappell
Barnaby Chappell qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1997. He completed his higher surgical training in 2009 having spent his senior years at Guy's Hospital, specialising in complex renal surgery and robotic surgery. During training he undertook international fellowships in America and Belgium.
Barnaby is trained in all aspects of open and endoscopic urology and has particular interest in laparoscopic surgery, particularly for the management of prostate, renal and bladder cancer.
Barnaby offers SpaceOAR hydrogel for patients undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer (and a link to SpaceOAR page) and works in partnership with Nuada Medical to offer Template and Fusion Biopsies of the prostate for early diagnosis of prostate cancer (and a link to template/fusion biopsies.)
Having been awarded the FRCS Urol in 2008, he has expanded his interests in urological cancers by researching innovative surgical techniques and imaging modalities to improve staging and treatment, including Template Biopsies of the prostate and multiparametric MRI.
Barnaby is the West Sussex Urology LLP specialist in the treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and sees patients in his clinic at Goring Hall Hospital.
Barnaby also has an interest in treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia and has recently been trained to use the Urolift system and is currently introducing this for private patients across West Sussex.
Barnaby is married to a cardiologist and has 3 children.
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- Home Doctor Tab Simon Woodhams
Simon Woodhams was born in the UK but grew up in Mombasa, Kenya. He went to Cranleigh School near Guildford and then St Thomas' Hospital Medical School. He then completed higher surgical training through Guy's Hospital also working at Winchester, Chertsey, Worthing and Brighton. He was awarded his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in 2000 and spent a fellowship year in Brisbane, Australia, developing his interests in Urological Cancer Surgery before taking up his Consultant post at Worthing.
Simon is a busy general Urologist with interests in prostate, bladder and kidney problems as well as recurrent urinary tract infections and other core urology. He is also a leading local cancer surgeon having operated over a number of years in the cancer centres at Brighton and Eastbourne performing radical prostatectomies and cystectomies. In 2015 he joined a team of 4 other surgeons in Guildford to jointly undertake robotic cystectomy on 2 newly acquired Da Vinci dual console robots. Their experience is now recognised as setting the standard for the rest of the country with length of inpatient stay for this complex surgery being as low as 3 days. Simon is also the Clinical Director for Cancer Services for Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust.
His other major interest is in surgery for benign prostate enlargement where he has been unique position to have offered Greenlight Laser Prostatectomy and Holmium Laser Prostatectomy but over the last few years he has favoured TURis bipolar prostate resection. Simon is also able to offer Rezum Steam Treatment for enlarged prostates. He has been a pioneer for day case prostatectomy setting up the only stand alone facility for this surgery in the country. His expertise in TURis prostatectomy is widely recognised; he has spoken on the technique at national urological meetings, on national radio and his experience has been the subject of an article in The Daily Mail. Simon also leads the teaching of prostatectomy to junior surgeons at teaching courses at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Simon is married to a local Storrington village GP and has 3 daughters. He enjoys road cycling having completed the Etape du Tour on 3 occasions and is a keen surfer and windsurfer.
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- Chief of Surgery at the Western Sussex Hospitals
- Home Doctor Tab Paul Carter
Paul Carter trained in Bristol and London, researching male lower urinary tract problems for his MD and later working at King's College Hospital in the then newly evolving field of Laparoscopic Urology. Having been appointed as Consultant Urological Surgeon to St Richards Hospital, Chichester in 1994, he has subsequently developed a major interest on Urological Oncology.
Paul is currently Chief of Surgery at the Western Sussex Hospitals trust and continues to promote a multidisciplinary and network approach to Urological cancer management, pioneering new technology in the investigation of urological cancers such as Template Biopsies of the prostate.
Paul introduced Upper Tract Laparoscopy to St Richards Hospital in 2007 for benign and malignant kidney disease and has continued to develop this service to include Laparoscopic Nephrectomy, Nephroureterectomy and Pyeloplasty now as routine laparoscopic procedures. His other major interest is in surgery for benign prostate enlargement and more recently has introduced the day case TURis bipolar prostate resection procedure at St Richards Hospital.
In summer 2010 he spent 3 months working at the University Hospital of Geneva, exploring the role of the Da Vinci Operating Robot in the laparoscopic surgery of kidney and prostate cancer.
Paul is married to Alison, a local GP and has 4 children.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- FRCS ( Urol )
- Home Doctor Tab Rob Frymann
Rob completed his undergraduate training at the University of Sheffield. His basic surgical training was under taken at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, followed by 2 years of research in Bristol working towards his MD thesis (looking into the treatment of benign prostatic obstruction). Rob was a specialist registrar in the South Thames region, which included a further year at St Richard's Hospital, a year at Worthing Hospital, and a 2 year oncology (cancer) and laparoscopy fellowship in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Rob has been a consultant urological surgeon since 2008, specialising in laser surgery. Rob has built up a vast experience with Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and laser stone surgery for kidney stones. Since 2009 he has performed over 650 HoLEPs (up to 2022) and is currently doing over 100 HoLEP procedures a year. He has built a reputation for operating on men with very large, challenging prostates where the HoLEP procedure is the preferred option, although HoLEP is a great operation for any size of prostate.
Rob continues to audit his results to ensure excellent outcomes for his patients. Approximately 70% of the men having a HoLEP are catheterised and unable to pass urine at the time of surgery; the catheter free rate after surgery is 95% to 98%. The average pre-op PSA was 10.1 (range 0.01 to 102) and the average post-op PSA was 2.49 (range 0.06 to 26); the vast majority of patients find that their PSA falls and often is within the normal age specific range after a HoLEP. The average enucleated weight was 77.7g (range 1g to 197g). Post-op symptoms scores are low indicating that the majority of patients are either delighted or happy with their symptoms after the procedure (average IPSS score of 4.9 out of 35 (range 1 to 15) with a quality of life score of 0.84 out of 6 (range 0 to 4)).
Rob has been consultant urological surgeon at Western Sussex Hospital (now University Hospitals Sussex) since July 2016. Prior to this appointment he was a consultant urological surgeon at the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth (2008 to 2016), undertaking HoLEP, laser stone surgery and laparoscopic nephrectomy.