Dr James Thompson
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Dr James Thompson is an experienced robotic and minimally-invasive urological surgeon. He graduated from Medicine at UNSW with 1st class honours in 2007, then completed a 2-year residency in medicine/ surgery at Royal North Shore in 2009. He completed a 6-year Royal College of Surgeons accredited training program in urological surgery in 2016, and graduated from a PhD in prostate cancer research in 2017.
He then travelled to London for a Royal College of Surgeons UK accredited position as senior clinical fellow in robotic prostate and bladder cancer surgery at University College LondonHospital, the largest centre in the UK; in 2017, he received the rare honour of being appointed as a consultant surgeon performing robotic prostate and bladder cancer surgery at UCLH.
In 2018, he returned to Sydney to bring home sub-specialised robotic cancer surgery to the Australian community. He is a senior lecturer at UNSW and a senior research fellow at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre/ Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters, is a reviewer for leading international urology journals and is an investigator on several clinical trials and academic research grants. areas of subspeciality clinical practice and research: 1) prostate cancer 2) bladder cancer 3) kidney cancer 4) robotic and minimally invasive surgery 5) research in the latest genetic, imaging and treatment techniques in prostate and bladder cancer |
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- Research
- Surgical Oncology
- Bladder
- Prostate
- Renal
- Fellowc Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Fellowc Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
- Senior Lecturerc University of New South Wales
- Senior Research Fellowc Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Kinghorn Cancer Centre
- Full Memberc European Association of Urology
- Full Memberc European Robotic Urology Section of EAU
- Full Memberc American Urologic Association
- University of NSW BSc (Med) MBBS (Honours st Class)
- Royal Australasian College Surgeons FRACS (Urology)
- University of NSW PhD in Cancer Clinical Research
- Royal College of Surgeons UKc University College London Hospital IMGSS Post-graduate Fellowship in Robotic Prostate
