Meet our keynote speakers
Prof Philip Cornford
Prof Phil Cornford trained in London and Liverpool. He was appointed consultant urological surgeon at Liverpool University Hospitals in 2001 and has held an honorary chair at the University of Liverpool since 2019.
Phil's practice is largely focused upon tertiary cancer surgery. Research has been focused on prostate cancer and he is currently chair of the EAU prostate cancer guidelines panel and involved in both PIONEER and OPTIMA.
Phil has a life long interest in training and was involved in the set up of national selection, the ST3 Urology “Bootcamp” and is a previous chair of the SAC in Urology. Phil remains an examiner for FRCS(Urol) and sits on JICE responsible for quality insurance for the exam.
Hamish Bond
Hamish Bond is an international rowing legend, well-known for competing as a part of 'New Zealand's Golden Pair' with Eric Murray, who won back-to-back Olympic golds in the men's pair in London 2012 and Rio 2016.
After a brief but successful transition to road cycling, Hamish returned to rowing to conquer the blue riband men’s eight at Tokyo 2020.
Hamish's latest quest - the 2024 America's Cup as a cyclor with Team New Zealand.
Jonah Rusere
Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Royal Free Hospital (National Health Service) Clinical Operations Lead: SAH Diagnostics (Private Sector)
Jonah has 20 years of experience in urology and was appointed Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in 2007 with a special interest in prostate cancer diagnosis. He moved to Guy’s hospital as a Prostate Cancer CNS running Nurse Led Clinics including diagnostics and TRUS guided prostate biopsy.
In September 2017, Guy’s Hospital achieved “TREXIT” status by discontinuing transrectal biopsies for the more superior transperineal prostate biopsy. Jonah was taught the technique of Precision point Free hand Local Anaesthetic transperineal biopsy by his mentor Mr Rick Popert thus becoming the first nurse in the world to perform Local Anaesthetic Transperineal prostate (LATP) Biopsies in the outpatient setting. In November 2018 Jonah became an Advanced Nurse Practitioner for “TREXIT” across the 4 hospitals in the network (Guy’s, Kings College, Queen Elizabeth and the PRUH) and training clinicians (doctors and nurses) in the LA TP technique. Jonah was able to deliver network TREXIT within 4 months which was an incredible achievement.
Jonah has been instrumental in the delivery of UK-wide TREXIT, and has trained many Urologists, Urology CNS’ Surgical Care Practitioners and radiographers across the country.
In 2018 Jonah setup the first Nurse LATP Biopsy Course (at Guys Hospital) which was accredited by Prostate Cancer UK and endorsed by BAUN for nurses wishing to undertake LATP biopsy training. Jonah introduced nurse triage clinics at Guys Hospitals for patients referred from primary care for suspected prostate cancer at Guys Hospital. Most recently, Jonah has joined Royal Free Hospital to help deliver a Nurse Led Prostate diagnostics pathway from referral to diagnosis.
Awards:
- British Journal of Nursing: Urology Nurse of the 2021
- Prostate Cancer UK People Choice Award: For Contribution to Prostate cancer
Prof Mark Frydenberg FRACS,FUSANZ,FAICD
Professor Mark Frydenberg graduated from the University of Melbourne, School of Medicine in 1982 and was awarded his Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology in 1990. He then went to do subspecialty training in urological cancer surgery as the Urological Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota in the years 1991-1992.
Upon return to Australia initially working at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Monash Health before being appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Monash University in 1997 and at the same time being appointed as the Chairman of the Department of Urology at Monash Health, a position held for twenty years until 2017.
He has been the Chairman of the Urological Oncology Special Advisory Group of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2007 to 2013 and held the position of President of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2015 to 2017. He remains on the Board of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand and is also a council member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, where he currently holds the role of Deputy Chairman of the Professional Standards Committee. He is also a Board member of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and has recently been appointed as the Academic Director of Urology at Cabrini Health.
Professor Frydenberg has a long distinguished career in academic urology and was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2016 for his services to medicine.
He continues to have very strong academic relationships with basic scientists and also allied health professionals such as psychologists and physiotherapists to ensure that all patients obtain the best possible care pre- and post- operatively from a survivorship viewpoint.
More speakers to be announced soon.