BJU International is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1929. The editor-in-chief is Freddie Hamdy and the journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell. It covers research on all aspects of urology.
Richard Trevor Turner-Warwick was a British urologist who was internationally known for his work on the surgical restoration of the structure and function of the genitourinary tract. He introduced video-cysto-urethrography.
Roger Sinclair Kirby FRCS(Urol), FEBU is a British retired prostate surgeon and professor of urology. He is prominent as a writer on men's health and prostate disease, the founding editor of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases and Trends in Urology and Men's Health and a fundraiser for prostate disease charities, best known for his use of the da Vinci surgical robot for laparoscopic prostatectomy in the treatment of prostate cancer. He is a co-founder and president of the charity The Urology Foundation (TUF), vice-president of the charity Prostate Cancer UK, trustee of the King Edward VII's Hospital, and from 2020 to 2024 was president of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London.
Sir David Innes Williams was a British paediatric urologist.
Prokar Dasgupta is an Indian-born British surgeon and academic who is professor of surgery at the surgical academy at King's Health Partners, London, UK. Since 2002, he has been consultant urologist to Guy's Hospital, and in 2009 became the first professor of robotic surgery and urology at King's, and subsequently the chairman of the King's College-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery.
John M. Fitzpatrick was an Irish urologist, emeritus professor of surgery at the University College Dublin School of Medicine & Medical Science and Head of Research at the Irish Cancer Society.
Sir Eric William Riches, was a British surgeon, urologist, and decorated British Army officer. In 1955, he developed a new cystoscope, which was named after him as the Riches Cystoscope, in order to standardise the equipment and its attachments. He gave the Hunterian Oration at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1938 and 1942, and the Bradshaw Lecture in 1962.
John Ewart Alfred Wickham was a British urologist and surgeon, who was a pioneer of keyhole surgery and the autonomous transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) robot, foreseeing the subsequent revolution in robotic surgery.
Terence John MillinFRCSI FRCS LRCP was a British-born Irish urological surgeon, who in 1945, introduced a surgical treatment of benign large prostates using the retropubic prostatectomy, later known as the Millin's prostatectomy, where he approached the prostate from behind the pubic bone and through the prostatic capsule, removing the prostate through the retropubic space and hence avoided cutting into the bladder. It superseded the technique of transvesical prostatectomy used by Peter Freyer, where the prostate was removed through the bladder.
The British Association of Urological Surgeons is a professional association in the United Kingdom for urology professionals.
The Urology Foundation (TUF) is a charity that works across the UK and Ireland with the aim of improving the knowledge and skills of surgeons who operate on diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs and funds research to improve outcomes of all urological conditions and urological cancers.
Benjamin James Challacombe is a British consultant urological surgeon at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, and at King’s College London, who specialises in the treatment of kidney and prostatic disease using robotic surgery. In 2005, he was part of the team that published the results of a randomised controlled trial of human versus telerobotics in the field of urology and renal transplant, one of the first of its kind.
Albert Clifford Morson OBE,, was a surgeon who pioneered radiotherapy treatments for urinary tract cancers. After the First World War, he was appointed assistant surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for stone, with Peter Freyer, and became consultant in 1923. In 1933, he was elected president of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and, in 1947, he became president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS).
The St Peter's Medal is awarded annually by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) for contributions to the surgical field of urology.
James Barlow Macalpine, was a British genitourinary surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital. In 1929 he described the first series of bladder tumours due to the dye industry in Britain. He was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1934, Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1947, and in 1951 was the first to be awarded the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In 1927 he published Cystoscopy and Urography, which at the time of his death was in its third edition.
Bernard Joseph Ward, was a British urologist, who contributed to the Société Internationale d'Urologie, was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and vice-president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), to which he presented the St Peter's Medal die.
Ronald Ogier Ward was a British urologist, past president of the urology section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the first president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). In 1951, together with Terence Millin, he received the St Peter's Medal.
Leslie Norman Pyrah, was a British urologist in Leeds, who played a leading role in setting up urology as a specialty in the UK. In 1959 he was awarded the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He became president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Margaret Anne Knowles is professor of cancer research at Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, where she has led research on bladder cancer. In 2016 she was awarded the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
