Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery

Professor Freddie Hamdy is Nuffield Professor of Surgery and Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to Surgical and Cancer Sciences.Mr Ian Eardley trained in Urology in London, Cambridge and Norwich and has been a Consultant in Urology at St James University Hospital, Leeds since 1993. Mr Eardley has written or co-authored seven urological textbooks and published over 200 chapters and scientific papers. He was Treasurer, then President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.His research interests relate to sexual dysfunction, penile cancer and urinary tract infection. He was the Director of the Office of Education for the British Association of Urologists between 2002 and 2006, Chairman of the Specialty Advisory Committee in Urology between 2007 and 2009 and Surgical Director of the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme between 2009 and 2011. Mr Eardley is the current Chairman of the Joint Committee for Surgical Training.

More than 150 worldwide experts have contributed to this work which aims to provide the reader with an exhaustive survey of urology.[...] With [The Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery] the authors achieved their objective, since they assembled an amount of practical information useful for trainees and certified urologists.

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