Ben Challacombe
Benjamin James Challacombe (born 1973) 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.After qualifying in medicine from Guy's and St Thomas' and completing junior surgical posts, he completed a da Vinci robotic Fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2009. In 2010, he was appointed consultant and pursued a surgical career in the procedure of removing part of a kidney using robotics and proceeded to regularly perform these, robotic radical prostatectomies and Holmium laser prostatectomies.
In 2016, he performed the UK's first live broadcast of the robotic removal of part of a kidney. In 2019, he told his surgical story alongside that of Stephen Fry. In the same year he was awarded the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Karl Storz Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope award.
He has written or co-written over 230 peer-reviewed articles and 30 book chapters, and has been an active fundraiser for The Urology Foundation and Prostate Cancer UK. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Salonee Shah, Kerri Beckmann, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Ben Challacombe, Rick Popert, Prokar Dasgupta, Jonah Rusere, Grace Zisengwe, Oussama Elhage, Aida SantaolallaGet full text
Published 2021-05-01
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4by Danielle Crawley, Ashish Chandra, Massimo Loda, Cheryl Gillett, Paul Cathcart, Ben Challacombe, Gary Cook, Declan Cahill, Aida Santa Olalla, Fidelma Cahill, Gincy George, Sarah Rudman, Mieke Van HemelrijckGet full text
Published 2017-07-01
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5by Maria J. Monroy-Iglesias, Marta Tagliabue, Harvey Dickinson, Graham Roberts, Rita De Berardinis, Beth Russell, Charlotte Moss, Sophie Irwin, Jonathon Olsburgh, Ivana Maria Francesca Cocco, Alexis Schizas, Sarah McCrindle, Rahul Nath, Aina Brunet, Ricard Simo, Chrysostomos Tornari, Parthi Srinivasan, Andreas Prachalias, Andrew Davies, Jenny Geh, Stephanie Fraser, Tom Routledge, RuJun Ma, Ella Doerge, Ben Challacombe, Raj Nair, Marios Hadjipavlou, Rosaria Scarpinata, Paolo Sorelli, Saoirse Dolly, Francesco Alessandro Mistretta, Gennaro Musi, Monica Casiraghi, Alessia Aloisi, Andrea Dell’Acqua, Donatella Scaglione, Stefania Zanoni, Daniele Rampazio Da Silva, Daniela Brambilla, Raffaella Bertolotti, Giulia Peruzzotti, Angelo Maggioni, Ottavio de Cobelli, Lorenzo Spaggiari, Mohssen Ansarin, Fabrizio Mastrilli, Sara Gandini, Urvashi Jain, Hisham Hamed, Kate Haire, Mieke Van HemelrijckGet full text
Published 2021-03-01
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