Faculty
Dr Anita Clarke
Dr. Anita Clarke is the Director of Urology at St Vincent’s Health Melbourne and of the Victorian Lithotripsy Service. She has been involved with education and training since the beginning of her consultant career and served on the Board of Urology for ten years and held the position of Senior Examiner in Urology for RACS. She also has an interest in diversity and equity in surgery and is the inaugural chair of SWANZU (surgical women of Australia and New Zealand Urology). She has interests in uro-oncology, stone disease, functional urology and multidisciplinary pelvic surgery. She combines an academic public hospital appointment with a busy private practice with an emphasis on data entry, audit and above all surgical teaching.
Dr Hans Goossen
Dr Hans Goossen offers a complete urological service. His special interests include:
• men’s health (erectile dysfunction and penile implant surgery, Peyronie’s disease, male infertility)
• penile and urethral reconstruction
• prosthetic surgery
• benign and malignant conditions of the penis and scrotum
• Gender / Sex Reassignment Surgery (FTM)
Dr Goossen graduated in 1999 from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with a MBBS and a Physician’s degree. In Australia, he completed his Surgery and specialist Urology training at the major teaching hospitals in Brisbane with a special interest in reconstructive surgery, laparoscopy, stone management, and uro-oncology. He further specialised in the field of male genital surgery and reconstruction at the Institute of Urology at the University College Hospital, London, during a two year Fellowship in the specialty of andrology. His main focus was on Peyronie’s disease, erectile dysfunction and penile implant surgery, genital reconstruction and gender surgery.
Dr Goossen is a member of the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM), the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM), the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ), the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), and the European Association of Urology (EAU).
Dr Peter Heathcote
Dr Paige Lanyon-Roberts
Dr Paige Lanyon-Roberts is a highly qualified General Practitioner, Bariatric Doctor and Surgical Assistant with a primary focus on metabolic health and the management of obesity. She specialises in respectful, comprehensive and individualised assessment and management of obesity by incorporating both medical and surgical options into tailored treatment plans. She takes a personalised approach to care, taking the time to understand each patient’s needs, circumstances and weight loss goals.
Since graduating from Griffith University Medical School in 2011, she has demonstrated exceptional expertise and dedication in her field. Dr Lanyon-Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She holds World Obesity SCOPE accreditation and is an associate member of ANZMOSS (Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society) and a member of ANZOS (Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society).
Dr Lanyon-Roberts has acquired extra training in the diagnosis and management of eating disorders and regularly collaborates with allied health professionals to provide comprehensive and supportive care to her patients.
Dr Peter Mactaggart
Dr Peter Mactaggart is a Urologist in Brisbane focusing on neurourology and urodynamics.Dr Mactaggart has worked with the Spinal Injuries Unit for over 20 years, assisting in the management of patients with urinary tract consequences of their injuries.
Dr Mactaggart’s special interests include: Neurourology, Urinary Incontinence, Stone Disease, Urodynamics / Video-Cystometrogram, Augmentation Cystoplasty Surgery.
A/Prof Daniel Moon
Assoc Professor Daniel Moon is a urologist who performs more robotic surgical cases per year than any other surgeon in Victoria. He has particular expertise in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, the management of prostate cancer and the aftermath of its treatment. He is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne and was involved in the establishment of Australian Medical Robotic Academy (AMRA) dedicated to training current and future robotic surgeons in Australia and abroad (click for ABC interview August 2018). He has performed over 2000 major laparoscopic +/- robotic procedures, published the first Australian series of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2008 and performed the first Australian robotic cysto-prostatectomy in 2009. From 2012-2017 he was Director of robotic surgery at Epworth healthcare, established a robotic partial nephrectomy program at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and published the first Australian series of this procedure in 2015 then the largest Australian partial nephrectomy series in 2018. He convened the biennial National Kidney and Bladder Cancer Symposium and held Australia’s first robotic prostatectomy surgical masterclass in 2011, followed by the first robotic partial nephrectomy masterclass in 2012. In 2013 he authored the largest Australian series of Artificial Urinary Sphincter insertion for male incontinence and in 2018 published the longest Australian follow-up for men undergoing urethral sling surgery, followed by the largest Australian series of penile implant surgery for treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Dr Benjamin Namdarian
Dr Benjamin Namdarian is a specialist urologist who provides personalised care to his patients that uses cutting edge techniques and treatments. Dr Namdarian has particular expertise in robotic-assisted urological cancers and reconstruction surgery, advanced prostate diagnostics — fusion and transperineal — endourology, and BPH.
After becoming a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2016, Benjamin completed the prestigious Robotic Oncology Fellowship at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust in Central London, followed by an Adolescent/Transition Urology Fellowship at University College London Hospital.
Subsequently, as an NHS Consultant Surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, Ben played a key role in establishing robotic reconstructive and transplant services, pioneering and disseminating local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy, MRI fusion biopsies, tailored BPH treatments, prostatic arterial embolisation, Urolift®, and LASER HoLEP.
Ben is widely published across diverse urological disciplines. He’s also written a number of book chapters on robotics and urological anatomy, most recently in the esteemed Gray’s Anatomy.
Pieter Van Der Kooij
Dr David Winkle
Dr David Winkle completed his undergraduate medical degree at University of Queensland. He undertook post graduate surgical training in Queensland, initially in the field of general surgery and subsequently in the field of urology, completing his Australia fellowship examination in 1988. He then travelled to the United Kingdom as the Australasian Travelling Fellow in Urology working at the Institute of Urology in 1989 and 1990 and subsequently working as Fellow in Paediatric Urology at the Bristol Hospital for Sick Children.
Dr Winkle was appointed to the Mater Adults and Children’s Hospital in 1992. He has an interest in paediatric and adult reconstructive surgery, voiding dysfunction and the neuropathic bladder with associated major reconstructive surgery of bladder and urethra. Dr Winkle has also extensive experience in relation to urinary stone disease.
Dr Winkle is the immediate past President of the Urological Society of Asia and past President of the Urological Association of Australia and New Zealand. He is a past examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Queensland. He is a trustee of The British Journal Urology Charity and Director of The Australasian Urological Foundation.
Dr Winkle has published in the field of paediatric urology and urinary stone disease and has been an invited lecturer internationally in the field of paediatric urology and bladder reconstructive surgery.
Dr John Yaxley
Dr Yaxley is a past Chairman of the Northern Section of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand. His private practice is subspecialised to the treatment of prostate cancer.
Dr Yaxley has a special interest in radical prostatectomy, particularly in nerve-sparing procedures to maintain post-operative potency. He has performed approximately 2000 radical prostatectomy procedures, including, robotic techniques. Dr Yaxley is a co-investigator in the randomised open versus robotic radical prostatectomy trial at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Dr Yaxley performed the first prostatic brachytherapy procedure in Queensland in conjunction with the radiotherapists at the Wesley Hospital in August 2000. He has performed over 1000 brachytherapy procedures since that time.