Mr Jefferson has been a consultant urological surgeon at UHCW since 2006, specialising in the treatment of prostate cancer including a high-volume Da Vinci robot-assisted radical prostatectomy practice. He trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, representing Oxford as an oarsman. After house officer posts in Oxford and Poole, he taught anatomy at the University of Bristol. He went on to complete his Basic Surgical Training on the Bristol Royal Infirmary Rotation before being appointed to the South Western Deanery Higher Specialist Training Scheme in Urological Surgery. In 1999, he achieved the highest mark in Europe for the European Board of Urology In-service Examination. After completing his training, he undertook a one year period of sub-specialist uro-oncology fellowship training in Bristol. He was admitted to the Specialist Register for Urology in 2006. As well as a number of international presentations and published articles on prostate cance, bladder cancer and nocturia, Mr Jefferson has written book chapters on prostate and other urological cancers. He was chair of the West Midlands Expert Advisory Group for urological cancer between 2013 & 2018. Mr Jefferson began Da Vinci prostatectomy at UHCW in 2014; the service has now performed more than 900 prostatectomies, of which Mr Jefferson has participated in more than 600. The service uses the ICHOMS system of patient recorded outcome measures (PROMS) and reports to the National Prostate Cancer Audit. He is experienced in prostate cancer diagnosis including MRI-USS fusion techniques, transperineal template biopsy and local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy (LATP).
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