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Staff Mini Biographies
   
Mr David Gillatt ChM, FRCS
David Gillatt Medical Director of the Bristol Urological Institute (BUI) and one of UK’s leading urological cancer surgeons. He established the BUI’s Prostate Cancer Care and Research Centre and his interests include discovery and optimisation of biomarkers for early prostate cancer diagnosis and prognosis, and the effect of ketamine abuse on bladder function.
Ms Adèle Long BSc MPhil MBA MICR
Adele Long Director of the BioMed Healthcare Technology Co-operative, a Department of Health supported initiative to stimulate innovation in the area of urinary continence. She has extensive experience in the fields of intellectual property management and research and business development in the medical and life sciences sectors.
Professor Paul Abrams MD FRCS
Paul Abrams Director of the BUI and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of lower urinary tract dysfunction. He is Professor of Urology at the University of Bristol, and Consultant Urological Surgeon at Southmead Hospital. The third edition of his book “Urodynamics” was published in 2005 and the 4th edition of “Incontinence” which he co-edits, in 2009. He is founder of the ICI-RS, an international research society, which had its inaugural meeting in Bristol in May 2009.
Professor Marcus Drake MA DM FRCS
Marcus Drake Consultant Urological Surgeon at Southmead Hospital, visiting Professor at the University of the West of England, Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol and Lead for Research at the BUI. Interests include female and reconstructive urology, urodynamics and the neuropathophysiology of the bladder. He is Chair of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Comprehensive Clinical Research Network Urogenital Specialty Group, and website Editor of the British Journal of Urology International.
Mr Anthony Timoney MCh FRCSEd FRCSI
Anthony Timoney Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southmead Hospital, with an interest in endoscopic procedures and stone disease. He is the Training Programme Director for urology in the south west of England.
Mr Francis X Keeley MD FRCS
Francis Keeley Lead Consultant Urological Surgeon at Southmead Hospital, with a specialist interest in minimally invasive treatment of upper urinary tract obstruction and upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma, as well as the treatment of kidney stones. He is on the editorial committee of several international journals and is Lead for Education at the Bristol Urological Institute.
Mr Rajendra Persad ChM MB BS FRCS
Rajendra Persad Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, with over 15 years of clinical trials experience. He has participated in landmark Medical Research Council, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, National Cancer Research Network and Department of Health cancer trials and studies. He is patron of PROSPECT, a local prostate cancer charity, and is Medical Adviser to the David Telling Trust.
Mr Edward Rowe MB BS BSC MD FRCS
Edward Rowe Consultant Urological Surgeon at Southmead Hospital and departmental urology cancer lead. Specialises in uro-oncology, in particular surgical treatment of malignancies affecting the bladder, penis, kidney and prostate, as well as robotic surgery for radical prostatectomy.
Dr Lucy Swithinbank MD
Lucy Swithinbank Associate Specialist in urodynamics and Director of the Urodynamic Unit at Southmead Hospital. She has a particular interest in the investigation and management of women and children with lower urinary tract dysfunction. She developed and runs the internationally renowned Certificate in Urodynamics training course in Bristol.
Mr Andrew Gammie CEng MIEE CSci MIPEM
Andrew Gammie Clinical Engineer at the BUI, with over 20 years’ experience in medical electronics, equipment design and management, he leads on evaluation services for the BUI. He is also active in the development and delivery of appropriate healthcare technology for developing countries.
Dr Nikki Cotterill PhD BSc RN
Nikki Cotterill Research Associate at the BUI for 5 years, primarily focussing on the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire (ICIQ) tool for quality of life assessment. The ICIQ aims to standardise assessment of urinary, bowel and vaginal symptoms. She was the winner of the New Investigator’s Award at the International Continence Society’s Annual Meeting in Cairo in 2008.
Dr Nicola Morris BSc PhD
Nicola Morris BioMed Laboratory Research Co-manager and Laboratory Skill Centre Manager for the BUI. She is a microbiologist with interests in catheter associated urinary tract infections (UTI) and over 10 years post doctoral experience in the field of long term urinary catheter management.
Dr Debbie Lewis BSc PhD
Debbie Lewis BioMed Laboratory Research Co-Manager and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research interests have been in the field of microbiology and in particular bacterial genetics. In the past two years she has been using her knowledge in bacterial genetics to understand how bacteria, particularly affiliated with UTI, are so efficient at colonising this region.
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson Research Technician and responsible for the monthly research forum meeting; a network of local researchers brought together to disseminate current research topics.
Richard carries out practical microbiological research and testing at the BioMedCentre with specific interests in Biomimetics.
Dr Bahareh Vahabi BSc MSC PhD
Bahareh Vahabi A neurophysiologist at the BUI involved in developing new techniques for the better understanding of bladder physiology and pathophysiology using a pig bladder model. She is also a lecturer in Neurophysiology at the Department of BioMedical Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Dr Rebecca Smith BSc PhD
Rebecca Smith Research Project Facilitator at the BUI with responsibility for managing the BUI’s portfolio of urological cancer projects. She has a background in virology.
Dr Jo Worthington BSc PhD
Jo Worthington Research Project Facilitator at the BUI with responsibility for managing the BUI’s portfolio of projects into bladder function. She is project manager for a number of collaborative BioMed projects, developing new devices for urinary continence.
Dr Elizabeth Dymond CEng, CSci, MIPEM, MInstP, PhD
Elizabeth Dymond Elizabeth has a background in medical engineering and is Project Manager for product innovation projects and advisor on all aspects of intellectual property. She is also the Innovation Manager at North Bristol NHS Trust.
Sarah Fowler
Sarah Fowler Sarah is our Research Associate, specialising in understanding the needs, quality of life and costs of long term catheterisation.
Karen Evely
Karen Evely BUI and BioMed Administation Manager. Karen has worked within the administration team of the BUI for over 13 years. She joined 3 years after the Institute began having already worked within an administrative role at Southmead Hospital. Over time Karen and has seen the Institute grow from a single office to a nationally and internationally recognised organisation with its own 4 storey building.
Caroline Holder
Caroline Holder

Caroline is the BioMed Projects Administrator.

Caroline has over 30 years adminstration experience, she is fluent in Spanish and a keen photographer, these skills are often utilised within both the BUI and BioMed.
Nick Urch  
Nick Urch

Nick is the Website and Education Administrator for the BUI and BioMed.
He is also responsible for the following, ICIQ.net, ICUD.info, ICI-RS and PFCSG.org websites.
Nick has over 20 years administration and management experience in the Health Service and Civil Service.
   
   
 
 
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