MBBS (Melb.), MPhil (Cantab.), PGCert. SQIL (Harvard), FRACS (Urol.), FRCS (Eng.), FACS

Benjamin Thomas is a consultant urological surgeon with appointments at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Epworth Hospitals, St Vincent's Private Hospitals, Melbourne Private Hospital and Peninsula Health and is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in urological oncology surgery including robotic surgery.
He completed his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Melbourne. His surgical and urological training was completed at The Royal Melbourne Hospital including Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
 

He then completed urological oncology and robotic surgery fellowships at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge under Professor David Neal and at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm under Professor Peter Wiklund. He has also completed a Master of Philosophy in Medical Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Postgraduate Certificate in Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership from Harvard University.
 

He was a consultant urological surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals for six years. He performed open and robotic surgery for bladder, prostate, kidney and testis cancer. He was the lead surgeon for complex testicular cancer surgery in the Anglian Germ Cell Cancer Network encompassing East Anglia and North and East London, the lead surgeon for robotic surgery development in Cambridge and was previously Chair of the Urology Cancer Specialist Multidisciplinary Team in Cambridge.
 

He is actively involved in research studies including being a chief investigator and principal investigator in bladder and prostate cancer studies and was a member of the National Cancer Research Institute Testicular Cancer Clinical Studies Group. He is currently co-chair of the VCCC Penile and Testicular Cancer Multidisciplinary Team. He is actively involved in teaching and was a supervisor at Clare College and Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is currently on the Court of Examiners for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Fellowship Examination.