Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Urologist at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Liverpool University
Clinical Lead for renal stone disease at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Research interests
My research interests include renal stones and its prevention, prostate cancer and urethral stricture disease.
Personal interests
My interests outside medicine are classical music, cricket and my two lovely sons.
Awards received
Norman Gibbon’s travelling scholarship ; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA; Robotic radical prostatectomy
(July - August 2004)
Best poster award; Traumatic posterior urethral strictures
EAU Annual Congress, Paris, April 2006 - Randomised study
Article in the Urology Times, USA; Role of MRI in colovesical fistula
Publications
1. Ravichandran. S, Nambirajan. T, Muthulatha, Athmalingham. G. Management of Traumatic Posterior Urethral strictures: paper in preparation for European Urology
2. Ravichandran. S, Ahmed H U, Matanhelia S. Is There a Role for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in diagnosing Colovesical Fistulae? Urology. 2008 Oct;72(4):832-7. Epub 2008 Aug 21
3. Thwaini A, Ravichandran S, Nambirajan T En bloc stapler ligation of the renal vascular pedicle during laparoscopic nephrectomy; BJU Int. 2008 Aug;102(3):401; 401-2.
4. Ravichandran S, Parr N J. Penile Cancer: Do GUM clinic referrals delay the diagnosis; Urology; 2006 68 (5A) 238
5. Ravichandran S, Reddy G K, O’Sullivan D. Laparoscopic training in Urology: Are we geared up for the future? Results of an UK based questionnaire survey; Urology; 2006 68 (5A) 87-88
6. Ravichandran S, Lucky, Stephenson. Free/total PSA: A useful tool to select patients for biopsy in borderline cases; Urology; 2006 68 (5A) 119
7. Ravichandran S, O’Sullivan. Disposable Elliks: Are they different? Urology; 2006 68 (5A) 286
8. Ravichandran S, Reddy G K, O’Sullivan D. Is the two week cancer rule working? BJU International 2006 97 (3), 66
9. Ravichandran. S, Matanhelia. MRI in Colo-vesical fistula. Journal of Urology; 2006, 175 (4) 503
10. Ravichandran, S, P A Cornford, M V P Fordham. Surveillance of Testicular microlithiasis? Results of an UK based national questionnaire survey. BMC Urology 2006, 6:8 (15Mar2006)
11. Ravichandran S, Dasgupta P, Booth CM. Radical prostatectomy – current practice in Britain and Ireland. BJU International 2000; 85 (5): 63
12. Ravichandran, S., Dasgupta, P. & Booth, C.M. Radical prostatectomy in Britain and Ireland at the millennium. BJU International 2002 90 (4), 420
13. Ravichandran. S, Blades RA, Watson ME. Torsion of the epididymis: a rare case of acute scrotum. Int J Urol. 2003 Oct;10(10):556-7
14. Ravichandran. S, Nambirajan. T, Athmalingham. G. Traumatic posterior urethral stricture – a randomised study of core through urethrotomy and anastomotic urethroplasty. BJU International 2003 91 (S2), 20-21
15. Ravichandran. S, Matanhelia. SS, Dobson. M. Imaging in colo-vesical fistula. BJU International 2003 91 (S2), 16.
16. Ravichandran. S, Nambirajan. T, Athmalingham. G. Management of Traumatic posterior urethral stricture – Results of a randomised study; European Urology; Volume 5, issue 2, pages 47, April 2006
Courses offered to GPs
I regularly teach Medical students and trainees; I actively participate in Journal clubs for higher surgical trainees. I am involved in regional training workshops in minimally invasive surgery for higher surgical trainees.
I routinely give talks to GPs on updates in Urology
