Dr. Ketan K. Badani is Professor of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Vice Chairman of Urology and Robotic Operations at the Mount Sinai Health System, Director of the Comprehensive Kidney Cancer Center and Reconstructive Urology at Mount Sinai Health System and Chief, Surgical Innovation and Strategy – Mount Sinai West and Morningside Hospitals.

Dr. Badani is known as a world leader in the research and treatment of urologic oncology.  With a focus on kidney and prostate cancer, he has led teams and published techniques for minimally invasive robotic kidney cancer surgery.  His techniques for a partial nephrectomy, F.A.S.T (First Assistant Sparing Technique) and LAA (Low Anterior Access) has been published and taught around the world to help patients with renal tumors. 

Dr. Badani has the largest combined experience in robotic kidney and prostate cancer surgery in the New York area, and the largest robotic kidney surgical experience worldwide.  Having performed over 9,000 robotic procedures in his career, he is in the top 1% of urologist worldwide.  His clinical expertise covers both surgical and non-surgical approaches to treatment of urologic cancers. 

Mr Philip Dundee is a specialist urological surgeon with expertise in robot-assisted urologic surgery. He has a special interest in prostate cancer, bladder cancer and kidney cancer.

Phil has established himself as a high volume robotic specialist and has performed over 1600 robot-assisted and laparoscopic surgeries since returning to Melbourne at the end of 2012 after fellowship training in London. He has pioneered a number of robotic surgeries in Melbourne, including radical cystectomy with intra-corporeal diversion, Retzius sparing radical prostatectomy and buccal mucosa ureteral reconstruction.

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Dr Renu Eapen is the Director of the Urology Clinical Institute at Epworth HealthCare and a consultant urologist in the Genitourinary Oncology service at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Austin Hospital.

Dr Eapen completed her urology training in 2014. She undertook her robotics and uro-oncology fellowship at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prior to this, she completed a fellowship in urodynamics, incontinence, voiding dysfunction and pelvic reconstruction at the University of Toronto.

She has completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in high risk prostate cancer in collaboration with the Prostate Cancer Theranostics and Imaging Centre of Excellence at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Dr Eapen is the recipient of the 2022 Michael and Lori Milken Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) Young Investigator Award.

She is co-host of GU Cast, a regular podcast series, focusing on all things related to the world of Genito-Urinary oncology. www.gucast.org

Dr Sandra Elmer is a consultant urologist in Melbourne with a special interest in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, functional urology, urodynamics and general urology. Dr Elmer completed a 12-month fellowship at the Austin Hospital specialising in open and laparoscopic surgery and post-fellowship training in Functional Urology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, specialising in neurourology, urodynamics, transition urology and female urology. Dr Elmer has a special interest in treating male incontinence and erectile dysfunction. She has also pursued overseas training with the world's top female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeons at the New York University Medical Centre, and completed robotic surgical training at the ORSI in Belgium. She is the current Female Urology Special Advisory Group Deputy Chair, of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk is a urologist and urologic-oncologist. He is Director of Urology at The Royal Melbourne Hospital Department of Urology and founding Director of the EJ Whitten Prostate Cancer Research Centre at Epworth Hospital as well as being a urologic oncologist in the Division of Cancer Surgery at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Nathan’s chief research and clinical interests are in the biology and clinical management of urologic tumours. He has published 500 peer-reviewed articles, eighteen book chapters and is frequently invited to speak nationally and internationally. He has served as the Vice-Chairman of the World Urologic Oncology Federation and is a member of the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) Young Innovators Committee. He co-founded the Bladder Cancer Australia Charity Foundation and serves on several national cancer and tumour professional and patient groups including the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

A/Prof Daniel Moon is a urologist with subspecialty expertise in robotic prostate and renal surgery.  He served as the inaugural Director of Robotic Surgery at Epworth Healthcare 2012-2017 and is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. He has performed over 2000 robotic procedures, published the first Australian series of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2008, performed the first Australian robotic cysto-prostatectomy in 2009, and established a robotic partial nephrectomy program at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, publishing the first Australian series of this procedure in 2014 and the largest Australian partial nephrectomy series in 2017. 

Professor Declan Murphy is Consultant Urologist, Director of Genitourinary (GU) Oncology, and Director of Robotic Surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

He is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Declan is a founding director of Cancer Specialists, a large group practice at Epworth HealthCare. He has a strong academic background and has published extensively in GU oncology, prostate cancer in particular.

Declan is Associate Editor for Digital Media at European Urology, the world’s highest ranked Urology journal, and hosts the European Urology Podcast which he launched in 2023. He also co-hosts GU Cast, the top ranked Urology podcast which he co-founded with Dr Renu Eapen in 2020.

Dr Briony Norris is a urological and robotic surgeon. She specialises in minimally invasive surgery and laser for kidney stones, and in laparoscopic and robotic surgery for both benign and malignant kidney conditions. 

Dr Sarah Norton is a consultant urologist with significant expertise and particular interests in minimally invasive robotic surgery of the prostate, laparoscopic surgery and oncological surgery, minimally invasive treatment of kidney stones, and benign prostatic obstruction management.

A/Prof Marlon Perera is an Australian-trained urological surgeon with a special interest in urologic oncology. A/Prof Perera was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship whilst completing additional training in robotic surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York. 

He is actively involved in clinical research and completed a PhD (Urology) through the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively with over 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and frequently presenting at international congresses. 

Benjamin Thomas is a consultant urological surgeon with subspecialty interests in urological oncology and robotic surgery. In addition to his oncology work, he manages patients with general urological conditions including kidney stones, lower urinary tract symptoms, benign prostatic enlargement and infertility. He has an appointment at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He completed fellowships at Cambridge University Hospitals and the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and has postgraduate research and management degrees and qualifications from the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. He was a substantive consultant urologist at Cambridge University Hospitals where he was Chair of the Urological Cancer Multidisciplinary Team and Lead for Robotic Surgery.

Dr Raymond Tong is a urologist based at Epworth Hospital and is an executive member for the Epworth Urology Clinical Institute.

Dr. Tong is also a urologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.  

He has special interests in robotic prostate and renal surgery.

A/Prof Homayoun (Homi) Zargar is a urological surgeon with fellowship

training in uro-oncology, advanced laparoscopy, and robotic surgery.

He is a consultant at Western Health and Honorary Associate Professor

at the University of Melbourne. His clinical practice focuses on

minimally invasive management of kidney, bladder, and prostate

cancers. A/Prof Zargar has authored over 200 peer-reviewed

publications and is actively involved in clinical research through

Western Clinical Trials, where he serves as Director.