Mr Prabhakar Rajan, Consultant Urological & Robotic Surgeon
Mr Prabhakar Rajan
Consultant Urological & Robotic Surgeon
Mr Prabhakar Rajan MBBChir MA (Cantab) PhD FRCS(Urol) FHEA
Consultant Urological & Robotic Surgeon
Mr Prabhakar Rajan
Consultant Urological & Robotic Surgeon MBBChir MA (Cantab) PhD FRCS(Urol) FHEA
Areas of expertise
- Transurethral resection of prostate gland (TURP)
- Adult circumcision
- Ultrasound scan
- Bladder neck incision
- Da Vinci robot
About Mr Prabhakar Rajan
GMC number: 4766584
Year qualified: 2000
Place of primary qualification: University of Cambridge
Mr Rajan is a highly esteemed Consultant Urologist, specialising in robotic prostate cancer and complex advanced testicular cancer surgeries. He is currently based at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) and University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Mr Rajan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and subsequently trained in surgery in the East of Scotland. In 2005, he embarked on a 3-year full-time PhD in prostate cancer genetics at Newcastle University, funded by a prestigious Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship. He then moved to the West of Scotland for urology training, focusing on complex cancer surgery, and obtained urology specialist registration in 2014. Concurrently, as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, he continued post-doctoral research at the Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) Beatson Institute. Notably, he was the first urologist in Scotland to win a highly-competitive Royal College of Surgeons of England/CR-UK Clinician Scientist Fellowship in Surgery to support his research into prostate cancer.
Mr Rajan further honed his expertise by undertaking a clinical and research fellowship in robotic ""keyhole"" prostate cancer surgery at the Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Upon his return to Glasgow in 2015, he was appointed as a Consultant Urologist specialising in laparoscopic ""keyhole"" kidney cancer surgery. The same year, he was recruited to his current roles in London.
In addition to his clinical work, Mr Rajan leads an internationally-renowned laboratory-based research group at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London. He also runs clinical trials aimed at discovering new treatments for prostate and testicular cancers.
Mr Rajan holds Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Higher Education Academy, and the Alan Turing Institute. He is an active member of the National Cancer Research Institute Advanced Prostate Cancer and Germ Cell Tumours Research Groups. Furthermore, he serves as an Associate Professor of Urology at University College London (UCL) and sits on the UCL Urology Clinical Academic Board.
Outside of his professional commitments, Mr Rajan enjoys cycling and running. He is passionate about exploring exotic, off-the-beaten-track locations, where he can practice his language skills in Tamil, and to a lesser extent, Hindi and Spanish.
Areas of expertise
- Adult circumcision
- Bladder neck incision
- Cancer genomics
- Da Vinci robot
- Testicular cancer
- Transurethral resection of prostate gland (TURP)
- Ultrasound scan