A pioneering consultant urologist, Professor Seshadri Sriprasad (MBBS, DNB, MSc (Urol), FRCS, FRCS (Urol), FEBU) established the Stone and Kidney Centre at Darent Valley Hospital (DVH) in Kent in 2005 and has made great progress both as a urological surgeon and in making the department a centre of national reckoning in Endourology. He also serves as the Clinical Director for Urology and Nephrology in DVH. He specialises on all forms of kidney and ureteric stone surgery including key-hole surgery (PCNL), laser surgery and lithotripsy (ESWL). He was instrumental in starting acute dialysis services in DVH. The Poplar unit was commissioned in October 2013, and has a comprehensive urology and nephrology clinical set up with facilities for biopsies, flexible cystoscopy and advanced diagnostics. It also houses the bladder hyperthermia and lithotripsy units. He has considerable experience in treating all forms of urinary stones, laparoscopic surgery of the kidneys, endourology and general urology.

Professor Sriprasad has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and has over 80 published abstracts. He is the Associate Editor for The Journal of Clinical Urology. He is an invited speaker to most of the leading national and international urology meetings and was a member of the scientific committee for the World Congress of Endourology 2015. He is the national selector of the Urology ST3 and has been a post graduate examiner for many universities.

Winner of the Everidge and Markovitz prizes, Professor Sriprasad was given the National Bronze Award for clinical excellence in 2014.