Mr Chandrasekharan Badrakumar

Mr Badrakumar has a special interest in Endo-urology, the surgical treatment of urinary stones complex upper urinary tract obstruction and stents. He leads on Segmental intra-ureteric stents such as Memokath insertions for patients on long-term JJ stent change for ureteric obstruction due to benign and malignant conditions. This helps reduce the need for repeated stent changes and avoids troublesome stent symptoms. Before joining South Tees Hospitals he was a consultant urologist in Scotland. He held an educational advisor position for SAS doctors with NHS Education for Scotland.  He worked for more than 3 years at Blackpool Victoria Hospital where he developed stone service for the region. He set up a Percutaneous nephrolithotomy service for the Fylde coast region. He was involved in the development of an electronic stent register, cancer pathways for fast-track investigation pathways for Urgent Suspected Urological Cancer referral that comply with current NICE guidelines, an E-discharge platform and MDT workflow reconfiguration.  He moved to South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation. He had been continually involved in departmental activities. He worked as Clinical lead for Darlington Memorial Hospital's urology service to aid in reconfiguring the service to amalgamate with South Tees Hospital's Urology service. He is an educational supervisor for junior and middle-grade urology trainees.  He contributed significantly to research. He was the principal investigator for the SUSPEND Trial (Medical expulsive therapy in adults with ureteric colic: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial) UK National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme. He set up recruitment for PUrE-RCT (The Percutaneous nephrolithotomy, flexible Ureterorenoscopy and Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for lower pole kidney stones Randomised Controlled Trial) as principal investigator.  He was the founder member and developer of the online urology discussion forum called uroeducation. He participates in the Urolink project (BAUS funded) to develop urology services in the remote parts of Ethiopia.  He has a keen interest in photography, adventure motorcycle travel and recently drone filming. He maintains a non-commercial online photo gallery (https://badrakumar.myportfolio.com/)

ENDOSCOPIC INSERTION / REMOVAL OF PROSTHESIS INTO URETER CYSTOSCOPY & BOTOX INJECTION ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION OF LESION OF BLADDER (TURBT) CYSTOSCOPY DILATION OF FEMALE BLADDER INC CYSTOSCOPY TURP (PROSTATE) OPTICAL INTERNAL URETHROTOMY CORRECTION OF HYDROCELE  CIRCUMCISION-ADULT FRENULPLASTY OF PENIS ENDOSCOPIC STONE TREATMENT EXTRA CARPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY BLADDER, URETER AND KIDNEY STONE TREATMENT