Mr Rami Issa

Mr Rami Issa qualified in 1993 at Damascus University, Syria and earned a specialist certificate in general surgery in 1996. Mr Issa then received his MD in surgery in 2001, also at Damascus University. In the same year he received his specialist certificate in urology, and in 2002 he attained a Certificate of the Arab Board in urology from the Council of Arab Health Ministers. Mr Issa subsequently pursued his career in the U.K., and in 2006 he was awarded the Fellowship of the European Board of Urology and in 2007 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Urology. He traveled to Bordeaux, France, and Malmo, Sweden in 2009/2010 to train in robotic-assisted surgery for bladder and prostate cancer. Mr Issa was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at St George’s in 2010 and in 2016 he became the Clinical Lead for cancer in urology at St George’s. He is a national expert in the surgical and medical management of bladder and prostate cancers.  He is an experienced surgeon skilled in both open and minimally invasive (robotic) surgery. He is also one of a very small number of surgeons in the U.K. who perform a complete removal of the bladder with the reconstruction of a new bladder (bladder substitution) using keyhole surgery with the assistance of a surgical robot. Mr Issa delivers a very advanced therapy for refractory non-muscle invasive bladder cancer combining chemotherapy with thermotherapy (mitomycin hyperthermia) to avoid surgical removal of the bladder.

Bladder cancer Prostate cancer Robotic surgery