Dr. Nick Brook

Professional Qualifications

Bachelor of Science – Physiology (1^st Class Hons) University of London
Master of Science – Biochemical Pharmacology Uni of Southampton
Bachelor of Medicine, University of Southampton
Doctor of Medicine, University of Leicester
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Urology)
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Urology)

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Urol)
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Urol)
Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
ANZ Urological and Prostate Cancer Trials Group
Society of Urological Oncology
American Urological Association
European Association of Urology
Urological Association of Asia

Areas of interest

PSA management
BPH/LUTS medical and surgical treatment including laser, Urolift, Rezum
UTI and haematuria assessment
Kidney stone surgery and biochemical management
Vasectomy and vasectomy reversal
Robotic surgery, brachytherapy, and focal therapy for prostate cancer
Robotic, open, and laparoscopic urology cancer surgery
Software fusion prostate biopsy
Erectile dysfunction and incontinence
Urodynamic investigation and female incontinence
PTNS and Botox management for overactive bladder
Urinary tract infection management
MRI-guided prostate biopsy
Bladder cancer management
Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testis cancer

Biography

A/Prof Nick Brook is a consultant urologist with operative private practice at Calvary North Adelaide, Ashford, and Flinders Private Hospitals. Nick consults at North Adelaide, the Hills, Glenelg, Blackwood and Flinders and undertakes day case lists at Glenelg. He was a consultant urologist for 13 years at the Royal Adelaide Hospital before moving into full time private practice, and is an Associate Professor in Surgery at the University of Adelaide.

Nick undertook a urological cancer fellowship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane from 2008-2009, and was appointed as a consultant in Adelaide in 2009. He holds Fellowships of both the UK (FRCS Urol) and Australasian (FRACS Urol) Colleges of Surgeons, a Doctor of Medicine higher degree by research (MD) and has extensive basic science training (Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees).

He is trained in all aspects of adult urology and has a special interest in urological cancers. He has wide experience in the management of prostate, kidney, bladder and testicular cancer, including minimally invasive robotic surgery for prostate and kidney cancer. Nick recently spent a six-month, full-time sabbatical clinical fellowship in Europe undertaking advanced robotic prostate and kidney surgery.

Nick is also a high-volume robotic and open cancer surgeon, and performs brachytherapy for prostate cancer, so is able to offer patients all current options for urology cancer treatment.

His research interests encompass novel treatments for prostate and kidney cancer, and he is heavily involved in the ANZ Urological Trials Group and was the lead urologist on a number of clinical trials based at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, was the Director of Urological Cancer at the RAH Urology department, and established and chaired the urological cancer multidisciplinary team there.