Roger Kirby is a British urologist, a retired prostate surgeon and professor of urology, born in November 1950. He trained at St John's College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1979, and was appointed consultant urologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1986. He was among the first urologists in the United Kingdom to perform open radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer and is best known for using the da Vinci surgical robot for laparoscopic prostatectomy. He founded the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, co-founded the charity The Urology Foundation, served as president of the Hunterian Society, and was president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2020 to 2024. He was himself treated for prostate cancer in 2012.
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is a British retired prostate surgeon
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best known for his use of the da Vinci surgical robot for laparoscopic prostatectomy in the treatment of prostate cancer
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professor of urology
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