PROFESSOR TONY COSTELLO

Professional Practice

• Director of Urology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Since 1999 – Current
  Previous Head of Unit at St Vincent’s Hospital 1991-1999
• Executive Director of the Australian Prostate Centre – Parkville Medical Precinct
• Awarded Order of Australia Medal for ‘Service to Medicine in the field of urology as a clinician, administrator and author, to cancer research and to medical education’
• Private Practice in Wellington Parade East Melbourne and operates at Epworth Hospital Richmond

Pioneered Australian Robotic Surgery

• In 2003 Professor Costello worked with Denis Hogg, then CEO of Epworth Hospital, to bring to Australia and establish the first robotic surgery unit at Epworth Richmond
• Performed the first robotic surgery in Australian at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne
• Trained and Mentored Australian surgeons
• Conducted training courses at the American Urological Association for American and International surgeons
• Performed over 2,500 robotic radical prostatectomies in the Public and Private Hospital System
• Facilitated the purchase of the first three public system robots in Australia through philanthropic donations
• Published and presented peer reviewed data on personal radical robotic prostatectomy series (refer to CV)
• Established the world’s largest tissue bank of prostate cancer specimens which is now 1 of 3 sites in the world working on the Human Genome Project *I would like to attach a link to an article here “To the cell/Nature Paper – will send through separately

International Standing

• The first Australian invited to membership of the prestigious American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons - https://www.aagus.org/
  This group is made up of the chiefs of North America, Canada & Europe’s leading University Hospitals who are regarded as key opinion leaders in the field of genitourinary conditions, treatment and research
• Awarded the St Paul’s Medal by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) for service to urology internationally
• First Honorary Life Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in recognition of services to urology
• Runs Internationally recognised surgical fellowships in Robotics and Cancer Surgery. Alumnus from 20 countries. 150 fellows to date