Rahul Gujadhur
Mr Rahul Gujadhur read medicine at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and successfully completed basic urological training in East of England before returning to the North east for higher surgical training where he spent his final year specialising in laser surgery to the prostate.
About Mr. Gujadhur
He was appointed in 2018 and his special interests include surgical treatments for benign prostatic enlargement (HoLEP, Urolift , Greenlight laser and REZUM), prostate cancer diagnostics, superficial bladder cancer , health economics , streamlining patient diagnostic pathways and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
He has been instrumental in setting up the local anaesthetic prostate template biopsy service and providing transurethral laser ablation (TULA) for bladder tumours. He has published and presented both nationally and internationally.He has been invited to share his expertise by charitable organisations and health boards internationally.
He has acted as an advisor on health technology assessment to NICE and contributed to the national GIRFT guidance on TULA. He is committed to medical education and passionate about training younger surgeons in laser surgery. He was appointed RCSEngland college tutor in 2024.He is recognised as an expert user for Greenlight laser surgery and has been taking tertiary referrals for HoLEP and TULA. He has completed the executive education programme on AI in Healthcare from Harvard Medical school.
He is currently the lead for active surveillance programme for prostate cancer as well He is also clincial governance lead for uology.Currently he is local PI for 2 clincial trials.He is based at Freeman from Monday to Thursday and Wansbeck and North Tyneside on alternate Fridays.
Mr Gujadhur is passionate about providing personalised care and is focused on minimising time to diagnosis and expediting treatment pathways.
