A/Prof Nick Brook
Urologist
A/Prof Nick Brook is a consultant urologist with private practice at Calvary North Adelaide and Ashford Hospitals. Nick consults at North Adelaide, the Hills, and the South Coast, and undertakes Day Case lists at Glenelg and Seaford. He is Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide & was senior staff specialist for 14 years at RAH.
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 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 was Chair of the urological cancer multidisciplinary team there.
His areas of interest include:
- PSA management
- BPH/LUTS medical and surgical treatment including laser, Urolift and 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 Pharmaceutical neurotoxin management for overactive bladder
- Urinary tract infection management
- MRI-guided prostate biopsy
- Bladder cancer management
- Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testis cancer
