Professor Abhay Rane

Abhay Rane MS FRCSGlasg(Urol) graduated from Poona University in 1983 and trained in urology in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust in 1999. Within the College, he has served as Vice President (Surgical), Ordinary Councillor, Associate Director (International) and Regional Advisor.

He is Visiting Professor at Canterbury Christchurch University and Clinical Professor at both the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. He advises the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and has served as national urology representative to its Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee. He is elected to the Board of the European Section of Uro-Technology of the European Association of Urology and is a Director of the Endourological Society. A former BAUS Council member, he represents BAUS on the American Urological Association’s International Member Committee.

He was appointed OBE in 2014 for services to laparoscopic surgery and has strong interests in surgical education, training and mentoring.