Mr Ben Challacombe is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at The Prostate Centre, the London Bridge Hospital and The Princess Grace Hospital, all part of HCA Healthcare UK. Ben has a special interest in the minimally invasive treatments of prostatic diseases.  He is the urological cancer and clinical robotics lead for Guy’s & St Thomas’, a UK robotic surgery mentor and robotic fellowship director. 
 
Ben trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, The Royal Marsden Hospital and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was awarded the prestigious Rowan Nicks Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.  Ben is currently the Oncology Section Chairman of the British Association of Urology (BAUS), and in 2019 will be awarded the BAUS Golden Cystoscope for contributions to British urology within 10 years of consultant appointment.
 
Ben has performed over 1000 robotic radical prostatectomies, over 1100 robotic upper tract procedures, and in 2002 performed the first randomised trial of telerobotics between Guy’s and Johns Hopkins Hospitals.  Ben also performs holmium laser prostatectomies with an experience of over 900 cases.  His current research interests are in robotic surgery training, trans-perineal template biopsy techniques, active surveillance of low risk prostate cancer, sentinel node techniques and haptic probe development in robotic surgery. 

Ben is the Associate Editor of the British Journal of Urology (BJUI), with over 230 peer-reviewed publications, 3 books, and 25 book chapters on minimally invasive and robotic urological techniques.  Alongside this, Ben is a Trustee of The Urology Foundation Charity for whom he regularly lectures.