"The best surgeons know when not to operate..."
Eleni Anastasiadis is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Croydon University Hospital and St George’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She studied medicine at Leicester University Medical School, completing her studies for a MBChB in 2008 with Honours.
Ms Anastasiadis completed her Specialist Urological training in the South London region. During her specialist training she had the privilege of working with numerous world-leading urologists, including at St George’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, enabling her to train comprehensively within Urology.
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In Croydon Eleni delivers general urological services, regularly doing minimally invasive endoscopic prostate surgery (bipolar resection) for urinary symptoms, circumcisions, vasectomies, hydrocele surgery, testicular/ scrotal surgeries, ureteric stone surgery, and diagnostic procedures including cystoscopies. She has also set up and runs the Andrology service, offering specialist clinics in erectile dysfunction, chronic pelvic pain syndrome/ chronic prostatitis/ chronic scrotal pain, Peyronie’s disease, complex penile reconstructive surgery, male infertility, urethral strictures, microsurgical varicocele treatment, testicular/ scrotal surgeries etc. At St George’s Hospital Eleni is an active member of the supra-network Penile Cancer and benign Andrology teams. She is also a member of the Croydon Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) reviewing and advising on urological cancers and other urological conditions.
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Accreditations
Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE)
British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS)
European Association of Urology (EAU)
General Medical Council (GMC)
Research and Training
Eleni is regularly involved with research and clinical education. A list of her research interest and publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eleni-Anastasiadis. She runs the Urology Academic Meeting in Croydon Hospital which provides a forum for learning and keeping up to date with the latest research, and she also acts as an Educational Supervisor to Foundation Year doctors.
Education
MBChB 2008
MRCS
MSc (Epi), LSHTM
FRCS (Urol), RCSE
Awards and Honors
Phillip Hammersley Gold Medal - Best academic performance in medical school.
Dean’s Salver - Best non-academic contributions to Medical School.
NIHR Academic Foundation Fellowship.
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship.
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