Birch, Mr Brian

BA, MA, MB, BChir, MD (Cantab), FRCS (Eng)

Speciality

Adult Urology

Sub-speciality

Oncology, Bladder Dysfunction, Prostate disease, Men’s sexual health

Training and Education

Undergraduate: St Catharine’s College Cambridge and King’s College Hospital London
Postgraduate: King’s College, Bromley, Watford, High Wycombe, John Radcliffe and Eastbourne Hospitals. UCL and Institute of Urology London and Southampton General Hospital

Experience

Mr Birch has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since October 1990.

Extensive exposure to all aspects of adult urological surgery including major surgery to the bladder, prostate and kidney.

Research experience to MD level with ongoing urological research/training of undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

Key achievements

Recognition of aggressive nature and poor outcomes of T1 G3 bladder cancer

Involvement in setting up of MDR  (multiple drug resistence) research group and studies into MDR in bladder cancer.

Use of sedation reversal in local anaesthetic day-case surgery.

Research on inflammatory bladder disease.

Research into hypogonadism and cellular effects of testosterone on prostate cancer.

Key awards and prizes

 Scholarship St Catharine's College Cambridge University
First Class Hons Cambridge University 1976
1st Prize Final FRCS Revision Course Royal College of Surgeons 1985
McNeill Love Prize in Surgery Whittington and Royal Northern Hospitals 1989
Everidge Research Prize in Urology King's College Hospital 1989
Clifford Morson Prize Institute of Urology 1989
Best Paper Urological Research Society Meeting 1990
Shackman Travelling Scholarship 1990
BUF Praeceptorship 2008

Research

 The pT1 G3 Bladder Tumour. Birch, B R P and Harland S J. British Journal of Urology 1989; 64: 109-116.

Sedoanalgesia: A Safe, Cost Effective Alternative to General Anaesthesia - A Review of 1,020 Cases. Birch, B R P, Anson, K M, Gelister, J and Miller, R A. British Journal of Urology 1990; 66: 342-350.

The direct effect of nuclear pores on nuclear chemotherapeutic concentration in multidrug resistant bladder cancer: the nuclear sparing phenomenon. Lewin JM. Lwaleed BA. Cooper AJ. Birch BR. Journal of Urology. 2007; 177: 1526-1530