Mr Barry Maraj

Mr Barry Hayden Maraj is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Whittington Health NHS Trust. He is the head of the Department of Urology at the Whittington Hospital. He is a visiting laparoscopic surgeon and mentor for the Carribean Urology Association (CURA). He has had training in robotic surgery and practices as a member of a robotic team.

He was born in Trinidad, West Indies and qualified at Glasgow Medical School in 1987. Subsequent to this he trained in general surgery in the west of Scotland also gaining experience in vascular and plastic surgery. After completing his training, he left for Leeds to engage in a successful research training fellowship leading to the award of a PhD degree in the molecular biology of cancer.

He has published extensively in this field as well as presented data verbally and in poster form at BAUS/AUA/EAU and regional meetings.

He is a general urological surgeon with interests in: Endourology and minimally invasive management of urologic disorders/cancer (which includes laparoscopy, robotic surgery and high energy modality treatment). His main research interest is the molecular biology of urologic cancers with the aim to develop markers for screening, prognosis and management. This complements his clinical and surgical interest in minimally invasive techniques and therapies. He has research links with UCL in Nanotechnology and prostate cancer