Professor Howard Lau Urologist and Transplant, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon

• Urologist and Transplant Surgeon Westmead Hospital since 1996
• VMO Westmead Hospital since 2004
• Chairman of the Medical Advisory Council Westmead Private Hospital since 2015
• Head of Urology and Robotic Surgery Westmead Private Hospital since 2015

• 1995 -1996
  Clinical Lecturer in Transplant Surgery
  Dept. of Surgery
  Oxford University, UK

Secondary Education

• 1979 - 1980
  The Scot’s College, Bellevue Hill NSW

Secondary Awards

• 1979 NSW representative in the annual Australian Mathematics Summer School in The Australian National University.
• 1980
  Prize Winner (top five of senior division) in the Australian Mathematics competition

Tertiary Education

• 1986 M.B.B.S. University of Sydney
  Clinical Training under Royal North Shore Hospital

Post Graduate

• 1995 F.R.A.C.S. ( Urology )

• The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand
• The United Medical Protection
• The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• The Urological Society of Australia
• The UK. General Medical Councal
• The Hong Kong Medical Counca
• The Australian Medical Association

• Oxford Book of Trauma, Edition 1, 2000
  Author, Chapter on Genitourinary Trauma
• Oncology, A clinical manual.
  Oxford University Press, Edition 1, 1999
  Chapter 7.3
• TCC of ureter in solitary kidney
  Chapter 7.4
  Renal cell carcinoma with IVC extension
• Advanced Urologic Surgery
  Blackwell 2005
  Chapter: Laparoscopic Transperitoneal Nephrectomy
  Chief Editor: Dr Hohenfellner, Mainz
  Section (Kidney) Editor:Dr Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Universitätsklinikum
• Chapter on Transperitoneal laparoscopic partial nephrectomy in Operative Atlas on Reconstructive Laparoscopic urology.
  Editor M Ramalingham
  In Press By Springer, UK

Invited Faculty at the World Congress of Video Urology July 2009 at Kaula Lumpur. I lectured on Laparoscopic renal Donors and live Surgical demonstration on Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for a renal cancer.

• Inivited guest on the South Australia Annual Scientific meeting for the Urological Society oF Australia. Lectured on management of small renal mass and early renal cancer and also lectured on Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy. This took place in November 2009. The Lecture was management of early kidney cancer and Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy.
• Surgical Issuses in the management of RCC
  Best practice Uro-oncology Master Class
  July 2007, Sydney Convention Centre
• Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy
  NSW Registrar paper day, July 2006
  RACS
• Laparoscopic renal surgery, Hospital Authority annual meeting, SAC, Hong Kong Jan 2005
• Laparoscopic treatment for renal cancer
  17th APCC (Asia Pacific Cancer Congress), Bali Oct, 2003
• Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
  1st NSW Transplant Sympoium Nov 2003, Double Bay
• Lapaoscopic Radical Prostatectomy workshp
  St. Vincent Hospital, Sydney, Nov 2003
• Frist laparoscopic nephrectomy workshop, National Insititu of transplant and Kidney, Phillipines Feb 2004
• Asia Congress of Urology, Nov. 2004 Hong Kong on laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
• Current State of Laparoscopic Renal Surgery
  Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Oct 2001
• RACS Annunal Meeting, ACT, May 2001
  Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy – Surgical Advance or Marketing Tool?
• How to state laparoscopic surgery in Urology
  The First Asia-Pacific Congress of Uro-Oncology, Jan 02
• Opening plenary lecture in 6th Asian Congress of Urology on Laparoscopic Surgery in Urology 2002
• 43th Annual Conference of The Operating Theatre Association 2000 Invited speaker Keyhole Surgery for the Kidney Sydney, Australia, April 2000
• The Singapore Urological Association Laparoscopic Renal Surgery, Report of 50 cases Singapore General and The New Changi Hospital, Singapore, April 2000
• The NSW Nephrologist Meeting, Summer 2000 Laparoscopic Renal Surgery,Intercontinental Hotel,Sydney, Nov,2000

• First successful laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal call carcinoma in Australia , now with experience of over 700 cases of laparoscopic renal suregery. This is the largest personnel series of this operation in Australia
• Instructor and demonstrator for the laparoscopic nephrectomy workshop Aug 2003 Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane Australia
• Successfully preformed the first laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in Australia Feb 2002
• Chief instructor for first work shop on laparoscopic nephrectomy at Westmead Hospital, 19th June 2000
• Convenor and instructor of First International Laparoscopic Donor nephrectomy Meeting at Westmead Hospital Nov,2000
• Instructor of laparoscopic surgery workshop, USA meeting, March 2001
• Invited demonstrator of laparoscopic ablative nephrectomy at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, April 2001
• Only urologist in Australia trained in pancreas transplant surgery
• Guest surgeon for the first two laparoscopic donor nephrectomies in Hong Kong, at Queen Mary Hospital, Oct 2001
• Invited Overseas Faculty of The First Asia-Pacific Congress of Uro-Oncology, Singapore, Jan 2002. (life demonstration on Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and Adrenalectomy)
• Invited Surgeon at Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania to demonstrate laparoscopic renal surgery, Oct 2002
• Cheif demonstrator of laparoscopic ablative nephrectomy at The Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Feb 2002
• Cheif demonstrator of laparoscopic renal surgery at The Institute of Urology, Ministery of Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2002
• Invited Surgeon at The Royal Horbart Hospital, Tasmania to demonstrate laparoscopic renal surgery May2002
• Invited Overseas Faculty of Endo-Laparo-Urology Workshop, Minimal Access Surgery Training Centre Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
  Hong Kong, July 2002. (life demonstration and lectures on Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, Partial Nephrectomy, Pyeloplasty and Adrenalecotmy)
• Invited Overseas Faculty of 6th Asian Congress of Urology, KL, Malaysia (Plenary State of the Art Lecture on Laparoscopic Surgery in Urology, Asia Forum: First 200 laparoscopic renal surgery, Master Class in Urology, Pre and Post Congress workshop with life demonstration)
• Faculty on Laparoscopic Nephrectomy workshop with live demonstration, Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane, July 2003
• Invited surgeon to The National Kidney and Transplant Insitute to demonstrate Laparoscopic Nephrectomy in The Phillipines Feb 2004
• Invited International Faculty of The 7th Asian Congress of Urology, Hong Kong
• Scientific committee for East Asia Society of Endourology meeting, Hong Kong Dec 2007
• Course director for Laparoscopic Renal Surgery, Congress workshop of USA ASM, Feb 2008 at Hong Kong
• Faculty for Urology Fair, Singapore, March 2008, lecture on management of small renal masses and laparoscopic treatment for RCC
• Invited speaker for International Congress of Transplantation XXII, Sydney Aug 2008
  Workshop on Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
• Invited speaker for Royal Ausatralasian Colllege of Surgeon ASC 2009, Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – Evolution in Australia May 2009
• NSW Urology Oncology Program
  Elective partial nephrectomy for small renal mass, Apr 2009

• Non-immunolgoical causes of renal graft loss
  Transplant preceding 1990
• Monoclonal antibodies perfusion of pancreas transplant in dogs
  Transplant proceeding 1990
• Lymph node implantation inducing hyper-acute rejection in canine pancreas transplantation Transplant preceding 1991
• Advantages and disadvantages of pancreas transplantation
  Transplant proceeding 1990
• Experimental hyperacute rejection in pancreas allotransplants
  Transplantation, Vol62, 324,Aug,96
• The effect of venous Drainage on glucose homestasis after experimental
  pancreas transplantation Vol62,435, 4aug96
• Intracorporeal ribbon gauze in laparoscopic surgery
  S Bariol, CT Heng, Howard Lau ANZJS
• Comparison of laparoscopic and open nephroureterectomy for upper tract TCC
  Bariol SV, Papalkar D, Brooks AJ, Drummond JM, Lau H, Woo H, ANZJS
• Carboplatin and gemcitabine in metastatic transitional cell carcinoma of urothelium: Effective treatment of patients with poor prognostic features
  C Shannon, C Crombie, A Brooks, H Lau, M Drummond, H Gurney
  Annals of Oncology 12:947-952, 2001
• Comparison of spiral CT angiography with conventional digital subtraction Angiography in the evaluation of renal transplant donors: a pilot study
  Christopher Chu, Noel Young, Howard Lau
  Australiasian Radiology,45:118-122, 2001
• Multidetector spiral CT renal angiography in the diagnosis of giant renal artery aneurysms
  Sabharwal R, Vladica P,Law WP, Lau H
  Abdominal Imaging 2005
• Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy (Technical notes)
  Howard Lau
  Hong Kong Jurnal of Nephrology, Apr 2005,Vol7,1
• Oncological outcome of 100 laparoscopic radical nephrectomies for clinically localized renal cell carcinoma
  MC Cheung, YM Lee, R Rindani, H Lau
  ANZJ Surg. 2005: 75; 593-596

• Registrar Paper Day 1990
  Oral presentation on Evaluation of Fine-Needle Cytology in assessment of
  Renal/Pancreas Allotransplants in dogs
• Tsanz Scientific meeting 1991
  Poster presentation on Evaluation of Glucose
  Homeostasis in Pancreatico-Duodenal Allograft
  transplantation in dogs
• USA Annual Meeting 1992 Poster presentation
  The Urolome:The Australian Experience
   
• Keith Kirkland Prize Presentation at USA Annual Meeting 1993
  Evaluation of FNA in early canine renal allotransplant rejection
• TSANZ Annual Meeting 1996
  (Data for The Oxford Transplant Centre)
• 16th World Congress of Endourology (New York), Sep 98
  Ureteroscopic management of upper ureteric calculi
  Howard M.H. Lau; G. Testa; A. Brooks; M. Drummond; H. Woo
  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• 4th Asian Congress of Urology (Singapore), Sep 98
  Retrospective study to determine subjective and objective benefits of a remote
  controlled intraurethral device for management of female acontractile bladder
  G Testa, W Lynch, H lau, T Dean, P Katelaris, R Ferguson, Sydney, NSW., Australia
• 4th Asian Congress of Urology (Singapore), Sep 98
  Minimally invasive pubovaginal sling procedure using a bone anchoring device for the treatment of stress incontinence Howard Lau
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 98
  Ureteroscopic management of upper ureteric calculi
  Howard Lau, AJ Brooks, M Drummond, H Woo
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 98
  TCC of The Upper Urinary Tract
  Howard Lau, AJ Brooks, M Drummond, H Woo
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 98
  Bladder Recurrence after Surgical Treatment of Upper Urinary Tract TCC
  Howard Lau, AJ Brooks, M Drummond, H Woo
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 98
  Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – Early Experience at Westmead Hospital
• 27th Annual Conference: Renal Society of Australasia, Sydnaey 1999
  Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy… the way forward? C McDonald. H Lau
• Urological Nurses Society Annual Meeting 1999
  Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy… the way forward? C McDonald. H Lau
• Westmead Hospital Surgical Grand Round, Sep. 99
  Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 99
  Laparoscopic simple nephrectomy
  P. Kovac, H Lau
• Annual Sciencific Meeting of The Urological Society of Australiasian 99
  Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy
  P. Kovac, H Lau
• Western Section Annunal Meeting, AUA, Nov.2000
  Laparoscopic Renal Surgery at Westmead Hospital Palm Spring, USA
  Kirk Keene, Howard Lau
• Western Section Annunal Meeting, AUA, Nov.2000
  Useful Tips in Laparoscopic Renal Surgery
  Palm Spring, USA
  Kirk Keene, Howard Lau
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, March 2001
  Practical use of Dressing gauze in laparoscopic renal surgery
  Howard Lau
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, March 2001
  Results of first 80 cases of laparoscopic renal surgery at Westmead
  Arthur Vassilaris, AJ Brooks, M Drummond, Howard Lau
• Transplant Section Meeting,, RACS, ACT, May 2001
  Vein extension of right renal cadaveric transplant
  Michael Fink, Howard Lau
• Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A method to maimise vessel length, 6th
  ACU, Aug 2002, KL
  Howard Lau, Chin Heng
• Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy with pre-operative super-selective
  embolisation. 6th ACU, Aug 2002, KL
  Chin Heng, Howard Lau
• Laparoscopic Dismembered Pyeloplasty with Intracorporeal Suturing 6th
  ACU, Aug 2002,
  Chin Heng, Howard Lau
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, Nov 02,
  Ablative Laparoscopic Nephrectomy for Renal Tumour – The Westmead Hospital Experience.
  S Bariol, A Brooks, D Papalkar, C Chee, JM Drummond, H Lau, H Woo
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, Nov 02
  Laparoscopic dismembered Pyeloplasty with intracorpeal suturing
  Chris Chee, H Lau
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, Nov 02
  Laparoscopic Renal Surgery: Single Surgeon Experience with 230 cases
  H Lau, S Bariol, C Chee
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, Nov 2003
  Oncological outcome of 100 Lap. Radical Nephrectomy for RCC
  MC Cheung, YN Lee, R Rindani, M Patel, H Lau
• USA (Urol. Soc. of Aus.) Annual Meeting, Nov 2003
  Outcome of Lap. pyeloplasty
  R Rindani, MC Cheung, YN Lee,H Lau
• Transplant Society of Australia anf New Zealand, 23rd annual scientific
  meeting, ACT May 2005
  A comparison of 2 surgical techniques in pancreas transplantation.
  Wong K, Kable K, Hawthorne W, Robertson P, Chan K,Nankivell B,
  O’Connell P, Chapman J, Lau H, Pleass H, Allen R
• Transplant Society of Australia anf New Zealand, 23rd annual scientific
  meeting, ACT May 2005
  The use of gene arrays to study the pathogenesis of chronic allograft
  nephropathy
  Vitalone M, Nankivell B, Kirk M, Allen R, Pleass H, Lau H, Chapman J
  O’Connell P
• En Bloc paediatric kidney donors: Is this the best use of a scarce resource?
  Laurence J, Lam V, Hawthorne W, Robertson P, Lau H, Ryan B, Allen R, Pleass H
• There are no anatomical barriers to laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
  C Crane, V Lam,A Vasilaras, B Ryan, H Lau, H Pleass, R Allen
  XXII International Congress of TTS, Aug 2008
• Screening for functional asymmetry in potential living kidney donors
  N Suh, H Lau, H Pleass, B Nankivell, P O’Connell, J Chapman, R Allen
  XXII International Congress of TTS, Aug 2008