Mr Simon Choong

Urologist in London

MBBS(Lon) FRCS(Eng) FRCSEd MS (Lon) FRCS(Urol)

GMC: 3332366

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Mr Simon Choong is an esteemed consultant urologist based in London. Mr Choong has a wide urological practice covering the treatment of kidney stones, urinary tract infections, acute renal colic, blood in the urine, benign prostate enlargement, and prostate cancer, and specialises in Super-mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy (SPNL). He privately practices at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth while his NHS base is University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he is the lead consultant of the European Board of Urology-accredited kidney stone unit.

Mr Choong is a respected medical professional with years of experience, including paediatric kidney stone surgery at the world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital. Here, he is an honorary consultant urological surgeon. He is known for introducing and starting super-mini Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (SMP) operations for children in the UK, which has significantly reduced morbidity and length of stay for patients. The European Board of Urology

Mr Choong undertook his medical school and postgraduate urological training at University College Hospital, London. After completing two fellowships - a Hunterian Fellowship awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons and a BAUS/BJU International Travelling Fellowship - Mr Choong was appointed to lead the stone and endourology unit at University College London Hospitals in 2002. He continues to work at University College London Hospitals in addition to his private practice.

Outside his clinical practice, Mr Choong is heavily involved in research and teaching. He has secured over £350,000 of research grant funding to understand encrustation in urological devices with the aim of reducing complications associated with their use. As well as Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Urology, Mr Choong organises a number of courses and regularly carries out live surgery masterclasses across the country.

Nearly 80 of Mr Choong's research papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals. His other clinical research, such as review articles and book chapters, are also widely available. He is an active member of various professional organisations, including the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) and the General Medical Council (GMC), as well as the British Medical Association (BMA), European Association of Urology (EAU) and International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU).

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Credentials

GMC: ‍3332366

Professional experience

• More than 5 years of experience
• Consultant urological surgeon, St John & St Elizabeth Hospital (Present)
• Kidney stone unit lead and consultant urological surgeon, Institute of Urology, University College London Hospitals (2002 - present)
• Honorary consultant urological surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (Present)

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Sub-specialties

• Acute renal colic
• Benign prostate enlargement
• Minimally invasive treatment of urological conditions (endourology)
• Female urology
• General urology
• Haematuria (blood in urine)
• Laser prostatectomy
• Lithotripsy
• Kidney stones
• Prostate cancer
• Urinary tract stones
• Urinary tract infections

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Positions in public associations

• Committee board member, Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) guidelines, International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU)
• Organising committee member, Super-mini PCNL, IAU
• BAUS representative and committee member, CH/1 catheters, British Standards Institution
• Specialty Training Committee Member in Urology for North and South Thames, London
• Junior Doctor Representative in Urology, St. George’s Hospital, London (2000)

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Teaching posts

• Honorary senior lecturer, Institute of Urology, University College London Hospitals
• Director of teaching programme in Urology for North and South Thames, London
• Course organiser for MSc in Urology, Institute of Urology, London, UK
• Course organiser for London North and South Thames SpRs teaching programme
• MBBS examiner, Surgery, University College London

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Education

• FRCS(Urol) (2001)
• Hunterian Professorship
• MS, University of London (1997)
• FRCS(Ed) (1994)
• FRCS(Eng) (1994)
• MBBS, University of London (1989)

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Publications and conferences

• International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) guideline on Percutaneous
Nephrolithotomy
Minerva Urol Nephrol. Accepted for publication 31 Jan 2022.
• Comment on “Comparison of safety and efficacy between single-tract and
multiple-tract percutaneous nephrolithotomy treatment of complex renal calculi: a systemic review and meta-analysis.
Giorgio Mazzon, Simon Choong, Antonio Celia
Minerva Urol Nephrol. 2021 Dec:73(6):849-850
• European Association of Urology Section of Urolithiasis and International
Alliance of Urolithiasis Joint Consensus on Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.
Eur Urol Focus 2021 March 16
Guohua Zeng, Wen Zhong, Margaret Pearle, Simon Choong et al.
• Anaesthesia for thalidomide embryopathy survivors 60 years on. A Review
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 2021
Siriwardhana SA, Morrison DJ, Choong SK, Cairns FP
• The characteristic and relationship of Escherichia coli isolated from urine and
stones in patients with calcium oxalate stones
Zhong F et al
Urolithiasis 2021 Jan 17. Epub 2021 Jan 17
• Introducing the PNL-Trifecta: a proposal for standard reporting outcomes of
percutaneous nephrolithotomies
Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica 26 March 2021
Giorgio Mazzon, Simon Choong, Nicola Pavan, Guohua Zeng, Wenqi Wu, Otas Durutovic, Marco Pirozzi, Jiehui Zhong, Maida Bada, Antonio Celia
• Classification and Standardized Reporting of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy
(PCNL): International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) Consensus Statements
Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica 2021 Jan 13. doi: 10.23736/S0393-
2249.20.04107-7. Online ahead of print.
Simon Choong, Jean de la Rosette, John Denstedt, Guohua Zeng, Kemal Sarica,
Giorgio Mazzon, et al.
• Super Mini-Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in Pediatric Stone Disease
Published in Videoscopy. Volume:30 Issue 5: September 30, 2020.
Eleni Papageorgiou, Alex Barnacle, Simon Choong, and Naima Smeulders.
Videoscopy.Oct 2020.http://doi.org/10.1089/vor.2020.0657
• Management of large renal stones with super-mini percutaneous
nephrolithotomy: an international multicentre comparative study
Yang Liu, Chao Cai, Albert Aquino, Shabir Al-Mousawi, Xuepei Zhang,
Simon KS Choong et al.
BJU Int 2020 07 25;126(1):168-176. Epub 2020 May 25
• A cohort study of 30 day mortality after NON-EMERGENCY surgery in a
COVID-19 cold site
International Journal of Surgery. Vol 84, Dec 2020, p57-65
Prospective UCLH cohort study group

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Prizes and awards

• BAUS/BJU International Travelling Fellowship (2001)
• Pump-priming award, Royal College of Surgeons of England (2003)
• Awarded numerous research grants totalling over £350,000 studying encrustation of stents, biomaterials and urological devices

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Professional membership

• British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS)
• Royal College of Surgeons (RCS)
• General Medical Council (GMC)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• European Association of Urology (EAU)
• International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU)

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Languages spoken

English
Chinese (Mandarin)
Malay