The Board of Trustees
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Mr Scott Cormack
Scott is one of KPMG's most experienced global partners with over 34 years in the profession. He has just stepped down as a member of the UK board and is in the leadership team of KPMG Europe. He has worked extensively in the financial sector, spent three years in Brussels running KPMG's operations of the European Commission, and latterly served as global lead audit partner for Nestle and Allied Domecq. Scott has conducted professional assignments all over the world and he has been a practitioner in IFRS/IAS since 1983. He is a chartered accountant and a Luxembourg Reviseur d'Entreprises. Currently, Scott is serving as the Lead Partner on the BBC Audit.
"Until recently I was the treasurer of Toynbee Hall which I relinquished to become an ambassador for mens' health in the UK and in particular to raise funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer, which I am an ambassador for in the UK."
Mr Handel Evans
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Handel Evans has over 50 years experience in the healthcare industry. He was Founder, Director and Executive Chairman of companies providing services in the marketing of pharmaceuticals, the installation of hospital computer systems, and the provision of medical media to healthcare professionals as well as the research, production and sale of pharmaceuticals globally. He was the co-founder and a Director of I.M.S. International Inc. (NYSE), the leading data provider to the global pharmaceutical industry, and of Shared Medical Systems (S.M.S). International Inc. (NASDAQ) the leading global provider of intra-departmental hospital systems. Mr. Evans was a non-executive Director of leading pharmaceutical companies including Smith Kline Beecham Ltd. (FTSE/NYSE), Allergan Inc. (NYSE), and Cambridge Labs Ltd. (private).
Mr. Evans now devotes his time to charitable work and private investment in health-care companies.
Professor John Fitzpatrick
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Professor Fitzpatrick is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Glasgow. Having trained in London, Professor Fitzpatrick was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College Dublin in 1986.
Professor Fitzpatrick has performed 45 visiting professorships and produced 260 peer reviewed publications, 74 book chapters and published 12 books. Professor Fitzpatrick is Editor-in-Chief of the BJU International, Past President of the Irish Society of Urology and immediate Past President of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
Professor Clare Fowler
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Training in Clinical Neurophysiology. Professor Fowler has been in her current position since 1987. Professor of Uro-Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, UCL since 2001. Current work includes clinics and clinical based research. Clinical specialisation: Neurology of bladder and sexual dysfunction. Particular interests include severe detrusor overactivity due to neurological or non-neurological causes, bladder dysfunction in the context of advancing neurological disease and urinary retention in young women (Fowler's syndrome).
Professor Fowler's main contributions to specialisation:
- Established uro-neurology as a sub-speciality in UK.
- Introduced several new treatments for severe detrusor overactivity. Most recently helped to establish detrusor injection of Botox to treat severe detrusor overactivity as a clinic procedure.
- Described eponymous syndrome of urinary retention in young women, researched pathophysiological mechanisms of condition and established treatment programme of sacral neuromodulation.
- Involved in many clinical trials, both “investigator lead” and commercial drug trials of new agents to treat detrusor overactivity or sexual dysfunction of both genders.
Articles:
Professor Fowler has published more than 170 peer reviewed articles on aspects of the neurology of bladder control, neurological disorders affecting bladder or sexual function, Fowler’s syndrome and non-surgical treatments of these disorders. A list of publications is available on request.
Mrs Kate Holmes
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Kate has worked with Professor Roger Kirby for 20 years both in the private sector and the NHS. Kate is a prostate nurse specialist and has wide experience ranging from pharmaceutical trials to the clinical care of prostate and other urology patients.
Her current role as Prostate Nurse Specialist at The Prostate Centre, London, combines her senior nursing skills with her research experience: as well as helping patients to decide on treatment options or deal with post-operative problems, she is also helping to collate outcomes data at the centre. Kate is a Trustee of both Prostate UK and The Urology Foundation and has taken part in a number of radio broadcasts to help raise the profile of prostate diseases.
Mr Adrian Joyce (Representative Trustee - BAUS)
Date of Appointment 23rd June 2010
Representative Trustee for British Association of Urological Surgeons.
Adrian Joyce is a consultant urologist at St James' University Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leeds. His subspecialty interest is in endourology and minimally invasive surgical treatments, including laparoscopy, for disorders of the upper urinary tract.
After two years as a research fellow at Harvard, Boston, USA, Mr Joyce completed his urological training in London at King's College Hospital and the Institute of Urology before moving to Leeds. Mr Joyce was one of the pioneers in urological laparoscopy and as a consequence, he has a particular focus on skills training in endourology with a regular commitment to the European School of Urology (ESU) for hands on training.
Adrian Joyce is the current President of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
Professor Roger Kirby (Secretary)
Date of Appointment 12th February 2009
With an international reputation as a clinician, researcher, communicator and writer, Professor Kirby is the UK's best known and most experienced prostate surgeon. Always in the vanguard of advances in patient care, he has performed over 2000 radical prostatectomy operations (the last 800 using the da Vinci robot); written over 60 books and published more than 300 scientific papers; is founder and past editor of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases; has been heavily involved in the development of national guidelines for prostate healthcare, and maintains his state-of-the-art expertise by attending scientific meetings and lecturing around the world.
At the same time he has had a long-standing interest in the wider issues of men's health and patient safety, on which he has launched a number of pioneering initiatives. He was Chairman of the charity Prostate UK until it became Prostate Action in 2010, and continues as trustee. He has personally raised over £3 million through marathon running, mountain climbing, trekking and cycling challenges for both The Urology Foundation and Prostate UK.
Professor Kilian Mellon (Chairman Scientific Committee)
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Kilian Mellon is Professor of Urology at the University of Leicester. He qualified from Queens University Belfast in 1983 and subsequently trained in Urology in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair in Urology at the University of Leicester in 2001. His principal research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms of tumour invasion and metastasis in bladder and prostate cancer. His main clinical interests are the surgical management of urological cancer.
Kilian is a former member of the SAC in Urology and the Editorial Board of the BJU International. He is currently Chairman of the BAUS Section of Academic Urology and Chairman of the Scientific and Education Committee of The Urology Foundation. He is a former elected member of the BAUS Section of Oncology.
In 2004 he was awarded the Karl Storz - Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope award by the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
Mr Steven Norris (Chairman)
Date of Appointment 12th February 2009
Steven was a Conservative MP for 14 years and a Minister of Transport for nearly five of them. He is a former Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party and was twice his party's candidate for Mayor of London. He is currently Chairman of a number of companies including Soho Estates, AMT-Sybex Group Ltd, Saferoad BLG Ltd and Virtus Data Centres and a non-executive director of a number of other quoted and private companies. In public life he is on the Boards of both Transport for London and the London Development Agency, is Chairman of the National Infrastructure Planning Association and President of the national telematics trade body, ITS (UK).
Steven is Chairman of The Urology Foundation and a Trustee of the Fulham Football Club Foundation. He is a Companion of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Mr David Quinlan
Date of Appointment 21st June 2010
Consultant Urologist
St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin
Mr Malcolm Ridley (Treasurer)
Date of Appointment 12th February 2009
Malcolm was a law graduate before qualifying as a chartered accountant. He was a partner in the firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now part of Pricewaterhouse Coopers) for several years, specialising in giving tax and financial advice to wealthy individuals and their companies. Having retired from the firm in 1996, Malcolm continues to advise some former clients as an independent consultant. In addition to The foundation, Malcolm is involved with three other charities. In his spare time he enjoys golf, cricket, the theatre, music and history.
Mr Nicholas Rogers
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Mr Bruno Schroder
Date of Appointment July 9th 2009
Mr. Bruno Schroder is Non-Executive Director of Schroders Plc appointed in 1963. From 1954 to 1955 he worked for Schroder Gebrüder (Bank) in Hamburg and he joined the Schroder Group in London in 1960 where he worked in the Commercial Banking and Corporate Finance divisions of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Ltd, London. He is a director of a number of other private limited companies.
Dr Thomas Stuttaford OBE
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
Thomas Stuttaford was born in Norfolk in 1931. After routine house jobs he went into his family's general practice for 11 years before becoming MP for Norwich South. He sought out a job in medicine that would enable him to continue with a political career and so worked in the Genito-urinary department at the London Hospital and in his practice in Devonshire Place. He was Senior Medical Adviser to Barclay's Bank, The Rank Organisation and The Hunting Group and Medical Advisor to several other companies.
In November 1981 he was appointed Medical Correspondent to The Times and remained with them until 2009. Dr Stuttaford still writes for various magazines and is the author of several books on medicine. He is currently completing an account of medical practice in rural Norfolk over the past 120 years.
Mr John Tiner CBE
Date of Appointment 9th July 2009
John Tiner is Chief Executive Officer of Resolution. He was previously Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), a position he held between September 2003 and July 2007 when he retired from the role. He had initially joined the FSA in June 2001 as Managing Director of Consumer, Insurance and Investment Business. At the FSA, he led the review which substantially overhauled regulation of the UK insurance industry and promoted financial capability to become a public policy priority. Before joining the FSA, John was a Managing Partner at Arthur Andersen responsible for its worldwide financial services practice. He joined Arthur Andersen in 1976, working mainly with banking and capital market clients. He led the Arthur Andersen team appointed by the Bank of England to investigate the collapse of Barings Bank and draw out the lessons to be learned. John is also a non-executive director of Credit Suisse Group AG and Lucida plc.
John was awarded a CBE in 2008 in recognition of his services to the finance industry and in 2010 was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at his former college, Kingston University, in recognition of his contribution to the financial services industry. John is married with three grown up children.