Mr Chris Blick

About

Mr Chris Blick is a consultant urological surgeon with a robotic practice. He qualified in medicine at the University of Sheffield in 2002 and trained in urology in the Oxford deanery, with three years of full-time laboratory research on kidney and bladder cancer funded by the Royal College of Surgeons, The Urology Foundation and UCare, for which Christ Church, Oxford, awarded him a DPhil. He held a British Association of Urological Surgeons fellowship at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, and was elected chairman of the Specialist Urology Registrars Group during his training. He is research and development lead for urology at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. His practice covers benign conditions of the prostate and cancers of the kidney, bladder and prostate, with more than ten years of robotic surgery, and he also sees patients with prostatitis and recurrent urinary tract infection. He is chief investigator of the TARGET trial, which uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, and UK chief investigator of the EASE trial on active surveillance in renal cancer.