Gokul Vignesh Kanda Swamy

Mr Gokul Vignesh Kanda Swamy completed his initial years of training in India, including a formal Urology training program and he worked there as a Junior Consultant before moving to the UK. Initially based in the West Midlands and then Leeds, he came to Wales in 2015 to take up an Oncology fellowship in Cardiff.
Through all of these training roles, he was privileged to train under some of the best known and most respected Urologists both in India and the UK. In 2016, he was appointed by Swansea Bay University Health Board in Swansea as a Consultant Urological Surgeon, and he specialises in prostate and bladder cancers and performs cystectomies and both open and Robotic Prostatectomies.

Gokul is one of the new generation of surgeons who has gone through the formal fellowship and mentoring process.
He works closely with other pelvic cancer specialist surgeons, such as colo-rectal and gynecologists for complex pelvic clearance surgeries for different cancers. He offers a good comprehensive core urology service, including surgeries for bladder outflow obstruction (prostate resection/bladder neck incision /urethrotomies), bladder tumour resection, stone surgeries including ureteroscopies and laser, diagnostic procedures including cystoscopy and prostate biopsy including cognitive/targeted fusion biopsy, penoscrotal surgeries like circumcision, hydrocele surgery, testicular implants, urinary tract infections etc.

He has presented in international conferences and is published regularly in reputed medical journals. He is involved in setting up Robotic cystectomy services in Wales, which will be the first of its kind.