Associate Professor Sree Appu

Urologic Oncology & Robotics, MBBS (Hons) Melb, FRACS (Urology)

A/Prof Sree Appu has a strong interest in minimally invasive treatments for BPH and uro-oncology. He completed the first case of Rezum and iTIND in Melbourne as less invasive alternatives to TURP/ Laser Treatment.

A/Prof Sree Appu has been the previous Clinical Head of Monash Medical Centre and Monash Cancer Centre. He has now completed his 7 years of leadership.

He is Director of Southern Consulting Group and the first surgeon to pioneer robotic surgery for the group and amongst all Monash urologists (2010).

Sree returned from North America after completing a formal Uro-Oncology fellowship. He is amongst a select group of Australian urologists to train at a formally accredited centre of the International Society of UroOncology (SUO).

He consults several times a week onsite in his own rooms at Mulgrave Private Hospital, has a dedicated nurse and offers procedure and uroflow services.

A/Prof. Appu and his partners at Southern Consulting provide 24 hour 7 days a week comprehensive on-call for their patients.

Background

A/Prof. Appu completed his high schooling at Geelong Grammar School and commenced Medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1991.

He graduated near the top of his year level and was awarded the Dean’s Honours list for both Medicine and Surgery.

He subsequently undertook residency and general surgical training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In 2001 he was ranked first on the general surgical selection list. After his general surgical training, Sree commenced urology training on the Victorian Programme. Sree was awarded the Urological Society Travelling Fellowship in Oncology as the first Australian Uro-oncology Fellow at the University of Toronto

He is further trained and certified in major oncology and minimally invasive treatment of prostate cancer (brachytherapy, HiFU). He is one of a handful of highly trained robotic prostatectomy surgeons accredited at Mulgrave Private Hospital.

Sree is also a prolific academic researcher and was appointed Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor in Urology by Monash University in 2012.

A/Prof Appu is fluent in Malay, Indonesian and Tamil.

Special Interests

Rezum, Urologic Oncology (Prostate, Kidney, Bladder and Testis Cancer) and Minimally Invasive Therapies. Robotic Da Vinci Prostatectomy