Muhammad Shamim Khan OBE TI, MBBS MCPS FRCS FRCS (Urol) FEBU Professor of Urology & Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals & King's College London.

Mohmmad Shamim Khan is Professor of Urology, King's College & Consultant Urological Surgeon at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals London. His national and international eminence stems from jointly pioneering robotic urology in UK with great enthusiasm in 2004. This was the first in the UK programme and he has made vital contribution to its ongoing progress and success. He is one of the largest UK contributors to the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium. Prof Khan completed and published the world's first randomised trial comparing open, laparoscopic and robotic assisted radical cystectomy as Chief Investigator and published about all key aspects of the robotic surgical approach including technique, complications, cost effectiveness, oncological & functional outcomes in contemporary series and randomised trials. This work has been published in high impact surgical journals including European Urology (Current Impact Facor-20 .06) and Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) (Current impact factor 56).

Prof Khan has been a faculty in several robotic surgery themed meetings including European Urology Association meeting in Hamburg Germany -2011, Masterclass of Robotic Cystectomy Barcelona, Spain 2012, EAU meeting in Stockholm 2013, Robotic Surgery Symposium Cluj Romania 2013, and Masterclass Robotic Cystectomy Essen Germany 2018, 2019. He demonstrated his skills to live audiences at the European meetings in Amsterdam Netherland 2014 and Masterclass on Robotic Cystectomy Essen Germany 2018,2019 & Pakistan in 2017, 2018, 2019. His wise counsel and judgments are in considerable demand amongst his clinical colleagues, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally! He co-authored guidelines on robotic surgery training in UK and Europe (2016), guidelines for the 'Enhanced Recovery after Robotic cystectomy', with European Robotic Section; published in European Urology (2016. As an executive member BAUS Oncology, he contributed to establish the dataset for the national audit of cystectomy (2012-15). He has been the Centre co-lead for a 100 K Bladder Cancer National Genome Project since Jan 2017.

Prof Khan mentored surgeons in 7 UK and 5 European centres and a centre in Pakistan. Trained gynaecologists and two functional urologists- in robotic assisted surgery. He established the first UK Fellowship in Robotic Bladder Surgery in 2015- so far a total of 9 Fellows; UK (n=5), Singapore (n=1), USA (n=1), Switzerland (n=1), Australia (n=1) have been fully trained since 2015. He led the Urology Foundation sponsored robotic surgical training consortium-( 2015-201) in addition to training surgeons in 6 UK centres in open urological reconstructive surgery.

Prof Khan has been the key member of the complex multi-disciplinary surgical programme for the management of advanced pelvic cancer (one of the largest centres in London) and contributed to the recent introduction of robot assisted pelvic exenteration programme. He has also been involved in complex Multi-disciplinary Endometriosis service (one of the 16 national centres-80-100 referrals/year), which received the Trust Excellence Award in 2016. Prof Khan was CI/Co investigator in two randomised controlled trials starting in 2004/2005 which played a key role in promoting Botulinum Toxin in the management of overactive bladder within UK and internationally. He supervised two research fellows in clinical trials and lab-based studies of botulinum toxin which led to two PhDs.

Professor Khan held several key positions in UK Urology; Director BAUS office of Education (2013-2016), member Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Urology & Joint Committee Higher Surgical Training (JCHST), Co-Chair UK National Simulation Programme (Urology) and joint-lead Surgical BSC King's College London (since 2012). He has been an examiner FRCS Urology, FCPS Urology (Pakistan-2019) and FRCS Urology International and Chaired joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examination in Urology 2020-2024.

As Director office of Education for the British Association of Urological Surgeons (2013-16), he introdued innovative changes in the existing format of courses and introduced a new course for newly apointed consultants, with >98% excellent feedback. Prof Khan was instrumental in setting up a £1.5M simulation centre at Guy's and spearheaded the first simulation training programme for the South-East Specialist Trainees in Urology (n=35 per year) between 2010-2017. These multi-disciplinary-sessions, ran over seven full and fourteen half-days every year and included technical and non-technical skills with excellent feedback from 95% of the delegates.

The simulation programme generated over forty peer-reviewed publications and numerous presentations. Following the success of this unique programme, Prof Khan co-authored the Simulation Curriculum for the Urology Specialist trainees, which was approved by the General Medical Council (GMC) and incorporated into the specialist urology training curriculum. This was the first of its kind in the world.

As National Joint Lead for simulation in Urology, he personally assessed the facilities in England, Wales, Scotland and Republic of Ireland (11 sites) and submitted a report to the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). He was invited to give state of the art lectures on the national simulation programme at BAUS (2013) & Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons in 2014, Society of the International Urologists Melbourne Australia (2015) and World Congress of Endo-urology London (2015) as until then it was the only such structured programme in the world.

Professor Khan established laparoscopy (2013) and the first Robotic Urology programme (SIUT) in Pakistan in 2017. Organized >15 surgical workshops for Pakistani urologists since 2000, in 14 different centres in Pakistan and conducted FCPS courses annually since 2016. In addition, he made contribution to the FCPS Urology teaching and established the link between Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons and European Association of Urology (EAU) in 2017 and British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) in 2020. He established the first kidney transplant programme in Rwanda and more recently set up a dedicated urology unit for the underprivileged in remote part of Pakistani Kashmir.

His academic output includes > 500 publications (280 papers & 300 abstracts), two books, 12 book chapters and more than 180 plenary lectures at the international meetings. He supervised 7 PhDs and4 BSCs. He is co-founder and trustee of the charity (4POM-111270) since 2005.

Professor Khan was awarded OBE in 2007 for the humanitarian work, Certificate of Compassionate Care in 2016, Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation Trust, Silver Cystoscope for the trainer of the year UK/Ireland (2017), , Gold National Clinical Excellence Award in 2016, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2018 for services to medicine in Pakistan, Life Time Achievement Awards Zenith Global Foundation, The Association of Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons (APPS), Professional Excellence Award APPNE (Association of Pakistani Physician of Northern Europe) 2023 and St Peter's Medal from British Association of Urology 2023.

Professor Khan was awarded St Peter`s medal 2024. It is awarded to any subject of the British Isles or Commonwealth who has made a notable contribution to the advancement of urology. The highest award of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). The medal was presented by Jo Cresswell, President of BAUS, at the Annual Scientific Meeting in Birmingham.