Mr James Forster - Urology

Mr James Forster is a Consultant Urologist in Yorkshire with a specialist interest in Kidney Stone treatments

GMC Number

4692557

Clinical interests

General urology - diagnostic and therapeutic management (medical and surgical) of Prostate and Bladder conditions. Specialist treatment including metabolic investigations and preventative treatment of kidney stones.

Following Urological higher surgical training in the UK, Mr Forster completed a Fellowship in kidney stones and laparoscopic (keyhole) kidney surgery in Leeds. He has also operated on complex stones in Sri Lanka.

For more information on Mr Forster's practice, please take a look at his personal website here. 

 

Academic background

Qualifications: MBChB (University of Leicester), MD (University of Leeds), FRCS (Urol) (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh), FEBU (European Board of Urology).

Mr Forster was educated in West Yorkshire and studied medicine at the University of Leicester. He was awarded a higher research degree (MD) at the University of Leeds for his research at Cancer Research UK into the genetic involvement in bladder cancer. 

He is the author of seventeen peer-reviewed international publications. He is a regular reviewer of two prestigious urological journals.

 

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Fellow of the European Board of Urologists, Full member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.

 

NHS base

Bradford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust