Christian Schwentner
Germany
Christopher Eden attended Guy’s Hospital and King’s College Hospital Medical Schools, London, achieving an MBBS in 1985 from the University of London after winning Surgery and Paediatric Prizes. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995 and was awarded a Master of Surgery degree from the University of London in 1997.
As a surgical trainee he became a pioneer of minimal access urological surgery, having performed the UK’s first laparoscopic pyeloplasty in 1994, first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2000, first laparoscopic radical cystectomy in 2001, first robotic and laparoscopic Retzius-sparing RARP in 2016, first Single Port robotic Retzius-sparing radical prostatectomy in Europe and first Single Port robotic radical prostatectomy in the UK in April 2024 and the first Single Port robotic transvesical radical prostatectomy in Europe in June 2024. He has one of the world’s largest personal series of major minimal access urological procedures at over 5,000 cases and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers on laparoscopic and robotic urology, 9 book chapters and a book.
As a surgical trainee he became a pioneer of minimal access urological surgery, having performed the UK’s first laparoscopic pyeloplasty in 1994, first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2000, first laparoscopic radical cystectomy in 2001, first robotic and laparoscopic Retzius-sparing RARP in 2016, first Single Port robotic Retzius-sparing radical prostatectomy in Europe and first Single Port robotic radical prostatectomy in the UK in April 2024 and the first Single Port robotic transvesical radical prostatectomy in Europe in June 2024. He has one of the world’s largest personal series of major minimal access urological procedures at over 5,000 cases and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers on laparoscopic and robotic urology, 9 book chapters and a book.
