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    Tevita F. Aho

    Consultant Urologist
    Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

    Tev moved from New Zealand to the UK to do a Uro-oncology Fellowship at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2003. During his training in NZ he spent a year learning Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) from the urologists who invented it (Peter Gilling and Mark Fraundorfer). Following his Fellowship in Cambridge he was appointed as a Consultant Urologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in August 2004.
    In 2004, Tev introduced HoLEP to Cambridge which was one of the first UK centres to offer it.
    Tev is the most experienced HoLEP surgeon in the UK, and has performed more than 4,500 procedures. He developed the TEV Technique (T-incision-assisted Early apical release with V-dissection) for enbloc Anatomical Endoscopic Enucleation of the Prostate (AEEP) and also the Keyhole Technique for ejaculation-sparing EEP. He is frequently invited to lecture on HoLEP in the UK and abroad and has convened annual HoLEP courses in Cambridge since 2005. Since 2015 he has also worked at the Princess Grace Hospital in London. He has performed HoLEP for men from every continent except for Antarctica.
    Tev was the founding President of the UK Holmium User Group (HUG). He designed and implemented the national HUG Training Programme for HoLEP. He has mentored many surgeons in HoLEP throughout the UK, and also in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand
    He has been involved in HoLEP research from its earliest days, and has published and presented widely on the subject.
    Tev was also 1 of the first urologists to perform Aquablation in the UK in 2016 as an investigator for the first WATER Study. He also performs Rezum and Urolift for men with Benign Prostatic Obstruction.

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