Mr Pavlos Pavlakis

Mr Pavlos Pavlakis is a Consultant Urological Surgeon specialising in advanced robotic and minimally invasive urological surgery, with particular expertise in prostate and bladder cancer, complex pelvic uro-oncology and robotic urinary tract reconstruction.

He is Consultant Urological Surgeon and Lead Consultant for the Robotic Cystectomy Programme at Southend University Hospital, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Pavlakis has extensive international experience in robotic surgery and has been involved in more than 1,500 robotic procedures since commencing specialist robotic fellowship training, including over 700 robotic radical prostatectomies and more than 100 robotic radical cystectomies.

His specialist practice includes robotic radical prostatectomy, including Retzius-sparing techniques, robotic radical cystectomy and urinary diversion, pelvic lymph-node dissection, ureterolysis, ureteric reconstruction and reimplantation, and complex bladder and pelvic reconstructive surgery.

At Cromwell Hospital, Mr Pavlakis also works as part of a multidisciplinary team managing complex deep infiltrating endometriosis involving the urinary tract. He has participated in more than 50 complex robotic endometriosis procedures and has particular expertise in the management of bladder and ureteric involvement, including cystoscopy, ureterolysis, ureteric reimplantation and urinary tract reconstruction where required.

He also treats benign prostatic enlargement and has experience with Aquablation, including the HYDROS robotic system.

Mr Pavlakis completed advanced fellowship training in robotic prostatectomy at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm under Professor Peter Wiklund, followed by a three-year Senior Fellowship in robotic prostatectomy and robotic radical cystectomy at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. He has also undertaken specialist training in reconstructive urology at Detroit Medical Center in the United States.

He graduated in Medicine from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and holds the DIURC postgraduate qualification in robotic surgery from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.

He consults in English, Greek, Italian and French.