Andrew J. Thomas MBBCh, FRCS, FRCS

J Andrew Thomas from Llandybie, Carmarthenshire is a welsh speaker, who graduated from The University Of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff in 1988. He performed basic surgical training in the Midlands and South Wales. His urological training was carried out in South Wales and he spent a year of sub-specialist training in Adelaide, South Australia.

He established a urology unit at the Princess Of Wales Hospital, Bridgend in 1998 and is now one of the Senior Urologists in ABM University NHS Trust. He is nationally known as an expert in day case laser prostate surgery for benign prostate disease and in performing template saturation perineal template biopsies in patients with difficult to diagnose prostate cancer.

At Bridgend, he runs a training centre that teaches Consultants and Specialist trainees from all over the UK the technique of Green light laser PVP (photoselective vaporisation of the prostate). He was also one of the first welsh surgeons to perform laparoscopic nephrectomy.