Paul Abrams - F1000 Section Head (since 16 November 2005)
Department of Urology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
BIOGRAPHY
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:• Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
• Senior Clinical Lecturer in Urology, University of Bristol Medical School, Bristol
• Founding member and Director of Research of the Bristol Urological Institute
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Dr Abrams holds a number of international professional positions:
• Chairs: 1st, 2nd & 3rd International Consultations on Incontinence
• Chairman, Urodynamic Sub-committee of the International WHO Consultations on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Vice-Chairman, International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD)
• Chairman, Steering Committee for the Leicester MRC Incontinence Project
• Past Chairman of the DoH working party on Continence Services
• Past Chairman of the WHO consultations on Incontinence
• General Secretary of the International Continence Society
MEMBERSHIPS:
• Data monitoring committees for the MRC & the NIH (US)
• NICE Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee
• British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS)
• Past Chairman of the BAUS Section of Female & Reconstructive Urology
• Advisor: US FDA, American College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology & US Agency for Healthcare Policy Research
• Deputy editor Neurourology & Urodynamics
• General Secretary, International Continence Society (ICS), ('85-'03)