Paul Abrams

Dept of Urology, Bristol University, United Kingdom

Paul Abrams

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

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:

Any other information:
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 Assoc. of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) & has been a & Chairman of the BAUS Section of Female & Reconstructive Urology.

Advisor: US FDA, American College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology & US Agency for Healthcare Policy Research.

Dr Abrams is a member of several editorial boards, deputy editor Neurourology & Urodynamics & expert reviewer & journal referee for many urology journals.
Abrams served as General Secretary, International Continence Soc. (ICS), ('85-'03). He has contributed chapters to over 30 academic books & produced over 200 journal articles & published abstracts.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Urology > Lower Urinary Tract: Dysfunction, Incontinence & Urodynamics (since 16 November 2005)

Paul Abrams is a Section Head for Lower Urinary Tract: Dysfunction, Incontinence & Urodynamics , part of the UROLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.