Declan G. Murphy

Declan G. Murphy, FRACS, FRCS, is a urologist, director of the unit for genitourinary oncology and robotic surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia, professor at the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology at the University of Melbourne, and associate editor of the ''British Journal of Urology International''. In 2010 he introduced robotic surgery for urology to the public sector health services in Victoria, Australia.

Murphy's early career began in Dublin before taking up training in the specialty of urology in England. After completing a fellowship in laparoscopic and robotic surgery in Melbourne, he returned to London and was appointed consultant urologist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in 2009. The following year he moved to Australia and took up a consultant post at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

He is a regular blogger on topics pertaining to men's health. In May 2018, his tweet became a popular meme after he demonstrated the use of the da Vinci robot in performing surgery on a grape, with the purpose of introducing children to the topic.

In 2019 he was appointed full professor. The following year he was senior author on the team that published their results on an imaging technique that uses gallium-labelled prostate specific membrane antigen in a PET/CT scanner (PSMA PET-CT), for detecting the early spread of prostate cancer. Provided by Wikipedia