Philip Hobson is the lead clinician in Urogynaecology at the BWH. He trained to practice tertiary Urogynaecology under the proctorship of Professor Linda Cardozo at Kings College Hospital. His MD thesis was into changes to the female pelvis after childbirth. In the time he has been at the BWH he has established a tertiary referral unit which now assesses over 1000 patients a year. In this time he has created a unit which allows complete evaluation of patients from a basic pad test to ambulatory urodynamics.
The unit currently has 3 specialist nurses, 2 consultants a research fellow and a senior trainee. Philip Hobson has a major interest in pelvic floor dysfunction after childbirth and have a joint colorectal clinic with Simon Radley. In addition he runs combined clinics in with Urology and Geriatric medicine. He is has developed expertise in laparoscopic urogynaecology.