Nepean Hospital Marks 2,000 Robotic Surgeries

Nepean Hospital marked 2,000 robotic surgeries on 31 July 2025.

This milestone procedure will be a radical prostatectomy, performed by a Urology trainee supervised by Dr Isaac Thangasamy.

In 2012, under the leadership of Prof Mohamed Khadra AO, Nepean became the first hospital in NSW to install a Public DaVinci Robotic system. Mo was made a Fellow of the Society at the 2025 USANZ ASM in recognition of his distinguished service, including to the Nepean Urology department.

Initially, the robotics program at Nepean focused on robotic prostatectomies. The program has subsequently evolved into a full Urology service performing prostatectomy, partial and radical nephrectomy, adrenalectomy and cystectomy. Colorectal surgery and gynaecology programs started in 2018 and 2024 respectively.

Nepean is now one of the largest Urology departments in NSW with 11 consultant surgeons, and has trained over 20 proctor level surgeons since 2012. The Nepean Robotics program is an ERUS (European Association of Urology, Robotic Urology Section) host centre, making it the second one outside of Europe.

We congratulate the team at Nepean on achieving this milestone. Particular congratulations to the Urology team, USANZ Members Drs Mohamed Khadra (Head of Urological Surgery), Bertram Canagasingham (Head of Department), Mohan Arianayagam, Nicola Jeffery, Jonathan Kam, Raymond Ko, Nicholas Mehan, Michael Myint, Sunny Nalavenkata, Isaac Thangasamy and Celi Varol.