Damien Bolton is an Associate Professor in the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery at the Austin Hospital, with an interest in endoscopic management of urinary tract pathology. After training in Melbourne and at the University of California San Francisco he has over 90 published papers and book chapters, and has acted as Chair of the Cancer Council Victoria committee on Urogenital Cancer. Currently he is a member of international consultative committees on urinary stone disease and on urogenital cancer. He has particular interests in urinary stone disease and laparoscopic treatment of urinary tract cancers, performing laparoscopic nephrectomy and over 200 robot assisted radical prostatectomies.