Kapil Sethi

Dr. Kapil Sethi

Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Biography

Dr Kapil Sethi is a urologist at Epworth Healthcare, Austin Health, and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. His clinical and research expertise is the surgical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), particularly Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP). He trained in HoLEP in Hamburg under Professor Andreas Gross and performs over 100 en-bloc HoLEP procedures annually, including large-volume glands, patients on anticoagulation, and salvage enucleation after prostatic urethral lift, water vapour thermal therapy, or prostatic artery embolisation. He uses pulse-modulated lasers for en-bloc enucleation with early apical release to minimise incontinence risk, and has established HoLEP services at tertiary Melbourne hospitals. His recent research examines long-term functional outcomes and reoperation rates after enucleation, including a systematic review comparing HoLEP with GreenLight PVP beyond five years (BJUI Compass, 2025) and a meta-analysis of salvage HoLEP following contemporary minimally invasive surgical therapies (SIUJ, 2026). He supervises postgraduate research students, peer-reviews for international urology journals, is a clinical proctor teaching other urologists HoLEP, and convenes BPH education at the USANZ Annual Scientific Meeting.

Affiliations

University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Surgery

Austin Health

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Urology

St Vincent's Hospital

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Urology

Epworth Hospital

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Urology

Honors and Awards

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Experience

Surgical Proctor

Epworth Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

01 May 2024 - present

Senior Scientist or Principal Investigator

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

25 Apr 2019 - present

Urologist

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

10 Apr 2019 - present

Urologist

Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia

02 Apr 2019 - present

University Lecturer

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

01 Feb 2018 - present

Urologist

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia

01 Feb 2018 - present

Urologist

Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, Edgecliff, Australia

01 Feb 2018 - present

Graduate Student or Post Graduate

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

01 Feb 2013 - 26 Nov 2015

Undergraduate Student

University of Newcastle Australia, Newcastle, Australia

01 Feb 1999 - 31 Oct 2003