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.
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
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