Professionals
STU Executive Committee
The individuals below make up the Executive Committee for SAS & Trust Urologists. A photo and a brief biography has been provided for each individual, together with contact details.
Mr Samavedam ("SS") Murali - Chair
Samavedam is a Specialst Urologist at Lincoln County Hospital.
He was elected Chair of the Section in January 2024 and will remain in post until December 2025 ... click here for email contact
Mr Adham Ahmed - Vice Chair
Adham is a Locum Consultant Urologist based at the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
He was elected Vice Chair of the Section in January 2024 and will succeed Murali as Chair of the Section from 22-026-2027 ... click here to follow him on X (formerly Twitter) or here for email contact
Dr Rickaz Raheem - Secretary
Rickaz is a Locum Consultant Urologist based at Bedford Hospital. He is a member of the Surgical Specialty Board in Urology at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In November 2022, he was appointed Co-Chair of the Intercollegiate Surgical Education Committee for SAS/LED doctors and Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors.
He was elected Secretary of the Section in January 2024 for an initial two-year term until December 2025 ... click here to follow him on X (formerly Twitter) or here for email contact
Mr Omar Taha Ababneh - Elected Member
Omar is a specialty doctor in urology at Craigavon Area Hospital, in The Southern Health and care trust, Northern Ireland. He has worked as an Urology specialist in Jordan and urology registrar in the Republic of Ireland, gaining MRCS England in 2017. His passion is upper and lower Robotic uro-oncology, Endourology and Andrology.
He was elected to the Executive Commitee in January 2024 for an initial three-year term until December 2026 ... click here to follow him on X (formerly Twitter) or here for email contact
Miss Kathryn Bandeira - Elected Member
Kathryn is a Specialty Doctor in Urology at Wycombe General Hospital in Buckinghamshire. She has previously worked in Urology at various trusts across the South West of England.
She was elected to the Executive Committee in January 2024 for an initial three-year term until December 2026 ... click here for email contact
Mr Shekhar Marathe - Elected Member
Shekhar is an Associate Specialist at Watford General Hospital.
He was elected to the Executive Committee in January 2024 for an initial three-year term until December 2026 ... click here to follow him on X (formerly Twitter) or here for email contact
Mr Govindaraj Rajkumar - Elected Member
Govindaraj is an Associate Specialist at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital.
He was elected to the Executive Committee in January 2024 for an initial three-year term until December 2026 ... click here for email contact
Professor Ian Pearce (Co-opted Trustee; from 2024)
Ian Pearce is a Professor of Urology at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Ian is the current BAUS Vice President and was co-opted on to the STU team as Trustee Representative in January 2024.... click here for email contact
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