Vice President
Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australia
Dr Ashani Couchman MbChB, FRACS(urol), FUSANZ, GLCP is a Urological surgeon who is a sub-specialist in Transitional (adolescent) urology and Neuro-urology.
A graduate of Auckland Medical School in 2003 and she completed her surgical training in New Zealand. This was followed by fellowships at the Institute of Urology (London), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London) and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (London) and Western General Hospital (Edinburgh).
Her positions are:
• Vice President of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
• Deputy Head of Unit – Department of Urology – Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Chair of the Children and Young Persons committee of the International Continence Society
• Co-Chair of the Report on Terminology of Transitional care in the Lower urinary tract and pelvic floor symptoms and dysfunction for the international continence society
• Member of the editorial panel for Continence – the journal of the International Continence Society
• Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee – Calvary North Adelaide Hospital
• Member of the special advisory groups for: Functional Urology and Paediatric Urology for the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
She is a member of:
The International Neuro-Urology Society
The European Association of Urology
The American Urological Association
The International Continence Society
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
She has published clinical research in her sub-specialty fields and edited a reference textbook on urinary incontinence. She continues to be a reviewer of the Journal of Paediatric Urology, a peer reviewer of the British Journal of Urology International and a member of the Cochrane Collaboration
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