Professor Nikhil Vasdev is a leading figure in Robotic Urological Surgery and Oncology, blending clinical excellence, innovation and academic leadership. His career spans advanced surgical techniques, global mentorship, research leadership and influential academic roles.

He is Full Professor and Chair of Robotic Surgery at the Hertfordshire Medical School, University of Hertfordshire. n May 2020, Professor Vasdev was awarded an “Doctor of Science ( DSc)” by the awards committee at the University of Hertfordshire in recognition for Professor Vasdev’s contribution in Robotics in Surgery. He is member of the medical advisory committee for the soon to open Hertfordshire Medical School.

Prof Vasdev is a Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon and Associate Medical Director for Cancer (Cancer Lead) at the Lister Hospital, East and North Herts Teaching NHS Trust, UK. Professor Vasdev also holds an international professorship at the Apollo Hospitals Education and Research foundation, India. He holds certification in AI from Harvard Medical School and has complete a National Clinical Leadership programme at Prostate Cancer UK.

Professor Vasdev specialist interest is in Robotic Prostatectomy and Robotic Cystectomy including Intracorporeal reconstruction with now having completed over 1650 major cancer Robotic surgeries. His additional clinical interest includes Fusion Biopsy, Blue Light PDD cystoscopy and Robotic Aquablation therapy for BPH. He is a national and international proctor in Robotic Surgery and Co-Director of the Lister Urological Royal College of England Robotic Fellowship .

Prof Vasdev has published extensively and has over 250 peer-reviewed articles and is the section editor for Urology in Gray’s surgical anatomy 2026. His research interest includes New Robotic Platform Development, Urological Biomarker Development, Low pressure pneumoperitoneum research, Artificial Intelligence led MRI Prostate cancer research and medical education.

Professor Vasdev is the Lead Consultant (Cancer) for the COVID-19 Response at NHS England for the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. In September 2016, Professor Vasdev was awarded the prestigious “Celebration of Clinical Excellence Award” by the Chief Executive of the East and North Herts NHS Trust and in May 2017, Professor Vasdev was awarded the "Best Innovator" in the Surgical Division Awards at the East and North Herts NHS Trust. In April 2019, Professor Vasdev demonstrated a live Robotic Bladder removal and Robotic Urinary diversion at the Thai Urology Association meeting which is the second operation of its kind to be performed in Thailand.

Professor Vasdev is the UK’s first nationally accredited Robotic Fellow by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. As a part of his robotic urological fellowship in the UK and USA he obtained a ChM (Urol) with a distinction from the University of Edinburgh / Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh for his thesis on the use of “Intraoperative frozen section of the prostate to reduce positive margin and improve nerve sparing during Robotic prostatectomy”.

Professor Vasdev is the East and North Herts NHS Trust Cancer Network lead for the Lister Robotic Urology / Vatikutti Foundation, USA collaboration. Professor Vasdev is an international proctor in Robotic Urological Surgeon and mentors hospitals / surgeons in Europe and Asia (India, Hong Kong and Thailand) regularly and is a clinical advisor to Prostate Cancer UK for the "Best practice pathway national development programme" which was released in September 2018 for national implementation and is currently co-chair for the MRI implementation and biopsy standardisation. In 2022, Professor Vasdev performed Jordan's first robotic surgery.

Professor Vasdev’s Urological surgical training includes his basic surgical training at the National University Hospital, Singapore and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He then completed his 6 year Higher surgical training on type-1 national training number in Urology in the Northern Deanery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK training at large teaching hospitals including the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne; James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough and Sunderland Royal Hospital, UK and Robotic fellowship training at the Lister Hospital, UK and City of Hope National Medical Centre, USA.