Miss Marie-Klaire Farrugia

Miss Marie-Klaire Farrugia is a consultant paediatric urologist and paediatric and neonatal surgeon based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Cromwell Hospital in central London. She specialises in all areas of kidney, bladder and genital anomalies that babies are born with or develop later in childhood.

In particular, she counsels pregnant mothers whose babies are prenatally-diagnosed with a kidney condition, so that the best postnatal plan can be made for the newborn: she is considered a world expert in fetal urology. She has a well-established practice in robotic surgery in children since 2014, and is a renowned minimally-invasive surgeon.

Miss Marie-Klaire Farrugia is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London and the fetal and perinatal section editor for the Journal of Pediatric Urology. She is well-published on topics including the long-term outcome of prenatally-diagnosed urological problems such as hydronephrosis, megaureter, posterior urethral valves and vesicoureteric reflux (VUR).

Her surgical expertise includes neonatal and childhood circumcision; repair of simple and complex hypospadias including staged graft repairs; hernia and hydrocoele repairs; surgery for undescended testes; robotic-assisted and open pyeloplasty; robotic-assisted and open ureteric reimplantation; surgery on duplex kidneys and ureterocoeles; posterior urethral valves; nephrectomy and hemi-nephrectomy; Deflux injection for kidney reflux with urine infections; and management of UTI's and incontinence/ enuresis.

Miss Farrugia is well-known on the international pediatric urology network and has been elected as an executive committee member of the European Society for Pediatric Urology. She is also a research committee member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists; a council member of the Chelsea Clinical Society; and a Faculty member of the Promaster European Masters Course in Robotic-assisted paediatric surgery.