Mr Tev Aho

Mr Tev Aho is a consultant urologist working from the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He specialises in treating male patients with urinary issues and retention due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). He is also very interested in the treatment of kidney cancer, being one the busiest kidney surgeons in the UK.

Mr Aho moved from New Zealand to the UK to become a Clinical Fellow in Uro-oncology in the Cambridge University Hospitals in 2003, the following year he was appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon. He is the number one surgeon in the UK for performing Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP), he has brilliant outcomes of this procedure especially within men who don’t perform well with Urolift. He is highly skilled in performing Urolift, Rezum and Aquablation procedures for BPH. He has been offering Urolift since 2015. He was also one of 3 surgeons in the UK in 2017 to be able to provide Aquablation. Following this trend, he was also the very first NHS surgeon to perform Rezum procedures in the Cambridgeshire NHS Trust and continues to offer this procedure as an outpatient procedure.

He has a keen research history being involved in HoLEP research since the procedures early days. He introduced this procedure to Cambridge University hospitals in 2004, where it became and remains the treatment of choice for men seeking treatment for urinary retention issues. Additionally, he commits a significant amount of his time to medical education. He lectures on HoLEP at national and international conferences and hosts a HoLEP course at his NHS Trust. He is also the founding president of the UK Holium User Group (HUG) and continues to be a mentor of trainee doctors learning HoLEP. Up until 2014, he was the Urology Training Programme Director for the East of England. For 5 years after he was on the Urology Specialist Advisory Committee, where he was responsible for the training in urology.

Mr Aho’s personal life is enriched with a wide range of hobbies like marathon running, watching musicals, and attending festivals and music events. He also loves to experience the good things in life like great food, good wine, and company.