Institute of Urology

Jeremy Ockrim

Mr Jeremy Ockrim is honorary senior lecturer at UCL and consultant urological surgeon in Female and Reconstructive Surgery at University College Hospital. Mr Ockrim trained in Glasgow before moving to Imperial College, London to complete his postgraduate thesis in the clinical management of prostate cancer in 1999. He continues to have academic links to Imperial College, including current MRC trials managing patients with advanced prostate cancer. His Felllowship was spent at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia, providing general, prostate and female urological expertise. His practice specialises in the treatment of voiding dysfunction, including male and female lower urinary tract symptoms and outlet obstruction, male and female incontinence including colposuspension, sling, TVT and artificial sphincter placement, fistulae and diverticula surgery, female prolapse repair, bladder augmentation, bladder replacement and both continent and incontinent diversion for congenital and cancer-related bladder loss.

Mr Ockrim has particular interest in managing bladder overactivity and pain syndromes. This includes medical therapy, acupuncture, pTENS and neuromodulation. He is the clinical lead for this new technique at UCLH, and is one of the first providers of sacral nerve stimulation to manage urgency and incontinence in the United Kingdom. Mr Ockrim is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Female and Reconstructive Urology and is Assistant Editor of the Central European Journal of Urology.