Professor David Ralph is Professor of Urology at UCLH and UCL, London since 1996. His training included General surgery at St Thomas’s and St Mary’s Hospitals London, and Urology at Leeds and St Peter’s Hospitals London. He is a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh surgical colleges and has also obtained a BSc in Biochemistry and an MS in London.
Since being appointed in 1996, he has built up the Andrology department at UCLH from a single-man unit into a department of five consultants, 6 clinical fellows, MD and PhD students and junior staff. It is now the largest, most prestigious Andrology department in the world with over 50 international observerships per year and the highest number of tertiary referrals in the UK.
His practice is entirely confined to Andrology with the main interests being penile reconstruction, Peyronie’s Disease, Erectile dysfunction with prosthetic Urology and male infertility. He runs a large multidisciplinary erectile dysfunction service with a European training fellowship for penile prosthesis implantation and is Director of the Erectile Dysfunction Clinical Trials Unit.
He has held many prestigious positions, the most notable including the Chairman of the BAUS section of Andrology, President of the British Society of Sexual Medicine and President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM). He is currently Chairman of The European Society of Genitourethral Reconstructive Surgeons, President of the Sexual Advice Association charity and a specialist advisor to NICE.
He founded the national penile cancer centre at UCLH, the international training centre for penile prostheses insertion and the major phallic reconstruction unit. It is also the biggest priapism centre in the UK.
He has over 250 peer-reviewed publications, 60 chapters and books, 500 international presentations and 500 invited lectures. He was awarded the Brantley Scott medal in 2016 for recognition of his international contribution to Prosthetic Urology, the British Society For Sexual Medicine Career Award in 2017 and the ESSM career award in 2022. He is also the recipient of the St Peter’s Medal, the highest award from the British Association Of Urological Surgeons for advancement in Urology.
Selected publications from PubMed
Unmet needs in the treatment of erectile dysfunction and a place for topical treatments in the therapeutic landscape.
Brock GB, Yafi FA, Hellstrom WJG, Nelson C, Ralph D, Honig S, Hackett G, Rubin R, Pearlman A, Ward S, Chung E, Sadeghi-Nejad H, Stern N
J Sex Med. 2026 Sep 1;23(9) pii: qdag251. doi: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdag251.
Surgical treatment of Peyronie's disease by plaque incision and buccal mucosa graft: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Badr H, Bettocchi C, Alsalem A, Ricapito A, Rubino M, Buffi N, Gobbo A, Ralph D, Sedigh O
Asian J Androl. 2026 Sep 1;28(5):485-492 doi: 10.4103/aja202543.
Penile prosthesis implantation in younger men: outcomes from a tertiary center.
Sarna S, Al-Mitwalli A, Reid T, Holden F, Li CY, Lee WG, Christopher A, Ralph D, Sangster P
J Sex Med. 2026 Aug 5;23(9) pii: qdag227. doi: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdag227.
Contemporary Practices in the Assessment and Management of Climacturia: Results from an International Survey.
Chierigo F, Bucca B, Mantica G, Drocchi G, Madec FX, Verla W, Białek Ł, Adamowicz J, Cocci A, Frankiewicz M, Klemm J, Neuville P, Oszczudłowski M, Redmond EJ, Rosenbaum CM, Waterloos M, Campos-Juanatey F, Ralph D, Ferro M, Vetterlein MW, Trauma and Reconstructive Urology Working Party of the European Association of Urology Young Academic Urologists and the European Association of Urology Section of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons
Eur Urol Open Sci. 2026 Aug;90:20-31 doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2026.05.004.
Development and validation of PEYRO-Q: a novel multidimensional patient-reported outcome measure for Peyronie's disease.
Cocci A, Lo Re M, Pezzoli M, Romero-Otero J, Salamanca JIM, Mourel-Journel N, Neuville P, Faix A, Ward S, Van Renterghem K, Hatzichristodoulou G, Osmonov D, Ralph D, Cadenar A, Falcone M, Russo GI, Bettocchi C, Cacciamani GE, Mondaini N, Skrodzka M, Pozzi E, Salonia A
Sex Med. 2026 Aug;14(4):qfag034 doi: 10.1093/sexmed/qfag034.
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