Prof. Véronique Phé (MD,PhD) is a 44 year-old urological surgeon based in Paris, where she works at Sorbonne University, Tenon Academic hospital. As of the 1st of September 2020, she has been working as Full Professor of Urology, becoming the first female urologist to have reached this academic position in France.
Her field of expertise remains in functional urology.
She has developed skills in reconstructive and minimally invasive surgery with robotic procedures: female artificial urinary sphincter, totally intracorporeal robotic cystectomy/ileal conduit/augmentation cystoplasty, continent urinary diversions, sacrocolpopexies, mesh complications etc.
Prof. Phé is actively involved in the French and European urological community through her positions:
- European School of Urology Board Member,
- EAU (European Association of Urology) Guideline on Female LUTS panel member,
- European Robotic Urological Section,
- Board Member of the French National Council of Universities,
- Chair of the AFU pediatric and adolescent urology committee,
- Past Vice-President of the French Association of Urology (AFU) in charge of communication,
- Past chair of the EAU Young Academic Functional Urologists,
- Past Chair of the AFU Neuro-Urology Committee,
- Past Vice-President of the French College of Urology
- Past General Secretary of French-speaking Group of Experts in Neuro-Urology.
She is Associate Editor of European Urology Open Science.
Prof. Phé is a productive urologist with more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
She obtained several international and national awards, among them
- the 2021 EAU Crystal Matula Award (most prestigious prize given to a <40yo promising urologist, one of the leaders of Academic European Urology),
- the 2014 Swiss Continence Foundation award (best contribution of a young neuro-urology talent)
- and the 2014 Prize of Urology of the French National Academy of Medicine.
Through her dedication to academic urology and its ongoing development, she has become an established and influential leader within the International academic urology.