Eight doctors make up the medical staff of the department at Pellegrin Hospital: three professors of urology, four consultant urologists and one consultant physician. Each of them leads one area of the department’s work, and each of them runs clinics, operates and teaches.
They are not alone on the ward. As a university department, we also train and work with seven clinical fellows and eight residents in urology, who take part in clinics, in theatre and in the care of inpatients under the supervision of the consultant responsible for the area concerned.
The consultant staff
Titles are those of the French hospital system. A professor of urology holds a joint university and hospital appointment, combining clinical work, teaching and research; a consultant is a hospital-appointed specialist. Each entry opens on that doctor’s background, clinical practice and research.
Pr Grégoire Robert
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Head of department. Professor of Urology.
Background
- Medical studies at Université Paris 6 (UFR Broussais Hôtel-Dieu), 1995 to 2001.
- Residency in urology from 2001 to 2006, then chef de clinique from 2006 to 2009.
- Trained in several university departments, at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris in Paris and at Henri-Mondor in Créteil, and spent a year in a research laboratory at NCMLS, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He still works with those teams, clinically and on research projects.
- In the department of urology in Bordeaux since 2010. Professor of Urology since 2013, head of the department since January 2020.
Clinical practice
- Urological cancers, in particular prostate cancer, bladder tumours and testicular cancer, with the uro-oncology multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Robotic surgery.
- Laser surgery for benign prostatic enlargement (HoLEP), long established in the department.
- Urethral stricture and male urinary incontinence.
- Day-case surgery and minimally invasive treatment of urinary symptoms, whose development within the team he coordinates.
Research and teaching
A university teacher and researcher at the University of Bordeaux, he is a member of the onco-immunology team of the ImmunoConcEpT laboratory (CNRS UMR 5164 – Inserm ERL 1303 – University of Bordeaux), where his work addresses urological cancers. He also conducts research on prostate cancer and on benign prostatic enlargement, and he coordinates or takes part in several multicentre clinical trials.
Pr Jean-Christophe Bernhard
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Lead for kidney surgery. Professor of Urology.
Background
- Holds both a medical doctorate and a doctorate in science, and a chair as Professor of Urology.
- After medical studies in Toulouse, he joined the Bordeaux University Hospital team in 2004.
- His medical and scientific career has taken him to the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona (Spain), the Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh (United States), Inserm Unit 1029 in Bordeaux and the Norris Cancer Center – Institute of Urology in Los Angeles (United States).
Clinical practice
- Kidney cancer, whose surgical management he coordinates.
- Robotic and minimally invasive surgery.
- Endoscopic treatment of kidney stones.
- Kidney transplantation.
- Urological oncology in general.
Research and teaching
His work addresses kidney cancer: biomarkers, pre-clinical models, virtual navigation and three-dimensional operative planning, innovative treatment strategies and databases.
He directs I.CaRe Bordeaux, an integrated research and innovation programme on kidney cancer, hosted as an emerging team within the BRIC – BoRdeaux Institute of onCology (Inserm U1312 – University of Bordeaux). It is run within the department of urology, andrology and kidney transplantation, with the hospital’s clinical research and innovation directorate, and brings together four strands: UroCCR, the French kidney cancer research network, created in 2011 and accredited by the national cancer institute, of which he is the national coordinator; Digital Urology 3D, a hospital-university research programme selected under the national Investments for the Future programme; UroConnect, remote monitoring of patients; and UroPREDICT, the deployment of predictive algorithms.
This work combines robotics, three-dimensional printing, augmented reality and artificial intelligence to guide the surgical gesture. The programme also has a training strand, at the surgical school of the University of Bordeaux, where surgeons train on three-dimensional printed biomimetic models.
Pr Franck Bladou
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Lead for uro-oncology. Professor of Urology.
Background
- Medical studies at the University of Bordeaux, completed in 1984, then residency and junior consultant posts at the Université de la Méditerranée in Marseille until 1993.
- An eighteen-month research stay on prostate cancer at the biology and immunology laboratory of the University of Washington, Seattle (United States), from 1993 to 1994.
- Appointed Professor of Urology in Marseille in 1997, referring urologist of the Institut Paoli-Calmettes regional cancer centre and director of its uro-oncology unit.
- Head of the department of urology at Sainte-Marguerite hospital, Marseille, from 2007 to 2010.
- Professor of urology and oncology at McGill University in Montreal and head of the department of urology of the Jewish General Hospital from 2010 to 2018, director of uro-oncology at the Segal Cancer Center and holder of the Herbert Black chair in surgical oncology.
- Professor of Urology at Bordeaux University Hospital since November 2018.
Clinical practice
- Prostate cancer.
- Bladder tumours.
- Testicular cancer.
Research and teaching
His work addresses the diagnosis and treatment of urological cancers, along three lines: diagnostic and prognostic markers of prostate cancer, both biological and imaging; minimally invasive treatment, meaning robotic surgery, brachytherapy and focal therapy; and quality assurance in the treatment of cancers of the prostate, kidney, bladder and testis.
He contributed to the development of prostate brachytherapy in France from 1997, then, in Canada, to that of prostate cancer imaging – MRI with biopsy guidance, molecular imaging by choline and PSMA PET – and to focal treatment of localised prostate cancer by high-intensity focused ultrasound.
Dr Grégoire Capon
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Lead for neuro-urology and pelvic floor medicine. Consultant urologist.
Background
- Medical studies at the Université de Lille 2, then residency in urology and junior consultant post in the department of urology of Bordeaux University Hospital.
- Further training in Paris, at Bichat – Claude-Bernard hospital (AP-HP).
- University diploma in urodynamics (Dr J.-F. Hermieu, Paris VII) and inter-university diploma in neuro-urology (Pr Amarenco, Paris VI).
- Consultant in the department of urology of Bordeaux University Hospital since 2013.
Clinical practice
- Urinary incontinence and prolapse in women: female functional urology.
- Neuro-urology: urinary symptoms of neurological origin.
- Urodynamic studies.
Research and teaching
He takes part in the work of SIFUD-PP and GENULF, the two main French research and collaboration networks in functional urology and neuro-urology.
Dr Peggy Blanc
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Lead for optimising patients’ medical care. Consultant physician.
A physician rather than a surgeon, she brings the team a background in general hospital medicine and in infectious diseases.
Background
- Medical studies at the University of Bordeaux until 2011, then a specialist diploma in general medicine in 2014, with residency training oriented towards general hospital medicine and infectious diseases.
- Contract consultant at the hospitals of Dax and Pau, in infectious diseases and internal medicine, from 2015 to 2016.
- Chef de clinique in the department of internal medicine and infectious diseases of Pr Bonnet, at Saint-André hospital, from 2016 to 2018.
- University diploma in anti-infective therapeutics (2013) and university diploma in the management of HIV infection and chronic hepatitis B and C.
- She joined the department of urology in November 2018 and was appointed consultant in 2020.
Clinical practice
- Medical follow-up of patients admitted to the department, alongside the surgical team.
- Urinary tract infections and infectious diseases as they apply to urology.
- Screening, diagnostic and follow-up clinics for urology patients.
Dr Eric Alezra
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Lead for kidney transplantation and adrenal surgery. Consultant urologist.
Background
- Medical studies at the Saint-Antoine faculty of medicine in Paris, then residency and chef de clinique at Amiens University Hospital.
- Member of the transplantation committee of the French Association of Urology since 2019.
Clinical practice
- Kidney transplantation, whose activity he coordinates in the department.
- Surgery of the adrenal glands.
- General urological surgery.
Research and teaching
He takes part in the work of the transplantation committee of the French Association of Urology, which issues the national guidelines on kidney transplantation, and in the work of the department on access to the transplant waiting list.
The publications he has contributed to cover both of his areas: the feasibility of day-case laparoscopic adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism (The French Journal of Urology, 2025); the national guidelines on urinary stones in transplant recipients and donors (Progrès en urologie, 2021) and on transplantation from donors with cancer or a history of cancer (The French Journal of Urology, 2025); the regional programme for pre-emptive listing in Aquitaine (Néphrologie et thérapeutique, 2024); prostate cancer diagnosed during the pre-transplant assessment (Clinical Transplantation, 2023); and the risk factors for early removal of a transplanted kidney (Transplantation Proceedings, 2019).
Dr Vincent Estrade
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Lead for stone disease. Consultant urologist.
Background
- Former resident and chef de clinique at Tenon hospital, Paris.
- Full member of the stone committee of the French Association of Urology (CLAFU) since 2009.
- Founder of the regional urinary stone forums in 2016, and of the multidisciplinary team meetings on urinary stones, at Angoulême hospital in 2015 and then at Bordeaux University Hospital.
- He has worked exclusively on stone disease within the team since November 2017.
Clinical practice
- Treatment of stones by flexible ureteroscopy with laser and by endoscopic techniques.
- Endoscopic recognition of stones during surgery, which makes it possible to understand, from the first episode of renal colic, why the stones formed.
- Investigation of the causes of recurrence and tailored measures to prevent it, in close collaboration with the nephrologists of the hospital, Dr Renaud de La Faille, Dr Philippe Chauveau and Dr Emmanuel Richard, and with Pr Jean-Christophe Bernhard.
Research and teaching
His work addresses the endoscopic visual recognition of stones, of which he is one of the originators, and its automation using artificial intelligence. He takes part in the work of the stone committee of the French Association of Urology, which issues the national management guidelines.
Dr Astrid Boulenger de Hauteclocque
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Coordinates andrology and male infertility. Consultant urologist.
Background
- Residency in urology at Bordeaux University Hospital.
- A year at Nîmes University Hospital to complete her training in andrology.
- She joined the team in November 2022 as chef de clinique, for two years, then fully joined the team as a consultant.
Clinical practice
- Andrology and sexual medicine.
- Male infertility.
- Urethral stricture.
Clinical fellows and residents
Seven clinical fellows work in the department. They are qualified urologists in the years following their specialist training, each attached to one of the areas above, with their own operating lists and clinics.
Eight residents in urology are in specialist training here. They rotate through the department for six-month placements, as part of the Bordeaux urology training programme, and are present on the ward, in clinics and in theatre.
Fellows and residents are named on the French-language pages of the site, which follow the changes of each academic year. Whoever you see, the consultant responsible for your care is one of the eight doctors listed above.
The French-language site carries the full profile of every doctor in the department, including the clinical fellows and the residents: consultant staff and fellows and residents.