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Bob Freeman

Bob Freeman

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Training and career​

  • Current position Consultant urogynecologist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust; part-time work in urogynecology and clinical research123
  • Former position St George’s and Queen Charlotte’s/Chelsea Hospital for Women, London4
  • Medical school Medicine, Dundee University (qualified 1977)4
  • Leadership Past president, International Urogynecological Association34
  • Leadership Past chairman, British Society of Urogynaecology34

Known for​

  • LAS trial of laparoscopic versus open sacrocolpopexy (2013). Freeman led a randomized equivalence trial comparing laparoscopic and open sacrocolpopexy for posthysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse.5
  • PROSPECT trials of mesh, graft, and native-tissue prolapse repair (2017). Freeman was a Plymouth principal investigator in the multicenter PROSPECT trials comparing augmentation with standard vaginal prolapse repair.6 Cited on WARWIKI: Mesh & Graft-Augmented Prolapse Repair.

Cited on WARWIKI

3 publications with Bob Freeman as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Haylen BT, de Ridder D, Freeman RM, et al. "An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) / International Continence Society (ICS) Joint Report on the Terminology for Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction." Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29(1):4-20. doi
    Cited on: Mixed Urinary Incontinence · Fecal Incontinence · Mesh Complications & Removal — POP and SUI Mesh
  2. Reid FM, Elders A, Breeman S, Freeman RM. How common are complications following polypropylene mesh, biological xenograft and native tissue surgery for pelvic organ prolapse? A secondary analysis from the PROSPECT trial. BJOG. 2021;128(13):2180–2189. doi
    Cited on: Mesh Complications & Removal — POP and SUI Mesh
  3. Haylen BT, de Ridder D, Freeman RM, et al. An IUGA/ICS joint report on the terminology for female pelvic floor dysfunction. Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29:4–20. doi
    Cited on: Female Pelvic Examination & POP-Q Staging

Footnotes​

  1. iuga.org (Host Site Directory REV2021). Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. Urogynaecology. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  3. Professor Robert Freeman, Consultant Gynaecologist. University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Program. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. Freeman RM, Pantazis K, Thomson A, et al. "A randomised controlled trial of abdominal versus laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy for the treatment of post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse: LAS study." Int Urogynecol J. 2012;24(3):377–384. doi:10.1007/s00192-012-1885-x ↩

  6. Glazener CM, Breeman S, Elders A, et al. "Mesh, graft, or standard repair for women having primary transvaginal anterior or posterior compartment prolapse surgery: two parallel-group, multicentre, randomised, controlled trials (PROSPECT)." The Lancet. 2017;389(10067):381–392. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31596-3 ↩