Dr Fabio Castiglione

About Dr Fabio Castiglione

Dr Fabio Castiglione is an Italian urologist andrologist in London. He is the director and founder of the Holistic Andrology clinic in London; he has also obtained the qualification of Full Professor in Urology in Italy, is an Honorary Reader at King's College London, an Associate Professor at University College London, and an andrologist at King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Hospital. He was born in Licata, Sicily, but soon moved to Milan, studying Medicine and Surgery at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. He graduated in 2009 with honours and academic distinction, presenting a thesis on sexual rehabilitation after prostate removal surgery. Driven by a passion for andrology, he obtained a Specialisation in Urology with honours at the same university under the guidance of his mentor, Dr Francesco Montorsi. During his training, Dr Castiglione carried out a research fellowship in Sweden and a second fellowship at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (United States), considered the mecca of world urology. During this period, Dr Castiglione published one of his most crucial pieces of research: the use of stem cells to treat Peyronie's disease (curvature of the penis), which makes it known all over the globe. At the end of his training, he moved to Belgium, to the KU Leuven University, where he obtained a PhD in Stem Cell therapy applied to male sexual dysfunction, establishing himself, on the international stage, as one of the leading experts in this field. After his doctorate, he moved to Pune, India, as a volunteer surgeon under the guidance of Professor Kulkarni, a world expert in urethral surgery. Dr Castiglione performed the first stem cell transplant in India to treat human urethral strictures. In 2016, he moved to London to work at University College London Hospital, where he hyper-specialized in andrological, reconstructive, and robotic surgery. Dr Fabio Castiglione is a member of several international scientific committees, including the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM), the Commission for Guidelines for Sexual Medicine of the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM), and the Young Academic Urology of the European Urological Society (UAE). In 2017, at the European Congress of Urology, he was awarded the title of Best and Most Promising Young Urologist of 2017. Nature Urology, a well-known scientific journal, called him one of Europe's rising stars in the field of urology. From 2020 to 2022, he held the role of Associate Editor of the most important scientific journal in the field of sexual medicine: The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr Castiglione founded Holistic Andrology in London, a medical clinic that focuses on innovation in the andrological field, with particular attention to new technologies and treatments for erectile dysfunction. In 2022 Dr Castiglione developed the regenerative therapeutic protocol P-Shock® to treat erectile dysfunction and Le Peyronie's disease (penile curvature). Dr Fabio Castiglione was awarded with the Excellence Award by the European Society for Sexual Medicine and Internatinal Society for Sexual Medicine.