Professor Helen O'Connell is a leading researcher in the area of female pelvic anatomy and was the first woman to complete training as a urologist in Australia in 1994. She did her Fellowship training in the US in 1994-5 in the management including surgery of all problems affecting function of the lower urinary tract in men and women. In 2023 she became the President of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.
She uses state of the art medical imaging to treat a long list of conditions.
Helen was the first person to accurately describe the structure of the clitoris.
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