UAA - EUSC 2023 Dubai Congress | Speakers | 28 September – 01 October 2023

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Deputy Chief of Medical, Academic & Research Affairs, Surgery
Hamad Medical Corporation
Qatar

Dr. Abdulla Al-Ansari is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland Medical School. He was trained in U. K and Qatar in the field of urology, but has worked in other specialties such as trauma and orthopaedics before choosing his specialization in Urology.

Dr. Abdulla Al- Ansari became the head of the Urology Section in 2004. During his tenure, the department of Urology made big leaps forward in improving the quality of our service. Part of these accomplishments included a reduction in waiting times, technological advancements in addition to enhancing research and publications. This greatly improved the status of urology as a successful and high performing specialty.

In 2008, Dr. Abdulla Al-Ansari became the Assistant to the Chairman of Surgery and in the same year, he was promoted to Chairman of Surgery. He took full charge of all 12 surgical specialties across the five hospitals of the corporation. Dr. Abdulla Al-Ansari is a strong believer in sub-specialization and the benefits it delivers to patient care. During his tenure there has been emphasis placed on sub-specialization in surgery and this is being gradually achieved (e.g. Breast Surgery, Colorectal, Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery, Acute Care and Hepatobiliary Surgery etc.)

Furthermore, Dr. Abdulla Al-Ansari became an Associate Professor of Clinical Urology in Weill Cornel Medical School in Qatar and he is a Director in QSTP for Robotic Surgery. Dr. Abdulla Al- Ansari is a Pioneer of Robotic Surgery in Qatar and it was through his dedication and perseverance that Robotic Surgery is now a procedure in State of Qatar.

Dr. Al- Ansari is very passionate about health service in Qatar, and has an ambition for HMC in Qatar to be the best health system internationally. He miraculously does not allow his duties to take him away from patients and research. He continues his research in the form of publications and conducting animal labs and workshops and conferences. His special interests include teaching younger surgeons and mentoring them in their training.

Dr. Al- Ansari is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Surgical Services at Hamad Medical Corporation.

United Arab Emirates

Dr. Ahmad Abdul-Rahman received his medical degree MD from School of Medicine, Aleppo University in Syria (2000). He completed all of the surgical training in UK and attained Certificate of Completion Basic Surgical Training (CCBST) in 2006, MRCS Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2006, Master degree MSc in Urology at University College London (UCL) in 2009, FRCS (Urology) Royal College of Surgeons, and Certificate of Completion Training (CCT) UK.

Dr. Ahmad has been trained and worked as a physician in the National Health Service (NHS) for the last eighteen years. Prior to joining our hospital Dr Ahmad has been a consultant urological surgeon at Hull University Teaching Hospital and appointed as Honorary Senior Lecturer at Hull York Medical School (HYMS). He also previously served as the Director of female urology and uro-gynaecology department in Hull, UK.

Dr. Ahmad practices general urology, including all areas of urologic oncology, benign urology, and he is expert in minimally invasive prostate surgery and he treats female incontinence and prolapse with (Erbium YAG Laser) and BOTOX. Dr. Ahmad, helped patients from all across Yorkshire in UK with his unique skills in Sacral neuromodulator implants. Patients traveled from further afield, like Ireland and Kuwait to seek his advice and expertise.

Dr. Ahmad's aim is to establish the first specialised comprehensive Bladder dysfunction and incontinence Clinic in UAE to the early screen, diagnose and treat a wide range of bladder, prostate, and voiding dysfunction with state of the art medical and surgical techniques.

Dr. Ahmad has authored numerous research articles in peer reviewed journals and he is editorial reviewer for scientific journals. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (RCSEd), British Association of Urological Surgeons. (BAUS), European Association of Urology (EAU), and American Urology Association (AUA)

Dr. Ahmad speaks English and Arabic.

Associate Professor Of Urology And Oncology
Director Of Simulation Innovation Lab
Johns Hopkins University
United States

Dr. Ghazi MD, FEBU, MHPE. He completed his medical degree and residency from Cairo University, Egypt. He completed a series of worldwide fellowships in state-of-the-art minimal invasive Urological surgery, in Paris, Austria and Rochester NY (2009-2013). He was appointed Assistant professor of Urology at the University of Rochester (2012-2022). He is now Associate Professor of Urology and Director of Minimal invasive division at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Dr. Ghazi specializes in the diagnosis and minimal invasive treatment of urological cancers and complex stone disease. In addition to his clinical duties he perused research grants in education, simulation research and surgical training. To further enhance his educational background, he completed the George Corner Deans Teaching fellowship, Harvard Macy Institute program for Educators in Health Professions and a Masters in Health Professions Education at the Warner School of Education, University of Rochester.

Dr. Ghazi collaborates with educators nationally, and internationally, in a variety of disciplines to enhance the role of simulation in surgical education. He founded and led a research laboratory staffed with a team of biomedical engineers that combine 3D printing, and hydrogel polymer technologies to fabricate realistic procedural models that replicate the texture, appearance and tissue reaction of human organs.

Dr. Ghazi was awarded several awards at international scientific and academic conferences as well as grants including a Clinical and Translational Science Award, NIH, STTR grant, and NIH, NIBIB grant to evaluate the impact of his innovative simulations in improving surgical performance and their translational impact on patient outcomes. Dr. Ghazi believes in a reciprocal relationship between research, teaching & surgery, where each informs & strengthens the others. He strives to produce academically rigorous research that is theoretically sound but translates directly into a safer surgical environment with reduced surgical errors and improved patient outcomes.

Consultant Urological Surgeon
Mediclinic City Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Dr Thwaini has been working as a consultant urological surgeon with specialist interest in urological cancers, namely in renal cancers. He is the lead for renal cancers in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Belfast City Hospital). This is a tertiary regional referral centre for complex cancer and benign cases. His main skills are in advanced laparoscopy and renal cancer and renal reconstruction procedures.

Dr Thwaini is also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Queens University, Belfast. He is known for his academic contributions throughout his career with over 35 Medline publications in the field.

After graduating from medical school, Baghdad University in 1994, Dr Thwaini relocated to Jordan where he started his career in Urology at the Royal Medical Services, which is a national tertiary referral center. He acquired FRCS (Ireland) in 1999 and the Jordanian Board in Urology in 2000.

He then moved to Abu Dhabi where he worked for three years as a specialist at SKMC. He acquired the Arab Board in Urology in 2001.

In 2004 he moved to the UK, where he finished his MD degree from Queen Mary University of London. His thesis was on prostate cancer. In 2007 he entered the UK national higher training scheme in urology. This took place in Northern Ireland, where he worked in Belfast City Hospital, Altnagelvin Hospital and Craigavon Hospital, working with regional and national experts in the field. During his training, Dr Thwaini developed specialist interest in urological cancers. He completed his training in 2012 by acquiring the Intercollegiate Specialty Board Certificate in Urology (FRCS-Urology) and he acquired the CCT UK-wide accreditation.

President
Arab British Urological Society
United Kingdom

Mr Amr Emara qualified as a medical doctor in 1998, graduating from Ain Shams Medical School, Cairo, Egypt. He undertook a residency program in Urology and appointed to a University lectureship post due to outstanding academic achievements including research projects on urinary tract infections in children. He was awarded a masters degree followed by further research work on erectile dysfunction in men and accordingly was awarded the MD degree from the same University.

Mr Emara was successfully granted the fellowship of European board in Urology in 2008 then the Royal College of Surgeons of England fellowship in Urology in 2012. He attended post training fellowship on the Brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer in Saint Luke's cancer institute in Guildford. This was followed by a year as senior uro-oncology fellow in the University Hospital of South Manchester where he trained in advanced renal and pelvic cancer surgery. He was then granted a 2 year fellowship programme on upper urinary tract laparoscopy and robotic surgery in the specialised renal cancer unit in Frimley Park Hospital.

Mr Emara has special academic interest, he has published and presented over 70 peer reviewed publications and podium presentations in both national and international meetings. He is also an overseas supervisor for PhD candidates and international speaker in various urological meetings.

Amr is now a urology consultant at North Hampshire Hospital and works as honorary consultant in Frimley Park Hospital. His main surgical interest is specialised laparoscopic and open surgery for renal cancer including Cryotherapy minimally invasive technique. He has also developed his experience in diagnostic prostate cancer procedures including template biopsy and MRI-targeted approach. He has a special interest in the focal prostate cancer treatment using both HIFU and Cryo ablative techniques and also the Greenlight Laser Therapy for benign enlargement of prostate. More recently he shared in introducing the new minimally invasive steam therapy for prostate enlargement (Rezūm) to the UK.

Division of Urology
The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia
United States

Dr. Aseem Shukla is a Professor of Surgery (in Urology) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as the Endowed Chair and Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Prior to returning to CHOP in 2012, Dr. Shukla served as Director of Urology at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital and Residency Program Director. He is a recognized leader internationally in adapting robotic assisted technology in pediatric surgery, and has written seminal papers describing the process of transitioning from open to robotic surgery for various procedures. Dr. Shukla regularly serves as faculty at training courses in the United States and has mentored surgeons from throughout the world in utilizing the technology.

Dr. Shukla is active in developing pediatric urology as a discipline globally and has served as a physician lead in the CHOP International Medicine Division. In that role, he has provided consultation and strategic input in developing opportunities for partnerships and collaborations that serve to increase access to pediatric health care services in South Asia and Gulf Region. He leverages existing and ongoing global health experience in direct interactions with government entities, social entrepreneurs and physician leaders to transform and scale delivery in target regions. Dr. Shukla now continues this work as part of his duties as Assistant Secretary of Education and Research for the American Urological Association (AUA).

Dr. Shukla's passion for alleviating the global burden of surgical disease led him to organize and demonstrate at live surgical workshops throughout Asia, Africa, South America and Europe. Recognizing, however, that lasting change can only come with innovation through commitment, in 2009, he initiated a surgical workshop at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, India that has become an international model of Indo-U.S. academic collaboration. This collaboration brings together leading American children's hospital and India's most respected pediatric surgeons to address the vast surgical burden of complex urological anomalies in India. The annual Bladder Exstrophy- Epispadias consortium is in its 10th consecutive year. A strategy bringing together academic surgeons, local hospital systems, American disease specific support groups and research staff has led to the creation of an international Center of Excellence in Ahmedabad,that is now a referral destination for all of South Asia and Africa.

Professor of Urology, Department of Urology
School of Medicine, Sismanoglio General Hospital
Greece

Athanasios Papatsoris MD, MSc, MSc, PhD, FEBU, FES

Professor Athanasios Papatsoris graduated from Patras School of Medicine (honorary scholarship) and also he obtained a MSc. Another MSc was obtained from the Hellenic Open University in Health Management. His PhD thesis was completed at University of Athens. He was trained/certified as Urological Surgeon in London (UK GMC active member since 1997) and Athens. In London, he completed a 2-year Endourology fellowship (SpR level, recognized by the Endourological Society). Also, he completed a clinical fellowship in Laparoscopy in Le Mans, France, supported by EUSP. For 1 year he was an honorary Consultant in Urology at Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. Now he holds honorary contract at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge and Imperial College, London and he is Faculty member of Cambridge Medical Academy. He obtained a FEBU degree in 2007 (since then he is examiner and for year v. Chairman of the EBU Examination Committee).

Dr Papatsoris is a Full Professor of Urology at the 2nd Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens Greece. Also, he is Visiting Full Professor of Urology Lebanese University, Adjunct Professor Guangzhou Medical University of China, Adjunct Professor of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, NY USA, Visiting Professor University of Basrah Medical College, Invited Professor University of Medicine Tirana and Scientific Collaborator European University of Cyprus. Also, he is an Assoc. Board member of ESOU (Prostate Cancer Committee), EULIS, ESUT, ESAU, SEGUR and U-Merge. He is the EBU National Delegate, uCARE SIU Board member, SIU Academy Endourology and IUA Board member. Also, for 4 years he was Secretary of the Hellenic Urological Association (HUA), the Vice Chairman of the Section of Endourology – Laparoscopy, while now he is the Chairman of the Section of Oncological Urology as well as Board Member of HUA. Furthermore, he is a Board member of the IMBE, European Medical Association Scientific Committee Board Member, Supreme Health Council member and the Secretary General of the Hellenic Genito-Urinary Cancer Group and Secretary General of U-Merge / ESD Chairman.

Full Professor Papatsoris H-Index is 42 with > 240 publications in PubMed and > 5500 citations. He is a member of the Editorial Board in.> 50 medical journals and invited as faculty in many international congresses, workshops, intensive courses and live Endourology surgeries. He has won the 'Arthur Smith' award from the Endourological Society and he is chairing the ESD (Experts in Stone Disease) Congress.

Medical Doctor, Consultant
Asklepios Klinik Barmbek
Germany

Dr. Christopher Netsch was born in Frankfurt and raised in Germany. He studied medicine at the Universities of Mainz (DE) and Bern (CH). He graduated from the University of Mainz in 2005 and finished his doctoral thesis in 2006. His training in urology was conducted at the Inselspital Bern (under Prof. Studer), Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe (DE) (under Prof. Frohneberg) and the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg Barmbek (DE) (under Prof. Gross). After his board certification in 2011, Dr. Netsch became a staff member at the Department of Urology of the Asklepios Hospital Hamburg Barmbek. Here, he also attended a 24-month fellowship on Endourology (Fellow in Endourology, Endourological Society). He was qualified as a Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU) in 2015. Dr. Netsch finished his habilitation thesis at Semmelweis University, Budapest (HU) in 2017. Dr. Netsch is a member of the German Working Group in Endourology and the EAU section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) and a reviewer for numerous journals such as Urology, the British Journal of Urology International, the Journal of Endourology and the World Journal of Urology. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Urology. Dr. Christopher Netsch published over 100 PubMed listed, peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous book articles, published numerous abstracts, and hold lectures on national/international congresses. He was awarded with several awards both nationally and internationally such as the Wolfgang Mauermayer and the Winfried Vahlensieck award of the German Society of Urology and the Hans Marberger award of the European Association of Urology. His scientific and clinical interests in urology are endourological topics: stone disease and minimally-invasive therapies for BPH.

Emeritus Consultant Urological Surgeon
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

Christopher Chapple is an Emeritus Consultant Urological Surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Honorary Professor at University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. He is particularly interested in the functional reconstruction of the lower urinary tract and the underlying pharmacological control mechanisms and provided an NHS tertiary service in lower urinary tract reconstructive surgery. He trained at the Middlesex Hospital where he completed his doctorate thesis. He continued there and the Institute of Urology in London for his sub-specialist training. He was Secretary General of the European Association of Urology 2015-2023, having previously been Chairman of the International Relations Committee, Adjunct Secretary General Responsible for Education, and Director of the European School of Urology. He was the Network Coordinator for the European Reference Network (ERN) for rare urogenital diseases and complex conditions (eUROGEN) from 2016-2019. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Neurourology & Urodynamics from 2006-2016 and is on the editorial board of several international journals. He is an active member of many urological associations and societies including the British Association of Urological Surgeons, the European Association of Urology, the International Continence Society, the Association of Academic European Urologists and the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and has been awarded honorary membership of several national urological associations. He has chaired a number of guidelines initiatives including the NICE GDG on Male LUTS and the ICUD Consultation on Male LUTS. BAUS awarded him the St Peter's medal 2011, SUFU awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, the International Continence Society made him the inaugural member of their Hall of Fame in 2020 and CAU awarded him the Shlomo Raz medal in 2022. Prof. Chapple has co-authored 850+ articles, comments and letters in peer-reviewed journals, and has written several chapters and books.

Professor, St Peter's Andrology
United Kingdom

Professor David Ralph is Professor of Urology at UCLH and UCL, London since 1996. His training included General surgery at St Thomas's and St Mary's Hospitals London, and Urology at Leeds and the St Peter's Hospitals London. He is a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh surgical colleges and has also obtained a BSc in Biochemistry and an MS in London.

Since appointed in 1996, he has built up the Andrology department at UCLH from a single man unit into a department of five consultants, 6 clinical fellows, MD and PhD students and junior staff. It is now the largest, most prestigious Andrology department in the world with over 50 international observorships per year and the highest number of tertiary referrals in the UK.

His practice is entirely confined to Andrology with the main interests being penile reconstruction, Peyronie's Disease, Erectile dysfunction with prosthetic Urology and male infertility. He runs a large multidisciplinary erectile dysfunction service with a European training fellowship for penile prosthesis implantation and is Director of the Erectile Dysfunction Clinical Trials Unit.

He has held many prestigious positions, the most notable including the Chairman of the BAUS section of Andrology, President of the British Society of Sexual Medicine and President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM). He is currently Chairman of The European Society of Genitourethral Reconstructive Surgeons, President of the Sexual Advice Association charity and a specialist advisor to NICE.

He founded the national penile cancer centre at UCLH, the international training centre for penile prostheses insertion and the major phallic reconstruction unit. It is also the biggest priapism centre in the UK.

He has over 250 peer-reviewed publication, 60 chapters and books, 500 international presentations and 500 invited lectures. He has been awarded the Brantley Scott medal in 2016 for recognition of his international contribution to Prosthetic Urology, the British Society For Sexual Medicine Career Award in 2017 and the ESSM career award in 2022. He is also the recipient of the St Peter's Medal, the highest award from the British Association Of Urological Surgeons for advancement in Urology.

Professor, Ethical Committee Chair
Airlangga University, Indonesian Urological Association
Indonesia

Educational Background
Medical Doctor : 1976, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
General Surgery : 1981, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Urology : 1984, AZG/Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
PhD : 1995, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia

Position
Professor of Urology : 1999 – now
Chairman Medical Committee of Soetomo General Hospital – Surabaya : 2009-2014
Chairman Medical Scientific Society Airlangga Univ. School of Medicine: 2004-2010
Head of Department of Urology : 1997 – 2010
Director of Urology Training Program : 1993 – 2008

Organizations
President of Asia Pacific Society for Sexual Medicine (APSSM) (2009-2011)
President of Asia Pacific Society for the Study of the Aging Male (APSSAM) (2005-2007)
Council Member of Asian Pacific Prostate Society (APPS) (2012-now)
Council Member of Japan Asean Conference of Male Health & Aging (2005-now)
President of Indonesian Urological Association (IAUI) (2003-2006)
Chairman, Indonesian College of Urology (2009-2011)
Adviser of Indonesian Continent Society
Founding Member of Asian Endourological Society
Vice Editor in Chief Folia Medica Indonesiana (FMI)
Member of Editorial Board of Prostate International (PI)
Member of Editorial Board of Indonesian Journal of Urology (JURI)
Adviser of Dutch Foundation Post Graduate Medical Courses in Indonesia
Member of Indonesian Medical Association (IDI)
Council Member of Asia Pacific Society for the Study of the Aging Male (APSSAM)
Member of Societe Internationale d’Urologie (SIU)
Member of International Continence Society
Member of the Endourology Society
Member of International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM)
International Member of American Urological Association (AUA)
Corresponding Member of European Association of Urology (EAU)
Corresponding Member of Dutch Urological Association (DUA)
WHO Adviser (Human Reproduction Research and Training Program) 1995 – 1997

Interests
Andrology / Male Infertility / Voiding Dysfunction / Neuro-urology

Consultant Urologist, Head Of Urology
MEDCARE Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Dr. Foroozan Khezri is a specialist in adult and paediatric urology. After graduating as a doctor from Belgrade University in Yugoslavia, Dr. Khezri went on to receive a PhD from Sheraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran, and pursued a Urodynamics Course at the Cleveland Clinic, USA. Her rich clinical and teaching experience make her a leading expert in her specialisation. She has been a faculty member at Azad Medical University, and worked as a Head of Urology Division at Zeinabiel University Hospital and Aliasghar Paediatric Surgery Centre. Dr. Khezri attended a training on the subject of Urodynamic & Female Urology Diagnosis from Cleveland Clinic, USA. Dr. Khezri is an active member of a number of world- wide urology professional associations. These include the American Urology Association (AUA), the European Urology Association (EAU), Society International of Urology (SIU), Emirates Medical Associations (EMA), Iranian Urology Association, Iranian Endo-urology and Laparoscopy Association and Emirates Urology Association.

She is an eminent specialist for the treatment of a variety of adult and paediatric conditions related to the urinary tract, urinary stones, male and female sexual functions, scrotal disease and prostate gland disorders. She is particularly well qualified in the diagnosis, treatment or surgery for congenital anomalies of urinary tract, from new-born to later. These may include hydronephrosis, reflux of urine, uretero-pelvic stenosis and scars, hypospadias, posterior urethral valve and so on. She provides treatments for urinary tract stones treatments by medical, minimal invasive, laser or shockwave therapy. She provides treatment for urinary incontinency problems in adults and paediatrics, and non-invasive treatment of stress and urge incontinency.

Dr. Khezri is well experienced in the treatment of female, paediatric and male urine control, leakage problems and voiding dysfunctions. She conducts the diagnosis and treatment of bloody urine, chronic pelvic pain, and painful and frequent urination. She treats urinary tract tumours and cysts. She takes care of the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection, as well as treatment of urinary tract problems during pregnancy.

Dr. Khezri also works in the area of male and female sexual dysfunction or fertility problems. She provides diagnosis and treatment of scrotal disease and pain, torsion, varicocele, hydrocele, cysts and infections. She has particular experience in conducting urodynamic study and reports. She is also an expert at diagnosis and treatment of prostate infection and enlargement, and diagnosis and treatment of night bed wetting.

Dr. enjoys reading and travelling, and can speak Arabic, English, Khodmouni, Persian and Serbian.

Consultant Urological Surgeon And Andrologist
Honorary Associate Professor
University College London Hospital
United Kingdom

Mr Hussain Alnajjar is a consultant urological surgeon and andrologist at UCLH. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London.

He completed pre-clinical medicine at St Andrews University in Scotland, and clinical medicine at University College London Medical School (UCL). He undertook academic training with a master of surgery degree at the University of Edinburgh in urology, passing with distinction. He received broad training in all disciplines of urology, and completed his higher surgical training at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He undertook his advanced fellowship in surgical andrology and genito-urethral oncology at the world-renowned specialist andrology unit at UCLH, further refining his specialist skills and performing cutting-edge surgery.

Hussain has a dual-qualification, being awarded fellowships with the Royal College of Surgeons of England FRCS (Urol) and the European Board of Urology (FEBU). He has won several awards and prizes for his clinical and academic achievements, including a coveted award from the Royal Society of Medicine.

Hussain has special interest in male factor infertility, erectile dysfunction and penile prosthesis surgery, Peyronie's disease and its surgical correction, priapism, genito-urethral oncology (penile cancer and testicular cancer) and genital reconstruction. He also manages men with all testicular conditions, low testosterone (hypogonadism), male sexual dysfunction.

Hussain has published widely in a number of high impact factor peer-reviewed medical journals and is actively involved in research in his field. He has extensively presented his work at national and international conferences including being an invited speaker at international conferences. He has written numerous book chapters and has co-authored and edited textbooks within the field of andrology.

Hussain is a keen mentor and trainer. He enjoys mentoring and training fellows and trainee doctors at UCLH. He is also a tutor for students taking a Master's degree in the andrology and penile cancer modules. He is an examiner for both the European Board of Urology fellowship (FEBU) and the membership to the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS) examinations.

Professor Of Urology
Western University
Canada

John D. Denstedt, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FCAHS
Dr. John Denstedt graduated from medical school in 1982 at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He completed his residency in Urology at Western between 1983 and 1987 followed by a fellowship in Endourology at Washington University in St. Louis. He returned to London and joined the Division of Urology in the Department of Surgery at Western in 1990.

In July 2002 he assumed the role of Chair and Chief of the Department of Surgery at Western University and served in this role for 14 years. Dr. Denstedt is a Past Chair of the Canadian Association of Surgical Chairs and has served on the American Urological Association Board of Directors. He completed a 10 year term as Treasurer of the Endourological Society in 2018. He has been a Past President of the Northeastern Section of the AUA and in 2023 will serve as President of the Endourological Society.

While maintaining an active clinical practice, Dr. Denstedt is an internationally renowned scholar in urology with career accomplishments encompassing over 300 published papers and book chapters, more than 400 guest professorships in 60 countries and numerous honours and awards including being the ﬁrst Canadian to have won the Gold Cystoscope Award from the American Urological Association in 1998. In 2019 he was awarded the Karl Storz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Endourological Society. Dr. Denstedt has served on the Editorial Board of eight major journals in Urology and is the immediate past Executive Editor of the Journal of Endourology. He is the immediate past Secretary of the American Urological Association and is the first Canadian to hold this prestigious position since the founding of the organization in 1902.

Past President, Urological Society of India
President, SAARC Association of Urological Surgeons
Chairman, Uro-sciences, Pushpanjali Hospital
India

Brief CV
Dr (Professor) Madhu Sudan Agarwal Qualifications: MS (Surgery), MNAMS (Surgery & Urology), MCh (Urology), FRCS (Glasgow)

Present affiliation: Chairman Urosciences, Pushpanjali Hospital and Research Centre, Agra, India

Highlights:

Ex-Professor, SN Medical College & University Hospital, Agra, India
Past President, Urological Society of India, 2019-20.
Founder President, SAARC Association of Urological Surgeons, 2019 onwards.
University topper in Medical College during graduation. Multiple gold medals, distinction / honors in all subjects. Best student of Class of '79.
Co-Editor, Journal of Case Reports and Images in Urology. Member, Editorial board of Indian Journal of Urology, 2015-22.
Reviewer for multiple journals: J Endourology, Urological Research, International J Urology, Urology (Gold Journal), Urolithiasis, Journal of Medical Case Reports, Canadian Urological Association Journal, Indian Journal of Surgery, Indian Journal of Medical Research, National Medical Journal of India, etc.
More than 90 national & international publications, including several book chapters in textbooks and reference books. Authored / edited several reference books, including 'Minimally Invasive PCNL' by Springer Nature.
Multiple Best paper and poster awards, over 200 paper and poster presentations and over 300 guest lectures in national and international conferences.
One of the pioneers of Endourology in India since 1980's. Popularized several new techniques including Tubeless PCNL, ultrasound-guided access, Mini-PCNL with high-power Laser, use of suction in upper tract endourology.
Conducted >80 live operative endourology workshops at national and international level.
Regularly organizing workshops and conducting fellowship programs in Endourology for national and international trainees at own centre.

Associate Editor at British Journal Of Urology International
Principal Director, Asian School of Urology
Singapore

Dr Michael YC Wong is US fellowship trained Urologist and currently the Associate Editor (BJUI Knowledge) at the British Journal Urology International and Principal Director of Asian School of Urology. He is the Medical Director at The Urology, Fertility & Gynecology Centre at Mount Elizabeth in Singapore. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of the Urology Centre at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Medical Director of SGH Specialist Practice at Gleneagles Hospital, Director of Endourology and Director of Female Urology at SGH Urology Centre. For the most part, he was at SGH for nearly 22years which is the largest tertiary hospital in the region.

Michael ‘s subspecialty interest is in Endourology, Female Urology and Prostate after completing:

Fellowship in Endourology & Urolithiasis with Dr Jim Lingeman
Fellowship in Female Urology with Dr Peter Knapp
Mini-Residency Program in Robotic Urology in University of California Irvine

Michael has established an International Standing with the following Global positions:

Associate Editor of British Journal of Urology International (2013 to Present)
Treasurer and Executive Committee, Urological Association of Asia (2018 to 2022)
Deputy Director and/or Consultant of Asian School of Urology (2015 to Present)
Board Director of US-based Society of Endourology (2005 to 2009)
Co-Chairman WHO 2nd International Consultation on Urolithiasis in Paris
Member of the International Scientific Committee of World Congress of Endourology (For the most part, 2001 to 2009)
Editorial Member (Awards) of the Journal of Endourology, USA (2001 to 2009) (2012 to 2016)
Editorial International Board Member of the International Journal of Urology (2009 to 2013)
Founding President of Asian Society of Endourology (1998 to 2008)
Founding Secretary-General of Asian Society of Female Urology (1998 to 2004)
President of Singapore Urological Association (2009 to 2012)

To date Michael has achieved international peer-recognition with several Global Awards:-

American Urological Association Annual Award for Global Leadership in Urology 2018
Thailand Annual National Phaitun Gojasenii Urology Lecture 2017
Indian Annual National Urology Jayaramdas Patel Lecture 2016
Singapore Urological Association National Lecture 2017

Consultant Urological Surgeon
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

Having been appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon to Frimley Park Hospital in 2005, Neil Barber is Clinical Lead for Urology at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Director of the Frimley Renal Cancer Centre and the Frimley Benign Prostate Clinical Research Centre.

Neil's experience allows him to provide the full breadth of Urological care, including issues ranging from prostate cancer and prostate cancer diagnostics, to urinary tract infections, prostatitis, peno-scrotal conditions and fertility, offering both vasectomy and vasectomy reversal. His particular subspecialist interests in managing waterworks symptoms in women and men, particularly for men suffering with BPH, has led to his involvement in new cutting edge treatments including the introduction to NHS England of the Greenlight laser in 2002, Urolift in 2014, Aquablation of the prostate using the Aquabeam system and iTind in 2019. Neil has been involved in numerous high quality national, European and global studies in this field and is recognized as a Key Opinion Leader and clinical advisor both to industry and to NICE. His aim is to offer men suffering with bothersome waterworks symptoms as a result of BPH the full range of treatment options in 2020, including TURP (TURiS), Greenlight laser prostatectomy (PVP), Urolift (including those men with middle lobes), Rezum, Aquablation of the prostate and now, iTIND – tailoring the best surgical approach to both the patients' goals, the severity of the condition and the anatomy of that patients' prostate.

Beyond that Neil has developed a specialist team in the delivery of surgical solutions for kidney disorders, primarily involving renal cancer but also other conditions of the upper urinary tract including PUJ obstruction. Neil has been performing advanced and complex robotic assisted surgery in this field for over 10 years, the Frimley Renal Cancer Centre (FRCC) performing the highest number of robotic assisted partial nephrectomy for renal tumours per year in the UK year on year. Whilst building this service around the Intuitive Surgical robotic platform, Da Vinci, Neil is very excited to lead the introduction of a new British surgical robot, Versius (CMR) and as part of FRCC performed the very first robotic assisted radical nephrectomy in Europe using this device in March 2020.

Department Of Surgery
Section Of Urology
The University of Chicago
United States

Omer Raheem is an American Board-Certified urologist specializing in men's sexual health, male infertility and andrology at the University of Chicago, Section of Urology, Department of Surgery. He also holds a joint appointment as an assistant professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Chicago, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In addition, he directs the Men's Wellness Program and Clinics at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

He works closely with the University of Chicago's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Fertility team to provide care for patients suffering with male factor infertility and supports cancer survivors at the Comprehensive Cancer Center to improve quality of erectile, urinary, and reproductive health in men.

In addition to his clinical work, Raheem is involved in clinical and translational research to better understand patient-reported outcomes in prosthetics and reproductive urology and is studying novel ways to discover biomarkers and therapeutics in the field of sexual medicine.

His research has been published in over 125 peer-reviewed publications and eight book chapters, most recently in the Manual of Sperm Retrieval and Preparation in Human Assisted Reproduction 2021 (Cambridge University Press). He is an associate editor of Sexual Medicine and Sexual Medicine Reviews, journals of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America.

Dr Raheem completed his residency in urology at the University of California, San Diego, and a fellowship at the University of Washington. Prior to that, he completed general surgery and urology training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, and earned Master of Surgery (MCh) and master of science (MSc) degrees from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.

President
Urological Society of India
India

Dr Sanjay Balwant Kulkarni, MD, MS, Dip. Urology (London), FRCS (Glasgow), Honorary FRCS(London) is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in urethral reconstruction. He underwent Urology training in England from 1981 to 1986. He was trained by Mr Richard Turner Warwick, considered as father of urethral reconstruction. Dr Kulkarni returned to motherland India to serve the people of his country. His wife Dr Jyotsna Kulkarni and Sanjay were pioneer in introducing Laparoscopy in India. They started India's first animal lab for Laparoscopy training. Dr Kulkarni established Centre for Reconstructive Urology in 1995. The centre performs one of the largest number of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeries in the world today. The centre is ethical and no patient is denied surgery for economic grounds. Kulkarni School of Urethral Surgery was established in 2006. The centre is engaged in permanent educational activities for urologists who are interested in the in-depth training in reconstructive urethral surgery. They conduct an operative workshop on a weekend once every month where about 8-10 Urologists from India and abroad attend inside the OR and watch surgeries LIVE. Kulkarni School of Urethral Surgery is very popular amongst the urologists. This is a purely academic activity with no registration fees. Dr Sanjay Kulkarni was invited as a faculty to demonstrate urethroplasties in 50 countries. Dr Kulkarni invented many techniques of reconstruction. The 'Kulkarni Urethroplasty' for pan urethral stricture is popular around the world and is published in Hinman's Atlas of Urology, American text book. Dr Kulkarni has authored chapter on Urethra and Penis in the 2022 Edition of Love and Baily, Practice of Surgery. 'UROKUL' Kulkarni UroSurgery Institute in Pune a 100 bed single speciality hospital and training centre was inaugurated in Dec 2022.

Sanjay was awarded 'President's Gold Medal' by the Urology Society of India for outstanding contribution to Urology in India in 2011. In 2016 Dr Sanjay Kulkarni was awarded 'Dr BC Roy' award by the President of India for developing new speciality. In 2017 he was conferred Honorary membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and made Honorary member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and Urology Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Kulkarni was the President of the Society of Genito Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons in 2014.
He is the past President of the Society International de Urology, SIU (2019-21).
Dr Sanjay Kulkarni is the current President of the Urological Society of India (2023)

President, Saudi Urological Association
King Abdulaziz University
Saudi Arabia

Experienced robotic surgeon & academic urologist with a strong professional and academic background including board certification from the American Board of Urology and Royal College of physicians and Surgeons of Canada in addition to obtaining USA subspecialty fellowship training in: 1- Robotic Surgery and advanced Laparoscopy. 2- Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology. 3- Endourology.

Currently serving as the president of the Saudi urological association and an associate professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Urology residency training was completed at McGill University in Canada then fellowship training was obtained from USC Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California in Los Angeles under the direction of Dr.Inderbir Gill, the world leader in minimally invasive urological surgery.

Played an active role with the USC team in developing innovative techniques in Robotic Urologic surgery & participated in demonstrating many live surgery cases around the World. Has been selected to be an adjunct clinical assistant professor of Urology at USC Institute of Urology.

Assisted in developing and maturing robotic surgery programs in different hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Have performed many complex robotic surgeries that were done for the 1st time in Saudi Arabia & the Middle East. Officially licensed robotic surgeon from Intuitive Surgical and considered one of the highest volume robotic surgeons in the Middle East.

Received several acclaimed awards including scholarship awards, outstanding resident teacher awards as well as several awards for scientific presentations & surgical videos at scientific meetings.

Presented many abstracts at scientific meetings and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, reviews, & chapters. Have been invited as a visiting professor in different countries around the World.

A reviewer for several urology journals & most recently joined the Journal of Urology - the official journal of the American Urological Association- as an editorial board member.

A board member in both the Urology Scientific & Exam Committees at The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

Senior and corresponding author in developing the Saudi Urological Association Guidelines in Robotic Surgery.

Most recently, played a major role in introducing robotic surgery for the 1st time in a private Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Namely, Doctor Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah.

Highly interested in medical innovations & adoption of technology to serve patients and improve health care delivery.

Principal Resident Physician
Consultant And Clinical Faculty
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Singapore

Dr Vineet Gauhar completed his medical school training in India in 1998. He obtained his Master of General Surgery in 2003 and Master of Urology in 2007 with honours at the Sri Ramachandra Medical College, India. Thereafter, he served as an assistant professor and consultant urologist both at the university and private multi-national corporate hospitals until 2008. He obtained a Diploma in Minimally Invasive Surgery from Stratzburg, France in 2009 and Fellowship in Urology at the National University Hospital in Singapore in 2011. In 2014, he received his Diploma in Urology from the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and joined Ng Teng Fong General Hospital as a Principal Resident Physician.

Dr Vineet's specialty interests are in stone disease, renal cancer and laparoscopic surgery for kidney diseases. He has vast experience in retrograde intra-renal surgery and other minimally invasive procedures for calculus disease and kidney cancers. His areas of focus include male urethral disease and urethral reconstructive surgery, with his area of expertise extending to substitution urethroplasty.

With a key focus on teaching, clinical research and minimally invasive surgery for calculus and reneal diseases, Dr Vineet is actively involved in the development of the Urology service on JurongHealth Campus. He has served as an editor for journals and is actively involved with clinical presentations. He also participates regularly as a faculty member both in regional and international forums.

As a member of international institutions such as the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES), which is headquartered in New York, he continues to expand his experience in research.

Awards

2022: Urotech 22 Best paper award for, MIxed Reality in kidney tumours
2022: CAU Best research award for; Emphysematous Pyelonephritis
2020: Silver Ambassador award;NTFGH
2020: Best International research study award for ,IDENTIFY
2019: Asian Journal of andrology; Outstanding paper award
2019: 10 year long service award; NTFGH
2019: Service quality award; NTFGH
2016: Key service quality award; NTFGH

Rector, Bashkir State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russia

Valentin N. Pavlov, Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of Bashkir State Medical University, Member of the Board of the Russian Society of Urology, Member of the European Association of Urology

Valentin N. Pavlov graduated with honors from Bashkir State Medical Institute (BSMI) (General Medicine Faculty) in 1989.

Valentin N. Pavlov is a member of the Presidium of the Educational and Methodical Association of medical and pharmaceutical educational institutions of Russia, chairman of Educational and Methodical Council on biomedical specialties ("Medical Biochemistry", "Medical Biophysics", and "Medical Cybernetics"), member of Dissertation Council on specialty urology of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.

Editor in Chief of the electronic scientific and practical journal "Bulletin of Bashkir State Medical University" and scientific and practical peer-reviewed journal "Creative Surgery and Oncology". Member of the editorial board of the journals "Experimental and Clinical Urology", "Medical Bulletin of Bashkortostan" and "Medical Society".

Since 2013 – deputy of the State Assembly— Kurultay of the Republic of Bashkortostan, member of the Committee for budget, tax, investment policy and territorial development, member of the Control Commission of the Income and Ownership of the deputies of the State Assembly— Kurultay of the Republic of Bashkortostan, head of The Health Project of the Bashkir branch of the United Russia Party.

Valentin N. Pavlov has been awarded the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour, the Commemorative medal "For significant contribution to the preparation and holding of the XXII Olympic winter games and XI Paralympic winter games 2014 in Sochi", jubilee badge of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia in honour of the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

Professor Valentin N. Pavlov has published about 500 scientific and methodical works including federal manual of urology. He got 35 inventions patents of the Russian Federation for inventions and 4 patents of the Russian Federation for useful models.

The main directions of scientific researches of Professor Valentin N. Pavlov are perfection of diagnostics methods, prevention and treatment of malignant neoplasms of the genitourinary system, reconstructive urology, andrology, urogynecology, immunization and immunotherapy, development of allogeneic biomaterials in urology, etc.

Valentin N. Pavlov is the creator of the Scientific School for Urologists in the Republic of Bashkortostan, the developer and executor of a number of research programs, including issues of the state scientific-technical programs of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Valentin N. Pavlov performed a number of compicated surgeries: bilateral kidney cancer, creation of artifial bladder from intenstine, adrenal gland removal. In 2007 for the first time in Russia he performed ileocystoplasty in conjunction with kidney transplantation in the patient on dialysis. In 2014 for the first time in Russia he performed infralitoral pelvic exenteration with plastic repair of the pelvic floor with a fascio-muscular- cutaneous flap.

In 2013 Bashkir State Medical University has concluded international cooperation agreement with the Medical Faculty Mannheim at Heidelberg University and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Regensburg on academic cooperation, students exchanges, joint research, research development and implementation.

Bashkir State Medical University under the guidance of Valentin N. Pavlov expands successful cooperation with Chinese medical universities. In 2015 meeting of the Association of Sino-Russian medical universities (ASRMU) and Rectors Forum of Russian and Chinese Medical Universities were held at the Bashkir State Medical University in the framework of the Week of Healthcare of Member States of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Professor of Urology
Consultant Endo-Urology & Minimally invasive Surgery
Sheikh Khalifa Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Dr. Yasser Farahat currently serves as Professor of Urology at Tanta University, Egypt, a Clinical Tutor at Edinburg University, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, UK. He is a Consultant Urologist at the Ministry of Health and Prevention UAE and a Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU). He is acting as a Senior Consultant of Urology at Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital (SKGH-UAQ), UAE.

His special interests & research include minimally invasive surgery, Endo-urology, Robotic Assisted FURS, Reconstructive Urology, and Andrology. He completed his MD in 2004 at Tanta University, Egypt. He had been awarded several prizes including the Best Research and Presentation at The First Eastern Mediterranean Meeting of European Association of Urology in 2007 and The Best Research Poster Presentation at the 25th annual EAU Congress in 2010.

He is one of the worldwide initiators of using the robotic-assisted RIRS since the invention of the Roboflex and improving the utilization of flexible ureteroscopy in renal calculi management.

He is also, a reviewer of several international journals. He has published over 35 international and local publications and has presented at 90 conferences worldwide.

Dr. Farahat is an active member of many international urological associations and societies including, The European Association of Urology (EAU), Société InternationaleD Urologie (SIU), Endourological Society and he is currently the head of the scientific committee of Emirates Urological Society (EUS), Cochair of the scientific committee of Urological Association of Asia (UAA), Secretary-General of Arab Association of Urology (AAU) and Chairman of Arab School of Urology.

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Abbas Basiri

Abdelhamid El Bahnasy

AbdulQadir Al Zarooni

Abdalla Al-Ansari

Adel Al-Hunayan

Adel Aljunaibi

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Ahmed Elghiaty

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Chun-Hou Liao

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David Ralph

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Eddie Chan

Forozan Khezri

Giorgio I. Russo

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Hammad Ather

Hassan Abol-Enein

Helen O'Connell

Hisham Maghraby

Husain Al Enezi

Hussain Al Najjar

Hussain Naji

Ismail Abbara

Jacob PANG

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Jawad Feghali

Jeff Cheuh

Jens Rassweiler

Jiayi Liu

John Denstedt

Jose Karam

Joseph Michael Ursua

Juan Luis Vásquez

Kamran Ahmed

Kandarp Parikh

Khalid Alrumahi

Linhui Wang

Ling Yu Yang

Mahmoud Mustafa

Madhu S Agarwal

Man-Kay Li

Manaf El Hashimi

Manar Malki

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Mudhar Hasan

Neil Barber

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