Scientific Committee
Prof. Olivier Traxer, MD, PhD
Sorbonne Université, Service d’Urologie,
AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon
Paris, France
Prof. Manoj Monga, MD, FACS, FRCS (Glasg.)
Director of Endourology & Stone Disease
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Secretary, American Urological Association
Invited Guest Speakers
Prof. Margaret Pearle, M.D., Ph.D
Ralph C. Smith Distinguished Chair
in Urologic Education
Department of Urology and Mineral Metabolism Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX , USA
Prof. Evangelos Liatsikos, MD
Professor, Department of Urology
University of Patras
Patras, Greece
Head of Endourology-Laparoscopy Unit
Chairman of European Section of Urotechnology (ESUT)
Local Organizer
Prof. Roberto Miano MD
Associate Professor of Urology
Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Roma, Italy
Seth K. Bechis, MD MS
Assistant Professor of Urology
UCSD Comprehensive Kidney Stone Center
Assistant Director, UCSD-Kaiser Lap/Endourology Fellowship
San Diego, CA, USA
Sara L. Best, MD
Associate Professor
Dept of Urology, University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI, USA
Michael S. Borofsky MD
Assistant Professor -Department of Urology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ben H. Chew, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Associate Professor of Urology
University of British Columbia
Chair of Research, Endourology Society
Member, EDGE Research consortium
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jonathan Cloutier, MD
Laval University | ULAVAL
Urology Department, CHU de Québec,
Québec City, QC, Canada
Casey A. Dauw, MD
Assistant Professor, Urology
University of Michigan
Taubman Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Shubha K. De, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Smita De, MD, PhD
Urology, The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
Brian D. Duty, MD
Associate Professor
Medical Director of Clinical Operations
Department of Urology, Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA
Khurshid Ridwan Ghani, MBChB, MS, FRCS
Associate Professor, Urology
University of Michigan
Taubman Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jonathan D. Harper MD
Chief of Endourology
and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Associate Professor Urology
University of Washington
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Seattle, WA, USA
Kelly A. Healy, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Urology
Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian
New York, NY, USA
Ryan Hsi, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA
David A. Leavitt, MD
Associate Director of Endourology and Director of Laser Surgery
Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, MI, USA
Julien Letendre, MD, FRCSC
Urology – Endourology
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
Clinical Associate Professor
Assistant to the Urology Program Director
Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada
Michael Lipkin, MD, MBA
Associate Professor Urologic Surgery
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Operations, Duke Private Diagnostic Clinics
Chief of the Clinics, Department of Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Mike M. Nguyen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Clinical Urology
USC Institute of Urology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kenneth Pace, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Vice Chief of Surgery
Head, Division of Urology
Researcher, Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
St. Michael’s Hospital, Canada
Vice Chair of Urology
Associate Professor, – Department of Surgery
Adjunct Faculty, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Charles D. Scales Jr, MD, MSHS
Associate Professor
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Division of Urologic Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC, USA
Michelle Jo Semins, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sri Sivalingam, MD,MSc, FRCSC
Director, Center for Endourology and Stone Disease,
CCF Hillcrest at Glickman Urological Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
Mathew Sorensen, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Professor, Urology
Residency Program Director
Department of Urology, University of Washington
School of Medicine
Staff Urologist, Director of Comprehensive Metabolic Stone Clinic
Puget Sound, VA, USA
Karen Stern, MD
Assistant Professor of Urology at Mayo Clinic
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Justin B. Ziemba, MD
Assistant Professor of Urology in Surgery
at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ewa Bres-Niewada, MD, PhD, FEBU
Head of the Department of Urology
Roefler Memorial Hospital
Pruszkow, Poland
Salvatore Butticè, MD
Department of Urology
San Giovanni di Dio Hospital
Agrigento, Italy
Vitor Cavadas, MD
Department of Urology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário do Porto
Porto, Portugal
Vincent De Coninck, MD, FEBU
Department of Urology
AZ Klina
Brasschaat, Belgium
Steeve Doizi, MD
Sorbonne Université, Service d’Urologie
AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France
Sorbonne Université, GRC n°20, Groupe de Recherche
Clinique sur la Lithiase Urinaire, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France
Laurian Dragos, MD
University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Victor Babes’ Timisoara, Romania and Clinical Emergency County Hospital ‘Pius Branzeu’ Timisoara, Romania
Esteban Emiliani, MD, FEBU
Consultant Urologist. Endourology and Urolithiasis unit. Fundació Puigvert.
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Mudhar N. Hasan, MD, FEBU
Head of the Department of Urology
Danderyd University Institute – Endourology & Robotic Units
Stockholm, Sweden
Helene Jung, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Urology
Urological Research Center, Lillebaelt Hospital University of Southern Denmark
Vejle, Denmark
Panagiotis Kallidonis MD, MSc, PhD, FEBU
Chairman of the YAU “Endourology and Urolithiasis” group
Board member of the European Section of Uro-Technology
Board member of the Hellenic Urological Ass. Endourology Section
Department of Urology, Laparoscopy and Lithiasis Unit
University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
Etienne Xavier Keller, MD,FEBU
Sorbonne Université,
Service d’Urologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France
Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Guido Kamphuis, MD
Urologist, Academisch Medisch Centrum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Peter Kronenberg, MD, FEBU
Urology Consultant at Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca,
Amadora, Portugal;
Member and President of Petra (Progress in Endourology, Technology and Research Association).
Iason D. Kyriazis, MD, PhD, MSc, FEBU
Department of Urology
University of Patras
Patras, Greece
Frédéric Panthier, MD, MSc
Service d’Urologie, AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France
Service d’Urologie, APHP, Hôpital Européen George Pompidou, Paris, France
Athanasios Papatsoris MD, MSc, PhD, FEBU, FES
Associate Professor of Urology
University Department
Sismanoglio General Hospital
Athens, Greece
Silvia Proietti, MD
Urologist at San Raffaele Hospital, Ville Turro Division
Milano, Italy
Martin Schoenthaler, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Oberarzt Urology – University Medical Centre
Freiburg, Germany
Emre Sener, MD, FEBU
Marmara University Hospital,
Department of Urology
Istanbul, Turkey
Thomas Tailly, MD, MSc, FEBU
Consultant Urologist
University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium
Michele Talso, MD
Urology Department
Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore
Policlinico Università degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy
Tzevat Tefik, MD, FEBU
Associate Professor of Urology
Faculty of Medicine – Istanbul University
Istanbul, Turkey
Øyvind Ulvik, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Eugenio Ventimiglia, MD
Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology; URI;
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Milano, Italy
Luca Villa, MD, FEBU
Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology; URI;
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Milano, Italy
Bin Hamri, MBBS, DES, DESC, FEBU
Consultant Urology & Advanced Endourology
King Abdullah International Research Center (KAIMRC),
King Abdulaziz National Guard Hospital
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sung Yong Cho, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Urology
Head of SEES (Specialized Endoluminal Endourology & Stone) Clinic in Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Pablo Nicolás Contreras, MD
Consutant Urologist at Hospital Alemán
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alexandre Danilovic, MD
Department of Urology
Hospital das Clinicas
University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Mariano S. González, MD
Endourology and Lithiasis
Head of Laser section, Service of Urology
Hospital Italiano
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Parikh Khandarp, MD
Chairman of Shyam Urosurgical Hospital
Consultant of the Department of Urology and Kidney Transplant
Sterling Hospital,
Ahmedabad, India
Giovanni Scala Marchini, MD
Section of Endourology, Division of Urology, Hospital das Clínicas
University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Enrique Méndez Probst, MD
Department of Urology
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Mexico City, Mexico
Felipe Pauchard, MD
Department of Urology, Hospital Carlos Van Buren
Valparaiso, Chile
Renato N. Pedro, MD
Medical Simulation and Endourology
Faculdade Medicina Sao Leopoldo Mandic,
Endourology Staff UNICAMP
Campinas, Brazil
Anil Shrestha, MD
Department of Urology
National Academy of Medical Sciences
Bir Hospital
Kathmandu, Nepal
Carlos G. Trujillo, MD
Department of Urology
Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá and Universidad de los Andes School of Medicine
Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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