Preliminary Scientific Program

Our ground breaking program will draw together experts from around the world and will encompass innovations in Robotic, Laparoscopic, Endoscopic, Percutaneous and Transcutaneous therapy as well as cutting edge research in biomedical engineering, imaging and simulation. This year we will highlight critical assessment of novel approaches to management of urinary malignancies, urinary stone disease, benign prostate hypertrophy as well as sustainable, green economics of health care in the age of advanced biotechnology. Society meetings, Hands on Labs, subspecialty courses and personal interaction with experts will be offered.

WCE 2010 Preliminary Program (as of July 20, 2010)
*Program sessions, times and speakers subject to change

Tuesday, August 31

08:30 - 10:30

Live Surgery Case 1
Extended PLND Robotic Radical Prostatectomy

Dr. Gregory Zagaja
University of Chicago
Moderators: Jean Joseph, Ronney Abaza , James Porter

Live Surgery Case 2
Robotic Cystectomy

Dr. Erik Castle
Moderators: Fernando Bianco, Khurshid Guru, Gary Steinberg

Live Surgery Case 3
Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy

Dr. Jaime Landman
Columbia University, NY
Moderators: Thomas Jarrett, Octavio Castillo, Scott Eggener

12:00 – 14:00 Board of Directors Meeting
13:00 – 15:00

Basic Research Poster Session 1:
Lower Tract Physiology / Urolithiasis I
Moderators:  Nitin Kekre, Hassan Razvi

Basic Research Poster Session 2:
Laparoscopy I
Moderators: Benjamin Lee, Pilar Laguna

13:30  -16:00

Society Meetings
Society meeting 1, ESUT
Society meeting 2,
Society meeting 3, Greek-Turkish
Society meeting 4, CAU/Asia

15:00 – 17:00

Basic Research Poster Session 3:
Urolithiaisis II
Moderators: Ben Chew, Ryohei Hattori

Basic Research Poster Session 4:
Ureteral physiology / Laparoscopy II
Moderators: Thomas Knoll, Brian Matlaga

17:00 – 17:30 2K Training - Fund Run
17:00 – 22:00 Free Evening
   

Wednesday, September 1
Oncology

06:30 – 07:30

Instructional Course 1

Robotics: Renal
Chair: Craig Rogers
Moderators: Chandru Sundaram, Sam Bhayani

Instructional Course 2
BPH- What’s new
Chair: Jean de la Rosette
Moderators: Anup Patel, Anil Varshney

Instructional Course 3
Medical management of stones: Case scenario’s
Chair: Adrian Joyce
Moderators: Hans-Goran Tiselius, Stephen Jackman

Instructional Course 4
Endourology for UTTCC
Chair: Francis Keeley
Moderators: Kun-Yuan Chiu, David Hoenig

Instructional Course 5
Ablation of Small Renal Tumors: Cryo, RF and HIFU
Chair – Gyung Tak Sung
Moderators: Kent Perry, David Duchene

07:30 – 11:00 Plenary Session 1
07:30 – 08:00
PL1- Highlights of Basic research

Lower Tract Physiology/ Urolithiaisis I – Michael Wong
Laparoscopy I –  David Wang
Urolithiaisis II – Michael Wong

08:00 – 08:10

PL2a- Welcome by Meeting President

Arieh Shalhav
PL2b- Welcome by Society President
Paul van Cangh
PL2c- Welcome by Local Officials
Jeff Matthews

08:10 – 08:20

GPS Urologic Surgery
Inderbir Gill
08:20 – 08:40
Debate 1: Do we need to clamp for partial nephrectomy?

Moderator: Peter Alken
Yes: Steven Campbell
No: TBA

08:40 – 09:00 Debate 2: Management of RCC Lap/Robotic LESS  

Moderator: Octavio Castillo
J. Stuart Wolf
Matthew Gettman

09:00 – 09:20 NOTES now Nephrectomy Prostatectomy

Jihad Kaouk
James Lingeman

09:20 – 09:30 Confocal Microscopy During Radical Prostatectomy
Ash Tewari
09:30 – 09:50 Debate 3: Focal Tx for CaP 2010 Clinical Trial Clinical Option

Moderator: Christian Chaussy
John Trachtenberg
Thomas Polascik

09:50 – 10:20 Nightmares in lap/robotic prostatectomy

Moderator: David Lee
Panel: Mani Menon, Howard Winfield, Ali Cural, Paulo Puppo, Thomas Ahlering

10:20 -  10:30 MIS for Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer 2010
Khurshid Guru
10:30 – 10:40 Lifetime Achievement Award
10:40 – 11:00 Break
10:30 – 12:30

Robotic Lap Upper Tract I
Poster Session 5
Chairman: Jay Bishoff
Moderators: Sean Hedican, Fatih Atug

Robotic /Lap Prostate I
Poster Session 6
Chairman: Li Ming Su
Moderators: Sergey Shikanov, Can Obek

11:00 – 12:30

Live surgery 6
Standard Robotic Radical Prostatectomy with Bilateral Athermal Nerve Preservation
Dr. Vipul Patel
Celebration Health, FL    
Moderators:  Ketan Badani, David Albala,  Michael Stifelman

Live surgery 7
Robotic Partial Nephrectomy
Dr. Steven Shichman
Moderators: Peter Pinto,  Craig Rogers, Benjamin Lee

Live Surgery 8
Robotic Nephro Ureterectomy
Ashok Hemal
Moderators: Jens Rassweiler, Toshiro Terachi,  Surena Matin

12:30 – 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 – 15:00

Robotic Lap Upper Tract II
Poster Session 7
Chairman- Gunter Janetschek
Moderators: Albert Mikhail, Steve WH Chan

Education / Simulators I
Poster Session 8
Chairman: Glenn Preminger
Moderator: Kevin Zorn

BPH I
Poster Session 9
Chairman: Richard Babayan
Moderators: Peter Noor Buchholz, Amy Krambeck

Percutaneous Surgery I
Posters Session 10
Chairman: Peter Alken
Moderators:  Manoj Monga , Timothy Averch

Imaging
Poster Session 11
Chairman: David Albala
Moderators: Steve Jackman, M. Derya Balbay

 

 

Video Session 1
Laparoscopy/Robotics – Prostate
Moderators:  Thomas Ahlering, Reza Ghavamian, Angelo Naselli 

Video Session 2
Imaging, New Technique and Endoscopy
Moderators:  Rolf Muschter,  Enrique Perez Castro, Dalibor Pacik

Video Session 3
Robotics – Kidney 1  
Moderators: Li Ming Su, Sidney Yip, Gary Chien

Video Session 4
LESS 1
Moderators:  Murali Ankem,  Steven Lucas

14:30 – 15:00    Break
15:00 – 17:00

Robotic /Lap Prostate III
Poster Session 13
Chair: Roland van Velthoven
Moderators:   Manish Vira,  Gary Chien

ESWL I
Poster Session 14
Chairman: Christian Chaussy
Moderators:  Brian Matlaga,  Casio Andreoni

Robotic / Lap Bladder
Poster Session 15
Chairman: Michael Jewett
Moderators:   Eric Wallen, Raj Pruthi

TUR Surgery
Poster Session 16
Chairman: Paolo Puppo
Moderators:  Francis Desgrandchamps,  Michael Louie

New Techniques I
Poster Session 17
Chairman: Gyung Tak Sung
Moderators: David Hoenig, Duke Herrell

  Video Session 5

Robotics-Prostate
Moderators:  Monish Aron, Albert Mikhail, Marcelo Orvieto

Video Session 6
Laparoscopy –Kidney 1
Moderators: Raul Parra,  Matthew Dunn

Video Session 7
LESS, NOTES, Others
Moderators:  Sero Andonian, Matthew Gettman, Sangtae Park

Video Session 8
Robotics/Laparoscopy - Bladder
Moderators: C. Mallikarjuna, Ingolf Tuerk

 

17:00 – 17:30 2K Training - Fund Run
19:30 – 23:00

Welcome Reception & Fireworks
Navy Pier

 
 

Thursday, September 2
Urolithiasis and BPH

06:00 Research Fund Run/Walk
07:30 – 10:35 Plenary Session
07:30 – 08:00 PL7 - Highlights (poster and video)

Robotics/Lap Prostate – Michael Stifelman
Robotics/Lap Kidney/Bladder - Mark Katz
Education & Simulators - Kevin Zorn
BPH - Amy Krambeck
Stones (ESWL, URS, PCNL) - Thomas Turk
Imaging & New Techniques -   William Roberts

08:00 – 08:10 Role of  SWL 2010
Jens Rassweiler
08:10 – 08:30 Debate: Supine vs Prone PCNL

Moderator: Eraky, Ibrahim
Supine- Roberto Scarpa
Prone- Arthur Smith

08:30 – 08:40 Freomagnetics for Urolithiasis
Jeffrey Caddedu
08:40 – 09:00 Debate: Large Staghorn  PCNL vs Lap/Robotic ANL

Moderator:  Stephen Nakada
Thomas Jarrett- Lap/Robotic ANL, Margaret Pearle- PCNL

09:00 – 09:10 Metabolic Syndrome in Endourology
Dean Assimos
09:10 -09:20 TUR vs Plasma Vaporization for TCC
Petrisor Geavlete
09:20 – 09:40

Debate: BPH Green Light or Bipolar
Moderator:  Seige Netto
Bipolar Hassan Razvi

09:40 – 10:10 PL11- Nightmares in Endourology (ESWL, URS, PCNL)

Moderator: Mahesh Desai
Panel: John Denstedt, Jorge Gutierriez and Olivier Traxer

10:10 – 10:25 CROES Update
President, CROES- Jean de la Rosette
10:25 – 10:30 Industry Award
Awards Committee Chair
10:30 – 10:35 Smith Award
Awards Committee Chair

10:30 – 11:00   

Break

10:30 – 12:30 Education / Simulators II
Poster Session 18

Chairman: John Davis
Moderators:  Matthew Gettman, Duke Herrell

Percutaneous / ESWL
Poster Session 19
Chairman: Arthur Smith
Moderators:  Tibet Erdogru , Rajesh Kukraja

11:00 – 12:30 

Live surgery 9
Ureteroscopy
Glen Gerber
University of Chicago
Moderators:  Stephen Nakada, David Lifshitz, Manoj Monga

Live surgery 10
PCNL
Dr. James Lingeman
Moderators: Shimon Meretyk,  Salvatore Michali, Robert Nadler

Live Surgery 11
BPH – HOLEP
Dr. Amy Krambeck (Akhil Das Jefferson)
Moderators: Mustafa Elhilaly, Peter  Gilling, Rolph Mucshter

Live Surgery 12
Robotic pyeloplasty
Dr. Raymond Leveillee
University of Miami, FL
Moderators: Raju Thomas, Chandru Sundaram, Kevin Zorn

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Young Endourologists and Residents Lunch Program
13:30 – 15:30 Technology Focus Groups

SURS
ISUS

13:30 – 15:30 

Robotic Lap Upper Tract III
Poster Session 20
Chairman: Isaac Kim
Moderator: Ketan Bedani

Ureteroscopy I
Poster Session 21
Chairman:  Demetrius Bagley
Moderators: Petrisor Geavlete,  Sero Andonian

New Techniques II
Poster Session 22
Chairman: Carson Wong
Moderators:  Bradley Schwartz, Hyung Keun Park

Urolithiasis I
Poster Session 23
Chairman: Mantu Gupta
Moderators:  Robert Marcovich, Graham Watson  

Robotic /Lap Prostate IV
Poster Session 24
Chairman: Thomas Ahlering
Moderators:  Misop Han, Kevin Zorn

13:30 – 15:00  Video Session  9

Robotics – Kidney 2  
Moderators:  Majid Eshghi, Gary Chien,  James Borin

Video Session 10
PCNL     
Moderators:  David Lifshitz , John Honey,  Ramakrishna Venkatesh                            

Video Session 11
BPH/LUTS/Lower Tract Endoscopy
Moderators:   Alex Greenstein, Thorsten Bach, Carl Gjertson             

Video Session 12
Laparoscopy/ Robotics – Adrenal, Testis and Miscellaneous   
 
Moderators:  Fernando Kim, Frederic Mendiola, Jose Benito   Abraham         

15:00 – 15:30  Break
15:30 – 17:30

Urolithiasis II
Poster Session 25
Chairman: Stephen Nakada
Moderators: Vincent Bird, Guido Giusti

Female Urology / BPH / LUTS
Poster Session 26
Chairman: Gopal Badlani
Moderators: Kandrap Parikh, Oktay Demirkesen

Adrenal / Testis
Poster Session 27
Chairman: Mohammed Allaf
Moderators: Sanjay Bhatt, TBA

Ureteroscopy II
Poster Session 28
Chairman: Alex Greenstein
Moderators:  Nasser Simforoosh, P.P. Rao

Percutaneous Surgery II
Poster Session 29
Chairman: Ojas Shah
Moderators: Erdal Apaydin, Sidney Yip

15:30 – 17:30 Video Session 13

Laparoscopy- Kidney 2
Moderators:  Ofer Gofrit, Gyung Tak Sung, Martin Kwok-tin Wong

Video Session 14
Endourology  
Moderators:  Mantu Gupta, Andrew Portis, Mario Sofer                 

Video Session 15
Laparoscopy/Robotics- Prostate and Miscellaneous
Moderators:  Richard Babayan, Kenneth Palmer, Ravi Munver

Video Session 16
LESS  2    
Moderators:  Hyeon Hoe Kim , Albert Mikhail, Duane Baldwin                       

 

16:00

Society of Robotic Surgeons-Urology Business Meeting
19:00 – 21:00 Blues Night - (Ticketed Event)
House of Blues
   
   

Friday, September 3
Female, UPJ and Pediatric

06:30 – 07:30 Instructional Course 6

Robotics Prostate
Chair-:Jean Joseph
David Samadi
John Davis

Instructional Course 7
MIS in Female Urology- Latest Trends
Chair: Firouz Daneshgari
Richard Gaston
Greg Bales

Instruction Course 8
Single Port Lap Basic
Chair -  Lee Ponsky
Boylu Ugar
Abhay Rane

Instructional Course 9
MIS in Pediatric Urology
Chair:  Sherb Figenshau
Michael Ost

Instructional Course 10
Stents and Novel Diversions
Chair: Evangelos Liatsikos
Manoj Monga
Maurice Michel

06:30 – 07:30 Fellow’s Forum
07:45 -10:30 Plenary Session
07:45 – 8:15 PL12- Highlights

Lap / Robotics –Lee Richstone
Stones (URS/PCNL) -  Zeph Okeke
Female Urology-  TBA
Adrenal/Testis- TBA

08:15 – 08:30 UPJO Is it all robot now?
Paul van Cangh
08:30 – 08:50 PL14- Debate Robotic Ureterolithotomy vs Flexible Ureteroscopy for 3cm Proximal Ureteral Calculus

Moderator : Michael Grasso
Demetrius Bagley
Raju Thomas

08:50 -09:10 PL15- Robotic Pediatric Urology

Moderator: TBA
Upper tract,  Pasquale Casale
Lower tract,  Mohan Gundeti

09:10 – 09:30 PL16- Management of incontinence 2010

Endo and trans vaginal: Gopal Badlani
Laparoscopic robotic: TBA

09:30 – 09:40 What is New in Neuro Modulation for Incontinence
TBA
09:40 – 09:50 Single Incision Sling 
Sandip Vasavada
09:50 – 10:30 Nightmares in Laparoscopy/robotics

Moderator: Rene Sotello
Panel Surena Matin, James Porter, Fatih Atug, Inderbir Gill, Alex Motrie

10:30 – 11:00 Break
10:30 – 12:30

Robotic Lap Upper Tract IV
Poster Session 30
Chairman: Ravi Munver
Moderators:   Lutfi Tunc, Shrenik Shah

Robotic /Lap Prostate V
Poster Session 31
Chairman: Jean Joseph
Moderators:  Burak Turnan, Kun-Yuan Chiu

11:00 -12:30

Live surgery 13
Robotic Sacrocolpopexy
Elliot/Chow
Moderators: Paul Kazlowski, Sandip Vasavada

Live surgery 14
Pediatrics –Laparoscopic Heminephrectomy
Mike Ost
Moderators:  Mohan Gundeti, Pasquale Casale

Live Surgery 15
Button Vaporization
Michael Louie
Moderators: Gopal Badlani, TBA

Live surgery 16
Robotic VV fistula repair
PP Rao
Moderators: Greg Bales, TBA

Live Surgery 17
Robotic Single Port Partial Nephrectomy
Dr. Jihad Kaouk
Moderators:  Abhay  Rane , Lee Ponsky

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Endourology Society Delegate Meeting
13:30 – 15:30 Technology Focus Groups
Image guided Tx Kidney
NOTES/LESS
13:30 – 15:30

Robotic Lap Upper Tract V
Poster Session 32
Chairman-Ali Gozen
Moderators:  Yasar Ozgok, Murali Ankem

Percutaneous Surgery III
Poster Session 33
Chairman- TBA
Moderators:   Omer Levant Tuncay , Agarwal Madhu

New Techniques III
Poster Session 34
Chairman- Narmada Gupta
Moderators:  Andrea Gross,  Ashley Bowen

LESS / NOTES I
Poster Session 35
Chairman-Steven Savage
Moderators: Bulent Oktay, Abraham Kurien

Pediatrics
Poster Session 36
Chairman: TBA
Moderators: Brian VanderBrink , Mohan Gundetti

 

13:30 – 15:00 

Video Session 17
Laparoscopy – Kidney 3   
Moderators: Pilar Laguna, Matthew Dunn, William Johnston 

Video Session 18
Laparoscopy/Robotics- Miscellaneous
Moderators:  Gerhard Fuchs, Duke Herrell , Kevin Zorn      

Video Session 19
Pediatrics and Miscellaneous  
Moderators:  Ravi Kulkarni, Michael Ost                                           

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:30

Robotic / Lap Upper Tract VI
Poster Session 37
Chairman:  Sean Hedican
Moderators:  Angello Naselli, Gaurav Bandi

LESS / NOTES II
Poster Session 38
Chairman: Jeffrey Box
Moderators:  Jay Raman, Abhay Rane

Ureteroscopy III
Poster Session 39
Chairman:  Manoj Monga
Moderators:  Ugur Boylu, Siman Zeren

Urolithiasis III
Poster Session 40
Chairman: Tom Jarrett
Moderators:  Kandarp Parikh, Ramsey Kuo

 

18:00 -19:30 Farewell Reception
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
   
   

 

 

Saturday, September 4
Take the Message Home Day

06:30 – 07:30

Instructional Course 11: Robotic Cystectomy
Chair- Erik Castle
Fernando Bianco
Raj S. Pruthi

Instructional Course 12: Single Port Lap Advanced
Chair –Mihir Desai
Arvind Ganpule
Lee Richstone

Instructional Course 13: URS and PNL Advanced
Chair Mario Sofer
PP Rao
Sri Sriprasad

Instructional Course 14: Starting a Practice in Minimally Invasive Urology
Chair James Porter
Raju Thomas -  University setting
Howard Winfield - Community setting

Instructional Course 15: Robotic management of complex CaP Cases
Chair Vipul Patel
Tony Costello
Alex Motrie

07:30 – 12:15 Plenary Session
07:30 – 07:45 Business Meeting - Society members only
07:45 – 08:00 PL18- Report of Fellowship committee
Fellowship committee chair
08:00 – 08:20 PL19- Essay contest winners, BS and Clinical
Clinical - 1st Place  Abraham Kurien – Muljibhal Patel Urological Hospital “Standard Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy versus Laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) Donor Nephrectomy – a Prospective Randomized Comparative Study”
Basic Science - 1st Place  Donald Pick – UC Irvine  “Chitosan and the Urothelial Barrier:  Effects on Ureteral Intraluminal Drug Penetration and Peritalsis”
08:20 – 08:30 Olympus Best Paper Awards (6)
Margaret Pearle
08:30 – 08:40 The Effect of the Robot on the Practice of Urologic Oncology
Arieh Shalhav
08:40 – 09:10 Complex clinical scenarios in renal masses: What would you do?

Moderator: Chandru Sundaram
Panel:Tadashi Matsuda, Pilar Laguna, Peter Pinto,  Michael Marberger, Ralph Clayman

  
09:10 – 09:20 Urolithiasis in Pregnancy
TBA
09:20 – 09:30 Low Dose CT scan for Uroloithaisis
Glenn Preminger
09:30 – 10:10 Complex clinical scenarios in Endourology:  What would you do?

Moderator : Benjamin Lee
Panel: Gunter Jasnetchek, James Lingeman , TBA

10:10 -10:20 PL23- Warm up before Laparoscopic Surgery
Elspeth McDougall
10:20 – 10:30 PL25- Minimally invasive Urology: What’s next -->
Ralph Clayman
10:30 – 11:30

PL26- Take Home Messages
Basic research –Jeffrey Box
Training / Simulators- Robert Sweet
ESWL- Sri Sriprasad
Percutaneous Techniques- Manoj Monga
Ureteroscopy – David Lifshitz
BPH - TBA
New Technology- Imaging – Navigation –  Dogu Teber
Female Urology – Daniel Elliott
Pediatrics - Michael Ost
Bladder/ Testis Cancer – Ofer Gofrit
Prostate Cancer-John -John Davis
Kidney Cancer - Peter Pinto

11:30 – 11:45 Intro WCE 2011
11:45 – 12:15 Intro of New President

* Preliminary Program subject to change

 

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