Abstract
TADASHI MATSUDA, MD
President
JAMES LINGEMAN, MD
Past President
STEPHEN NAKADA, MD, FACS
President-Elect
MARGARET PEARLE, MD, PhD
Secretary General
JOHN DENSTEDT, MD, FACS
Treasurer
MICHELE PAOLI
Executive Director
MANOJ MONGA, MD, FACS, USA
Director
CASSIO ANDREONI, MD, Brazil
Director
JAIME LANDMAN, MD, USA
Director
ALI RIZA KURAL, MD, Turkey
Director
ANDREAS GROSS, MD, Germany
Director
SEIJI NAITO, MD, Japan
Director
KOON RHA, MD, Korea
Director
EVANGELOS LIATSIKOS, MD, Greece
Director
BRIAN MATLAGA, MD, USA
Director
ABHAY RANE, MD, United Kingdom
Member-at-Large
HASSAN RAZVI, MD, USA
Member-at-Large
YINGHAO SUN, MD, China
Director
ARTHUR D. SMITH, MD
GLENN PREMINGER, MD
GOPAL H. BADLANI, MD
RALPH CLAYMAN, MD
JEAN DE LA ROSETTE, MD
Chair, CROES (Clinical Research Office of the Endourology Society)
JAMES PORTER, MD
President, SURS (Society of Urological Robotic Surgery)
M. PILAR LAGUNA, MD
BODO KNUDSEN, MD
STAVROS GRAVAS, MD
Co-Presidents, Engineering & Urology Society
RAVI KULKARNI, MD
Urological Stents Working Group
SARA BEST, MD
Young Endourologists
JAMES BORIN, MD
Image Guided Therapy Working Group
ABHAY RANE, MD
NOTES & LESS Working Group
Margaret Pearle, MD, PhD, Chairman
Koon Rha, MD
Thomas Knoll, MD
Kenneth Pace, MD
Benjamin Lee, MD, Chairman
Brian Duty, MD
Ben Chew, MD
Ravi Munver, MD
Francesco Sanguedolce, MD
Matthew Gettman, MD, Chairman
Alberto Breda, MD
Janak Desai, MD
Andreas Gross, MD
M. Pilar Laguna, MD
James Lingeman, MD
Matthew Gettman, MD
David Tolley, MD
Chandru Sundaram, MD (Video)
Dean Assimos, MD, Chairman
Jihad Kaouk, MD
Duke Herrell, MD
Thomas Knoll, MD
Jaime Landman, MD
Nortberto Bernardo, MD
Koon Rha, MD
Chandru Sundaram, MD
Maurice Stephen Michel, MD
Olivier Traxer, MD
Glenn Preminger, MD
Mahesh Desai, MD
Roger L. Sur, MD
Bodo Knudsen, MD
Ben Chew, MD
Mike Lipkin, MD
Robert Sweet, MD
Thomas Knoll, MD
Zeph Okeke, MD
René J. Sotelo, MD
Marino Cabrera, MD
Rafael Coelho, MD
Kevin Zorn, MD
James F. Borin, MD
Jeffrey Cadeddu, MD
Robert Sweet, MD
Alexandre Motrie, MD
John Denstedt, MD, Chair
Benjamin Lee, MD
Andreas Gross, MD
Chandru Sundaram, MD
Margaret Pearle, MD, Chair
Glenn Preminger, MD
James Porter, MD
Adrian Joyce, MD, Chair
Glenn Preminger, MD
Elspeth Mcdougall, MD
Norberto Bernardo, MD
Rolf Muschter, MD
Olivier Traxer, MD
Michael Wong, MD
Jorge Gutierrez, MD
RAJU THOMAS, MD, Chair
BENJAMIN LEE, MD
RALPH CLAYMAN, MD
CHRISTIAN CHAUSSY, MD
TADASHI MATSUDA, MD
GOPAL BADLANI, MD
Marius Conradie, MD
Andre van der Merwe, MD
Shaun Smit, MD
John Lazarus, MD
Lance Coetzee, MD
Kenny du Toit, MD
Ehab Helmy Abdel Goad, MD
Suhani Maharajh, MD
Kgomotse Mathabe, MD
Allen Rodgers, MD
James Urry, MD
Schalk Wentzel, MD
After graduating with a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua in 1999, Alberto Breda completed his residency in Urology at the University of Padua (2004). In 2004 he went on to a PhD Degree in Renal Cryotherapy. He worked as Associate Professor at the University of California (UCLA) during 6 years, where he learned minimally invasive surgery techniques, both laparoscopic and robotic, and endoscopic surgery with flexible instruments and laser. He also was the Director of the renal cryotherapy program. In 2009 he joined the Fundació Puigvert as Head of Renal Transplant Surgical Team of the Urology Department.
Dr. Breda's main interests are open and robotic kidney transplant, living donor kidney transplant, minimally invasive robotic surgery for kidney and prostate carcinoma and upper urinary tract (UTUC), with flexible ureteroscopy techniques and laser as well as focal treatment of prostate cancer. He has presented more than 200 papers at scientific meetings some of them awarded. He has participated as a speaker and performed laparoscopic and robotic live surgeries in many international scientific meetings. He has authored more than 70 articles in indexed urological journals and 4 chapters in books on Urology, as well as several videos on surgical techniques.
Dr. Breda is a member of several editorial boards of national and international journals and member of several scientific societies, including the Spanish Urological Association (AEU), the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the Italian Society of Urology (SIU). Since 2015 he is Chairman of the European Guidelines in Kidney Transplantation and in 2016 he was appointed as Chairman of the Laparoscopic group of the ESUT/EAU and Director of Robotic Courses in Kidney Transplantation ERUS/EAU.
In July 2015 Dr. Breda led at the Fundacio Puigvert in Barcelona the first full kidney transplant with robotic surgery in Europe.
Professor Naito graduated from Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, in 1974. He received his medical degree at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1980. From 1984 to 1986, he studied abroad as a visiting assistant professor of the Department of Urology and Cell Biology at M. D. Anderson Hospital, Houston, Texas. From 1998 to 2015, he served as professor and chairman of the Department of Urology, Kyushu University. Since his retirement from Kyushu University in 2015, he has been serving as the honorary director of Harasanshin Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Dr. Naito served as president of the Japanese Society of Endourology and ESWL from 2006 to 2008. From 2004 to 2015, he served as a general secretary of the East Asian Society of Endourology (EASE), and hosted the Eighth Annual Meeting of EASE in Kyoto, Japan, in 2011. He was president of the Japanese Urological Association (JUA) and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Urology from 2009 to 2011 and also from 2013 to 2015. He served as chairman of the Local Organizing Committee of the 32nd Congress of the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) in Fukuoka, Japan in 2012. He has been a member of the board of directors of both the Endourological Society and the SIU since 2012, serving as president of the SIU since 2015. He has been an honorary member of the American Urological Association (AUA), the EAU, and the JUA since 2011, 2014, and 2016, respectively.
Dr. Naito received the Association Francaise d'Urologie Félix Guyon Medal in 2010, the AUA Presidential Citation Award in 2012, and has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles in the field of urology, with a special focus on uro-oncology, endourology, and minimally invasive therapy.
Lee Sullivan is a global medical device marketing executive with more than 25 years of sales and marketing leadership with the Boston Scientific Corporation's Urology and Pelvic Health business unit. She is a long-standing partner to the World Congress of Endourology and has demonstrated her commitment to urology by driving innovation and expanding the availability of products and disease therapies into new global markets. In her current role as vice president of marketing, strategic accounts, Lee is evolving patient-focused solutions for the business's expansion across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She is engaging key opinion leaders in product development, physician education, and clinical evidence for the treatment of kidney stones, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and female pelvic floor disorders including female stress urinary incontinence.
Lee served as a long-time senior leadership team member at Boston Scientific and held earlier senior leadership roles within Boston Scientific, including vice president of global marketing, vice president of U.S. sales, and director of international marketing for Europe. She launched groundbreaking products in major franchises in core urology businesses, including playing a critical role in the recent launch of the game changing LithoVue™ Single-Use Digital Flexible Ureteroscope. Her leadership on multiple acquisitions most recently included the $1.65 billion acquisition of American Medical Systems that doubled the urology and pelvic health business.
Lee has been a featured speaker at the Society for Women in Urology and has long been involved in developing leaders and diversity within the industry. She has served as mentor for numerous women, sponsored Boston Scientific's Urology and Women's Health Women's Forum (2000–2012), established its Urology and Women's Health African American Council (2012), and actively participated in the Boston Scientific Diversity and Inclusion Council (2011).
Lee holds a bachelor of science in marketing from the University of Georgia. Lee is an avid runner and has completed six marathons and eight half-marathons. She resides in South Natick, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
R. John Honey is a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, director of the University of Toronto Endourology Program, and director of the Kidney Stone Centre at St. Michael's Hospital.
Dr. Honey did his undergraduate medical training at Cambridge University and went on to qualify in general surgery, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1975. He moved to Canada and completed his urology residency at the University of Toronto, obtaining his FRCSC in 1979. His fellowship training was in reconstructive surgery with Mr. Turner-Warwick in London and in vascular surgery with Dr. J. J. Kaufman at University of California, Los Angeles. In London he observed one of the earlier percutaneous stone removals by Mr. John Wickham at St. Peter's Hospital for Stone in 1980, and in 1981 he performed the first PCNL in Canada, obtaining his own access.
Dr. Honey was appointed head of the Division of Urology at Toronto Western Hospital directly after completing his fellowship. He was one of the pioneers in the field of laparoscopy and was instrumental in opening the first robotics program in Toronto in 2008. His focus for most of his career has been endourology, laparoscopy, and shock wave lithotripsy (SWL). He is also an active member of the renal transplant program, performing laparoscopic donor nephrectomies and both live and deceased donor transplants. His research in the field of SWL, especially related to shock wave rate has, along with other researches, changed the way SWL is performed worldwide.
Dr. Honey was the scientific program chairman for the 21st World Congress on Endourology in Montreal in September 2003.
Dr. Honey started an endourology fellowship program in 1997 that was approved by the Endourological Society in 1998. He has trained 26 fellows, many of whom have gone on to academic careers. He was awarded the James Waddell Mentorship Award for fellowship training from the University of Toronto in 2015.
Dr. Honey has developed a number of new surgical procedures and techniques. He has an interest in innovation and has been successful in bringing seven products to market. He is involved with simulation and assisted in the development of the first commercially available computerized flexible ureteroscopy simulator and a teaching model for flexible ureteroscopy that was also used in the AUA Hands-On Course on Flexible Ureteroscopy for Renal Stones, which he directed for 7 years.
Dr. Evangelos Liatsikos is the chairman of the European Association of Urology Section of Uro-Technology. He is an associate professor of urology at the University of Patras in Greece and a guest professor at the University of Leipzig in Germany. His name has been known in literature for his research in laparoscopy and endourology, accounting for more than 230 international publications, and he has been invited as a speaker and live surgeon in a series of the most prestigious urological congresses worldwide. For his scientific contribution, Prof. Liatsikos was nominated for the Arthur Smith Endourology Lectureship Award in 2009 by the World Association of Endourology.