2023 Congress Learning Objectives+

After this educational event, attendees should be able to:

  • Understand the latest advances in the diagnosis, staging and management of urologic cancers.
  • Incorporate new techniques in robotic and minimally invasive surgery.
  • Detail the medical and surgical management of lower urinary tract dysfunction.
  • Describe the imaging evaluation and medical and surgical therapy of urinary stone disease.
  • Define the assessment and management of male infertility.
  • Characterize the surgical and medical treatment options for erectile dysfunction.
  • Examine the latest advances in reconstructive surgery including transgender surgery, urinary diversion and urethroplasty.
  • Learn how to serve the diverse healthcare needs of our international population in a patient-centered manner.
  • Learn the latest urologic sub-specialty advances occurring in the past year to augment one’s practice.
  • Provide mentoring sessions to facilitate knowledge about career opportunities and advancement for urology trainees.
  • Enumerate common urological problems of the elderly and specific precautions in their care.
  • Understand the challenges and facilitate inclusion and opportunities for underrepresented groups in urology.
  • Characterize the indications and data for new prostate cancer and bladder cancer imaging modalities.
  • Provide mentoring opportunities and guidance for urologic trainees.
  • Understand the concept of transitional urologic care for teens and young adults.
  • Enumerate the common pediatric urologic problems and understand the assessment and management of pediatric population.

Scientific Programme

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All session times are listed in Turkish Time (TRT).

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Wednesday, October 11

Please click on the session titles to view the session details when available.
Session will be presented on the SIU@U App included with your congress registration.

0730-1630

SYMP-01: Magic Ingredients for Research and Publications    

Room: Rumeli Ballroom B2
Co-Chairs: Mehmet Kocak, Türkiye / Pilar Laguna, Türkiye / Muhammad Imran Omar, United Kingdom

0730-1800

SYMP-02: World Urological Oncology Federation (WUOF) - Paradigm Shifts in Urologic Oncology  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Co-Chairs: Peter Hammerer, Germany / Laurence Klotz, Canada

0830-1000

SYMP-03: Indian Urology Around the World Symposium    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Co-Chairs: Sanjay Kulkarni, India / G G Laxman Prabhu, India

0830-1000

SYMP-04: Joint SIU / Maghreb Symposium – Controversies in Endourology  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chair: Kamel Ait el Hadj, Algeria

1000-1030

Coffee Break  

Room: Rumeli LL Foyer

1030-1200

SYMP-05: Arab Association of Urology (AAU) Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Co-Chairs: Hassan Abol-Enein, Egypt / Yasser Farahat, United Arab Emirates / Rohit Joshi, India

1030-1200

SYMP-06: French Urology Around the World Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL7
Co-Chairs: Franck Bladou, France / Gaelle Fiard, France

1030-1200

SYMP-07: International Neuro-Urology Society (INUS) Symposium: Neuro-Urology in Daily Practice  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Önem Kadir, Türkiye / Helmut Madersbacher, Austria

1030-1200

SYMP-08: Joint SIU/Chinese Urological Association (CUA) Symposium - Hot Topics in Urology    

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: Tianxin Lin, People's Republic of China / Simon Tanguay, Canada

1030-1200

SYMP-09: Pan-African Urological Surgeons Association (PAUSA) Symposium    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Chair: Papa Ahmed Fall, Senegal
Co-Chairs: Mohamed Jalloh, Senegal / Ahmed Said Zribi, Tunisia

1300-1430

SYMP-10: Joint Kenya Association of Urological Surgeons (KAUS)/South African Urological Association (SAUA) Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Co-Chairs: Patrick Mburugu, Kenya / Shingai Mutambirwa, South Africa

1300-1430

SYMP-11: Joint SIU/Korean Urological Association (KUA) Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea / Seth Lerner, United States

1300-1430

SYMP-12: SAARC Association of Urological Surgeons (SAUS) Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Madhu Sudan Agrawal, India / Pawan R Chalise, Nepal / Kamlesh Kumar Maurya, India

1300-1700

SYMP-13: 11th Symposium on Affordable New Technologies in Urology (SANTU) and 6th Best Affordable New Technologies in Urology Contest (BANTUC)  

Room: Rumeli LL2
Chair: Mohammed Lezrek, Morocco
Co-Chair: Kymora Scotland, United States

1400-1430

Coffee Break  

Room: Rumeli LL Foyer

1500-1630

SYMP-14: Joint Colegio Mexicano de Urología Nacional (CMUN) & Sociedad Mexicana de Urología (SMU) Symposium (in English)  

Room: Rumeli LL7
Co-Chairs: José Gadú Campos Salcedo, Mexico / Virgilio Augusto López Sámano, Mexico

1500-1630

SYMP-15: Joint SIU/EurAsian Urology Federation (EAUF) Symposium  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Badrinath Konety, United States / Petr Vitalyevich Glibochko, Russia

1500-1630

SYMP-16: Joint SIU/Federation of ASEAN Urological Associations (FAUA) Symposium: Empowering the Urology Service in South East Asia Through Regional and Global Collaboration in Training and Research  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Co-Chairs: Paksi Satyagraha, Indonesia / Rajeev Sood, India

1500-1630

SL-01: Semi-Live Surgery Interactive Session - Functional Urology  

Room: Rumeli LL1
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Moderators: Refaat Abusamra, Libya / Bülent Erkurt, Türkiye

1700-2000

OC: Opening Ceremony and Networking Event  

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum

Thursday, October 12

Please click on the session titles to view the session details when available.
Session will be presented on the SIU@U App included with your congress registration.

0730-0900

HT-01: Hot Topic: Managing Synchronous Urological Conditions – Can there be a Consensus  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Co-Chairs: Muddassar Hussain, United Kingdom / Prem Kumar, India / Bhavan Rai, United Kingdom

0730-0900

HT-02: Hot Topic: Simulation in Learning Urology – Is it the Future!  

Room: Rumeli LL12
Co-Chairs: Ashish Rawandale-Patil, India / Gokul Vignesh KandaSwamy, United Kingdom

0730-0900

IC-01: Instructional Course: Scientific Writing Course  

Room: Rumeli LL7
Chair: Cosimo De Nunzio, Italy

0730-0900

IS-01: Interactive Session: Global Youth Forum - There’s Life Beyond Clinical Urology    

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: Gabriela Caballero, Mexico / Belthangady Monu Zeeshan Hameed, India

0730-0900

IS-02: Interactive Session: Leadership in Urology  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Gaelle Fiard, France / Jay Shah, United States

0730-0900

IS-03: Interactive Session: Setting up a Research Programme in Urology  

Room: Rumeli LL9
Co-Chairs: Ranan Dasgupta, United Kingdom / Apul Goel, India

0730-0900

MC-01: Master Class: Visualizing Urological Complexities    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Co-Chairs: Edgar Paez, United Kingdom / Rajan Veeratterapillay, United Kingdom

0730-0930

SURG-01: Surgery Day - Screen One - Session 1    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 1
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

0730-0930

SURG-02: Surgery Day - Screen Two - Session 1    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 2
Co-Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

0900-1030

PL-01: Plenary 01    

Room: Rumeli Ballroom B2
Honorary Co-Chairs: Seth Lerner, United States / Rajeev T P, India / Li-Ping Xie, People's Republic of China

0945-1145

SURG-01: Surgery Day - Screen One - Session 2    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 1
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

0945-1145

SURG - 02: Surgery Day - Screen Two - Session 2    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 2
Co-Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

1030-1100

Break  

Room: Exhibit Hall

1030-1230

WS-01: Workshop: Basics on Ultrasonography (USG) in Urology  

Room: Rumeli LL6
Co-Chair: Amit Bhattu, United States
Faculty: Abhijit Patil, India / Swapan Sood, India

1100-1230

CO-01: Controversies in Urology: Genitourinary Tuberculosis – Current Strategies    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Co-Chairs: Prem Kumar, India / Guglielmo Mantica, Italy

1100-1230

HT-03: Hot Topic: Neoadjuvant Therapy in MIBC  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Co-Chairs: Peter Albers, Germany / Andrea Necchi, Italy

1100-1230

IC-02: Instructional Course: Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications of Genetic and Genomic Testing for Urologists  

Room: Hisar
Chair: Leonard Gomella, United States

1100-1230

IS-05: Interactive Session: Management of OAB – Issues and Challenges  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Co-Chairs: Tohid MS Hossain, Bangladesh / Andrea Tubaro, Italy

1100-1230

IS-04: Interactive Session: Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer – Available Options and Future  

Room: Rumeli LL9
Co-Chairs: Simone Morra, Italy / Sudhir Rawal, India

1100-1230

JS-01: Joint SIU/Endourological Society Session  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Athanasios (Thanos) Papatsoris, Greece / Omer Levent Tuncay, Türkiye

1100-1230

MC-02: Master Class: VUR and Recurrent UTI in Children    

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: R B Nerli, India / Isteaq Ahmed Shameem, Bangladesh

1100-1230

TIPS-01: SIU Tips and Tricks Pt 1: Academy - Minimally Invasive and Conventional Endoscopic Procedures for BPE  

Room: Rumeli LL12
Chair: Mauro Gacci, Italy

1200-1400

SURG-01: Surgery Day - Screen One - Session 3    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 1
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

1200-1400

SURG-02: Surgery Day - Screen Two - Session 3    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 2
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea
Moderator: Pilar Laguna, Türkiye

1230-1345

Networking Lunch  

Room: Exhibit Hall

1300-1700

IPF: International Prostate Forum (IPF) Conference – Controversies in Prostate Cancer Management  

Room: Marmara
Co-Chairs: Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / A. Erdem Canda, Türkiye / John Davis, United States

1345-1515

SYMP-17: Hellenic Urology Association (HUA) Lecture; International Continence Society (ICS) Lecture and Late Breaking Abstracts  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Co-Chairs: Bhojraj Luitel, Nepal / Kamlesh Kumar Maurya, India

1345-1515

HT-04: Hot Topic: MIBC – Optimizing TURBT, Radical Cystectomy and PLND  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Co-Chairs: Mario I. Fernández, Chile / Seth Lerner, United States

1345-1515

IC-03: Instructional Course: New Tools for Optimizing Prostate Cancer Management    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Chair: Gonzalo Vitagliano, Argentina
Co-Chair: Robert Reiter, United States

1345-1515

IS-06: Interactive Session: Optimising IC / BPS Results    

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: Nagendra Nath Mishra, India / Michael Samarinas, Greece

1345-1515

MC-03: Master Class: Navigating the Management of Small Renal Masses  

Room: Rumeli LL9
Co-Chairs: Muddassar Hussain, United Kingdom / Pilar Laguna, Türkiye / Michael Marberger, Austria

1345-1515

MP-01: Moderated Oral ePoster Session 01: Kidney and Ureteral Cancer - Basic Science, Pediatric Urology, Prostate Cancer - Basic Science and Stones - Evaluation & Medical Management  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Moderators: Neeraj Kumar Agrawal, India / Manal Kumar, United Kingdom

1345-1515

MVP-01: Moderated Video ePoster Session 01: Bladder Cancer - Basic Science, BPO/LUTS, Female Urology, Kidney and Ureter, Benign Diseases, Renal Transplantation, Sexual Dysfunction and Voiding Dysfunction  

Room: Rumeli LL7
Moderators: Damien Bolton, Australia / Vikas Jain, India

1345-1515

TIPS-02: SIU Tips and Tricks Pt 2: SIUJ  

Room: Rumeli LL12
Chair: Peter Black, Canada

1345-1615

GAF-01: Global Andrology Forum Workshop: Evaluation of the Infertile Male – What the Urologist Should Know  

Room: Hisar
Chair: Ashok Agarwal, United States
Co-Chair: Giovanni Maria Colpi, Ticino

1415-1630

SURG-01: Surgery Day - Screen One - Session 4    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 1
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

1415-1630

SURG-02: Surgery Day - Screen Two - Session 4    

Room: Anadolu Oditoryum - Screen 2
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Committee Members: Mélanie Aubé-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Stavros Gravas, Cyprus / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

1515-1545

Break  

Room: Exhibit Hall

1515-1545

SS-01: Studio Session - What’s New to Optimise Individualised Care for LUTS/BPE?    

Room: SIU@U Studio, Exhibit Hall
Chair: Stavros Gravas, Cyprus
Faculty: Sung Yong Cho, South Korea / Marie Carmela Lapitan, Philippines

1545-1715

CO-02: Controversies in Urology: Confronting the Contemporary Challenges in Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Co-Chairs: Salah Albuheissi, United Kingdom / Amlesh Seth, India

1545-1715

IC-04: Instructional Course: Perioperative Immunotherapy Treatments of Localized Genitourinary Malignancies  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Chair: Andrea Necchi, Italy

1545-1715

IS-07: Interactive Session: Lymph Node Management in Carcinoma Penis – Principles and Issues    

Room: Rumeli LL1
Co-Chairs: Samir Khanna, India / Bhojraj Luitel, Nepal

1545-1715

MV-01: Master Video: Energies in Stone Fragmentation – Advances and Outcome  

Room: Rumeli LL9
Co-Chairs: Kalana Parana Palliya Guruge, Sri Lanka / Dilip Mishra, India

1545-1715

MP-02: Moderated Oral ePoster Session 02: Kidney and Ureter, Benign Diseases and Kidney and Ureteral Cancer – Clinical  

Room: Rumeli LL5
Moderator: M Hammad Ather, Pakistan

1545-1715

MP-03: Moderated Oral ePoster Session 03: Bladder Cancer - Basic Science, Bladder Cancer – Clinical and Miscellaneous (Cancer Related)  

Room: Rumeli LL7
Moderators: Grigorakis Alkiviadis, Greece / Michael Poch, United States

1545-1715

National Society Delegates Meeting  

Room: Topkapi B

1545-1715

SL-02: Semi-Live Surgery interactive Session - Robotics  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Chair: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye
Moderators: Nicolae Crisan, Romania / Masatoshi Eto, Japan / Vincenzo Ficarra, Italy

1545-1715

TIPS-03: SIU Tips and Tricks Pt 3: uCare - Novel Technologies in Urology  

Room: Rumeli LL12
Chair: Ranan Dasgupta, United Kingdom
Co-Chair: Mihir Desai, United States

1545-1745

WS-02: Workshop: Laparoscopy for Beginners  

Room: Rumeli LL6
Co-Chairs: Bhavan Rai, United Kingdom / Swapan Sood, India
Faculty: Zeeshan Aslam, United Kingdom / Jorge de Jesús González Moncayo, Mexico / Rahul Gupta, India / Arjun Nambiar, United Kingdom / Sanjeevan K V Sanjeevan, India / Rajan Veeratterapillay, United Kingdom / Gokul Vignesh KandaSwamy, United Kingdom

Friday, October 13

Please click on the session titles to view the session details when available.
Session will be presented on the SIU@U App included with your congress registration.

0730-0830

GA: General Assembly  

Room: Rumeli LL5

0730-0900

CO-03: Controversies in Urology: Sling Surgeries in Urinary Incontinence – Where do we Stand  

Room: Rumeli LL3
Co-Chairs: Sun-Ouck Kim, South Korea / Mehwash Nadeem, United Kingdom

0730-0900

IC-05: Instructional Course: Urologic Endoscopy in Resource Restricted Environments    

Room: Rumeli LL2
Chair: Kymora Scotland, United States

0730-0900

IC-06: Instructional Course: Urological Surgical Prophylaxis  

Room: Rumeli LL4
Chair: Yigit Akin, Türkiye

0730-0900

MC-04: Master Class: Challenges in the Surgical Management of Female Urinary Fistulae  

Room: Rumeli LL12
Co-Chairs: Arjun Nambiar, United Kingdom / Shailesh Shah, India

0730-0900

MV-03: Master Video: Endoscopic Modalities for Bladder Outlet Surgeries in BPE – Does Size Matter?  

Room: Rumeli LL9
Co-Chairs: Madhu Sudan Agrawal, India / Dean Elterman, Canada