43rd Congress of the Société Internationale d'Urologie
October 11-14, 2023
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

*SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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

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Wednesday, October 11

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Session will be available live and/or on-demand on [email protected]

0730-1800

Magic Ingredients for Research and Publications  

0800-1700

World Urological Oncology Federation (WUOF)  

0830-1000

Indian Urology Around the World Symposium  

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

1030-1200

Arab Association of Urology (AAU) Symposium  

Co-Chairs: Hassan Abol-Enein, Egypt / Yasser Farahat, United Arab Emirates / Rajeev T P, India

1030-1200

French Urology Around the World  

Co-Chairs: Franck Bladou, France / Rafael Sanchez-Salas, Canada

1030-1200

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

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

1030-1200

Joint SIU/Chinese Urological Association Symposium - Hot Topics in Urology  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Tianxin Lin, People's Republic of China

1030-1200

Pan-African Urological Surgeons Association (PAUSA) Symposium  

Chair: Papa Ahmed Fall, Senegal
Co-Chairs: Mohamed Jalloh, Senegal / E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa, Nigeria

1300-1430

Joint Kenya Association of Urological Surgeons (KAUS) / South African Urological Association (SAUA) Symposium  

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

1300-1430

Joint SIU/Korean Urological Association (KUA) Symposium  

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

1300-1430

SAARC Association of Urological Surgeons (SAUS) Symposium  

1300-1700

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

Chair: Mohammed Lezrek, Morocco
Co-Chair: Arvind Ganpule, India
Honorary Chair: Daniel Yachia, Israel

1500-1630

Joint Colegio Mexicano de Urología Nacional (CMUN) & Sociedad Mexicana de Urologia (SMU) (in English)  

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

1500-1630

Joint SIU / EurAsian Urology Federation (EAUF) Symposium  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Badrinath Konety, United States

1500-1630

Semi-Live Surgery Interactive Session  

1530-1700

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  

Co-Chairs: Paksi Satyagraha, Indonesia / SIU Representative To be Announced / Samuel Yrastorza, The Philippines

1700-1930

Opening Ceremonies  


Thursday, October 12

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0730-0830

National Society Delegates Meeting  

0730-0900

Hot Topics: Managing Synchronous Urological Conditions – Can there be a Consensus  

0730-0900

Hot Topics: Simulation in Learning Urology – Is it the Future!  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Ashish Rawandale-Patil, India

0730-0900

Instructional Course: Scientific Writing Course  

Chair: Cosimo de Nunzio, Italy

0730-0900

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

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Gabriela Caballero, Mexico

0730-0900

Interactive Session: Leadership in Urology  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Jay Shah, United States

0730-0900

Interactive Session: Setting up a Research Programme in Urology  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Ranan Dasgupta, United Kingdom

0730-0900

Master Class: Visualizing Urological Complexities  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Pankaj Joshi, India

0730-1500

LS: Live Surgery    

Co-Chairs: Melanie Aube-Peterkin, Canada / Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye / Mihir Desai, United States / Paolo Gontero, Italy / Sung Kyu Hong, South Korea

0900-1030

PL-01: Plenary 01    

1030-1100

Break  

1030-1230

Workshop: Basics on USG in Urology  

1100-1230

Controversies in Urology: Genitourinary Tuberculosis – Current Strategies  

Co-Chairs: Prem Kumar, India / Guglielmo Mantico, Italy

1100-1230

Hot Topics: Neoadjuvant Therapy in MIBC  

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

1100-1230

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

Chair: Leonard Gomella, United States

1100-1230

Interactive Session: Management of OAB – Issues and Challenges  

Co-Chair: Tohid Hossain, Bangladesh

1100-1230

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

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Sudhir Rawal, India

1100-1230

Joint SIU/Endourological Society Session  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Athanasios (Thanos) Papatsoris, Greece / Omer Levent Tuncay, Türkiye

1100-1230

Master Class: VUR and Recurrent UTI in Children  

Co-Chair: To be announced

1100-1230

TIPS-01: SIU Tips and Tricks Pt 1: Academy  

Chair: Mauro Gacci, Italy

1230-1345

Luncheon Symposia  

1230-1345

Networking Lunch  

1300-1700

International Prostate Forum Conference – Controversies in Prostate Cancer Management  

1345-1515

ePoster Session 01  

1345-1515

ePoster Session 02  

1345-1515

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

Co-Chair: To be announced

1345-1515

Hot Topics: MIBC – Optimizing TURBT, Radical Cystectomy and PLND  

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

1345-1515

Instructional Course: New Tools for Optimizing Prostate Cancer Management  

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

1345-1515

Interactive Session: Optimising IC / BPS results  

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

1345-1515

Master Class: Navigating the Management of Small Renal Masses  

1345-1515

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

Chair: Peter Black, Canada

1345-1615

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

1515-1545

Break  

1545-1715

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

Speaker: Salah Albuheissi, United Kingdom
Co-Chair: To be announced

1545-1715

ePoster Session 03  

1545-1715

ePoster Session 04  

1545-1715

Instructional Course: Perioperative Immunotherapy Treatments of Localized Genitourinary Malignancies  

Chair: Andrea Necchi, Italy

1545-1715

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

1545-1715

Master Video: Energies in Stone Fragmentation – Advances and Outcome  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Dilip Mishra, India

1545-1715

Semi-Live Surgery interactive Session  

1545-1715

TIPS-03: SIU Tips and Tricks Pt 3: uCare  

Chair: Mihir Desai, United States

1545-1745

Workshop: Laparoscopic Skills (Box Trainer)  


Friday, October 13

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Session will be available live and/or on-demand on [email protected]

0730-0830

General Assembly  

0730-0900

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

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Sun-Ouck Kim, South Korea

0730-0900

Instructional Course: Urologic Endoscopy in Resource Restricted Environments  

Chair: Kymora Scotland, United States

0730-0900

Instructional Course: Urological Surgical Prophylaxis  

Chair: Yigit Akin, Türkiye

0730-0900

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

0730-0900

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

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

0730-0900

Master Video: Complex Urethral Reconstruction – Failed Urethroplasty  

Co-Chairs: Pankaj Joshi, India / Anthony Mundy, United Kingdom

0730-0900

Master Video: Nightmares in Minimally Invasive Urology  

Speaker: Richard Link, United States

0800-1700

B2B: Bench-to-Bedside Uro-Oncology: GU Cancers Triad Meeting    

Co-Chairs: Peter Black, Canada / Sarah Psutka, United States / Simon Tanguay, Canada / Derya Tilki, Germany

0900-1030

PL-02: Plenary 02    

1030-1100

Break  

1030-1230

Workshop: Basics in Endourology for Beginners  

1030-1530

Global Andrology Forum Workshop: Masterclass on Surgical Procedures in Male Infertility  

1100-1230

Controversies in Urology: ECIRS - Principles and Application  

Co-Chair: Sung Yong Cho, South Korea

1100-1230

Instructional Course: Implantation of Penile Prosthesis (IPP) in Challenging Cases  

Chair: Ates Kadioğlu, Türkiye

1100-1230

Interactive Session: Innovations in Enhanced Recovery after Surgery  

1100-1230

International Society of Reconstructive Urology (ISORU) Symposium  

1100-1230

Master Class: Nuances of Hypospadias Management  

1100-1230

Master Class: Technical and Technological Advances in Renal Transplantation  

Co-Chair: Nasser Simforoosh, Iran

1100-1230

Master Video: Complex Ureteric Reconstruction  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Abhishek Singh, India

1100-1230

Master Video: Single Port Surgery in Urology – Is it the Way Forward  

1230-1345

Luncheon Symposia  

1230-1345

Networking Lunch  

1300-1600

Complementary and Traditional Medicine  

1330-1630

International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Symposium  

1345-1515

Controversies in Urology: Advances in Robotic Technology and Techniques in Urology  

1345-1515

ePoster Session 05  

1345-1515

ePoster Session 06  

1345-1515

Instructional Course: PCNL Tips/Tricks and Pitfalls: the DO's & DON'Ts  

Chair: Athanasios (Thanos) Papatsoris, Greece
Co-Chair: Mohamad Moussa, Lebanon

1345-1515

Interactive Session: Female Sexual Dysfunction – Issues and Options  

1345-1515

Interactive Session: Women in Global Urology - Breaking Barriers  

Co-Chairs: Elisa Berdondini, Italy / Jean McDonald, United Kingdom

1345-1515

Joint Session: SIU / Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS) Symposium  

1345-1515

SIU Innovators  

Co-Chairs: Patrick Hensley, United States / Gagan Prakash, India

1515-1545

Break  

1545-1715

ePoster Session 07  

1545-1715

ePoster Session 08  

1545-1715

Hot Topics: Navigating the Challenges of Surgical Complications in Urology  

1545-1715

Instructional Course: Female Urethral Reconstruction in Benign Pathology  

Chair: Francisco E. Martins, Portugal

1545-1715

Interactive Session: Revisiting the role of ESWL in Urolithiasis  

Co-Chairs: Kah Ann Git, Malaysia / Joe Philip, United Kingdom

1545-1715

Master Video: Managing Priapism – Tips and Tricks  

1545-1715

Semi-Live Surgery Interactive Session  

1545-1745

Workshop: Lasers and Mists in LUTS/BPH  


Saturday, October 14

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Session will be available live and/or on-demand on [email protected]

0800-0930

PL-03: Plenary 03    

0800-1600

NURS: 8th SIU Global Nurses' Educational Symposium  

Co-Chairs: Amparo Gudrun Camacho, United States / Meryem Yavuz Van Giersbergen, Türkiye

0930-1100

Global Andrology Forum Workshop: Management of Azoospermia – A Primer for the Urologist  

0930-1100

Hot Topics: Are we Abreast with Future Urotech?  

0930-1100

Instructional Course: Novel BPH Therapies - Review of Technologies and Practical Instruction (Itind, Urolift, Rezum, Aquablation, Stents, Aeep)  

Chair: Dean Elterman, Canada

0930-1100

Instructional Course: Transition from Transrectal to Transperineal Prostate Biopsy Under Local Anaesthesia in Your Clinic: A Crash Course  

Chair: Peter Chiu, Hong Kong

0930-1100

Interactive Session: Challenges in the Management of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Urothelial Cancer  

Co-Chairs: Rakesh Heer, United Kingdom / Manish Patel, Australia

0930-1100

Interactive Session: Cytoreductive Nephrectomy – Contemporary Management  

0930-1100

Joint SIU/Society of Urologic Robotic Surgeons (SURS) Session  

0930-1100

Master Class: Issues and Approaches in the Management of Anterior Urethral Strictures  

Co-Chairs: Pawan R Chalise, Nepal / Reynaldo Gómez, Chile

0930-1100

Master Video: Challenging Scenarios in Ureteroscopy – How to Approach  

0930-1100

Resident's Mentoring Session  

0930-1130

Workshop: Prostate MRI Reading and Fusion Biopsy  

0930-1730

32nd Turkish Association of Urology (TAU) Meeting  

0930-1730

Focal Therapy Society Conference  

Co-Chairs: Jean de la Rosette, Türkiye / Jurgen Futterer, The Netherlands

1100-1130

Break  

1130-1300

Balloon Debate  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Raed Azhar, Saudi Arabia

1130-1300

ePoster Session 09  

1130-1300

ePoster Session 10  

1130-1300

Instructional Course: Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP): Challenges and Controversies  

Chair: Liliya Tryfounyk, Ukraine

1130-1300

Interactive Session: Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer – Current Management Strategies and Role of PET Imaging  

1130-1300

Interactive Session: Urinary Diversion – Decision Making and Techniques  

Co-Chairs: Mevlana Derya Balbay, Türkiye / Swapan Sood, India

1130-1300

Joint Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) and the EAU Section of Oncological Urology (ESOU) Session  

1130-1300

Master Class: Status of Open Radical Surgeries in the Current Era – Challenges  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Amlesh Seth, India

1300-1415

Luncheon Symposia  

1300-1415

Networking Lunch  

1415-1545

Hot Topics: Genito-urinary Trauma – Current Strategies and Challenges  

1415-1545

ePoster Session 11  

1415-1545

Instructional Course: How Can I Achieve 93% Success During ESWL  

Chair: Kah Ann Git, Malaysia

1415-1545

Instructional Course: Radical Cystectomy and PLND for MIBC - Tips and Technique of Open, Robotic and Laparoscopic Approach  

Chair: Sudhir Rawal, India

1415-1545

Interactive Session: Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer  

1415-1545

Master Class: Active Surveillance and RPLND in Early Stage Germ Cell Tumors  

Co-Chairs: Peter Albers, Germany / To be announced

1415-1545

Master Class: Sexual Dysfunction in Males  

1415-1730

Resident's Forum  

1545-1615

Break  

1615-1745

ePoster Session 12  

1615-1745

Instructional Course: Advanced Ureteroscopy: Solving Complex Problems  

Chair: Michael Grasso, United States

1615-1745

Instructional Course: Principles of Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy  

Chair: Gonzalo Vitagliano, Argentina

1615-1745

Master Class: Managing PUV – Options and Challenges  

1615-1745

Master Class: Prostate Cancer Diagnosis –MRI, Biomarkers, Who to Biopsy and Active Surveillance  

Co-Chair: Marc Dall'Era, United States

1615-1745

Master Video: Renal Preservation in Upper Tract Malignancy  

Co-Chairs: To be announced / Michael Poch, United States

1615-1745

Semi-Live Surgery Interactive Session  

Hassan Abol-Enein
José Dagoberto Acevedo Monroy
Shirley Achoka
Kuncoro Adi
Madhu Sudan Agrawal
Yigit Akin
Ahmed Al Kandari
Abdullatif Al-Terki
Peter Albers
Salah Albuheissi
Ahmed Ali
Murtadha Almusafer
To be announced
Sabahatin Aydin
Raed Azhar
Joyce Baard
Baris Bakir
Mevlana Derya Balbay
Fatima Bekiroglu
Elisa Berdondini
Kamran Bhatti
Marta Bizic
Peter Black
Franck Bladou
Gabriela Caballero
Amparo Gudrun Camacho
Lysanne Campeau
José Gadú Campos Salcedo
Peter Carroll
Farzana Cassim
Suleyman Celik
Pawan R Chalise
Ming Chen
Min Chul Cho
Sung Yong Cho
Eric Chung
Frederik Claassen
Marc Dall'Era
Ranan Dasgupta
Jean de la Rosette
Cosimo de Nunzio
Mihir Desai
Alim Dymov
Dean Elterman
Mario I. Fernández
Antonio Finelli
Jurgen Futterer
Mauro Gacci
Nariman Gadgiev
Arvind Ganpule
Vineet Gauhar
Sangeet Ghai
Kah Ann Git
Apul Goel
Leonard Gomella
Reynaldo Gómez
Paolo Gontero
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
Angelo Gousse
Alexander Govorov
Michael Grasso
Shilpa Gupta
Emin Gürtan
Khurshid Guru
Vahit Güzelburç
Taner Hacıosmanoğlu
Saeed Bin Hamri
Rakesh Heer
Patrick Hensley
Jun Hyuk Hong
Sung Kyu Hong
Rahim Horuz
Tohid Hossain
Aulaar Ikol
Mohamed Jalloh
Jeff John
Pankaj Joshi
Ates Kadioğlu
Önem Kadir
Aideed Kahie
Jong Wook Kim
Sun-Ouck Kim
Keagan Kirugo
Fuat Kızılay
Badrinath Konety
Rajiv Kore
Sanjay Kulkarni
Anant Kumar
Prem Kumar
Pilar Laguna
Wayne Lam
Rodrigo Leon Mar
Seth Lerner
Mohammed Lezrek
W. Marston Linehan
Richard Link
Zhiyu Liu
Juan Francisco Lizárraga Salas
Virgilio Augusto López Sámano
Lukas Lusuardi
Helmut Madersbacher
Efraín Maldonado Alcaraz
Vigen Malhasyan
Guglielmo Mantico
Carlos Martínez Arroyo
Francisco E. Martins
Alexey Martov
Kgomotso Mathabe
Eric Mburu
Patrick Mburugu
Jean McDonald
Berk Mendere
Dilip Mishra
Nagendra Nath Mishra
Vincent Misrai
Jorge Moreno Palacios
Mohamad Moussa
Anthony Mundy
Shingai Mutambirwa
Andrea Necchi
Joon Hwa Noh
Jin Kyu Oh
E. Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa
Willy Otele
Mehmet Özalevli
Athanasios (Thanos) Papatsoris
Jinsung Park
Manish Patel
Valentin Pavlov
Nuno Pereira-Azevedo
Joe Philip
Michael Poch
Ana Povo
G G Laxman Prabhu
Gagan Prakash
Mingxing Qiu
Art Rastinehad
Sudhir Rawal
Ashish Rawandale-Patil
Robert Reiter
Carlos Ríos Melgarejo
Lara Rodriguez Sanchez
Helen Sadri
Michael Samarinas
Francisco Javier Sánchez Gutiérrez
Rafael Sanchez-Salas
Paksi Satyagraha
Silvia Secco
İlker Seçkiner
Shomik Sengupta
Amlesh Seth
Zuleyha Seyhan
Jay Shah
Lee Lui Shiong
Nasser Simforoosh
Abhishek Singh
Savanna Smith
Sang Hoon Song
Swapan Sood
Philippe Spiess
Lara Stächele
Ehab Tawfiek
Jack Tay
SIU Representative To be Announced
Liliya Tryfounyk
Omer Levent Tuncay
Igor Vaz
Henriette Veiby Holm
Gonzalo Vitagliano
Li-Ping Xie
Daniel Yachia
Heejo Yang
Meryem Yavuz Van Giersbergen
Ozcan Yildiz
Mesut Yilmaz
Samuel Yrastorza
Noor Ashani Bin Md. Yusoff
Guohua Zeng
Xiaoping Zhang
Liqun Zhou
Kevin Zorn
Ahmed Said Zribi

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