SIU Innovators

Mission Statement

The SIU Innovators' mission is to engage early career urologists from around the globe in the workings of the Society in order to harness their energy and innovation to promote the growth and development of the Society. At the same time, the SIU Innovators offers members opportunities for career advancement within the Society.

The main goals of the SIU Innovators are:

1. to encourage early career urologists to bring novel ideas to the Society that will help shape the Society in the future;
2. to provide an avenue for early career urologists to become involved in the Society's activities;
3. to provide a forum for networking and establishing professional collaborations with international colleagues;
4. to create opportunities for career growth for early career urologists that will make them the international leaders of the future.

Who is an SIU Innovator?

The idea behind the Innovators is to engage and promote early career members of the SIU community. Engaging means drawing young members into the organization in order to take an active role in SIU Congresses, committees, and SIU Academy. Promoting means providing young members with opportunities for academic growth, including the opportunity to present original work or deliver state-of-the-art presentations. At the same time, the Innovators are invited to help shape the SIU of the future, to ensure it remains a dynamic organization that is attractive to young urologists

Committee members

Dean Elterman, Canada, Chair
Silvia Secco, Italy, Vice Chair

Ahmad Adam, South Africa Christian A. Agbo, Nigeria Mustafa Almahmid, Kuwait Melanie Aube-Peterkin, Canada Riccardo Autorino, United States Mohit Bajaj, Australia Akshey Batta, India Kelly Bree, United States Ken Chen, Singapore Sung Yong Cho, South Korea Amanda Chung, Australia Konstantinos Dimitropoulos, United Kingdom Renu Eapen, Australia Vineet Gauhar, Singapore Alireza Ghoreifi, United States Shilpa Gupta, United States Agus Rizal Hamid, Indonesia Patrick Hensley, United States Andrés Hernández Porras, Mexico Deep Kumar Jain, India Janet Kukreja, United States Nathan Lawrentschuk, Australia Roger Li, United States Niyati Lobo, United Kingdom Todd Manning, Australia Guglielmo Mantica, Italy Gautier Marcq, France

Shannon McGrath, Australia Carmen Mir, Spain Chinedu Mmeje, United States Reza Sari Motlagh, Austria Vikram Narayan, United States Kay-Seong Ngoo, Malaysia Jose Ignacio Nolazco, United States Tatenda Nzenza, Australia Dyandra Parikesit, Indonesia Cameron Parkin, Australia Imogen Patterson, Australia Marlon Perera, Australia Hadi Radfar, Iran PP Rao, India Ashish Rawandale-Patil, India Fernando Secin, Argentina Silvia Secco, Italy Pratikkumar Shah, India Narin M Suleyman, United Kingdom Debasish Sundi, United States Wei Shen Tan, United Kingdom Mohammed Taofiq Olayinka, Nigeria Jeremy Teoh, Hong Kong Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Hong Kong Kenji Zennami, Japan

Get involved!

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Dr. Dean Elterman, Canada

Chair, SIU Innovators