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Instructional Courses

Instructional Courses

  • Friday, April 28, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    001IC - Surgeries in Male Infertility Management: A Crash Course for Urologists at All Levels of Experience

    Instructional Course Director: Peter Chan, MD – McGill University Health Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Marc Goldstein, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Mark Sigman, MD – RIH Urology-Moc 174

    Infertility/Erectile Dysfunction

  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    002IC - AUA BPH Management: Case Presentation Management to Enhance Safety and Efficacy

    Instructional Course Director: Steven Abraham Kaplan, Dr. – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Instructional Course Faculty: Lori B. Lerner, MD (she/her/hers)

    Instructional Course Faculty: Kevin Thomas McVary, MD – Loyola

    Instructional Course Faculty: Claus Georg Roehrborn, MD (he/him/his) – UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Alexis Edwin Te, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Voiding Dysfunction/BPH

  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    003IC - Robotic Upper Urinary Tract Reconstruction: A Top-to-Bottom Approach

    Instructional Course Director: Lee Cheng Zhao, MD MS (he/him/his) – NYU Langone Health

    Instructional Course Faculty: Daniel Eun, MD – Temple Urology Center City- Medical Tower Building

    Instructional Course Faculty: Michael D. Stifelman, MD – Hackensack University Medics Center Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Raju Thomas, MD, FACS, FRCS – Tulane University School of Medicine, Department O

    Trauma/Reconstruction/Diversion

  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    004IC - Maximizing New Technological Advances in Ureteroscopy and Associated Instrumentation

    Instructional Course Director: Scott G. Hubosky, MD

    Instructional Course Director: Olivier Traxer, MD – Service d'Urologie

    Instructional Course Faculty: Michael Grasso, III, MD – Northwell

    Endourology/Urolithiasis

  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    005IC - Navigating Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Path to Patient Satisfaction

    Instructional Course Director: Melissa Rae Kaufman, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Una Jeanie Lee, MD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Mason Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Rachel S. Rubin, MD (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University Hospital

    Female Urology

  • 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
    011IC - Geriatric Urology: Beyond the Basics - A Moderated Case-Based Discussion

    Instructional Course Director: Tomas Lindor Griebling, MD, MPH

    Instructional Course Faculty: Jonathan Bergman, MD, MPH – UCLA

    Instructional Course Faculty: E.Camille Vaughan, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Emory University Div of Geriatrics & Gerontology

    Geriatrics

  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    006IC - Controversies in Surgical Stone Management: Latest Techniques and Technology

    Instructional Course Director: Stephen Y. Nakada, MD – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Pub

    Instructional Course Faculty: Brett A. Johnson, MD (he/him/his) – UT Southwestern

    Instructional Course Faculty: Margaret Knoedler, MD (she/her/hers)

    Instructional Course Faculty: Margaret Sue Pearle, MD, PHD (she/her/hers) – UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Endourology/Urolithiasis

  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    007IC - Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy for the Urologist and Advanced Practice Provider

    Instructional Course Director: Costas D. Lallas, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Anne E. Lizardi-Calvaresi, DNP (she/her/hers) – Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Edouard J. Trabulsi, MD,MBA (he/him/his) – Albert Einstein Medical Center

    Oncology: General

  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    008IC - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Urology, What Do We Need to Know?

    Instructional Course Director: Linda LaVerne McIntire, MD – My Michigan Health

    Instructional Course Faculty: David A. Bloom, MD – University of Michigan Urology Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Pamela Warrenette Coleman, MD,FACS – Howard University Hospital

    Instructional Course Faculty: Tomas Lindor Griebling, MD, MPH

    Instructional Course Faculty: Yahir A. Santiago-Lastra, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Gjanje L. Smith-Mathus, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

    Health Equities

  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    009IC - Complex and Challenging Cases in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery

    Instructional Course Director: Caroline Dowling, MD (she/her/hers) – Eastern Health

    Instructional Course Faculty: Janelle P. Brennan, MD – Goldfields Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Sandra Elmer, MBBS BMedSci FRACS (she/her/hers) – Freemasons Hospital Medical Centre

    Instructional Course Faculty: Anne K. Pelletier Cameron, MD (she/her/hers) – Univ of Michigan Med Ctr

    Female Urology

  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
    010IC - Vasectomy: A Very Practical Case-Based Course on Preoperative, Intraoperative and Postoperative Management

    Instructional Course Director: Ira D. Sharlip, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Stanton Charles Honig, MD – Yale Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Jay I. Sandlow, MD (he/him/his) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Infertility/Erectile Dysfunction

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    012IC - Prostate Cancer Update 2023

    Instructional Course Director: William J. Catalona, MD (he/him/his) – Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern Memorial Hospit

    Instructional Course Faculty: Douglas Middleton Dahl, MD – Mass General Hospital Department of Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Stanley Liauw, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Stacy Loeb, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Robert Brewster Nadler, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Russell Z. Szmulewitz, MD (he/him/his)

    Oncology: Prostate

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    013IC - Should I Order a PET Scan? Integrating Molecular Imaging Into Urologic Oncology Clinical Practice: Current Approaches and Future Opportunities

    Instructional Course Director: Marc A. Bjurlin, DO (he/him/his)

    Instructional Course Faculty: Spencer Behr, MD – UCSF

    Instructional Course Faculty: Michael A. Gorin, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Tracy Rose, MD,MPH (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina

    Imaging/Radiology

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    014IC - Updates in the Management of Penile Cancer: A Case-Based Approach

    Instructional Course Director: Philippe E. Spiess, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Viraj A. Master, MD, PHD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Timothy A. Masterson, MD (he/him/his)

    Instructional Course Faculty: Andrea Necchi, MD – Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and IRCCS San

    Instructional Course Faculty: Chris Protzel, MD (he/him/his)

    Oncology: Testis/Penis

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    015IC - Contemporary Techniques in Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor

    Instructional Course Director: Max Kates, MD – Johns Hopkins Hospital

    Instructional Course Faculty: Maria J. Ribal Caparros, MD (she/her/hers) – Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona

    Instructional Course Faculty: Jeremy Teoh, MD (he/him/his) – Prince of Wales Hospital

    Instructional Course Faculty: Jen-Jane Liu, MD – OHSU Department of Urology

    Oncology: Bladder/Upper-Tract/Urethral

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    016IC - Catastrophes, Complications and Corrections in Percutaneous Renal Surgery

    Instructional Course Director: Zeph Okeke, MD – Smith Institute For Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Mantu Gupta, MD,FRCS

    Instructional Course Faculty: Sanjay Khadgi, MD – KHADGI INSTITUTE OF ENDOUROLOGY

    Instructional Course Faculty: Arun Rai, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – Long Island Jewish Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Kymora Scotland, MD, PHD – University of California Los Angeles

    Endourology/Urolithiasis

  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CST
    017IC - Emerging Concepts in Interstitial Cystitis/ Bladder Pain Syndrome

    Instructional Course Director: Quentin Clemens, MD – University of Michigan Urology Dept

    Instructional Course Faculty: A. Lenore Ackerman, MD,PhD (she/her/hers) – David Geffen School of Medicine At UCLA

    Instructional Course Faculty: Henry Henry Lai, MD – Washington University School of Medicine

    Infection/Inflammation

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    018IC - How to Use Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-Positron Emission Tomography/CT in the Management of Relapsing Prostate Cancer Patients following Local Therapy with Curative Intent

    Instructional Course Director: Axel Heidenreich, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Robert Jeffrey Karnes, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Judd W. Moul, MD, FACS (he/him/his) – Duke Health System-Urology Division

    Oncology: Prostate

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    019IC - Refractory Overactive Bladder: How to Select Third-Line Therapies and Optimize Outcomes

    Instructional Course Director: Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD, MBA, FACS – Houston Methodist Hospital

    Instructional Course Faculty: David Alan Ginsberg, MD – USC Institute of Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Sandip Prasan Vasavada, MD

    Voiding Dysfunction/BPH

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    020IC - Bladder Cancer Treatment Dilemmas: The Cases You Face and What To Do about Them

    Instructional Course Director: Sam S. Chang, MD,MBA (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Christopher Anderson, MD (he/him/his) – Columbia University

    Instructional Course Faculty: James Michael McKiernan, MD – Columbia University

    Instructional Course Faculty: Chad R. Ritch, MD, MBA – University of Miami

    Instructional Course Faculty: Kristen R. Scarpato, MD,FACS,MPH

    Oncology: Bladder/Upper-Tract/Urethral

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    021IC - A Case-Based Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Urinary Tract Bleeding: Navigating AUA Microhematuria Guidelines to Intractable Hemorrhagic Cystitis

    Instructional Course Director: Stephen A. Boorjian, MD – Mayo Clinic, Dept. of Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Daniel Ari Barocas, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Jay D. Raman, MD, FACS – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    Instructional Course Faculty: Mary E. Westerman, MD

    Infection/Inflammation

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    022IC - Common Problems in Pediatric Urology

    Instructional Course Director: Mark Patrick Cain, MD – Division of Urology, Seattle Children's Hospital

    Instructional Course Faculty: Richard C. Rink, MD – Indiana University School of Medicine

    Instructional Course Faculty: Benjamin Micheal Whittam, MD

    Pediatrics

  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST
    023IC - Transition to Transitioning: Getting Started in Gender Affirming Surgery

    Instructional Course Director: Jennifer T. Anger, MD, MPH – UC San Diego Department of Urology

    Instructional Course Faculty: Mang L. Chen, MD – G.U. Recon

    Instructional Course Faculty: James M. Hotaling, MD

    Instructional Course Faculty: Polina Reyblat, MD – Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

    Transgender