Through our EDUCARE training and education programs we support HCPs across our EMEA region with training pathways designed to ease the adoption of new technologies and therapies into practice.
Through our network of Institutes for Advancing Science (IAS) and selected Centres of Education we provide face to face training programs, simulation workshops and programs to develop cognitive decision making and surgical skills. Our currently available courses are listed below.
These complement our online and digital training offerings which are availabel on our EDUCARE website on the Boston Scientific Urology YouTube Channel and through our channel partner Advances In Surgery (AIS Channel).
We work with highly experienced surgeons, physicians, nurses and other health professionals who share their expertise with our course delegates, we firmly believe that the best model of education and training is medical expert and peer led, and you can see the biographies of some of our faculty members for our EMEA training program below.
Applications for places are made through your local Boston Scientific partner, who will be happy to discuss availabel educational and training opportunities with you and apply for a place on your behalf.
Ricarda M. Bauer is Professor in the Department of Urology at the Klinikum Großhadern, Ludwig- Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. Professor Bauer completed her urology residency at Cologne & Berlin University Medical Schools. She obtained her MD at the University of Munich and received medical training at Baylor College in the United States and the University of Montpellier in France.
Following her training, Professor Bauer became an attending urologist at the Klinikum Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University and is Head of the Subdivision “Functional Urology & Urogynecology”. Her subspecialties and areas of research are male and female incontinence, pelvic organic prolapse, urogynecological infections and andrology.
Professor Bauer has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on these subjects and has also been an investigator for a number of clinical trials.
Pr Pedro Vendeira is Assistant Urologist in the Urology Department of the Hospital Center Tâmega Sousa, Portugal, & Head of the Andrology Consultation since 2001. Since 2000, Pr Vendeira is the Head of Clinic Do Dragao, a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence since 2014, which focuses on Urology /Andrology.
As a Researcher, he is also a Consultant Urologist/Andrologist/Sexual Medicine Researcher at CETI, Advanced Center for the Study & Treatment of Infertility since 2000, Coordinator Researcher/Associate Professor at iSEX, Association for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, Lisbon, Portugal since 2007, and Associate Research Member at SEXLAB, Research Group in Human Sexuality at the Laboratory of Human Sexuality Research, Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences, University of Oporto, Portugal since 2014.
Ricarda M. Bauer is Professor in the Department of Urology at the Klinikum Großhadern, Ludwig- Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. Professor Bauer completed her urology residency at Cologne & Berlin University Medical Schools. She obtained her MD at the University of Munich and received medical training at Baylor College in the United States and the University of Montpellier in France.
Following her training, Professor Bauer became an attending urologist at the Klinikum Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian-University and is Head of the Subdivision “Functional Urology & Urogynecology”. Her subspecialties and areas of research are male and female incontinence, pelvic organic prolapse, urogynecological infections and andrology.
Professor Bauer has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on these subjects and has also been an investigator for a number of clinical trials.
Pr Pedro Vendeira is Assistant Urologist in the Urology Department of the Hospital Center Tâmega Sousa, Portugal, & Head of the Andrology Consultation since 2001. Since 2000, Pr Vendeira is the Head of Clinic Do Dragao, a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence since 2014, which focuses on Urology /Andrology.
As a Researcher, he is also a Consultant Urologist/Andrologist/Sexual Medicine Researcher at CETI, Advanced Center for the Study & Treatment of Infertility since 2000, Coordinator Researcher/Associate Professor at iSEX, Association for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, Lisbon, Portugal since 2007, and Associate Research Member at SEXLAB, Research Group in Human Sexuality at the Laboratory of Human Sexuality Research, Faculty of Psychology & Educational Sciences, University of Oporto, Portugal since 2014.
"Dr Suzie Venn was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester in 2000. She trained at the Royal London Hospital, with her urological training being centered at the Institute of Urology, University College London & Guys Hospital.
Here she developed her subspecialty interests in urethral stricture disease and Reconstructive Urology under Professor Mundy. She also trained under Professor Woodhouse in Adolescent & Reconstructive Urology, to join the Reconstruction Team at the Institute of Urology as a part-time consultant and honorary senior lecturer.
In 2005, Dr Venn was appointed as a consultant in Portsmouth Hospitals to lead reconstruction and adolescent surgery.At Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Suzie is the clinical lead for reconstructive surgery, male and female incontinence and paediatric and adolescent surgery..."
Source : NHS Western Sussex Hospitals
Dr. Enrique Rijo completed his Urology Residency in Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain in 2011, where he worked as a Consultant Urologist until 2015. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Barcelona in 2017 and received the “Best Thesis Award” from the Spanish Association of Urology (AEU).
He has been working in Hospital Quiron Barcelona since 2016. Dr. Rijo is specialized in BPH surgery and has extensive experience in laser endoscopic enucleation of the prostate and other minimally invasive techniques.
In the last few years he has been working as a mentor for GreenLight laser enucleation of the prostate (GreenLEP) and holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP). He has performed many live surgeries, lectures and presented more than 150 abstracts in National & International Meetings as well as publications.
Pr Tim Terry is anHonorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at NUH, Nottingham University Hospital, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University & Associate Professor at Leicester University, UK.
Dr Terry's faocus is on : Implant Surgery (+400), including AUS 800, Male Advance Tape & PPS. He is also Director of Female Urology Fellowship tertiary referrals of VVF ureteric injuries, salvage SUI, urethral diverticula. He is the recipient of numerous awards and Chair of the Andrology Section of BAUS,
Pr Daniel Pérez-Fentes, received his MD from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 2002 and completed his Urology specialization in 2008 at the Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital, Vizcaya, Spain, Azienda Ospedaliera San Luigi di Orbassano, Turin, Italy & Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York, USA.
His Doctoral Thesis focused on the functional, systemic & quality of life effects of percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
Since 2008, Pr. Pérez-Fentes heads the Endourology Unit in the University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela where he organizes national & international Endourology training workshops & courses every year. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Pr. Pérez- Fentes lectures on Endourology and also performs as well as live surgeries in numerous courses or congresses.
Editor of the book, Practical Handbook on Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy, he is currently directing two Doctoral Thesis regarding urinary stone management.
"Training: Primary Medical Training at Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa, completed in 1988. Specialist Urology Training at University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg Hospital, South Africa, completed in 1995.
Teachers from whom I learnt many tips & tricks: MLS de Kock, Chris F. Heyns, Gustav Witters (all Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town), Rudolf Hohenfellner, Margit Fisch, Mainz,, Don Skinner, John Stein, Los Angeles, Hassan Abol-Enein, Mainz & Mansoura, Helmut Madersbacher, Georg Bartsch, Innsbruck, Marcus Riccabona, Linz.
More Fields of Interest include : Reconstructive Urology, Trauma, Pelvic Surgery, Incontinence, Neurourology, Female Urology, Paediatric Urology Extensive experience in: Reconstructive Urology, Transplant Urology, Neurourology.
Professorial Dissertation : The transobturator retroluminal repositioning sling in the treatment of male postsurgical incontinence Career Goal, The harmonization of urology training and practice on a global level: “What should the world urologist know? What skills should the world urologist master? How to achieve adequate urological surgical training? ”
Source : Dr Peter Rehder
Dr Jan-Paul Roovers is Professor of Urogynaecology at the AMC, Amsterdam Medical Center, he conducts research into the diagnostics of anatomical pelvic floor dysfunction. His research focuses primarily on the meticulous introduction and evaluation of new surgical techniques for women suffering from urinary incontinence and/or vaginal prolapse.
In collaboration with colleagues at renowned centres in the Netherlands and abroad, Roovers is conducting translational research into ways of reducing damage to the pelvic floor and is engaged in developing a new type of implant to treat women suffering from vaginal prolapse. Aside from continuing his avenues of research and teaching students and research assistants, Roovers’ remit includes developing optimally integrated gynaecological care, whereby highly complex gynaecological care is concentrated at academic medical centres, operative care with a low and medium level of complexity at secondary care centres and non-operative care - supported by secondary care - at primary care centres.
Pr Koenraad van Renterghem received his PHD from the University of Maastricht with Pr Van Kerrebroeck as supervisor. He is Head of the Department of Urology at Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium.
Pr van Renterghem areas of interest are in prostate pathology research & corpus cavernosum in relation to erecction problems. He is an active member of several national & international Professional Associations.
Dr Gommert Van Koeveringe is Professor & Chair of the Department of Urology at Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), the Netherlands. He is specialized in Functional/Reconstructive and Neurourology. He conducts & coordinztes basic, translational and clinical urological research within the research school for neuroscience (MHeNS/EURON), on neurourology, bladder and lower urinary tract control mechanisms at Maastricht University.
He participated in several European research projects and obtained multiple national and international research grants. He participates in several MUMC+ multidisciplinary teams such as the Pelvic Care Center, the Brain & Nerve-center and the Neuromodulation steering Committee. He is chairman of the scientific committee and member of the functional and reconstructive urology working group of the Dutch urological association. He participates in several clinical and preclinical studies in the field of Functional and Neuro-urology and has authored several bookchapters and over 135 international publications in this field.
Dr Nikesh Thiruchelvam is a highly-experienced Consultant Urologist based in Cambridge, UK. He has a specialist interest in all aspects of urinary dysfunction & treatment. He was appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon at Lea Hospital & Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University in 2009.
Originally qualifying from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, Mr Thiruchelvam pursued specialist training at leading centers of Urological excellence including St. Bartholomew’s, the Royal London Hospital, Ipswich Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Over the course of his career Mr Thiruchelvam has secured multiple fellowships to travel to the USA and Australia, studying cutting edge techniques in treating prostate enlargement and urinary incontinence.
Dr Thiruchelvam is a co-author to the European Association of Urology Guidelines for Urinary Incontinence, invited faculty of European School of Urology and is regularly invited to lecture at Urology conferences abroad and undertake Visiting Professorships.
"Dr Jake Patterson is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, having been appointed following training in Yorkshire, UK. He practices as an Endoluminal Endourologist and leads a busy multidisciplinary stone team with a large tertiary practice, including providing cover to the UK's second-largest regional spinal injuries centre.
He has special interests in complex stone disease in neuropathic patients and also in medical device development, as well as ureteroscopic and percutaneous stone surgery and the management of other benign and malignant upper urinary tract diseases including the diagnosis and endoluminal management of upper tract urothelial cancer.
Dr. Patterson also holds a position as Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and is an experienced and enthusiastic under-graduate and post-graduate teacher, especially in clinical skills tuition. He is an active researcher, acting as principle investigator for a number of multi-centre trials, and is a reviewer for most major Urology journals in the field of Endourology."
Source : Journal of Endoluminal Endourology
"Dr Palle Osther is currently Professor at the Department of Urology, Fredericia Hospital – a part of Hospital Littlebelt, in Denmark, and the Director of the Urological Research Center at Hospital Littlebelt, University of Southern Denmark.
His research interests focus on urolithiasis, minimal-invasive treatments for urinary stone disease, urinary tract pain and prostate cancer. In his clinical practice, he mainly deals with urinary stone disease and upper urinary tract pathology, including endoscopic procedures for benign and malignant urological diseases. In his areas of interest he has published extensively, and he has had numerous scientific presentations world-wide..."
Source : ESD
Dr Rowland Rees is a Consultant Urological Surgeon at University Hospitals Southampton - one of the largest academic teaching hospitals in the South of England. He provides a tertiary andrology & genito-urethral surgery service, providing urethral reconstruction, penile prosthesis, artificial urinary sphincter, Peyronie’s disease, male infertility and penile cancer service for a population of ~ 3 million. Rowland qualified in Medicine in 1995 at Bart’s and The London Hospital school of Medicine, University of London, taking an intercalated degree in neuro-physiology with 1st Class Hons. After surgical training in South London and the South coast, Rowland underwent a period of research into andrology and male genital smooth muscle pharmacology at the renowned Wolfson Institute at UCL, clarifying the role of Rho-kinase in the erectile pathway.
After surgical training in South London and the South coast, Rowland underwent a period of research into andrology and male genital smooth muscle pharmacology at the renowned Wolfson Institute at UCL, clarifying the role of Rho-kinase in the erectile pathway. He subsequently undertook a sub-speciality senior surgical fellowship in Andrology & genito- urethral surgery at the Institute of Urology, UCL, where he trained in penile prosthesis surgery and micro-surgery. Rowland currently Chairs the BAUS section of Andrology and Genito-urethral surgery for 2018-2020, and previously served as secretary and elected member for 8 years. He has been a faculty member on the UCLH GURS masterclass for a number of years, is actively involved in the teaching and training of surgeons in the UK and abroad, and is an internationally invited speaker in the field of Andology.
Dr Nicolas Morel Journel has been performing Andrological & Urological Reconstructive Surgery at the Hospices Civils de Lyon University Hospital Center in Lyon, France since 2000. He has improved procedures for sexual reassignment surgery, (phalloplasty, vaginoplasty...), urethral surgery, penile cancer surgery and andrological surgery.
He is now part of a 2 surgeon team who perform between 90 & 110 implantations of penile prosthesis each year,
Pr Ignadio Moncada Iribarren is Head of the Department of Urology, Andrology & Robotic Surgery at the University Hospital of Sanitas La Zarzuela, Madrid, Director of the Robotic Surgery Institute & the Men's Health Unit. He is also Associate Professor of Urology at UFV, Faculty of Medicine, Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain.
Pr Iribarren serves on several national and international editorial boards. He has published more than 150 articles in specialized magazines and several book chapters.
His main scientific interest has been Sexual Medicine & Andrological Surgery and in the last 5 years, he has been involved in both oncological and reconstructive robotic surgery.
Dr Lennart Wagrell received his MD from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He went on to complete his Urology training at Kalmar County Hospital. He then served for several years at the Urology Clinic of the University Hospital in Uppsala. He is now Senior Medical Advisor at Urolog Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr lennart Wagrell is a specialist in mini-invasive surgery procedures for prostate enlargement, i.e. PLFT, Prostalund Feedback Treatment.
"I am a practicing Urologist for the last 25 years in South Africa. We started the surgery for prostheses and incontinence in males at Steve Biko Academic Hospital with Professor Dion Du Plessis. Since he has retired I have taken over the work on male incontinence and erectile dysfunction. I have been doing the surgery both in private practice and Steve Biko Academic Hospital.
I am also part time lecturer at the University of Pretoria and doing regular workshops to improve patient care regarding incontinence and erectile dysfunction. I do on a regular basis assist Urologists in South Africa during surgery at their own units and train them to perform the surgeries themselves. I am regularly contacted by Urologists to give advice on indications and handling of complication associated with implants. "
Source : Dr Frans Van Wijk
Dr Suzanne Biers Graduated with a distinction in Surgery from St. George’s Medical School, University of London and completed a postgraduate research degree in bladder dysfunction at Oxford University. She is now a Consultant uUologist in Cambridge sub-specialising in male and female voiding dysfunction, incontinence and urinary tract reconstruction.
She is Clinical Lead and Honorary Lecturer for the postgraduate 2-year Urology Masters Degree Course at Anglia Ruskin University. She is active in postgraduate research and teaching courses, including course director for the RCSE Reconstructive Techniques in Urology and The Cambridge Emergency Urology Course. Other teaching courses include the Office of BAUS Education FRCS Urology Revision Course, urological component for the Cambridge Anastomosis Course and BAUS courses on the management of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence and Anatomy for Urologists.
As well as teaching, Suzanne is involved in local audit projects, a member of the Data and Ethics Monitoring Group for NIHR trial, and sub-investigator on national trials.
Dr. Mudhar N. Hasan, MD, FEBU is the Head of the Department of Urology of the Danderyd University Institute, where he has built up the Endourology & Robotic Units in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr Hasan is running an annual DUST (Developments of Urinary Stone Managements) course which is the only stone course in Sweden that covers all aspects of stone management Dr. Hasan's field of expertise includes advanced endourological procedures and robotic prostate surgery, and his main fields of interest in research are urolithiasis and urothelial carcinoma especially UTUC.
Joyce Baard is a consultant urologist in the AMC University hospital in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the same hospital where she completed her urology training. Her medical degree was completed in the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Her fields of interests are the endourologic treatment of stones, BPE and urothelium tumors in the bladder and upper tract. Regarding the last, she is especially focused on new imaging and diagnostic techniques in close cooperation with the Bio Medical Engineering department of the AMC. She has an active participation in the Endourology Masterclasses organised by the AMC and the eGrandrounds organized by the SIU.
Dr Tevita Aho moved from New Zealand to the UK to be the Clinical Fellow in Uro-oncology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) in 2003. The following year he was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon.
During his training in NZ he spent a year learning Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) from the urologists who invented it. In 2004, Mr Aho introduced HoLEP at CUH where it rapidly became, and remains, the treatment of choice for the majority of men seeking a surgical treatment for urinary symptoms or retention. CUH was one of the first centres in the UK to offer HoLEP.
Mr Aho is the most experienced HoLEP surgeon in the UK, and has performed more than 1,700 procedures. He is frequently invited to lecture on HoLEP in the UK and abroad and has convened 13 annual HoLEP courses at CUH, where hundreds of delegates have learned how to perform HoLEP. He has demonstrated live laser prostate surgery (including the world’s first thulium laser enucleation of the prostate) on more than 25 occasions at conferences throughout the world.
He also has experience with other forms of benign prostate surgery including laser vaporisation and the minimally invasive urolift procedure. Mr Aho is the founding President of the UK Holmium User Group (HUG). He designed and implemented the national HUG Training Programme for HoLEP (a model which is now used internationally), and has mentored many surgeons in HoLEP. Mr Aho has been involved in HoLEP research from its earliest days, and has published and presented widely on the subject.
Dr. Evangelista Martinelli is Consultant Urologist & Section Head of Functional Urology of the Department of Urology & Urological Oncology of the Hanover Medical School in Germany.
Dr. Martinelli received his MD & Surgery from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy and conducted his residency in Urology, first, at University of Applied Sciences Höxter, then Hanover Medical School in Germany.
Dr. Martinelli is member in many societies. He participates in the Study Group on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia of the German Society of Residents in Urology. His clinical and research focus is in functional Urology. He is a continence surgeon and specialist in minimal-invasive BPE treatment.
Dr Guido Kamphuis is Urologist & Medical Manager of the Clinical Urology department at the AMC Amsterdam. He developed interest and expertise in the surgical and medical management of urolithiasis and the endoscopic management of urothelial tumours in both lower and upper tract.
At the AMC, GDr Kamphuis is part of a Research Group studying the development and implementation of new technologies for urothelial tumours and has been working on the treatment of urolithiasis and the optimalisation of the Stone Clinic working closely with colleagues from nephrology.
He has supported Endourologic Workshops at the AMC, performing live surgery at several meetings. He currently trains Urology residents in Endourology and Urolithiasis.
Dr. Marianne Brehmer is MD, PhD, specialized in Advanced Endourology. She is involved in several national & international scientific groups aas welle as being main Supervisor for PHD students at the Karolinska Institutet. Since February 2017 she is in charge of Advanced Endouroloy at Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Brehmer was educated at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She has been a qualified urologist since 1994. She got her PhD degree in 1999 and did a post-doc in Edinburgh, UK, 2000-2001. Dr. Brehmer got her Endourology training in Stockholm, Örebro and Edinburgh. She was for 3 years responsible for the Stone & Endourology activity at Uppsala University Hospital.
In 2003 she moved to the department of urology at the Karolinska University Hospital where she for 10 years was the Chairperson of the Stone & Endourological Team. During three years, 2013-2016, Dr. Brehmer was the Head of Uurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark where she was developing and performing advanced endourology. Dr. Brehmer has since many years been active in developing and improving the training of urologists. She was 2002-2013 the Swedish delegate for the European Board of Urology, EBU, where she was the president 2008‐2010. During her time in the EBU she was in charge of developing a system for certification of subspeciality centres.
Pr Enrique Lledo-Garcia is Head of the Andrology & Male Urethro-Genital Reconstructive Surgery at the Urology Dept. of the University Hospital Gregorio Maranon in Madrid, and in charge of the Resident Training Program focused on Urologic & Prosthetic Surgery. He isalso Head of Urology & Andrology at the University Hospital Vithas Our Lady of America.
He serves as Associate Professor of Surgery & Urology at Madrid Complutense University, as well as organizing numerous courses & workshops in Urologic Prosthetic Surgery and Urethral Reconstruction.
"Dr Tamsin Greenwell graduated from Manchester University, UK in 1990. She did her early surgical training in Manchester and Sheffield before moving to London for her higher urological training. Since 2002, she is Consultant Urological Surgeon and Lead for the Female, Functional and Restorative (FFR) Urology Unit at the University College London Hospital Institute of Urology
She has a special interest in female and reconstructive Urology, in particular the management of male and female urinary incontinence, uretero, vesico, or urethrovaginal fistulae, urethral diverticula in men and women, urethral stricture disease in men, and reconstruction of the bladder following its removal in the treatment of cancer and other conditions.
She also has a special interest in surgical education. She runs the MSc and Diploma in Urology courses for UCL and the pan Thames urology specialist trainees teaching programme. She is also the RCS Eng Urology Tutor charged with the development and running of skills course for consultant and trainee urological surgeons.
She is the current Clinical Lead for the development of Specialist Commissioning for Mesh Complications services and for Vesico-Vaginal Fistula services "
Source : The Institute of Urology
"Since 2007, Pr Oliver Wiseman is Consultant Urologist at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Lead Clinician, for urinary stone disease. Pr Wiseman qualified in medicine from The University of Cambridge. He did his specialist training in London, and has also worked in France, Sweden & New Zealand.
He has published widely on stone disease, and his main research interests are in the development of PROMs for stone disease, & developing & recruiting to multicenter studies looking at outcomes from stone surgery.
He is the Training Programme Director for Urology Registrars in the East of England. He has run and been invited to participate in national and international training conferences and training courses on stone surgery and male infertility.
He is a trustee and committee member of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), is on the committee of the BAUS Section of Endourology, and was on the organising committee for the World Congress of Endourology, which was held in London in 2015. He is the BAUS lead for the publication of national outcomes from PCNL.
He has been awarded the Golden Telescope by The British Association of Urological Surgeons in recognition of his achievements, and also been invited to be a committee member of the Awards and Medal Committee of The Endourological Society.
Source : Addenbrooke's Hospital
Dr. Marc Galiano is Urologist, Andrologist, Oncologist, specialized in prostate (adenoma and cancer), Lapeyronie's disease, penile surgery and medical treatment of male impotence. He practices this activity in his office in the 9th arrondissement in Paris and performs surgery at the Alma Clinic and the Turin Clinic in Paris, France.
He is a specialist in robot-assisted coeliosurgery and in the focal treatment of prostate cancers: cryotherapy, ablatherm focal one, the treatment of prostate adenoma ( Rezum and laser) and finally functional male surgery .
"Dr Rustom Manecksha graduated from the School of Medicine, University College Dublin in 2000 and was awarded his MD from Trinity College Dublin in 2007. After higher surgical training in Ireland, he completed a 2-year Endourology Fellowship at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
He was the recipient of the Anthony Walsh/Ipsen/RCSI Travelling Fellowship, the Ethicon Travelling Fellowship and the RCSI Travelling Fellowship. He was then appointed Consultant Urological Surgeon in St. James’s and Tallaght University Hospitals, Dublin in 2014. He is the Clinical Lead in Urology in St. James’s Hospital.
He has subspecialty fellowship training in endourology, kidney stone disease, minimal access renal surgery and BPH. He has an active clinical research profile with national and international collaborations as well as links with the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences."
Source : Beacon Hospital
Dr Esteban Emiliani accomplished his Urology Residency at Fundacio Puigvert, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, and two Endourology Fellowships, one at Tenon Hospital, Paris, along side Pr. Olivier Traxer and the other at Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, India, with Pr. Mahesh Desai.
He developed an expertise and interest in the surgical and medical management of urolithiasis and in the conservative management of upper urinary tract urothelial tumors.
He is currently working at Fundacio Puigvert in Barcelona, Spain, as Consultant Urologist Surgeon in the Endourology Unit. He is also a member of the ESUT (EAU section of uro-technolgy), EAU Young Academic Urologists (Endourology working group) and the Petra Urology Group.
"Professor Richard Hindley is a Consultant Urological Surgeon & Clinical Lead for Urology at Hampshire Hospitals. Having qualified in Scotland at the University of Dundee, Richard spent his initial surgical training in Brighton before embarking on 6 years specialist Urology training based in the South Thames training region. This included 2 years at King’s Hospital before passing his final surgical exams and travelling to Brisbane for a laparoscopic urology fellowship in 2003. He was also awarded an MSc in Urology for his research in bladder dysfunction in 1999.
Pr Hindleyhas introduced cutting edge treatments to Hampshire Hospitals, including Greenlight Laser in 2005 and most recently the Rezum procedure in 2017, for which he was instrumental in the pathway of NICE approval. He is the leading surgeon in the UK for this procedure and has performed over 400 cases. He has very much been at the forefront of treatments for benign and malignant conditions of the prostate. His focus is on reducing the side effects of treatments, including the preservation of sexual function.
He is also a recognised expert in prostate cancer diagnosis & focal treatment using technologies such as HIFU and Cryotherapy. Furthermore, Richard is also a very experienced laparoscopic renal surgeon and is now using the Da Vinci robot for the treatment of kidney conditions.
Richard enjoys teaching and training and has helped to introduce laparoscopy, HIFU, Greenlight laser surgery and Rezum to centres around the UK. He has a large research portfolio and is currently recruiting over 50 patients per year to prostate related clinical trials..."
Source ; 9 Harley Street
Dr Silvia Proietti graduated at the University of Perugia, Italy in 2006, Magnum cum laude. During her Residency, she won LLP-Erasmus Student Placement and spent 4 months at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust of London, under the direction of Professor Prokar Dasgupta; she also developed particular interest in functional urology, under the supervision of Professor Antonella Giannantoni.
From 2012 to 2015, she was member of staff of the Urology Department at Humanitas Clinical and Research Center in Milan and in particular at the “Stone Center” directed by Dr Guido Giusti. In 2015, she did a 6-month fellowship in endourology at Tenon University Hospital under the direction of Professor Olivier Traxer.
She is currently working at the Urology Department of San Raffaele Hospital, Ville Turro Division, in Milan, principally performing endourological treatment of stones and upper urinary tract tumors, which represent her main field of interest.
Dr Frank Van der Aa received his MD in 2001 from the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences in 2007 from the same university. He completed his Residency in Urology in 2008 at UZ Gasthuisberg in Leuven. He became Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU) in 2010 and Fellow of the European Board of Sexual Medicine (FECSM) in 2012.
He now serves as Adjunct Head of Clinic in the Department of Urology of the University Hospitals Leuven and staff member of the National MS Center in Melsbroek, both in Belgium. In addition, he is lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven.
His special clinical interests are in neuro-urology, male and female incontinence & reconstructive urology. His major research interest include animal models of stress urinary incontinence, interstitial cells, nerve regeneration & stem cell applications.
Dr Daniar Osmonov, MD, PHD is Associate Professor & Head of the Andrology Unit at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany.
Pr Osmonov was involved in several chronical experimental animal studies at the University Hospitals Mannheim and Kiel from 2000 to 2002 and completed his Residency in Urology at University Hospital Kiel in 2006. Dr Osmonov received his medical licence as an Andrologist in 2013.
Over the years, Dr Osmonov has been responsible for prostate cancer clinical research with a major focus on the surgical treatment of recurrent prostate cancer. He is an expert in the field of surgical andrology, penile reconstructive urology, artificial sphincter, penile prosthesis, robotic assisted surgery and laparoscopy.
Dr. Cesare Marco Scoffone has been working for two decades in the University Department of Urology of Orbassano, Torino, Italy, developing a wide experience in Uro-oncologic & reconstructive surgery, retrograde ureteroscopic & percutaneous treatment of urolithiasis, miniinvasive approaches to BPO.
Since 2010 he is Chief of the Department of Urology of the Cottolengo Hospital of Torino, Italy. His personal case series include thousands of open, laparoscopic & endoscopic procedures (>750 ECIRS, >500 en-bloc no-touch HoLEPs, thousands of RIRS) performed as first surgeon in all urologic fields, and during the last fifteen years he has been often invited for Live Surgeries (mainly RIRS, ECIRS, bipolar TURP, HoLEP) all over the world.
He is author of many peer-reviewed publications, guidelines, book chapters (including one in the 4th edition of the Smith’s Texbook of Endourology on ECIRS), didactic videos (also for ESU/Surgery in Motion), editor of a Springer book on ECIRS, reviewer for many international journals, member of national and international urological) societies, consultant for various companies, part of the EAU, CIE and SIU Faculties, chairman of the Technology and Training in Endourology congress in Torino (8th edition in 2018).
Mr Ulrich Witzsch received his medical degree from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and pursued extensive training & research in Surgery, Urology & Paediatrics, both in Germany and the US,
Since 1999, Mr Witzsch is Senior Consultant Urologist & Doctor, Quality Management for the Paediatric Urology Clinic of Krankenhaus Northwest, Frankfurt, Germany. His interests include Erectile dysfunction, male and female continence as well as various areas of BPH management & therapy.
He has been an active trainer in the fields of BPH and incontinence Surgery since 2002.
Dr. Javier Vasquez is a researcher and developer of the concept: "Biofunctional Dynamic Occlusion", a different perspective of occlusion. He has been trained in all areas related with physiology and occlusion in all different academies of occlusion around the world.
He has dedicated this past 10 years to educate dentists all over the world with his lectures and individual consulting. He has a training center in Miami where he teaches courses for dentists in different areas of physiology and occlusion.
Also, KOL for important companies around the world. Pioneer and KOL for SICAT Function, the new technology from Sirona that integrates CT Scans, high definition digital impressions, and JAW Tracking movements in real time. This technology has allowed to change multiple dogmas in occlusion and physiology of the airway, cervical spine and cranio cervical components.
Dr. Vasquez has written multiple articles in different magazines in reference to the subject of Biofunctional Dynamics and physiology of occlusion. He endorses the doctors to use technology to visualize how many of the dogmas created in occlusion have changed and he presents it with a different perspective.
He is a national and international speaker in the areas of cranio-cervical dynamics, cranio-mandibular stability and esthetics.
For multiple years he has been involved in the laboratory business creating a specialized dental laboratory for Doctors that follow his thoughts in occlusion and function. He develops and plans full mouth rehabilitations and coaches the Doctors during the process of the cases from the diagnostic phase in consulting all the way to the insertion, final details, adjustments and coronoplasty.
He is member of the world renowned unique group Oral Design International, and he is one of the 4 dentists in the world that are members of this organization.
Pr Carlo Bettocchi is Professor of Urology et the Policlinic, University Aldo Moro, in Bari, Italy and has been Head of the Andrological Section since January 1996. His research & clinical career has included positions in other urological departments, such as the Academic Hospital of Maastricht, the Netherlands, the Middlesex Hospital UCLH and King’s College Hospital, UK.
He is also Visiting Professor in Saudi-Arabia. His main interests are male sexual dysfunction, infertility and gender dysphoria. He regularly performs penile prosthesis, corporoplasty, urethroplasty, varicocele, orchidopexy, glans resurfacing, testicular biopsy, penile elongation / enlargement and others related male reproductive and genitalia procedures.
After a training in general urology in Paris (SORBONNE-University Paris-France ex- Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6), Pr Olivier TRAXER completed a clinical fellowship at Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas, Dallas-Texas under the supervision of Professors Charles Y.C PAK and Margaret Sue PEARLE and obtained a subspecialty in Endourology and stone disease which represents his main field of interest.
At present time, Olivier TRAXER is Professor of Urology in Tenon Hospital Sorbonne University Paris-France and is responsible of the department of minimally invasive surgery.
He is also the Director of the Clinical Research Center (GRC Lithiase #20 at Sorbonne University),
Main fields of interest: Stone disease (surgical and medical management) and Conservative treatment of UTUC.
Pr Olivier TRAXER presently works in three directions: 1.clinical activities and clinical research, 2.education and teaching, 3.development and evaluation of medical devices.
As a urologist, his goal is to improve the knowledge on urinary stone disease and endourology, to optimize the quality of treatment for patients, and to promote the role of his specialty in this field.
Dr. Steeve Doizi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Endourology Unit, directed by Prof. Olivier Traxer at Tenon Hospital, Paris, France affiliated to Pierre et Marie Curie University.
He completed medical school from Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France in 2009 and urology residency in Paris between 2009 and 2014. Following the residency training, Dr. Doizi did a Research Fellowship in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA, focusing on urolithiasis and received his Master of Science (MSc).
Dr. Doizi’s main clinical expertise includes stone and prostatic disease and the associated endourological surgeries. His research activities are focused on endourological innovations, metabolic stone disease and benign prostatic disease.
Dr Cecilia Cracco, MD, PHD received her degree in Medicine & Surgery, in 1989 from the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, University of Torino. From 1990 to 1996, she attended the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology of the University College London, UK, under the supervision of prof. G. Gabella and prof. G. Burnstock), as guest researcher. She completed a PhD in Ophtalmologic Sciences, at the University of Torino.
She then became a Researcher, MED24 Urology, at the University of Torino, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, as well as still working at the Urological Clinic of the S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital of Orbassano (Torino). She is now an Urologist at the Urology Department, Cottolengo Hospital of Torino. Dr Cracco is the author of numerous articles.
Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Clinical Research; Chief, Brachytherapy Service; Steven A. Greenberg Chair in Prostate Cancer Research
Prostate Cancer (Brachytherapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy [IMRT], Image-Guided Radiation Therapy [IGRT])
Radiation Oncologist and clinical investigator. Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology.
He published more than 230 scientific articles (indexed/ Peer reviewed Journals), 4 book chapters and more than 300 abstracts presented as oral presentation or posters at national and international scientific congress). His h-index is 29.
Main topics of his activity are: SBRT, hypofractionation, IGRT, molecular imaging in Radiation Oncology, prostate cancer, oligometastases.
From 2010 assistant and associate chief at Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery department Humanitas Cancer Center in Milan(Rozzano).
From 2012, He is the national coordinator of young group of AIRO(Italian society of Radiation Oncology) and he is in the board of AIRO prostate working group.
From 2014 he is member of AIRO National Scientific Committe.
He is member of "Technology in Cancer Research Treatment " and managing editor of “Radiation Oncology”
From 2014, He is Head of Radiation Oncology Department of Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Cancer Care Center in Negrar(Verona ).
2015: Associate Professor professional qualification in Radiation Oncology
2017: Associate professor in Medicine, Brescia University.
Mr Gordon Muir is a consultant urologist based in London. He has a specialist interest in the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of prostate disease, both BPH and prostate cancer. He also specialises in male sexual dysfunction and infertility, with particular regard to reducing treatment related side effects for men with prostate problems. Mr Muir's research has been widely published, and he a recognised international expert and teacher in laser prostatectomy, Urolift and focal prostate cancer treatments. He has also developed and published operative techniques for foreskin and penis problems.
Wherever possible he offers one stop diagnostic visits, working from a few well equipped modern clinics, with his private base at the iconic Shard.
After qualifying in medicine from Glasgow, he served as a medical officer in the army, and later completed his post-graduate training in surgery and urology at the Royal Marsden and St George's Hospitals, also spending time in Egypt, the USA, France and Italy.
He has been a consultant urologist at King’s College Hospital since 1996 and is also Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery at King’s College London.
An active teacher and researcher, Gordon has published over 100 scientific papers, and has lectured, taught and held visiting professorships in every country in the world except Antarctica.
He researches in the area of penile size problems and genital anxiety in men, trying to reduce the harm often done by unscrupulous surgeons, and in 2016 published the largest ever review of penis size.
Main professional interests and surgical skills:
Current position: Academic Professor of Urology
Fields of expertise: Functional urology, neuro-urology, prolapse surgery
Hannes Cash is a specialist in prostate health, looking after benign disease and cancer with a holistic patient centered approach.
He conducted his doctoral research into MRI fusion biopsy of the prostate and his research interests include micro-ultrasound and focal therapy in addition to BPH surgery.
Since 2010 he has been using the Greenlight Laser to treat benign prostate enlargement. The surgical technique has been continuously optimized so that the radical nature of the operation can be adapted to the needs of the patient. He also offers Rezūm water vapour treatment of the prostate.
Dr. Cash is active as an expert for the Greenlight Laser as a Proctor (trainer) for the Greenlight Laser process.
He trained in Berlin, completing his urological training at the Charité Hospital and his research at the Max Planck Institute.
He is a member of the working group focal microtherapy (AKFM) of German urology, which focuses on focal therapy of the prostate and prostate cancer diagnostics. He is also a member of the commission of the German Prostate Cancer Guideline
