Vitor Cavadas

Vítor Cavadas graduated from medical school at the Faculty of Medicine of Oporto in 2002. He did his general internship at the São João Hospital in Oporto between 2003 and 2004 and completed his residency in Urology at the Santo António General Hospital in Oporto between 2005 and 2010. He became a consultant at the Department of Urology of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto in 2011 and has since been responsible for the Stone Unit in this Department. He is also a member of the Tra...

Victor Cauni

Dr. Victor Cauni is currently the Head of the Urology Department at Colentina Hospital in Bucharest. He is a member of the European Urology and Romanian Urology Association and the Romanian Ultrasound Society. He is the author of 318 scientific papers at national and international scientific manifestations, congresses, and publications (in specialty journals and books) Dr. Cauni´s Clinical expertise includes stone and prostatic disease and the associated endourological surgeries. In his c...

Cecilia Cracco

Dr. Cracco has conducted thousands of procedures as principal surgeon, in particular, bipolar TURP, URS and RIRS, Greenlaser vaporization of the prostatic adenoma, bipolar TURB, PDD and SPIES TURB, ECIRS, HoLEP,/SoLEP with some invited surgeries since 2013. She published over 280 papers, including 105 indexed papers in extenso, many invited book chapters, and a Springer book on ECIRS in 2014. She is also the referee for many international journals. Member of many national and international...

Janak Desai

Dr. Janak Desai is a renowned Urologist both in India as well as worldwide. His extraordinary contributions to the field of Urology have earned him several accolades, including the prestigious Dr. B. C. Roy Award from the President of India. He has also earned an honorary FRCS from the renowned Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow. His most remarkable contribution has been the development of a technique known as the Ultra Mini PCNL. This method enables the removal of kidney stones with minimal ...

Federico Dotta

Dr. Federico Dotta received his MD from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2014 and completed his Urology specialization in 2020. During his residency, he spent a year at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, where, assisted by Prof A. wan der Merwe and Dr P. Spies, he started doing PCNL primarily in the prone position. Following this enriching experience, he began to modify his approach from prone to supine PCNL and finally to ECIRS. 2020 - Fellow of The European Board of Urology (...

Guido Giusti

Dr. Guido Giusti is an internationally renowned expert in urinary calculi and its modern endourological treatment. He also deals with the minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic treatment of all urogenital neoplasms (cancer of the kidney, ureter, bladder, prostate, and testicles) and the medical and endoscopic treatment of BPH. Career: On 30 October 1991, Guido Giusti graduated with a score of 110/110 laude from the University of Verona. In 1991 he enrolled in the School of Spec...

Prof. Takaaki Inoue

Prof. Dr. Takaaki Inoue (M.D., Ph.D.) is a urologist, Visiting Professor at Kobe University, and President of Hara Genitourinary Hospital in Japan. A specialist in endourology and stone disease, he has performed more than 7,000 stone surgeries and published extensively in international journals. Awarded multiple honors and active in leading professional societies, he is recognized as an international authority in minimally invasive surgery and lithotripsy. Education: April 1998 - March ...

Wissam Kamal

Dr. Wissam Kamal is a distinguished Urology and Endourology Consultant, holding the esteemed position of Head of the Saudi Endourology and MIS Group. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Urology Residency Program Sector 2. With extensive expertise in his field, Dr. Kamal is recognized for his contributions to Urology and Endourology. His leadership in prominent roles underscores his commitment to advancing medical practices and education in the field of urology. Head of Urology U...

Prof. Thomas Knoll

Prof. Thomas Knoll studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. He was then a doctoral student at the University Hospital Mannheim and received his doctorate with F. J. van der Woude in 1998. His habilitation in urology followed in 2005. At the same time, he studied health management at the University of Mannheim and graduated with a Master of Science. After several years as an assistant doctor in various areas of the university clinic, he became a specialist in urology an...

Prof. Evangelos Liatsikos

Dr. Evangelos Liatsikos is the elected Chairman of the European School of Urology (ESU). He is a Professor of Urology and the Chairman of the Urology Department at the University Hospital of Patras in Greece. He is a Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig in Germany and an Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He was Chairman of the European Section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) from 2016 to 2020. He is distinguished in literature for his research in Laparoscopy and En...

Dato’ Dr Rohan Malek

Dato Dr. Rohan has been practicing as a Consultant Urologist and Renal Transplant Surgeon for the past 25 years. He has vast experience in General Urology with subspecialty interests in Uro Oncology (Radical Cystectomy with orthotopic bladder substitution for bladder cancer), Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Men’s Health, and Renal Transplantation Surgery. To date, he has performed 350 Renal Transplant operations. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS...

Prof. Daniel Perez-Fentes

Prof. Daniel Adolfo 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 and 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 ...

Silvia Proietti

Dr. Silvia Proietti is a Consultant urologist at San Raffaele Hospital, Ville Turro Division, Milan, Italy. She is the Vice Director of the “European Training Center of Endourology,” directed by Dr. Giusti. Her main fields of interest are the endourological treatment of stones and upper urinary tract tumors. She is the author of several papers published in peer-reviewed Journals and has won several awards in National and International meetings. She graduated from the University of Perug...

Stijn Roemeling

Dr. Stijn Roemeling is a distinguished medical professional renowned for his contributions to the field of urology. As a prominent member of the Urology Department at the University Hospital Groningen, he has consistently demonstrated his expertise in diagnosing and treating a wide spectrum of urological disorders. Dr. Roemeling's extensive clinical experience is coupled with a strong commitment to advancing medical knowledge through research and education. His dedication to patient-centered car...

Kasra Saeb-Parsy

Kasra Saeb-Parsy is a Consultant Urological Surgeon who moved to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and joined Cambridge Urology Partnership in 2016. He qualified from University of London in 1999 and embarked on his surgical training at the prestigious Hammersmith Hospital. Following completion of his surgical training, he spent the next 10 years conducting basic science and clinical research, in addition to completing his higher surgical training in Urology at the world renowned Cambridge University ...

Cesare Scoffone

Dr. Cesare Scoffone is the Chief of the Department of Urology of the Cottolengo Hospital of Torino, Italy. His personal case series include thousands of open, laparoscopic, and endoscopic procedures (over 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 the author of many peer-review...

Prof. Olivier Traxer 

Prof. Olivier Traxer is currently Professor of Urology at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France, and works in Tenon Hospital (academic hospital). After training in general urology in Paris, Professor Olivier Traxer did a research fellowship at Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas (under the supervision of Professors Charles Y.C. Pak and Margaret Sue Pearle) to specialize in endourology and kidney stone management, which represent his main fields of interest. As an end...

Oliver Wiseman

Oliver James Wiseman is a Consultant Urologist based at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge where he is specialises in the treatment urinary stone disease. Oliver qualified from The University of Cambridge, and following basic surgical training, he undertook a period of research in London. His main research interests are in the development of PROMs for stone disease, and he has published widely on stone disease. He is currently the PI on a large randomised study looking at the management of lowe...