COURSE DIRECTORS
Renaud Bollens, MD
Professor and Chairman,
Groupe Hospitalier de l’Institut
Catholique de Lille
Lille, France

 
Jorge Fonseca, MD
Head of Prostate Unit
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisboa, Portugal

 

 
Inderbir Gill, MD, MCH
Chairman & Professor, Catherine &
Joseph Aresty Department of Urology
Executive Director, USC Institute of Urology
Associate Dean (Clinical Innovation)
Keck School of Medicine, University
of Southern California

 

Vito Pansadoro, MD
Director, Laparoscopy Center
Vincenzo Pansadoro Foundation
Rome, Italy

 

 

INVITED SURGEONS

Antonio Alcaraz, MD
Chairman of the Department of Urology,
The University Hospital Clinic of Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain

 

 

 

Christophe Assenmacher, MD
Assistant Professor at Catholic University of Louvain.
Urological Surgeon,
Head of Department in the Cliniques de l’Europe
Brussels, Belgium

 

 

Aldo Bocciardi, MD
Chief of Urology Department
Niguarda Hospital Cà Granda
Milan, Italy

 

 

Renaud Bollens, MD
Professor and Chairman,
Groupe Hospitalier de l’Institut
Catholique de Lille
Lille, France

 

 

Alberto Breda, MD
Director of Transplant Unit
Fondation Puigvert
Barcelona, Spain

 

 

 

Victor Enrique Corona Montes, MD
Centro de Cirugía Robótica
Hospital Angeles Pedregal
Del. Magdalena Contreras, México

 

 

Tibet Erdogru, MD
Head of the Urology Department
Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery Center
Atasehir Hospital Memorial Healthcare Group
Istanbul, Turkey

 

Arnaldo Figueiredo, MD
Professor of Urology, University of Coimbra.
Senior Assistant, Centro Hospitalar
e Universitario de Coimbra.
Chairman EAU Section of Transplantation Urology,
President of the Portuguese Urologie Association.
Portugal

 

Franco Gaboardi, MD
Chairman Urological Department
Ville Turro – San Raffaele.
Milan, Italy

 

 

Richard Gaston, MD
Center of Urologic Laparoscopy
Clinique Saint Augustin
Bordeaux, France

 

 

Inderbir Gill, MD, MCH
Chairman & Professor, Catherine &
Joseph Aresty Department of Urology
Executive Director, USC Institute of Urology
Associate Dean (Clinical Innovation)
Keck School of Medicine, University
of Southern California

 

Günter Janetschek, MD
Head of Urology Department,
Medical University Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria

 

 

 

Evangelos Liatsikos, MD
Professor of Urology and Head
of the Endourology and Laparoscopic
Unit at the University of Patras.
Patras, Greece

 

 

 

Kris Maes, MD
Director of Department of Minimally
Invasive and Robotic Urology,
Hospital da Luz
Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

 

Alex Mottrie, MD
Department of Urology O.L.V. Clinic
Aalst, Belgium

 

 

Vito Pansadoro, MD
Director of Laparoscopy Center,
Vincenzo Pansadoro Foundation
Rome, Italy

 

 

 

Vipul Patel, MD
Medical Director of Urologic
Oncology, Florida Hospital
Medical Director of Global Robotics Institute
Associate Professor of Urology,
University of Central Florida
Florida, USA

 

 

Thierry Piéchaud, MD
Center of Urologic Laparoscopy,
Clinique Saint Augustin, Bordeaux
Chairman of Urologic Courses
IRCAD-EITS
Strasbourg, France

 

 

Francesco Porpiglia, MD
Associated Professor of Urology at the
University of Torino, Senior Assistant of
the Staff of the Urologic Division at the
S. Luigi Hospital, Orbassano
Torino, Italy

 

Miguel Ramos, MD
Assistant of Urology, Department of
Urology, Hospital de Santo Antonio,
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Abel Salazar, University of Porto
Porto, Portugal

 

 

Jens Rassweiler, MD
Professor of Urology, Head of
Department of Urology Klinikum Heilbronn,
Teaching Hospital of the University of Heidelberg.
Heidelberg, Germany

 

 

Bernardo Rocco, MD
Urology Department,
IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore,
University of Milan
Milan, Italy

 

 

 

Jens Uwe Stolzenburg, MD
Director of Department of Urology,
Chairman of International Urological
Training Centre of Laparoscopy and
Robotic-assisted Surgery,
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

 

 

Peter Wiklund, MD
Professor in Urology and consultant
of Department of Urology,
Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

 

Xu Zhang, MD
Chief of Urology Department,
Chinese PLA General Hospital 301
Beijing, China

 

 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Vincenzo Ficarra, MD
Director of Department of Urology
of University of Udine, Italy.

 

 

 

Giacomo Novara, MD
Associate Professor of Urology
University of Padua, Italy

 

 

 

Cora N. Sternberg, MD, FACP
Chairman Department of Medical Oncology
San Camillo and Forlanini Hospitals,
Rome, Italy

 

 

Domenico Veneziano, MD
Dept. of Urology and kidney transplant
A.O. BMM, Reggio Calabria, Italy

 

 

 

PATIENT’s ADVOCATES
Tomé Lopes, MD
Director of the Department of Urology
at Hospital de Santa Maria
Lisbon, Portugal

Eduardo Silva, MD
Director of the Department of Urology
at Instituto Português de Oncologia
Lisbon, Portugal

Garção Nunes, MD
Vice-President of The Portuguese
Association of Urology, Director of
Department, Hospital dos Lusíadas
Lisbon, Portugal