About this event

  • Date and time Fri 7 Feb 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Urology

Explore the latest advancements in endourology at the Royal Society of Medicine's renowned annual event. Join leading experts as they discuss cutting-edge technologies for kidney stone treatment, benign prostatic enlargement with newer minimally invasive surgical treatments and bladder outlet obstruction.

The programme covers essential topics in stone disease and Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), concluding with a popular clinical session on challenging cases. Ideal for consultants, trainees, and specialist nurses, this meeting offers a unique opportunity to learn from key opinion leaders and stay at the forefront of endourology practice.

Participants will learn about: 

  • The current technology used in endourology in the management of stone disease and their respective evaluation with evidence for patient care
  • Best practice and to enable them to assess quality improvement in stone patients
  • New technologies to treat symptomatic patients with enlarged prostate
  • Challenging clinical cases

Book to attend this event in person or virtually. To view the rates and agenda, please select your preference below.

 

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We would like to thank our sponsors Fannin and Karl Storz for their support of this event. Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the organisations listed above.

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Tickets (In Person)

Early Bird pricing available until 27 December 2024.

Free for trainees attending in person

If you are an SPR trainee or a CNS Nurse and want to attend in person, get your free place by contacting urology@rsm.ac.uk and providing your training number.

Member

RSM Associate RSM Trainee RSM Retired Fellow RSM Fellow RSM Student
£46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £46.00 £24.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£141.00 £84.00 £84.00 £44.00

Tickets (Virtual)

Early Bird pricing available until 27 December 2024.

Free for trainees attending in person

If you are an SPR trainee or a CNS Nurse and want to attend in person, get your free place by contacting urology@rsm.ac.uk and providing your training number.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Student RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee
£72.00 £43.00 £43.00 £43.00 £23.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£132.00 £79.00 £79.00 £41.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Mr Chris Parker, President, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Mr Matt Bultitude, President Elect, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, and Professor Sri Sriprasad, Consultant Urologist, Darent Valley Hospital

Session 1: Hot Topics in Stone Disease

Chairs: Kay Thomas, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital and Sarah Howles, Oxford 

DISS or FANS - fad or future?

Mr Bhaskar Somani, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southampton 

Lasers in the real world...How do we choose?

Mr Ben Turney, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Oxford 

PuRE - which treatment to offer in 2025

Mr Daron Smith, Consultant Urological Surgeon, University College London Hospital

How long is it reasonable to wait with a stent in the NHS?

Mr Hari Ratan, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Nottingham 

Flozins for the urologist - friend or foe?

Dr Anna Wild, Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases, Nottingham 

Discussion
State-of-the-art: Optimising outcomes in PCNL surgery

Cesare Scoffone, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin

Discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Keeping ourselves safe

Chairs: Danielle Whiting, Frimley and Sian Allen, University College London Hospital 

Look after yourself - it's a long career

Mr Kasra Saev-Parsv, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Cambridge

Pregnancy considerations for the female endourologist

Miss Jessica Whitburn 

Sexual misconduct in surgery

Miss Susan Willis, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

It's not just about documentation...Medico-legal lessons for the endourologist

Mr Tim O'Brien, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

State-of-the-art: It's all about access: Teaching PCNL surgery for 40 years

Mr Graham Watson, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Eastbourne General Hospital 

Lunch

Session 3: Endourology: It's not all about stones!

Chairs: Feras Al Jaafari, Fife and Cecilia Cracco, Kings College Hospital

A MISTy murky minefield: Candid consenting for BPH surgery

Miss Nadine Coull, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Kingston Hospital 

Learning curve in HoLEP - my experience

Mr Ed Bass, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Kings College Hospital 

My journey with AEEP: The philosophy of the en bloc technique

Cecilia Cracco, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin

State-of-the-art: En bloc resection of bladder tumours: The new paradigm

Cecilia Cracco, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin 

Tea and coffee break

Session 4: Challenging cases in endourology

Chair: Daron Smith, University College London Hospital and Jonathan Glass, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

Close of meeting
View the programme - Virtual

Welcome and introduction

Mr Chris Parker, President, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Mr Matt Bultitude, President Elect, Urology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, and Professor Sri Sriprasad, Consultant Urologist, Darent Valley Hospital

Session 1 : Hot Topics in Stone Disease

Chairs: Kay Thomas, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital and Sarah Howles, Oxford 

DISS or FANS - fad or future?

Mr Bhaskar Somani, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southampton 

Lasers in the real world...How do we choose?

Mr Ben Turney, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Oxford 

PuRE - which treatment to offer in 2025

Mr Daron Smith, Consultant Urological Surgeon, University College London Hospital

How long is it reasonable to wait with a stent in the NHS?

Mr Hari Ratan, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Nottingham 

Flozins for the urologist - friend or foe?

Dr Anna Wild, Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases, Nottingham 

Discussion
State-of-the-art: Optimising outcomes in PCNL surgery

Cesare Scoffone, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin

Discussion
Comfort break

Session 2: Keep ourselves safe

Chairs: Danielle Whiting, Frimley and Sian Allen, University College London Hospital 

Look after yourself - it's a long career

Mr Kasra Saev-Parsv, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Cambridge

Pregnancy considerations for the female endourologist

Miss Jessica Whitburn 

Sexual misconduct in surgery

Miss Susan Willis, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

It's not just about documentation...Medico-legal lessons for the endourologist

Mr Tim O'Brien, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

State-of-the-art: It's all about access: Teaching PCNL surgery for 40 years

Mr Graham Watson, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Eastbourne General Hospital 

Lunch

Session 3: Endourology: It's not all about stones!

Chairs: Feras Al Jaafari, Fife and Cecilia Cracco, Kings College Hospital

A MISTy murky minefield: Candid consenting for BPH surgery

Miss Nadine Coull, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Kingston Hospital 

Learning curve in HoLEP - my experience

Mr Ed Bass, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Kings College Hospital 

My journey with AEEP: The philosophy of the en bloc technique

Cecilia Cracco, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin

State-of-the-art: En bloc resection of bladder tumours: The new paradigm

Cecilia Cracco, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Turin 

Comfort break

Session 4: Challenging cases in endourology

Chair: Daron Smith, University College London Hospital and Jonathan Glass, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for the in-person option will close at 1:00am on 6 February 2025 and for the virtual option on 7 February 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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