Prof. Osther attended University Southern Denmark where he received his medical approval and M.D. in 1984. He completed his Urology and General Surgery residency at Odense University Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, and Lillebaelt Hospital, Denmark. He was consultant urological surgeon at Odense University Hospital from 2000-2002; and at Lillebaelt Hospital from 2002 to 2004, when he became chair of the department. He received the Ph.D. degree for scientific work on pathophysiology of calcium nephrolithiasis in 1995, and a University Diploma of Public Management in 2002.

Prof. Osther is currently Professor and consultant urological surgeon at Department of Urology and Director of Urological Research Center at Lillebaelt Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Vejle, Denmark. His research interests focus on urolithiasis, upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma, urinary tract pain, uroradiology, erectile dysfunction and prostate cancer. In his clinical practice he mainly deals with urinary stone disease and other upper urinary tract pathologies. In his areas of interest he has published extensively, and he has had numerous scientific presentations worldwide. He has been invited as guest surgeon for live surgery at several international urological meetings. During 15 years he was chairman of the Scandinavian Cooperative Group for Urinary Stones and he took the initiative to the Scandinavian Course on Urinary Stone Disease. In the period 2009-2013 he was Chairman of the EAU Section of Urolithiasis (EULIS), and he was president of the 2nd Meeting of EULIS in Copenhagen 2013. He has received several scientific awards, and he is and has been advisor for several Ph.D. students.

Prof. Osther is an honorary member of EAU Section of Urolithiasis (EULIS) and has been involved as reviewer in European Guidelines on Urolithiasis. He has been board member of the EAU Section Office, member of the Scientific Committees of Challenges in Endourology and Experts In Stone Disease. He chaired a sub-committee of the latest International Consultation on Stone Disease. Prof. Osther is member of the Editorial Board of several peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Marianne Brehmer is M.D., Ph.D., specialized in advanced endourology. She is involved in several national and international scientific groups and she is main supervisor for Ph.D. students at the Karolinska Institutet. Since February 2017 she is responsible for the advanced endouroloy activity at Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Brehmer was educated at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She has been qualified urologist since 1994. She got her Ph.D. 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 and 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 and Endourological Team. During three years, 2013-2016, Dr. Brehmer was the Head of department at the department of urology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark where she was developing and performing advanced endourology in the department.

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.

EDUCATION

• 1984 Medical graduate (University of Copenhagen).
• 1996 Specialist qualification in general surgery.
• 2002 Specialist qualification in urology.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• 1986 – 2002 Registrar in surgery and urology at various departments in the Copenhagen area.
• 2002 – 2004 Staff specialist, Department of Urology, Frederiksberg Hospital.
• 2004 – 2010 Consultant & Ass. Prof. Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen.
• 2010 – 2016 Consultant Urologist, Department of Urology, Hospital Littlebelt - Fredericia.
• Associate professor, Institute of Regional Health Services Research, University of Southern Denmark.

PRESENT POSITION

• Since 2016 Consultant Urologist, Herlev Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen.

MEMBERSHIPS

• 1999-2002 Chairman of the Danish Urological Science Club.
• 2000-2004 Executive committee of the Danish Urological Society.
• 2001-2003 Executive committee of the European Society of Residents in Urology (ESRU).
• 2001-2003 Educational Committee of the European Board of Urology (EBU).
• 2003-2008 National delegate to European Board of Urology (EBU).
• 2006-2011 Scandinavian Association of Urology Collaboration Group of Urinary Stones.
• 2011-2017 Affiliated member of the European Urolithiasis Society (EULIS).
• Since 2011 Chairman Scandinavian Association of Urology Collaboration Group of Urinary Stones.

TEACHING

• Organizer and teacher at several Danish and Scandinavian courses on urolithiasis and endourology.

PUBLICATIONS

• National and international publications and presentations mainly in the area of urolithiasis and endourology.

Resident in Urology at Danderyd Hospital.

• Studied medicine at the University of Iceland 2008-2014
• Resident at the surgical department of Landspitali University Hospital between 2015-2018
• Resident in Urology at Danderyd Hospital since 2018
• Ph.D. student at the University of Iceland since 2017
• Interested in clinical research
• 11 publications in peer-reviewed journals

Dr. Joyce Baard is a consultant urologist in the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam UMC) in Amsterdam. Her medical degree was completed at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Her main fields of interests are the endourologic treatment of stones, BPE and urothelial tumors of lower and upper tract. Regarding the last she is especially focused on new imaging and diagnostic techniques.

She is an active member of various urological societies including the Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU) where she is part of the applied Research Committee.

Matthew Bultitude graduated in 1997 from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’s (UMDS) before being awarded Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2002 and an MSc from the University of London in 2005. As part of his Msc he completed a thesis on the safety of flexible ureteroscopy. He was awarded a Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Speciality Board in Urology in 2008 and undertook a fellowship year at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He was appointed to as a consultant at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals in 2011. He has been head of the stone unit at Guys and is currently the Lead Clinician for the Urology Department. He has extensive training in general urology and has a subspecialist interest in the management of stone disease and endourological management of upper tract TCC. He has recently been the Honorary Secretary for the Royal Society of Medicine Urology Section and is Associate Editor for BJU International.

CECILIA MARIA CRACCO, M.D., Ph.D., Specialization in Urology.

• 1989: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Torino (110/110 cum laude).
• 1990 and 1996: attendance for 8 months at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, U.K. (supervisors prof. G. Gabella and prof. G. Burnstock), as guest researcher.
• 1991-1994: PhD student in Ophtalmologic Sciences, University of Torino.
• 1994-1999: Residency in Urology, Urological Clinic, University of Torino.
• November 1999: Specialization in Urology, University of Torino (70/70 cum laude and 'menzione onorevole'.
• May 2000: Urologist (permanent position), Division of Urology, SS. Annunziata Hospital of Savigliano (Cuneo).
• November 2002: transfer at the Urological Clinic, S. Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital of Orbassano (Torino), position D, C2 from March 2007.
• May 1st 2008: she won #1 position for researcher, MED24 Urology, University of Torino, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, always working at the Urological Clinic at the S. Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital of Orbassano (Torino). Position C1 from 2009.
• February 2011: she won a position as Urologist at the Urology Department, Cottolengo Hospital of Torino (still working there nowadays).
• Member of many national and international urological societies, she won 12 prizes for videos, presentations and research, received research funding for many years, had a constant teaching activity since 1990, first in Anatomy, then in Urology, for University and then for Masterclasses and courses. She is in the scientific committee of the Technology and Training in Endourology International Meeting since 2011 (next 9th edition in November 2019).
• She published 250 papers, including 95 indexed papers in extenso, many invited book chapters and a Springer book on ECIRS in 2014, and is referee for many international journals.
• Surgical activity: 1300 procedures as first surgeon.

A graduate of B.J. Medical College under the auspices of Pune University, India, Dr. Mahesh Desai pursued his post graduation (MS) studies from the same Alma Mater. Trained in Urology, he was a recipient of the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of London and Edinburgh (FRCS) in 1973. A decade later, he took over as the Chairman of the Department of Uroglogy at Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (1983 - June, 2010), following which he served the Hospital as its Medical Director (June, 2010 - August, 2016). He now sits as the Managing Trustee of MPUH and Honorary Managing Director of Muljibhai Patel Society for Research in Nephro-Urology (February, 2001) and the Director of the Jayaramdas Patel Academic Center.

• President, West Zone Chapter of USI (1996-97)
• Treasurer, Urological Society of India (1996-2000)
• President, Urological Society of India (2006-2007)
• President, Asian Society of Endourology (2008 - 2012)
• President, Society International d’Urologie (SIU) (October, 2011 - 2012)
• President: World Endourology Society (2012 – 2013)
• St Paul’s Medal British Association of Urological Surgeons 2012
• American Urological Association Citation 2012
• Qimpro Platinum Statesman Award in Healthcare Sector 2012
• Hon. Membership: American Association of GU Surgeon 2001
• Hon Membership: Urological Society of Australasia and New Zealand
• Hon Membership: Singapore Urological Association
• Hon Membership: Chinese Urological Association
• Richard Tiptaft Visiting Professorship, Guy’s Hospital, UK 2016
• Life Time Achievement Award Endourology Society 2014
• Hon Membership: Urological Association of Asia
• Hon Fellowship: American College of Surgeons 2015
• Indian American Urology Association President Medal 2016
• Bangladesh Urology Association Gold Medal: March, 2017
• Who is Who: Coffee Table Book. 2017
• Ted Talk: Speaker
• Coffee Table Book. Times of India 2019

Medical studies at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Currently resident physician at Department of Surgery and Urology, Danderyd Hospital Stockholm, Sweden

Khurshid Ghani is an Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan. After graduating from the University of Leeds, Dr. Ghani completed basic surgical training in Edinburgh followed by urological surgery training in London. He was awarded a Master of Surgery thesis from the University of London for research on percutaneous renal stone surgery. Following completion of sub-specialist training in Endourology at the Stone Unit at Guy's Hospital, London, Dr. Ghani undertook a minimally invasive surgery fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. Dr. Ghani joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2013, and leads the Endourology program at the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System.

He treats patients with kidney stones, kidney cancer and upper urinary tract obstruction. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and is the co-editor of a textbook, Endourology: A Practical Handbook. He is the Course Director of the Developments in Ureteroscopic Stone Treatment (D.U.S.T.) symposium. In particular, Dr. Ghani has been focused on advancing a Dusting technique for endoscopic stone surgery and has extramural funding to study optimal parameters for holmium laser lithotripsy. He is also the Director of the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC), which is a physician-led quality improvement collaborative comprised of over 250 urologists from across Michigan, with the goal to improve the quality of care for patients with prostate cancer, kidney stones and kidney cancer. He is an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Urology, the Endourology Section Editor for the Urology Video Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Urology International and Nature Reviews Urology.

Born 1976, Baghdad, Iraq

Dr. Mudhar N Hasan is a Consultant Urologist at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Hasan was the Head of department of Urology at Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet between 2012-2017 and built up the endourology and robotic units at the Department.

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.

Professional career

• 1994-2000 Medical Studies at College of Medicine at University of Baghdad, Iraq
• 2003-2005 Resident at Mälar Hospital Eskilstuna, Sweden
• 2005 Medical License issued by the National board of Health and Welfare in Sweden
• 2005-2010 Specialist Registrar in Urology at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2010-2012 Specialist in Urology at Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2012-2017 Consultant Urologist and Head of Urology Department at Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2017- Consultant Urologist at department of Urology Danderyd Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Born 1975, Denmark
Cand. Med. University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, 2002
Ph.D. in medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2008

• Resident; Dpt. of Urology, Fredericia Hospital, 2004 –2005
• Research fellow and resident; Department of Urology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia, 2008
• Research fellow/ Phd student, Dpt. of Urology, Fredericia Hospital and Clinical Institute, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, 2005- 2008.
• Resident in training, fellow and Post Doc: Fredericia and Odense University Hospital, Dpt. of Urology: 2008-2015.

Postgraduate Practical courses in Urology/ Masterclasses

• First Scandinavian Course on Urinary Stone Disease. Copenhagen;2004
• Practical Course on Flexible and Rigid Ureteroscopy. Stockholm, Sweden; 2004
• Second Scandinavian Course on Urinary Stone Disease. Oslo, Norway; 2006
• Surgical Master Class for the Flexible Ureteroscopy. Paris, France; 2006
• Masterclass in Endourology, EuLis, London, GB, June 2010
• Third Scandinavian Course on Urinary Stone Disease, Ørebro, Sweden, 2010
• 1st International eULIS-EAU Comprehensive Stone Workshop London, 2010
• LIME Masterclass in Endourology and stone treatment, Fredericia, Denmark, 2013
• RIRS: Practical Masterclass in Retrograde intrarenal stone surgery, Caceres, Spain, 2013 Masterclass in Endourology, Coloplast. Paris, 2015

40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals

PhD thesis: Pharmacological modulation of upper urinary tract activity during endourological procedures(2008) Ongoing research in the field of endourology and urolithias

Awards

• Steno Prize for Best Poster Presentation, Scandinavian Association of Urology, Aarhus, Denmark, 2007
• Best Scientific Paper: World Congress of Endourology 2007, Cancun, Mexico, 2007
• Hans Marberger Award 2009: European Urological Association (EAU): Best International Paper on Endourology 2008/ 2009
• Danish Urological Association Anniversary Grant, 2011
• Best Scientific Paper: World Congress of Endourology 2011, Japan

Guido Kamphuis studied Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1998-2005) and completed his residency training in Urology (2007-2012) at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam with Professor Theo de Reijke and Professor Jean de la Rosette. He completed a three month fellowship in endourology at the Tenon Hospital, in Paris (February-April 2012), along side Professor Olivier Traxer. And a three month fellowship in endourology at the Klinik für Urologie Universitätsmedizin Mannheim (September-November 2012), with Professor Stephan Michel. He is working at the moment as staff member at the AMC Amsterdam.

He developed an 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, Guido is part of a researchgroup in the development and implementation of new technologies for urothelial tumours. And has been working on research on treatment of urolithiasis and the optimalisation of the stone clinic working closely together with colleagues from nephrology. Besides this he is the medical manager of the clinical urology department.

He has presented several abstracts and videos at international meetings and has authored peered-review articles and book chapters and has supported endourologic workshops at the AMC and international and has been performing ‘live surgery’ at several meetings. Besides this he is working at the teaching hospital AMC and training residents urology in endourology and giving lectures to students on urolithiasis.

Dr. Thomas Knoll is Associate Professor of Urology at Mannheim University Hospital, Germany, and Head of the Department of Urology, Sindelfingen Medical Center, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Dr. Knoll was previously staff member and Head of Endourology and Minimal-invasive surgery at the Department of Urology, University Hospital Mannheim, Germany. Dr. Knoll's field of expertise includes endourologic, laparoscopic and robotic surgery for urolithiasis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and uro-oncology.

His extensive scientific and clinical work focuses on the interventional treatment of urolithiasis and benign hyperplasia. He performed a large experimental work on the pathogenesis and prevention of calcium oxalate and cystine stone formation.

Dr. Knoll won a total of 8 awards pertaining to his innovation and research, including the Arthur-Smith-Award of the Endourology Society, the best abstract in stone disease of the American Urological Association and 2nd best experimental abstract of the European Association of Urology (EAU).

Dr. Knoll has published over 140 manuscripts in peer-reviewed literature and 16 book chapters.

Dr. Knoll serves an Editorial board member of the Journal of Endourology, the World Journal of Urology, and Urolithiasis. He is board member of the EAU Guideline Office, the Sections for Urolithiasis, Uro-Technology and Ethics in Live Surgery. In 2015 he was appointed as Member of the EAU Scientific Committee.

Education:

• Medical University at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany) and at NOVA University in Lisbon (Portugal) (1998-2004)
• Internal Medicine residency (2005-2006)
• Army doctor and commander of the sanitary platoon in the Portuguese Army (2006-2013)
• Urology residency at Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca in Amadora (Portugal) (2008-2014)
• Felloship at Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit (USA) with Prof. Edson Pontes (2010)
• Fellowship at Hôpital Tenon in Paris (France) with Prof. Olivier Traxer (2012)
• Fellow of the European Board of Urology (2015)

Peter Kronenberg's main field of expertise is laser lithotripsy and he has been regularly invited as faculty member at urological meetings, making state-of-the-art lectures, live surgery, as well as organizing and supervising hands-on training courses in flexible ureterorenoscopy.

He has published book chapters and several articles as first author in renowned urological journals such as The Journal of Urology, BJU International, Urology, World Journal of Urology, Journal of Endourology, Current Urology Reports and Case Reports in Urology. Several of his last papers are changing the present views of urologists as well as the current practice in laser lithotripsy throughout the world.

Currently, he is focusing his basic research on the technical aspects of laser lithotripsy and innovative developments related to it. He works as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at CUF Descobertas Hospital, and is the current president of PETRA (Progress in Endourology, Technology and Research Association – www.petraurogroup.org). He lives in Lisbon, with his wife, their two children and two cats.

Prizes and awards:

• 1st prize for Best Video Presentation at the 2013 AUA meeting
• Clinical Research Award at the 2nd EULIS meeting (2013)
• Best Posters at the 2015 and 2016 EAU meetings
• Best Abstract at the 2016 AUA meeting
• Article of the Year 2015, awarded by the World Journal of Urology and the SIU

EDUCATION

• 1992 European Board of Urology Certificate
• 1988 Urology Certificate, Urological School-University of Milan
• 1983 Medical Degree, Medical School-University of Milan

PROFESSIONAL

• 11/2017-present Full Professor of Urology - University of Milan
• 05/2016-present Chief Urological Dept. Fondazione Ca’Granda IRCCS
  Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano – Università degli Studi di Milano
• 2016-present Chair of the School of Urology University of Milan – Medical School
• 11/2003-05/2016 Chief of Urological Dept. Azienda Ospedale S.Paolo University of Milan – Medical School
• 2000-2003 Responsible of Endourological Service Ospedale Maggiore Milano
• 2000- present Associate Professor Urology Medical School University of Milan
• 1994-2000 Senior Assistant - Dept.Urology Ospedale Maggiore Milano- University of Milan – Medical School
• 1994-2000 Lecturer in Urology Medical School University of Milan
• 1994-2000 Lecturer in Urological Semeiotic Urological School University of Milan
• 1991-1994 Junior Assistant - Dept.Urology Ospedale Maggiore Milano- University of Milan – Medical School
• 1989-1993 Clinical Instructor of Urology to Nursing Staff. Ospedale Maggiore Milano- University of Milan – Medical School
• 1988-1991 Research fellow Urological School University of Milan
• 1983-1988 Resident Urological School-University of Milan

MEMBERSHIPS

• Italian Society of Urology
• European Society of Urology
• International Society of Urology
• American Urological Society
• International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU)

• President of the European Board of Urology (2010-12) and Member of the Board of the Urolithiasis section of European Society of Urology (eULIS)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

• Active in research mainly in the field of Endourology and Stones

Head of Department Urology and Andrology Landeskrankenhaus Hall Tirol Kliniken

• Associate Professor Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany
• Consultant Professor Medical School Hannover, Germany (2009-2012)
• Member of EAU Guidelines Group 'New Technologies/Singel Key hole surgery
• Expert for minimally invasive percutaneous stone therapy' (MIP)
• Expert for laparoscopy in urology

Senior Urologist Head of Endourology Unit. Urology Department
University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela
Travesía Choupana s/n. 15706. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Associate Professor. Surgery Department
Faculty of Medicine. University of Santiago de Compostela
Rúa San Francisco s/n. 15782. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Prof. Dr. Daniel Pérez-Fentes, MD, PhD, received his Medical Degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2002 and finished the Urology specialization in 2008. He completed his training at the Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital (Vizcaya, Spain), the Azienda Ospedaliera San Luigi di Orbassano (Turin, Italy) and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA). Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU) since 2011. Doctoral Thesis on the functional, systemic and quality of life effects of percutaneous nephrolithotomy in 2013.

Dr. Pérez-Fentes heads the Endourology Unit in the University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), in which he organizes several national and international endourology training workshops and courses every year. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Dr. Pérez-Fentes lectures on endourology in international and national conferences, as well as performing live surgeries in numerous courses or congresses. Editor of the book entitled “Practical handbook on supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy”, his contributions include 30 chapters in urological books, 50 scientific papers and more than 100 communications in national and international congresses. Currently he is directing 2 Doctoral Thesis regarding urinary stone management.

Dr. Pérez-Fentes is a member of the European Association of Urology, the Société Internationale d’Urologie and the Spanish National Association of Urology. Member of the Galician Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery since 2016.

Professional Career

• 1988 – 1995 Medical Studies at the University of Ulm (Germany)
• 1996 Medical License issued by the Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart (Germany)
• 2004 Medical Specialist in Urology, license issued by the Ärztekammer Baden-Württemberg
• 1995 – 1997 Internship in the Department of Urology, Universitiy of Ulm (Germany)
• 1997 – 1998 Residency in the Department of Urology, Military Hospital of Ulm (Germany)
• 1998 – 2000 Residency in the Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Aalen (Germany)
• 2000 – 2006 Residency in the Department of Urology, University of Ulm (Germany);
• since 2006 Senior Urologist for Endourology
• since Oct. 2006 Assistant Medical Director, Department of Urology, University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich (Germany)

Current Position

• Managing Assistant Medical Director
• Head of Endourology Division and Stone Center

Memberships

• since 2001 Arbeitskreis Harnsteine der DGU (German Urological Association)
• since 2006 Board member of Urological Research/Urolithiasis
• 2009-2016 Urolithiasis guideline panel of the EAU
• since 2011 Associate member EULIS

Teaching and Research Experience

• 2000 – 2005 Postdoc research in the Urolithiasis Lab of the Department of Urology, University of Ulm (Germany)
• since 2006 Lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Technical University Munich
• since 2011 Organizer and trainer of URS, Mini-PNL and Endo-nurse workshops at the MRI

Experience in Clinical Studies (GCP)

• since 2000 as sub-investigator
• 08/2009 – 10/2010 PI of the PVP-Hypericin Phase IIa Study on PDD of superficial bladder cancer
• 10/2011 – 07/2015 PI Germany of the PVP-Hypericin Phase IIb Study on PDD of superficial bladder cancer

Consultancy

• Consultant and trainer in different projects for Richard Wolf Endoscopes, Siemens Health Care, Boston Scientific and Coloplast-Porgès

Kay Thomas qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London in 1994. She trained in the London Area and did her MD thesis as a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2006 she was appointed as a consultant post at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Her specialist interest is Endourology with a particular focus on cystinuria and upper tract TCC. She developed, validated and published the Guy’s Stone Score which is a measure of stone complexity for PCNL and is in the BAUS National Benchmarking Audit. She established the cystinuria clinic at Guy’s over 10 years ago where over 200 patients have been seen and the work has been published/presented both Nationally and Internationally. She is also part of a multidisciplinary team managing upper tract TCC and she developed a method of using Bouins to improve the interpretation of ureteroscopic biopsies which was been adopted by our National Pathology Guidelines.

She is the Disease Area Co-ordinator for Stones in the eUROGEN European Reference Network (ERN). In addition she is a faculty member of the EAU Urolithiasis Guidelines and the NICE Renal and Ureteric Stone Guidelines published earlier this year.

Lastly in addition to clinical and research interests she has a managerial role in Guy’s and St Thomas’ as a Clinical Director responsible for managing the Departments of Transplant, Nephrology and Urology.

Professor of Urology University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 and Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery centre Urology Dept Tenon Hospital.

• Special Interest & Research : Medical and Surgical management of Urolithiasis, Conservative treatment of upper urinary tract urothelial tumors, lower tract endourology, laser clinical applications in Urology
• Research Fellowship 1999 : UT Southwestern Dallas Texas – Pr MS Pearle
• Arthur SMITH Award recipient at world congress of endourology 2010, Chicago, USA
• Member of international society of Urology : EAU, AUA, SIU, EndoSociety, AFU
• Board member of the EULIS, ESUT, ESU, EAU guidelines office
• Board of the directors of the EndoSociety
• Editorial Board member of the Journal of EndoUrology
• Adjunct Treasurer of the French Association of Urology
• European expert in laser clinical applications of upper urinary tract diseases
• Co-organizer of the 'Challenges in EndoUrology Paris'
• Organizer WCE 2018 Paris
• More than 200 publications (Medline) and more than 400 international presentations
• Reviewer for various English and French urological journals.

I am a consultant urologist working in Oxford, UK. I was a medical student at the University of Cambridge but did my post graduate training in Oxford where I completed both a Masters and Doctorate thesis. I have been working in Oxford for nearly 20 years.

Clinical related work:

• Clinical interest in endourology: particularly the treatment and prevention of kidney stones and BPH.
• Elected member of the national BAUS Section of Endourology Committee.
• Managing partner of Oxford Urology Associates: a private practice group of 8 urologists and 2 uro-oncologists.

Academic interests:

• Senior Clinical Researcher at the University of Oxford UK.
• Since 2007, I have led the Oxford Stone Group which has examined many aspects of stone disease and its management.

I have lead collaborations with multiple departments in the University of Oxford. Current interests include:

• design and evaluation of new endourological technology with several doctorate students and clinical fellows (collaboration between Mathematics and Engineering departments in Oxford and Boston Scientific as an industry partner).
• Development of digital patient pathways (collaboration with Oneview and McLaren Applied technologies).
• 3D printing - development of a multidisciplinary hub in Oxford.

Additional roles:

• Director of Oxbridge Courses Ltd, which provides training in management and leadership to senior trainees and junior consultants.
• Director of StoneScreen Ltd - a startup aiming to provide bespoke guidance to stone formers.
• Acted as a medical adviser to industry partners.

• Cand Med, University of Bergen 2000.
• Specialist in general surgery and urology 2009.
• PhD, University of Bergen 2014; 'Ureteroscopy with and without a safety guide wire in the treatment of ureteral calculi – an assessment of personal preferences, mechanical forces and clinical outcomes'.
• Present occupation: Consultant in Urology, Department of Urology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen Norway. Associate Professor University of Bergen, Norway.

Education

• Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, B.S. in Biology, 1978
• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Ph.D. in Physiology, 1983

Personal statement

My background is in renal biology, and I first became linked with the study of kidney stone diseases when I began working with the program project grant in shock wave lithotripsy in 1995. In 1998 I saw my first CT scans of urinary stones, and this launched my efforts to understand the structure of stones. Having done the first micro CT scans of stones here at IU, I added to that experience by studying with Michel Daudon in Paris. Since then my laboratory has leveraged the power of micro CT to provide insights into the mechanisms by which stones are initially retained within the kidney during their early growth.

Positions

• 1987-1991, Assistant Professor of, Medical University of South Carolina
• 1991-2006, Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
• 2006-present, Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
• 2015-present, Adjunct Professor in Urology, University of Southern Denmark

Contributions to Science

1. Tomographic imaging of stones. The visualization of urinary stones in clinical and laboratory CT scanners has been an important focus of work for some years now.
2. Visualization of distinct mechanisms of stone formation (interstitial plaque formation versus ductal plugging). This characterization of these stones was possible only because of the development of micro-CT imaging of stones, work completed in our laboratory.
3. CT and stone fragility. Our group played a seminal role in establishing the concept that the appearance of a kidney stone by CT could be predictive of the stone’s susceptibility to breakage, for example, by shock wave lithotripsy.

My papers: