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Professor Abrahamsson
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Prof.
P A. Abrahamsson obtained MD in 1977 and Ph. D. in 1988
at Lund University. He has the following academic
appointments: Chairman, Department of Urology, Malmö
University Hospital, since 1998. Chairman, Department of
Urology, Lund University Hospital; 1998 – 2002,
Chairman, Department of Urology, Lund University
Hospital; 2009, Adjunct Professor: Department of
Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center,
Rochester, New York, since 1993. Professor of Urology:
Lund University, Sweden, 2000. Adjunct Secretary
General, European Association of Urology, 2004-2007,
Secretary General, European Association of Urology,
2007---. He has more than 294 scientific publications
and has done many presentations and won First Prize to
the best poster presentation in the session ”Metastatic
Prostate Cancer” at the XVIth Annual Meeting the
European Association of Urology, Geneva, April, 2001
Sponsored By: European Urological Association
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Dr. Cessaretti
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Prof.
J. Cesaretti completed his Internship in 2000 and was
Resident in the Oncology Department at Mt. Sinai School
of Medicine, where he becam a Staff Physician in 2006.
Professor Jamie Cesaretti is currently head of the
Florida Radiation Oncology Group (FROG), Integrated
Community Oncology Network (ICON). He was previously
Assistant Professor at the Department of Radiation
Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New
York. He is also Senior Clinical Advisor to C. R. Bard
Urological in the USA. He heads up several research
grants on prostate cancer and has published and
presented extensively on the use of Brachytherapy in
prostate cancer. Prof. Cesaretti will participate in
Prostate Cancer Panel discussions and speak on the use
of Brachytherapy in prostate cancer.
Sponsored by: Bard
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Professor Cosson
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Professor
Michel Cosson obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1980
at the Academy of Lille. He received his PhD in Science
in 2003. He was previously Clinical Director for the
Paul Géllé Maternity ward, Roubaix Hospital Centre and
is currently a professor of gynecology and obstetrics at
the Medical University Hospital Lille; France. He has
more than 10 scientific publications and has done many
presentations as well as published 3 books.
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Professor Peter Rehder
Peter completed both his under- and post-graduate
studies in South Africa. He is currently professor of
Urology in the Medical University in Innsbruck, Austria.
Peter is internationally known for his work on
post-prostatectomy incontinence and specifically his
developmental work on the Advance Male Sling. Peter will
talk to us on new developments the use of the male sling
[Advance] and will present a practical demonstration.
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Professor Santucci
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Richard
A. Santucci MD, FACS
Specialist-in-Chief, Detroit Medical Center
Chief of Urology, Detroit Receiving Hospital
Director, The Center for Urologic Reconstruction
Clinical Professor, Michigan State College of Medicine
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Dr. Studer
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Prof.
Studer specialized in Urology 1982 and obtained Doctor
of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1973. He was
appointed as Assistant Professor of Urology at the
University of Bern in 1985 and as Professor and chairman
of Urology in 1994. He has several appointments at other
universities including the Universities of Lausanne,
Geneva and California. Prof. Studer was elected as an
Honorary Member of the European Association of Urology
(EAU) 2009. He oversees several research projects and he
has numerous scientific publications and has been
awarded several awards for presentations relating to
urinary diversion at AUA and EAU meetings including a
first prize at the Swiss Society of Urology and EAU in
1988.
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Prof. Dr. Med. Andreas J. Gross

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Prof Gross did his Urology training at Medizinische
Universität zu Lübeck, Klinikum Steglitz der Freien
Universität Berlin and Klinik für Urologie
Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf Universität Hamburg.
He has published 82 scientific articles and done 155
scientific presentations. He is currently Head of
Urology at the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, University of
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and is an examiner for the
European Board of Urology. Prof. Gross will participate
in our Endo-Urology Workshop and lead presentations on
the management of renal and ureteric calculi.
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Dr. Landman
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Dr. Landman is the Director of Minimally Invasive
Urology in the Department of Urology at Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons and an
Associate Professor of Urology at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has extensive
clinical expertise in laparoscopic renal and prostate
surgery and endoscopic management of urinary tract
pathology. He has pioneered technology and techniques
for minimally invasive management of renal malignancies,
and has developed novel techniques which are used
globally for laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.
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Prof David Waltregny
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David Waltregny is currently professor of clinics and
senior staff urologist in the Department of Urology at
the University Hospital of Liège, Belgium. He holds
membership in several professional and scientific
organizations, among which the European Association of
Urology, and he is a founding member of the Belgian
Association of Urology.
After receiving his MD from the University of Liège,
David Waltregny became a Senior Research Associate of
the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research,
studying the mechanisms of tumor invasion and
metastasis, and hormone-independence in human prostate
cancer. He then received a PhD from the University of
Liège and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, in
Boston.
David Waltregny is the author and co-author of numerous
publications in top-ranked international journals and is
currently pursuing his research works in the Center for
Experimental Cancer Research at the University of Liège.
David Waltregny largely participated in the development
of the TVT-Obturator device together with its inventor,
Pr Jean de Leval, at the University of Liège in Belgium.
He is pursuing the development of new surgical devices
for the treatment of male incontinence that occurs after
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Prof Manoj Monga
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Prof. Manoj Monga currently holds the post of the Joseph
Sorkness Endowed Professor of Urologic Surgery Professor
with Tenure at the University of Minnesota and is
Medical director of the University of Minnesota Medical
Centre. He obtained his MD at the Chicago Medical School
in 1990 and trained as a Urologist at Tulane University
in New Orleans. He has a particular interest in
Endourology, is a member of several international
societies, has published widely and has won several
prizes for the best of category presentations over
several years at World Congresses of Endourology. Prof.
Monga will participate in our Endourology workshop and
do podium presentations during the congress.
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Dr. Gerald Brock
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Dr. Gerald Brock is Professor, Department of Surgery,
Division of Urology, at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in
London, Ontario. He completed his Medical and Urology
Degrees at McGill University in Montreal and
subsequently did a two year fellowship in Neurourology
with Dr. Tom Lue at the University of California, San
Francisco. He currently runs a large tertiary care
erectile dysfunction clinic at St. Joseph’s Health Care,
where he sees between 2000-2500 new consults annually.
In addition to his responsibilities of resident
teaching, he runs a productive basic animal research lab
evaluating the impact of disease on erectile mechanisms.
Dr. Brock is an active participant in professional
associations, previous Chair of the Canadian Male Sexual
Health Council (affiliate of the Canadian Urology
Association - CUA), past chair of the Guidelines
Committee of the CUA. He currently serves as the
Administrative Chairman of the CUA Scholarship Fund,
treasurer of the Canadian Urology Research Consortium
and serves as Chair of the Scientific Research Committee
of the Canadian Society for the Study of the Aging Male.
Dr. Brock is the author of over 100 peer reviewed
publications, 20 book chapters as well as numerous
abstracts. Over the past decade he has been invited to
speak across Canada, the USA, Europe, Australia and
Asia. Dr. Brock has been awarded over 20 research prizes
for his clinical and basic research endeavours
evaluating the impact of disease states on erectile and
ejaculatory mechanisms.
Dr. Brock’s work in urology and erectile dysfunction is
acknowledged by his role as an Editorial Board member of
the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Andrology, Chronicle of
Medicine and Sexual Health, and as an ad hoc reviewer
for the Journal of Physiology, Journal of Urology,
Urology, and the International Journal of Impotence
Research.
Sponsored by Lilly
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South African
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Bustamante Sigarroa
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Prof.
Bustamante Sigarroa was born in Havana, Cuba 1944; and
received his Phd in 1989 at the Hungarian Academy of
Science. He has the following Fellowships and has held
positions with: South African Urology Association; Chair
of the Urology Unit /Dept of Surgery/ Nelson Mandela
Academic Hospital. 1997-2009; Societe Internationale
D’Urologie (SIU); Cuban Society of Urology; Honorary
Member of the Dominican Medical Association, Dominican
Republic; Faculty Board. School of Medicine (1980-1995).
Havana; National Advisor for Paediatric Urology
(1992-1996), Ministry of Health, Hav; Executive
Committee of the Cuban Society of Urology (1986-1996);
Board Member of the Medical Magazine Resumed
(1986-1997), Cuba; Chair of the Urology Academic
Department at the Faculty of Medicine E.Cabrera, Hav.
(1985-1995); SENATE member of the Walter Sisulu
University (1997-2009); Faculty Board member of the
Faculty of Health Sciences WSU (1997-2009).
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Dr. L. Coetzee
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Lance
Coetzee obtained the FCS (URO) S.A and Mmed (URO) part
III in 1992. He has been a consultant Urologist at
Pretoria Academic Hospital, Fellow at Duke University
and is currently in Private Practice at the Pretoria
Urology Hospital. He is President of the Prostate Cancer
foundation. Lance has published numerous articles and
done many presentations at local and international
conferences and won many local and international awards.
He was invited to in 1999 to act as co-chairman for a
4-day radical perineal prostatectomy workshop (including
live surgery) in London. Lance will speak on radical
perineal prostatectomy in the management of prostate
cancer.
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Dr. Conradie
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Dr
Marius Conradie is Head of Urology Department at the
Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Hospital Complex. After
obtaining his degree as an urologist at the Nelson R
Mandela School of Medicine, he furthered his studies at
the Washington University in Endourology and became one
of the first Endourologists in South Africa. He
developed a special interest in laparoscopic urology and
has performed laparoscopic procedures in more than a
1000 patients. Dr Conradie has received several awards
for his clinical research including the Gold Medal at
the 2002 SAUA and the Discovery price at the 2006 SAUA
biennial congress. He initiated the Southern African
Endourology Society and is the first President. He also
has been appointed as the national trainer in
laparoscopic urological surgery, is active in research
and has developed many new innovative laparoscopic
techniques in South Africa. Dr. Conradie will chair the
Endourology workshop and speak on the laparoscopic
management of renal and ureteral calculi.
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Professor Amo Jordaan
Prof. Jordaan obtained his MBChB in Stellenbosch and his
post-graduate qualifications at Bloemfontein. He has
been Professor and head of Oncology at the University of
KwaZulu Natal since 1980 and has become a household name
in Oncology, both in and outside South Africa. Amo will
participate in our practical seminar on the management
of localized prostate cancer and will speak on the place
of external beam radiotherapy in prostate cancer.
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Dr. T. Murray MacKenzie
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Murray obtained his MBChB in 1974 and FCS [Ed] in 1983
and FCS [SA] in 1985.
He has been in private Urological Practice in Durban
since that time. Murray has always been involved in the
forefront of the management of prostate cancer and
introduced transrectal ultrasound biopsies to Urologists
in 1990 at the Durban congress. He has been an ardent
learner, advocate and teacher of Brachytherapy of
prostate cancer since it was launched. Murray attended
several local and international Brachytherapy teaching
courses, has lectured locally and internationally on the
subject and has been instrumental in establishing
several Brachytherapy units, both local and in other
African states. Murray will conduct our pre-congress
Brachytherapy workshop and also speak at the congress.
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Dr. Ramphal
Suren obtained his under- and post graduate
qualifications as a Gynecologist at the University of
KwaZulu Natal. He has been a very active in
Urogynecology and pelvic reconstruction surgery and is
an international accredited surgical demonstrator for
Gynecare. Suren works very hard to promote academic and
scientific principles in the field of pelvic and
incontinence surgery and has presented and promoted
several international workshops. He will participate and
speak to us in the session on pelvic reconstruction and
suburethral tape surgery.
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Professor Smith
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Dr.Arthur
Smith is Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Urology
at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is world
renowned for the management of kidney and ureteral
stones.He developed a minimally invasive technique for
removing kidney stones and has performed this procedure
in more than 5000 patients.He started the Endourology
Society and was the President of that society for over
20 years.
Dr.Smith has received many awards for his innovative
clinical research including the prestigious “Hugh
Hampton Young Award” from the American Urological
Society.He has been rated amongst the “Amerias Best
Doctors” and “Best Doctors in New York “
for over 10 years .He is an honorary member of numerous
international Urological Societies including the
British, Indian, Peruvian and Dutch societies and the
South African urology Society. He is the recipient of an
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens.
Dr.Smith is still in active practice doing what he does
best….treating the patient.
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Dr. Voigt
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Dr.
Voigt received the degree Bachelor of Medicine and
Bachelor of Surgery in 1996 through the University of
the Orange Free State and since 2004 been in his own
Private practice in Bloemfontien, South Africa. He also
consults on Urology for the Faculty of Health Sciences
of the University of the Free State, part time. He was
admitted as a Fellow of the College of Urologists of
South Africa after passing the FC Urol (SA) Final exam
of the College of Medicine of South Africa in 2003, and
received the degree Magister in Medicine: Specialisation
in Urology in 2004 through of the University of the Free
State. Dr. Voigt received the J.A. Olivier prize for the
best fourth year M.B., Ch.B. student in Forensic
Medicine in 1994 as well as the Smith & Nephew prize for
the best pregraduate M.B.,Ch.B. student in Orthopedics
in 1996. In 2001 he received a certificate in
recognition of outstanding service and dedication from
the Pelonomi Hospital, Bloemfontein.
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Dr. Wiersma
Rinus is a Senior Specialist in Pediatric Surgery at
Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and the
University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban. Rinus has a
particular interest in paediatric penile reconstructive
surgery and is well known for his work in hypospadias
surgery. He became interested in and has done specific
research on the incidence, diagnosis and management of
paediatric urethro-epididymal reflux and has presented
his data at international meetings. He will present his
latest work on this subject to us.
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Prof. Schalk Wentzel
Schalk is a graduate of Bloemfontein University, where
he is currently the professor and head of Urology. In a
relatively short time he has made a significant impact
on academic Urology in South Africa and was congress
president of our previous hugely successful Urology
congress in 2008. Schalk has a particular interest in
the radical surgical management of localized prostate
cancer and will participate in our symposium of the
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Dr. Naas Viljoen

Naas Viljoen studied Medicine at the University of Cape
Town. Subsequently he gained degrees at the Universities
of Pretoria (MSc -Anatomy) and Stellenbosch ( MMed-Urology)
In 1971 he became the first candidate to obtain ' FCS
(SA) with Urology '
He spent half his professional life as urologist in
private practice then became a "full-timer" at the
University of the Free State
Viljoen retired as Head of the Department of Urology,at
the mandatory age, in April 2002. He moved, happily with
his wife Lazelle, to Hermanus, on the coast, near Cape
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