Meetings

SURS holds annual meetings during the AUA meeting and the WCE meeting. Moreover, SURS symposiums or SURS lectures are held during major urological meetings, such as the SIU meeting and others.

Sunday, April 30th, 2023

12:45pm – 5:30pm

Society of Urologic Robotic Surgeons (SURS) Meeting

Program Chair: Craig Rogers

5:30pm – 6:00pm

SURS Business Meeting

12:45pm	Welcome and SURS Update (Introduction Semi-Live Sessions) Craig Rogers, MD President, Society of Urologic Robotic Surgeons
12:45pm – 1:15pm	Young Urologist/Rising Stars Video Session Moderator: Ashok Hemal, MD AUA Robotics Theater Finalist Encore Performance Sij Hemal, Randall Lee Rising Star Fellow Video Adriana Pedraza, MD Robotic Surgery Training: Advanced and Basic Approaches Ahmed Ghazi
1:15pm – 2:00pm	Robotic Prostate Surgery Semi-Live Video Session Moderator: James Peabody, MD Panelists: Ashutosh Tewari, MD, Jihad Kaouk, MD, Thomas Ahlering, MD and John Davis, MD, Francesco Montorsi, MD Retzius Sparing Wooju Jeong, MD How I Do My Apical Dissection Vinyak Wagaskar, MD SP Trasvesical Matthew Tollefson, MD
2:00pm – 2: 45pm	Single Port Robotic Surgery Moderator: Jihad Kaouk, MD Panelists: Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD and Jeffrey Nix, M.D. Utilizing SP to Facilitate Extraperitoneal Approach for Prostate Surgery Isaac Kim, MD SP Retroperitoneal Partial Nephrectomy-Gibson Approach Mutahar Ahmed, MD Troubleshooting Steps of Single Port Robotic Procedures – Lessons Learned Simone Crivellaro, MD
2:45pm – 3:30pm	Robotic Kidney Surgery Moderator: Craig Rogers, MD Panelists: Ketan Badani, MD, Chandru Sundaram, MD, Francisco Porpiglia, MD Complex Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Jennifer Linehan, MD RPN Tumor Excision-Tips to Avoid Positive Margins Lee Richstone, MD Robotic caliceal diverticulectomy: a simple minimally invasive solution to a vexing problem Richard Link, MD
3:30pm – 4:30pm	Robotic Cystectomy/Diversion Moderator: Khurshid Guru, MD Panelists: Amar Singh, MD, Alvin Goh, MD, Reza Mehrazin and Mutahar Ahmed Presenters: Ryan Nelson, MD, Johar Raza, MD, Janet Kukreja, MD Cystectomy Techniques Diversion Techniques
4:30pm - 5:30pm	GU Robotic Reconstruction Moderators: Daniel Eun, MD, Jill Buckley, MD, Lee Zhao, MD, Michael Stifelman, MD Presenters: Nabil Shakir, MD, Ziho Lee, MD, Sammy Elsamra, MD, Jeffrey Gahan, MD Upper Urinary Tract Reconstruction Lower Tract Reconstruction
5:30pm – 6:00pm	SURS Business Meeting
Adjourn