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2017 Semi-Live State-of-the-Art Surgical Procedures in Urologic Oncology, Reconstruction and Stones

February 16th – 18th, 2017Department of Urology University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany Venue: Neue Aula, University of Heidelberg

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Dear colleagues, dear friends,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the second Semi-Live Conference. Semi-Live 2015 was such a success, that Semi-Live has rapidly increased and we had to look for a venue with more space capacity. We are happy and thankful to meet you this year in the Neue Aula of the University of Heidelberg.

Surgery is the core of urology. For more than a century, urology has been – and still is – one of the most innovative surgical specialities in modern medicine. Indications in oncology, reconstruction, kidney stones, BPH, and andrology are managed using open, laparoscopic, robotic, endourological, shock wave or microscopic procedures. The variable combination of indications and procedures creates a multitude of treatment options.

The symposium Semi-Live focuses on contemporary, state-of-the-art urologic procedures for complex and standard indications. Additionally, the topics of intestinal anastomosis and intraabdominal vascular repair techniques are covered as important urological tools.

Semi-Live brings together some of the most eminent surgeons from around the world.

They will present anatomical landmarks, access strategies, important steps, elegant tricks, pitfalls and complication management in an intense live setting.

Each presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion. This allows you plenty of time to get every last detail of any of the procedures presented which you are interested in.

Semi-Live is supplemented by half-day workshops in immuno-oncology and in laparscopic urology, MRI/TRUS-fusion biopsy and MRI-guided TULSA, where a limited number of participants can receive hands-on training.

Such a new concept of exchanging and relaying urological surgical knowledge could not have been made a reality without extensive support. We are more than grateful to all partners from industry who sponsor this event.

We are looking forward to a great conference!

Best regards on behalf of the organizing committee,

Markus Hohenfellner

Department of Urology, University Hospital Heidelberg

IntroductionContents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3

Conference Program .............................................................................................................. 4

Faculty ................................................................................................................................... 7

Workshop program .............................................................................................................. 23

Workshop tutors .................................................................................................................. 24

Conference Dinner ................................................................................................................31

Sponsors & Partners ........................................................................................................... 32

Floor Plan ............................................................................................................................. 33

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Conference Program Thursday, February 16, 2017

9:30 WelcomeMarkus Hohenfellner

Kidney · Chair: Ralph Clayman, Jens Rassweiler, Jean de la Rosette

9:45 Meticulous anatomic nephrectomyAlberto Breda

10:15 Modes of percutaneous access to the collecting systemMahesh Desai

10:45 Transureteral access to the collecting systemAlberto Breda

11:15 Endoscopic PCNL: Seeing is relievingRalph Clayman

11:45 Lunch break and exhibition

Prostate/BPH · Chair: Peter Albers, Christian Gilfrich, Sascha Pahernik, Arnulf Stenzl

12:45 TUR-P bipolarJean de la Rosette

13:15 From HoLEP to endoscopic enucleation of the prostate (EEP): A long way to anatomical enucleationThomas Herrmann

13:45 Robotic transvesical adenoma enucleationMihir Desai

14:15 Holmium-LaserenucleationKarin Lehrich

14:45 Coffee break and exhibition

Retroperitoneal/Pelvic Surgery Chair: Mahesh Desai, Inderbir Gill, Axel Haferkamp, Levent Türkeri

15:15 Robot-assisted laparoscopic inferior Vena Cava thrombectomy: Techniques and challengesXu Zhang

15:45 Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in case of large renal cell carcinoma in a horseshoe kidneyJens-Uwe Stolzenburg

16:15 Focal therapy of kidney tumorsPilar Laguna

16:45 Salvage lymphadenectomy in prostate cancerVito Pansadoro

17:15 Postchemotherapy lymph node dissection in testis cancer (PC-LND)Peter Albers

18:15 End of day 1

Conference Program Friday, February 17, 2017

Reconstructive Surgery I · Chair: Mihir Desai, Anthony Mundy, Richard Santucci, Xu Zhang

9:00 Robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomyJens Rassweiler

9:30 Robot-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexyRichard Gaston

10:00 Bulbar urethral strictures: Indications & technique for buccal mucosa onlay urethroplastyMargit Fisch

10:30 Adult buried penis repairRichard Santucci


Reconstructive Surgery IIChair: Markus Büchler, Jesco Pfitzenmaier, Walter Stackl, Dogu Teber

11:30 Urinary undiversion/conversion in a complex oncological situationArnulf Stenzl

12:00 Technical tips in vascular reconstructionsAlexander Hyhlik-Dürr

12:30 Intestinal anastomosis in fast track surgery: ileal and colonicMarkus Büchler

13:00 Lunch break and exhibition

Heritage Session

14:00 More than 200 years of excellent and cumulative experience: Do’s and Don’ts in urologic surgery. Reflections of some of the greatest personalities in our specialty. Organized by Richard Hautmann, with Richard Hautmann, Mohamed Ghoneim, Ralph Clayman, Anthony Mundy, Fritz Schröder and Patrick Walsh


Editor’s choice: Great trades of surgical experienceChair: Alberto Breda, Markus Hohenfellner, Patrick Walsh

17:00 State of the Art – Communicating Surgical SkillsMichael Droller

17:15 Best of Surgery in Motion (European Urology)Arnulf Stenzl

17:45 Best of Step-By-Step (BJU International)Prokar Dasgupta

18:15 Best of Semi-LiveMarkus Hohenfellner

19:45 Conference Dinner

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Conference Program Saturday, February 18, 2017

Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion – The WalkChair: Margit Fisch, Richard Gaston, Richard Hautmann, Wiking Månsson, Vito Pansadoro

9:00 Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part IGeorge Thalmann, Inderbir Gill

9:30 Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part IIBernard Bochner, Peter Wiklund

10:00 Discussion


Radical ProstatectomyChair: Mahesh Desai, Inderbir Gill, George Thalmann, Derya Tilki, Patrick Walsh

11:00 Introduction: Different minimal invasive access strategies to radical prostatectomyFranco Gaboardi

11:10 Robot-assisted radical prostatectomyAshutosh Tewari

11:40 Retzius-sparing approach for robotic radical prostatectomyAldo Bocciardi

12:10 Open radical prostatectomyMartin Gleave

12:40 Robotic salvage procedures for recurrent prostate cancerMarkus Hohenfellner

13:10 End of the conference

Scientific Coordination

Carine Pecqueux

Department of Urology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Carine Pecqueux is a Physician and Resident at the Department of Urology of Heidelberg University Medical Center. She has been doing experimental research in the field of metastasized prostate cancer in a collaboration project with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her major focus is reconstrutive surgery.

Faculty Members

Peter Albers

Department of Urology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th

12:45 Chair of Prostate/BPH17:15 Postchemotherapy lymph node dissection in testis cancer (PC-LND)

Peter Albers is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He is an expert in the field of uro-oncology and as such member of the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) GU Group and Chairman of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Testis Cancer Guidelines Group. He is Past Congress President of the German Cancer Congress and was recently elected as Vice Chairman of the German Cancer Society.

Aldo Bocciardi

Urology Unit, Niguarda Ca‘ Granda Hospital Milan, Italy

Saturday Feb. 18th · 11:40 Retzius-sparing approach for robotic radical prostatectomy

Aldo Bocciardi is Chief of the Urology Unit at the Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital in Milan. He started his career at the San Raffaele Hospital Milan, where he was the head of the Pediatric Urology Unit. His main focus lies on oncologic and robotic urological surgery, where he developed the Retzius-sparing approach for radical prostatectomy that passes through the Douglas space. Aldo Bocciardi has performed more than 600 surgeries with this technique.

Bernard H. Bochner

Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Saturday Feb. 18th · 09:30 Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part II

Bernhard H. Bochner is an attending surgeon on the Urology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery and immediate past Director of the Pelvic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is the inaugural holder of the Sir Murray Brennan Endowed Chair in Surgery at MSKCC and a Professor in the Department of Urology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He currently focuses his practice on urologic oncology, with a particularly interest on bladder cancer, pelvic reconstructive surgery and translational science.

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Alberto Breda

Fundació Puigvert Department of Urology, Barcelona, Spain

Thursday Feb. 16th, 09:45: Meticulous anatomic nephrectomyThursday Feb. 16th, 10:45: Transureteral access to the collecting systemFriday Feb. 17th, 17:00: Chair of Editor’s choice: Great trades of

surgical experience

Alberto Breda is Chief of the Kidney Transplant Division at the University Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. He started his career at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he worked as a clinical instructor in the Department of Urology. His main focus lies on minimally invasive surgery and kidney transplant. Alberto Breda has 70 publications in international journals and has received numerous awards and honors.

Markus Büchler

Department for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Friday Feb. 17th 11:30 Chair of Reconstructive Surgery II 12:30 Intestinal anastomosis in fast track surgery: Ileal and colonic

Markus Büchler is Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg. His group has implemented a tissue service and biobank for collection and immediate processing of blood, bone marrow, serum and tissue samples from CRC patients undergoing resection of the primary tumor or metastases and inaugurated a clinical research unit delineating key mechanisms underlying metastatic progres-sion of colorectal cancer.

Ralph V. Clayman

Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine (UCI), USA

Thursday Feb. 16th · 9:45 Chair of KidneyThursday Feb. 16th · 11:15 Endoscopic PCNL: Seeing is relievingFriday Feb. 17th · 14:00 Heritage Session

Ralph Clayman is Professor of Urology/Dean emeritus at UCI. He became Professor of Urology and Radiology at the Washington University in 1984. In 1990, he and his team performed the world’s first laparoscopic nephrectomy. In January 2002, he became Chair of the Department of Urology at University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Prokar Dasgupta

Urology Center, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London, UK

Friday Feb. 17th · 17:45 Best of Step-By-Step (BJU International)

Prokar Dasgupta is Professor and Chair in Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at the Urology Center, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London and Chairman of the KCL-Vattikuti Institute of Robotics. He pioneered modern robotic urological surgery in UK. In collabora-tion with the Johns Hopkins Hospital he conducted the first randomised controlled trial of robotic urology. Also, he is editor-in-chief of the British Journal Urology international.

Mahesh R. Desai

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital Department of Endourology, Nadiad, Gujarat, IndiaThursday Feb. 16th · 10:15 Modes of percutaneous access to the collecting system Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:15 Chair of Retroperitoneal/Pelvic SurgerySaturday Feb. 18th · 11:00 Chair of Radical Prostatectomy

Mahesh Desai is Medical Director of the Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH) and its Center for Robotic Surgery in Nadiad, Gujarat, India. He performed the first kidney transplantation at the MPUH. He is also director at the Jayaramdas Patel Academic Center, which provides training programs for endourology and laparoscopic surgery. He has pioneered treatment for variegated urological and kidney diseases in India.

Mihir Desai

USC Kenneth Norris Cancer Center, Los Angeles, USA

Thursday Feb. 16th · 13:45 Robotic transvesical adenoma enucleation Friday Feb. 17th · 9:00 Chair of Reconstructive Surgery I

Mihir Desai is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in robotic, laparoscopic and endourologic surgery. His innovative pioneering work includes novel techniques for treating ureteropelvic obstruction, developing novel flexible robotic platforms and most recently the single-port (scarless “belly-button”) laparoscopic surgery for various urologic conditions. Mihir Desai is part of a team at USC that has the largest experience with single-port surgery in the world.

Faculty Members Faculty Members

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Michael Droller

Department of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA

Friday Feb. 17th · 17:00 State of the Art – Communicating surgical skills

Michael J. Droller is Professor of Urology, Professor of Oncology and Chairman Emeritus of Urology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. His clinical and research interests have focused on the biology and pathogenesis of bladder cancer and prostate cancer and their treatment.

Margit Fisch

Department of Urology, University of Hamburg, Germany

Friday Feb. 17th · 10:00Bulbar urethral stricturesSaturday Feb. 18th · 09:00 Chair of Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion – The Walk

Margit Fisch is the first female Chair of a Urology Department (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) in Germany. She is Fellow of the European Board of Urology and Fellow of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology. Her major clinical and scientific interests are reconstructive urology and pediatric urology. Margit Fisch was president of the Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons and the European Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons.

Franco Gaboardi

Department of Urology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Saturday Feb. 18th · 11:00 Introduction: Different minimally invasive access strategies to radical prostatectomy

Franco Gaboardi is a pioneer of minimally invasive urologic surgery with laparoscopy and robotics. In January 2001 he operated the first patient in Italy of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and in September the same year, the first patient of laparoscopic radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal. Three years later he performed the first robotic radical prostatectomy in Italy and later laparoscopic prostatectomy with a single umbilical access (LESS).

Richard Gaston

Department of Urology, Saint Augustin Hospital, Bordeaux, France

Friday Feb. 17th · 09:30 Robot-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexySaturday Feb. 18th · 09:00 Chair of Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and

Urinary Diversion – The Walk

Richard Gaston is the Head of the Department of Urology at Saint Augustin Hospital, Bordeaux since 1985. In 1991 he started with laparascopic surgery and in 1997, he performed the first radical prostatectomy in Europe. Richard Gaston is active member of various urological societies and on the editorial board of a variety of international journals. In his center in Bordeaux he performs laparoscopic surgery of prostate, kidney, bladder cancer and complex reconstructive prolapse surgery in women.

Mohamed Ghoneim

Department of Urology and Nephrology, University of Mansoura, Egypt

Friday Feb. 17th · 14:00 Heritage Session

Mohamed A. Ghoneim is the founder of the Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, Egypt. During the 26 years of his leadership, it became an internationally renowned urological institution with visionary techniques of scientific data sampling and evaluation. As an exemplary surgeon he is recognized especially for radical cystectomy, urinary diversion, reconstructive urethral surgery and kidney transplantation. He is member of the most prestigious urological associations.

Christian Gilfrich

Department of Urology, Clinical Center St. Elisabeth, Straubing, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 12:45 Chair of Prostate/BPH

Christian Gilfrich is head of the Urological Department of the Clinical Center St. Elisabeth in Straubing since 2008. He performed his residency at the Department of Urology at the University of Mainz. From 2003- 2008 he was Senior Physician at the Department of Urology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. His focus is mainly on minimally invasive and robotic urological oncological surgery.


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Inderbir S. Gill

Department of Urology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:15 Chair of Retroperitoneal/Pelvic SurgerySaturday Feb. 18th · 09:00 Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part I Saturday Feb. 18th · 11:00 Chair of Radical Prostatectomy

Inderbir S. Gill joined the University of Southern California (USC) in mid-2009 as Chairman & Professor, Department of Urology. His primary focus is advanced robotic urologic oncologic surgery, with one of the world’s largest aggregate robotic/laparoscopic experiences in approx 9,000 cases in the United States. His team is actively developing flexible robotics, natural orifice and single-port laparoscopic surgery in urology, innovative concepts towards scar-free surgery.

Martin Gleave

Department of Urology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Saturday Feb. 18th · 12:10 Open radical prostatectomy

Martin Gleave is a clinician scientist and urologic surgeon whose clinical practice focuses on urologic oncology and management of prostate, bladder, kidney and testis cancers in a multi-disciplinary environment at the leading edge of assessing new technologies and treatments across both localized and advanced cancers. He is a Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Marc-Oliver Grimm

Department of Urology, University of Jena, Germany

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Marc-Oliver Grimm earned his medical degree at Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he was also trained in urology. His major interests are molecular uro- oncology, biomarkers, and clinical trials for renal, bladder, and prostate cancers. He is particularly interested in nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer and operative and conser-vative uro-oncology.

Axel Haferkamp

Department of Urology, University of Mainz, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:15 Chair of Retroperitoneal/Pelvic Surgery

Axel Haferkamp is Director of the Department of Urology and Pedriatric Urology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His fields of expertise are urological tumor diseases, reconstructive urology, pedriatic urology and the treatment of male and female urinary incontinence. He is the Chair of the German Continence Society.

Richard Hautmann

Department of Urology, University of Ulm, Germany

Friday Feb. 17th 14:00 Heritage Session Saturday Feb. 18th · 9:00 Chair of Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and


Richard Hautmann was the Head of Department for Urology and Paediatric Urology at the University Hospital Ulm from 1984 until 2009. He is an expert consultant of the Department of Urology Klinikum Lüdenscheid. The international renowned urologist developed the surgical technique of the Neobladder. Richard Hautmann is a member of various medical organisations. His major scientific interests are the neobladder, bladder cancer and cystektomie, urolithiasis and oxalate.

Thomas Herrmann

Department of Urology, Medical School Hannover, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 13:15 From HoLEP to endoscopic enucleation of the prostate (EEP): A long way to anatomical enucleation

Thomas Herrmann is associate Professor of Urology and Director of the Department of Endourology and Laparascopy at the medical School of Hanover. His main expertise is laser surgery of the prostate (Inventor ThuLEP/ KOL in Thulium:YAG prostatectomy), En Bloc Resection of Bladder Tumors (KOL), Bipolar Enucleation of the prostate BipolEP (KOL), LESS Surgery (KOL in SITUS approach) and minimally invasive percutaneous stone surgery.


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Markus Hohenfellner


Fr. Feb. 17th · 17:30 Chair of Editor’s choice: Great trades of surgical experience

Fr. Feb. 17th · 18:45 Best of Semi-LiveSat. Feb. 18th · 12:40 Robotic salvage procedures for recurrent prostate cancer

Markus Hohenfellner is Professor of Urology and Director of the Department of Urology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. His main activities are uro-oncology including minimally invasive, robotic, ultraradical and reconstructive surgery as well as multimodular interdisciplinary comprehensive cancer therapy. Within the German Cancer Aid Foundation he is specially focused on „novel tools“ in oncology and biobanking.

Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr

Department of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Friday Feb. 17th · 12:00 Technical tips in vascular reconstructions

Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr is Senior Physician of the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg. His main clinical focus is open and endovascular aortic surgery. Thereby his current research focuses are Finite Element Analyses in aortic aneurysms.

Pilar Laguna

Department of Urology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thursday Feb. 16th · 16:15 Focal therapy of kidney tumors

Pilar Laguna was a staff member in Fundació Puigvert, Spain’s leading center for the provision of specialised medical care in urology, nephrology and andrology. She became President of the Department of Urology at the Hospital La Mancha Centro and started her career at the AMC University of Amsterdam in 2002, where she is now Professor of uro-oncology and Coordinator of the kidney center.

Karin Lehrich

Urological Laser Center, Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 14:15Holmium-Laserenucleation

Karin Lehrich is Head of the Urological Laser Center Berlin, ULZB, since 2012. She specialised as an urological surgeon at the AVK, Berlin and University Hospital Charite, Berlin. Her main focus is on endourology surgery and laser techniques. In her center in Berlin she subspecialised in performing holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and received multiple international invitations for live surgery meetings/congresses and teaching.

Wiking Månsson

Department of Urology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Saturday Feb. 18th · 09:00Chair of Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion – The Walk

Wiking Månsson has been an Associate Professor at Lund University, Senior Consultant Urologist at the Department of Urology, Lund and later at the Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden. Since his retirement he has been active in the Lund Bladder Cancer Group. Professor Månsson is still doing some out-patient work. His main interests are bladder cancer and reconstructive urology.

Anthony Mundy

Department of Urology, University College Hospital, London, UK

Friday Feb. 17th

09:00 Chair of Reconstructive Surgery I14:00 Heritage Session

Anthony Mundy is Professor of Urology in the University of London at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where he is also Medical Director. His clinical and research interests are in reconstructive urology. He has been involved with various organisations and societies over the years in various different roles.


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Sascha Pahernik

Department of Urology, Paracelsus University Hospital (PMU), Nürnberg, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 12:45Chair of Prostate/BPH

Sascha Pahernik is Professor for Urology and Director of the Department of Urology of the Paracelsus University Hospital (PMU) Nürnberg. His research focuses on surgical and medical treatment of renal cell carcinoma and the clinical development of focal ablative therapies such as HIFU for prostate cancer. He is member of the scientific council of the Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung.

Vito Pansadoro

Center of Robotic Laparoscopy, Vincenzo Pansadoro Foundation, Rome, Italy

Thursday Feb. 16th · 16:45 Salvage lymphadenectomy in prostate cancerSaturday Feb. 18th · 09:00 Chair of Open vs. Robotic Cystectomy and


Vito Pansadoro is the Director of the Vincenzo Pansadoro Foundation, Center of Robotic Laparoscopy in Rome, Italy. Vito Pansadoro is internationally respected as a specialist in Laparoscopic Robotic Surgery. He has organized several international scientific meetings on urologic oncological laparoscopic and robotic live surgery, hosting the most prominent surgeons in this field. He is a member of the most important Italian and international scientific and medical societies.

Jesco Pfitzenmaier

Department of Urology, Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld (EvKB), Germany

Friday Feb. 17th · 11:30Chair of Reconstructive Surgery II

Jesco Pfitzenmaier is Head of the Department of Urology at the EvKB in Bielefeld since 2010. In 2004 he became associate Professor at the Department of Urology (University of Heidel-berg) before he took over the Department in Bielefeld. His focus is mainly on urologic oncologic surgery, in particular robotic surgery. In addition, his interest lies in MRI-fusion-biopsy for prostate cancer diagnosis.

Jens Rassweiler

Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, SLK Kliniken Heilbronn, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 09:45 Chair of KidneyFriday Feb. 17th · 09:00 Robot-assisted laparoscopic

ureteroneocystostomy

Jens J. Rassweiler is the head of the Department of Urology at SLK Kliniken Heilbronn. In 1982, he started his urological education at the Katharinenhospital Stuttgart being directly involved in the clinical introduction of ESWL, URS and PCNL. In 1992, he was the first German surgeon performing laparoscopic nephrectomy.

Jean de la Rosette

Department of Urology, Amsterdam Medical Center, Netherlands

Thursday Feb. 16th 09:45 Chair of Kidney12:45 TUR-P bi-polar

Jean de la Rosette is Chairman of the Department of Urology at the Academic Medical Center (AMC). His main interests are innovative technologies applied in endourology and minimally invasive (uro-oncological) procedures. He founded the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES) responsible for conducting global endourological research.

Richard A. Santucci

Department of Urology, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, USA

Friday Feb. 17th

09:00 Chair of Reconstructive Surgery I10:30 Adult buried penis repair

Richard Santucci is the Director of the Center for Urologic Reconstruction and Specialist-in-Chief for Urology at the Detroit Medical Center. His clinical practice focuses on urologic reconstruction and trauma, including urethral stricture disease, ureteral injury, spinal cord injury and urinary fistula. He has a keen interest in surgical education, and has been active in lecturing and demonstrating surgeries at training centers in the United States, Europe, South America and Africa.


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Fritz H. Schröder

Department of Urology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Friday Feb. 17th · 14:00 Heritage Session

Fritz H. Schröder is Professor of Urology and past Chairman at the Department of Urology at the University Medical Center Rotterdam. His main research interests are clinical and experimental aspects of urologic oncology. He is co-founder and international coordinator of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC). He published more than 700 scientific papers as author or co-author and was assigned Nr. 1 in ESI list of Top 20 authors on prostate cancer (1995-2005).

Walter Stackl

Department of Urology, Hospital Rudolfstiftung, Vienna, Austria

Friday Feb. 17th · 11:30Chair of Reconstructive Surgery II

Walter Stackl is Professor of Urology and chief physician of the Department of Urology at the Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung in Vienna, Austria. His main research interests are general urology, andrology, pediatric urology, kidney stones, perineal radical prostatec-tomy and urologic oncology. He has published over 1000 scientific papers as author or co-author and is honorary member of the German Urologic Society and has been awarded the „Ritter von Frisch“ award in 2008.

Arnulf Stenzl

Department of Urology, University of Tübingen, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 12:45 Chair of Prostate/BPHFriday Feb. 17th · 11:30 Urinary undiversion/conversion in

a complex oncological situation

Arnulf Stenzl is Director of the Department of Urology, University of Tübingen Medical School. He is Chairman of the Scientific Congress Office of the European Association of Urology since 2012. His major research interests are bladder and prostate cancer and reconstructive urology. He is investigator of numerous clinical trials and organized numerous national and international symposiums on bladder cancer related and other urologic subjects.

Cora Sternberg

Department of Medical Oncology, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

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Cora N. Sternberg is Chief of the Department of Medical Oncology at the San Camillo-Forla-nini Hospital and Adjunct Professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. She is also Adjunct Professor of Urology and Urological Oncology at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Lahey Clinic in Boston and at Temple University’s College of Science and Technology in Philadelphia, Cora N. Sternberg is an internationally respected leader in the fields of medical oncology and urological malignancies.

Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg

Department of Urology, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany

Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:45Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in case of large renal cell carcinoma in a horseshoe kidney

Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology and Head of International Urological Training Center of Laparoscopy and Robotic-assisted Surgery at the University of Leipzig. He is a member of various national and international urological boards and societies. He received multiple international invitations for live surgery meetings/congresses and teaching from all over the world.

Dogu Teber


Wednesday Feb. 15th: Workhop I: Laparoscopic Urology Friday Feb. 17th · 11:30: Chair Reconstructive Surgery II

Dogu Teber is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology University Hospital Heidel-berg. His special affiliation is in the field of minimally invasive urological surgery. His main research interests lie in intraoperative navigation and in new technologies in urological imaging.


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Ashutosh Tewari

Department of Urology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA

Saturday Feb. 18th · 11:10Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy

Ash Tewari is a world-renowned urologist and prostate cancer specialist. As Director of the Department of Urology, he leads a multidisciplinary team committed to improving prostate cancer treatment, research and education. The Tewari Lab is currently involved in research to unlock the genomic causes of prostate cancer and translating genomic information to practical physician application through imaging.

George Thalmann

Department of Urology, Inselspital Bern, Switzerland

Saturday Feb. 18th 09:00 Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part I11:00 Chair of Radical Prostatectomy

George Thalmann is the Chairman and Director of the Department of Urology, University of Bern, Inselspital. He is member of various urological societies and a research council for the Swiss National Science Foundation and reviewer for many journals. His scientific interest is on prostate cancer progression and metastasis as well as bladder cancer.

Derya Tilki

Department of Urology, Martini-Clinic Prostate Cancer Center, Hamburg, Germany

Saturday Feb. 18th · 11:00Chair of Radical Prostatectomy

Derya Tilki is an attending urologist at the Martini-Clinic Prostate Cancer Center Hamburg. She completed her residency training at the Department of Urology of the Ludwig-Maximili-ans-University, Munich. She subsequently completed a fellowship in Urologic Oncology at UC Davis in Sacramento. After completion she joined the faculty at the Martini-Clinic Prostate Cancer Center. Her primary research focus is uro-oncology, with particular areas of interest including prostate cancer and outcomes research.

Levent Türkeri

Department of Urology, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey

Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:15 Chair of Retroperitoneal/Pelvic Surgery

Levent Türkeri is a Professor of Urology and he is serving as Director of School of Urology and Coordinator of Board of Urology at Society of Urological Surgeons (Turkey). His main area of expertise is uro-oncology mainly involving robotic, laparoscopic and open surgery. His research interest involves molecular aspects of diagnosis and prognostic factors of urological malignancies along with clinical trials.

Patrick Walsh

Department of Urology, John Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, USA

Friday Feb. 17th · 14:00 Heritage SessionFriday Feb. 17th · 17:00 Chair of Editor’s choice:

Great trades of surgical experienceSaturday Feb. 18th · 11:00 Chair of Radical Prostatectomy

Patrick Walsh is best known for his pioneering work in the development of “the anatomic approach to radical prostatectomy”. He has been Professor and Director of the Brady Urological Institute for 30 years. He has also made major contributions to the basic understanding of benign and malignant neoplasms of the prostate.

Peter Wiklund

Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Saturday Feb. 18th · 09:30Open vs. robotic cystectomy, Part II

Peter Wiklund is Professor and Chairman of the section urology of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Peter Wiklund is one of the pioneers in robotic surgery development in Europe. He started in 2001 with robotic surgery and has now completed more than 2 000 operations with surgical robot. He is course leader for robotic surgical education both at the European Society of Urology (EAU) and American Urological Society (AUA).


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Xu Zhang

Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

Thursday Feb. 16th · 15:15 Robot assisted laparoscopic inferior Vena cava thrombectomy: Techniques and challenges

Friday Feb. 17 th · 09:00 Chair of Reconstructive Surgery I

Xu Zhang is the head of the Department of Urology at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing and the permanent committee of China Medical Association Urology Department Branch. He pioneered laparoscopic and robotic skills in China urology for years and devoted himself in the application of retroperitoneal laparoscopy in urology and popularizes the skill worldwide. Today he is leading the largest robotic group in Chinese urology and focuses on the basic research on the mechanism of renal cell carcinoma metastasis.

Workshop I: Laparoscopic Urology

• Partial nephrectomy, zero ischemia technique, different suturing techniques (V-Loc vs. Hem-o-Lok technique)

• Application of ischemia (bulldog clamp vs. tourniquet)

• Laparoscopic pyeloplasty

• Laparoscopic Boari flap/Psoas hitch

• Laparoscopic vessel approach and complication management

Tutors: Bonekamp D, Duensing S, Foller S, Grüllich C, Grünwald V, Krauss J, Pahernik S, Zeier M

Workshop II: Immuno-oncologic Therapies for Advanced Urological Cancers

• Current guidelines for metastatic urologic cancers

• Checkpoint inhibition – concepts and mode of action

• Treatment duration, treatment goals and response patterns

• Interpretation of imaging, RECIST 1.1 vs irRECIST

• Clinical actions in the use of checkpoint inhibitors

Tutors: Gözen A, Hatiboglu G, Klein JT, Nyarangi-Dix J, Pini G, Rabenalt R, Schwentner C, Teber D

Workshop III: Image-guided navigated stereotactic prostate biopsy utilizing real-time MRI/TRUS-fusion

• Multiparametic MRI and standardized interpretation of imaging (PI-RADS)

• MRI/TRUS-fusion biopsy technique

• Targeted prostate biopsy

Tutors: Kesch C, Radtke JP

Workshop IV: MRI-Guided Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation (TULSA) for Prostate Cancer

• TULSA: Rationale, principles and clinical data

• Software simulation of clinical cases: Treatment planning and real-time MRI monitoring

• Procedural demonstration in the MRI suite

• The future of MRI in the Urological Prostate Cancer Clinic

Tutors: Hadaschik B, Schlemmer HP

Faculty Members Workshops on Wednesday, February 15, 2017

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David Bonekamp

Imaging and Radiooncology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Workshop II: Immuno-oncologic therapies for advanced urological cancersWorkshop III: Image-guided navigated stereotactic prostate biopsy utilizing real-time MRI/TRUS-fusion

David Bonekamp is leading Senior Radiologist and section chief of urological oncological imaging and radiomics at the German Cancer Research Center where he supervises medical research in the Department of Radiology. He has received a subspecialization in Neurora-diology and has been active in imaging research for many years. His specific interests currently focus on oncologic radiology, prostate cancer imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and novel data analysis techniques.

Anja Dietel

Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Germany


Anja Dietel is a Senior Physician in the Department of Urology at the University Hospital of Leipzig. Her main focus is minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery. She is a member of the International Urological Training Center of Laparoscopy and robotic-assisted Surgery at the University of Leipzig.

Stefan Duensing

Department of Urology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Workshop II: Immuno-oncologic therapies for advanced urological cancers

Stefan Duensing is Head of the Section of Molecular Urooncology of the Department of Urology at the University of Heidelberg. His work focuses on genomic instability in cancer and novel ways to detect, treat and prevent prostate and renal cancer.

Susan Foller

Department of Urology, University of Jena, Germany


Susan Foller is Senior Physician in the Department of Urology at the University Hospital Jena. Her major clinical and research interests are in medical treatment of urological malignancies, prostate cancer imaging and diagnosis, as well as kidney transplantation.

Ali Serdar Gözen

Department of Urology, SLK Kliniken Heilbronn, Germany


Ali Serdar Gözen is Associate Professor at the Department of Urology at SLK-Kliniken, Heilbronn, where he is responsible for the laparoscopic and robotic training and fellowship program. He is an active member of the laparoscopy training section of EAU Section of Uro-technology (ESUT) and ESU training board. He serves frequently as coordinator or course director and faculty for national and international laparoscopy and robotic educational courses.

Carsten Grüllich

Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Germany


Carsten Grüllich is a Consultant Physician for Medical Oncology and Head of the translatio-nal uro-oncology program. His main interest are new systemic therapies in oncology and investigation of prognostic and predictive molecular markers of tumor diseases.

Workshop tutors Workshop tutors

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Viktor Grünwald

Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Germany


Viktor Grünwald is Professor for Hematology and Oncology at Hannover Medical School. Since 2011 he is spokesman for the Center for Rare Diseases, Tumor section.

Boris Hadaschik

Department of Urology, University of Heidelberg, Germany Workshop IV: MRI-Guided Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation (TULSA) for Prostate Cancer

Boris Hadaschik is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology of the University Hospital Heidelberg. His main interests are urologic oncology, MRI-guided stereotactic prostate biopsy and urological imaging of prostate carcinoma.

Gencay Hatiboglu



Gencay Hatiboglu is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology of the University Hospital Heidelberg. His main interests lie in urologic oncology and translational surgical research. Further interests are focal ablative therapies like cryotherapy and HIFU treatment, endoscopic procedures, navigated kidney surgery and minimally invasive, laparoscopic surgery.

Claudia Kesch



Claudia Kesch is Resident at the Department of Urology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. Her main interests are urologic oncology, diagnostics of prostate cancer, multiparametric MRI of the prostate, prostate cancer therapy and prostate cancer imaging.

Jan-Thorsten Klein

Department of Urology & Pediatric Urology, University of Ulm, Germany


Jan Klein is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology at the University of Ulm. His main interests are minimally invasive urologic surgery including laparoscopy and robotic surgery, endourology and oncologic urology.

Jürgen Krauss

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Germany


Jürgen Krauss is a Medical Oncologist at the Department of Medical Oncology and Head of the Section for Clinical Immunotherapy at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg. He and his team are responsible for designing and conducting both early industry-sponsored and investigator initiated immunotherapy trials at the NCT.


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Joanne Nyarangi-Dix



Joanne Nyarangi-Dix is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. Her main interests are reconstructive surgery, pediatric surgery and minimally invasive surgery.

Sascha Pahernik

Department of Urology, Paracelsus University Hospital (PMU), Nürnberg, Germany


Sascha Pahernik is Professor for Urology and Director of the Department of Urology of the Paracelsus University Hospital (PMU) Nürnberg. His research focuses on surgical and medical treatment of renal cell carcinoma and the clinical development of focal ablative therapies such as HIFU for prostate cancer. He is member of the scientific council of the Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung.

Giovannalberto Pini

Department of Urology, San Rafaelle Turro Hospital, Milan, Italy


Gio Pini is urologist at San Raffaele Turro Hospital in Milan, Italy. His special affiliation is in the field of minimally invasive surgery and he had the chance to work years in Germany with Jens Rassweiler and then in Sweden with Peter Wiklund. He is a board member of the Young Academic Urologist (YAU) EAU Robotic Group, Junior EAU Robotic Urology Section (J-ERUS) and Hands-on laparoscopy trainer at EUREP.

Robert Rabenalt

Department of Urology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany


Robert Rabenalt is Senior Physician at the Department of Urology, University Hospital Düsseldorf. His special affiliation is in the field of minimally invasive urological surgery. His main research interests lie in MRI/US-guided fusion biopsy of the prostate, imaging of prostate cancer and nanotherapy.

Jan Philipp Radtke



Jan Philipp Radtke is Resident at the Department of Urology of Heidelberg University Medical Center and at the Department of Radiology at German Cancer Research Center, where he also served as a post-doc for a two-year scientific fellowship. His main scientific interests are multiparametric MRI and MR-guided biopsy of the prostate and molecular imaging of prostate cancer using PET-CT and -MRI.

Heinz-Peter Schlemmer

Division of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Workshop IV: MRI-Guided Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation (TULSA) for Prostate Cancer

Heinz-Peter Schlemmer is the Director of the Division Radiology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and Professor for Oncologic Radiology at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University. He has specialized in oncologic imaging for more than 25 years. He is Director of the working groups “Oncologic Imaging” in the German Roentgen Ray Society (DRG) and the German Cancer Society (DKG).


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Workshop tutors

Christian Schwentner

Department of Urology, Diakonie Hospital Stuttgart, Germany


Christian Schwentner is a Professor of Urology and Urological Oncology as well as Chairman of the Department of Urology in Stuttgart and adjunct Professor at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. His research interests focus on prostate and bladder cancer as well as on the advancement of minimally invasive surgical techniques.

Martin Zeier

Kidney Center Heidelberg, Germany


Martin Zeier is Professor for Nephrology and Head of the Division of Nephrology at Heidelberg University Hospital. He is a specialist for kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases and the treatment of hypertension. His main clinical and scientific interest is focussed on renal transplantation, including the transplantation of high immunized patients and AB0 incompatible transplantations. He also has a strong interest on the immunosuppressive treatment of kidney transplant recipients.

Conference Dinner on Friday, February 17, 2017

Conference Dinner at the Kulturbrauerei

Do not miss the opportunity to join your colleagues, the speakers and the organizers of the Conference at the Conference Dinner.

The Dinner is included in the conference fee of EUR 480. Additional tickets are available at the registration desk.

When: Friday, February 17, 19:45 Where: Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg

Leyergasse 6 69117 Heidelberg

Let‘s walk together, 19:30: Meeting point in the Foyer of the Neue Aula. Start walking together to the Kulturbrauerei at 19:30.

Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg:

• Brewery, restaurant and hotel in the middle of the

historic part of Heidelberg

• Ancient student tavern with traditional interior

• Long brewery tradition dating back to 1235

• Home-brewed beer and regional specialities

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CMEAwarded 15 points, category A, by the German LÄK Baden-Württemberg.Granted 14 European CME credits by the EACCME.

Scientific Organization Gencay Hatiboglu · Markus Hohenfellner · Carine Pecqueux · Dogu TeberDepartment of Urology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

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