AAGUS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting Presentations

Virtual Meeting Presentations

Thank you to all who presented and participated in the AAGUS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting! Your participation helped to make the meeting a huge success. We are pleased to make the presentations from the meeting available for you to view on this website for a period of 90 days. We look forward to seeing you in person next year at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort!

AAGUS Day 1 — August 25, 2021

9:15am Session

James Lingeman, MD
Randomized controlled trial of treatment of asymptomatic small renal stones at
the time of symptomatic stone removal

Mahesh Desai, MD
A new curiosity in treating renal stone: High-power Holmium with MOSES
technology(HPH-M) or Thulium Fibre Laser(TFL) in Miniperc with suction

Prokar Dasgupta, MD
Simulation in Urological Training and Education (SIMULATE): A Randomised
Controlled Clinical and Educational Trial to Determine the Effect of
Simulation-based Surgical Training

followed by a live discussion

10:15am Session

Adam Kibel, MD
Can the genetic risk of prostate cancer be attenuated by a healthy lifestyle?

Laurence Klotz, MD
Multi-parametric MRI-targeted biopsy compared to systematic TRUS biopsy for biopsy-naïve men at risk for prostate cancer. A phase 3 randomized clinical trial

Mani Menon, MD
The Precision Prostatectomy: A Novel Surgical Form of Focal Therapy

followed by a live discussion

11:15am Session

Martha Terris, MD
Newly Discovered HYAL4-V1/Chase drives Gemcitabine Resistance and Predicts Chemotherapy Failure in Bladder Cancer Patients

Cheryl Lee, MD
Genomic Dynamics of Immune and Epithelial Compartments during Murine Bladder Carcinogenesis: Implications for Sex Bias

Dan Theodorescu, MD
Enhancing cisplatin therapy in bladder cancer

Followed by a live discussion

1:15pm Session

Antoine Khoury, MD
Tailoring Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Infants with Congenital Anomalies of the Urinary Tract

David Joseph, MD
Radiation Safety and Pediatric Videourodynamics

followed by a live discussion

2:00pm Session

Marshall Stoller, MD
Distinct consecutive mechanisms of stone fragmentation with laser lithotripsy unmasked with ultra-high-speed video microscopy

Hunter Wessells, MD
Clinical Event Classification for Stone Passage in Clinical Trials: Adjudication in the Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration (PUSH) Study

Olivier Traxer, MD
Laser Fiber Displacement Velocity During TM-Fiber and Holmium: YAG Laser Lithotripsy. Introducing the Concept of Optimal Displacement Velocity

followed by a live discussion

3:00pm Session

Ralph Clayman, MD
Determining the Safety Threshold for the Passage of a Ureteral Access Sheath in Clinical Practice Using a Purpose-Built Force Sensor

Byron Joyner, MD
Comparison of Two National Surveys, 2004 and 2019: Program Directors’ Perspectives Regarding ACGME Requirements and Effectiveness of Training Urology Residents

Raj Pruthi, MD
wRVUs: Do They Really Measure the Workload and Complexity Of What We Do?

followed by a live discussion.

AAGUS Day 2 — August 26, 2021

9:00am Session

Timothy Boone, MD
Therapeutic Effects of Non-invasive, Individualized Cortical Modulation using Transcranial Rotating Permanent Magnet Stimulation (TRPMS) to Improve Voiding Dysfunction in Female Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Karl Kreder, MD
Intravenous Administration of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Antagonist TAK-242 Attenuates Bladder Pain in an Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome-like Mouse Model

Gopal Badlani, MD
Effects of Age and Multiple Vaginal Births on Urinary Bladder, Sphincter Structure, Function and Pelvic Support in Nonhuman Primates

followed by a live session

10:00am Session

Curtis Nickel, MD
Is the Future for Non-antibiotic Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Women a Sublingual Vaccine?

Infection/Inflammation
Anthony Schaeffer, MD
Targeting Mast Cells Ameliorates Symptoms in Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome

David Ginsberg, MD
Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Improves Lower Urinary Tract Function in Patients with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

followed by a live discussion

11:00am Session

David Diamond, MD
Prostatic metaplasia of the vagina in transgender men

Wayne Hellstrom, MD
Intralesional Collagenase Clostridium histolyticum produces meaningful improvement in men with Peyronie’s Disease and other notable findings: Results of a multi-institutional analysis

Larry Lipshultz, MD
A DNA Methylation Signature to Paternal Germline Age and Association with Infertility

Peter Schlegel, MD
Adverse effects of antidepressant medications on male fertility

followed by a live discussion

12:45pm Session

Christopher Saigal, MD
The impact of patient preferences on decision making in men with localized prostate cancer

Robert Reiter, MD
The role of N-cadherin in the development of neuroendocrine prostate cancer

Peter Carroll, MD
Preliminary Phase 1 safety and efficacy results of a Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) targeting fluorophore in patients undergoing robotic prostatectomy

Edward Schaeffer, MD
Plasma Cells are Enriched in Localized Prostate Cancer in Black Men and are Associated Improved Cancer Outcomes

followed by live discussion

2:00pm Session

Arie Belldegrun, MD
Off-the-Shelf Engineered Cell Therapy using a CD70-Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) for Renal Cell Carcinoma

Chandru Sundaram, MD
Attenuated Antihypertensive Requirements in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Patients Undergoing Native Nephrectomy with Renal Transplantation: A Contemporary Analysis

Marston Linehan, MD
Identification of the VHL Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Gene led to Precision Surgery, the Mechanism for Cellular Oxygen Sensing and Novel Therapeutics

followed by a live discussion

3:00pm Session

Eric Klein, MD
Moving from Screening for Individual Cancers to Screening Individuals for Cancer: Validation of a Liquid Biopsy for Multi-Cancer Early Detection

Christopher Kane, MD
Racial Justice and Prostate Cancer Care

Badrinath Konety, MD
Neoadjuvant therapy with Nivolumab, Gemcitabine and Cisplatin for patients undergoing radical cystectomy: results from BLASST-1 (Bladder Cancer Signal Seeking Trial)

Markus Graefen, MD
Potential Survival Benefit of Patients with oligo-metastatic Prostate Cancer treated with Radical Prostatectomy – preliminary data from a subgroup analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

followed by a live discussion

AAGUS Reports —-

AUA Report – Raju Thomas

ABU Report – Eila Skinner

Eulogies —-

Eulogies: Thursday, August 25, 2021

Eulogies for

Bedford Waters, M.D. presented by Robert Flanigan, M.D.
Richard Turner Warwick, M.D. presented by Chris Chapple, M.D.
Ralph Veenema, M.D. presented by John Wei, M.D.
Stephen Dretler, M.D. presented by Mark Litwin, M.D.
Leonard Zinman, M.D. presented by John Libertino, M.D.

Eulogies: Friday, August 26, 2021

Eulogies for

Howard Snyder, M.D. presented by Doug Canning, M.D.
Clair Cox, M.D. presented by John Wei, M.D.
Edward McGuire, M.D. presented by Jerry Blaivas, M.D.
William C. DeWolf, M.D. presented by Paul Lange, M.D.

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