2026 Annual Urology Advocacy Summit Recap

2026 Annual Urology Advocacy Summit Recap By John S. Lam, MD, MBA, FACS, Los Angeles, CA AUA State Advocacy Committee Rep WSAUA Health Policy Committee District 6 Rep Past-President California Urological Association   Thank you to all that joined us for the 2026 AUA Summit in Washington, DC, Feb 23-25. The ninth Annual Advocacy Summit…

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2025 Meeting Award and Prize Winners

Award and Prize Winners SURGEWEST – 101st Annual Meeting  November 2-6, 2025 Congratulations to Joel Gelman, MD (UCI) Awarded WSAUA Distinguished Member for 2025 Click here to find/view Abstracts Congratulations Essay & Session Winners Miley B. Wesson Resident Essay Contest Winners 1ST PLACE: Kai Wen Cheng, MD, Loma Linda Univ. Med. Ctr. Cured but Not…

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Meeting Take-Aways Napa 2025 by Dr. John Barry

Many thanks to Dr. John Barry for his commentary and sharing of these take-aways from the sessions at the 2025 meeting Napa. The number of attendees was surprising for a non-Hawaii meeting. The TAR-20 pretzel concept of delivering chemotherapy into the bladder is an interesting one; will it be combined with the double-J ureteral stent…

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Meeting Take-Aways Kauai 2024 by Dr. John Barry

Many thanks to Dr. John Barry for his commentary and sharing of these take-aways from the sessions at the 2024 meeting Kauai. It takes half an hour to get from LIH to paradise (AKA the Hyatt Regency Kauai). Were there >300 posters? Yes.  Urinary biomarkers are coming of age for prostate cancer screening and for…

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Meeting Take-Aways – AUA San Antonio 2024 for Sexual Dysfunction

AUA 2024 Meeting: Key Takeways for Sexual Dysfunction By Juan José Andino MD, MBA UCLA Urology Assistant Clinical Professor MLK Community Healthcare Urology While attendees to this year’s American Urological Association meeting in San Antonio can stream the Key Takeaway sessions through the conference website, other Urologists or Advance Practice Providers won’t have immediate access…

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