2026 Annual Urology Advocacy Summit Recap

March 5, 2026

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

December 31, 2025

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

December 30, 2025

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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The WSAUA Foundation announces its Endowed Scholarship Fund

December 27, 2025

The WSAUA Foundation is proud to announce its Endowed Resident Scholarship Program! Want to create a legacy in your name or in honor of a mentor? We now have the opportunity to have a named endowment for each of our training facilies. Photo: On right, Dr. Joel Gelman (UCI), honors Dr. Rajfer at SurgeWest Napa.…

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