6th WCUS-AUA, 2011

The 6^th World Chinese Urological Society (WCUS) meeting in Washington DC, 2011. 

The World Chinese Urological Society (WCUS) will hold its 6^th annual meeting in Washington DC on May 14, 2011. The WCUS is a thriving organization that is enthusiastically supported by the AUA, the Chinese Urological Association (CUA), Taiwanese Urological Association (TUA), Hong Kong Urological Association (HKUA), Macao Urological Association (MUA) and the Singapore Urological Society as well as numerous urologists from all over the world. It has become one of the most active sub-specialty societies at the AUA. We anticipate that more than 500 Chinese-speaking urologists and urologic scientists will be in attendance from all corners of the world. 

The 6^th Annual WCUS meeting will be a 5-hour session with special lectures, topic-oriented mini-symposiums and AUA highlights. Dr. Paul Lange will give the inaugural Lo Ping-wan Memorial Lecture entitled “Provenge and the endangered surgeon scientists”. Chinese urologists and uro-scientists hold the key to deliver world-class urologic care for the more than 1.3 billion Chinese people worldwide. All the above-mentioned societies and governments are making great efforts to support and encourage physicians to engage in research and scientific discovery and we hope this lecture will inspire many in the audience to purse an exciting career.    

Lower urinary tract symptom (LUTS) from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most common urologic diseases in Chinese patients. The plethora of treatment is often confusing to the public as well as many practicing urologists. A mini- symposium to address diagnosis and various treatment options will help clarify the confusion. The past decade has seen an increasing incidence of prostate cancer in Chinese speaking regions of the world. Another mini-symposium will be devoted to this topic. A male health symposium that will feature a lecture on “Obesity and Testosterone deficiency” and a lecture entitled “prosthetic devices for men”. Although far from perfect, evidence-based medicine is a well-established practice in the US. Dr. Steven Canfield, the AUA evidence based medicine course director will also give a special lecture to explain and encourage this practice. Three industry-sponsored lectures will be given by Dr. Harn Chorng Kuo (Pfizer), Dr. Farid Saad (Bayer) and Dr. Run Wang (AMS).

In consideration of the overwhelming information and limited time during the AUA meeting, we will continue to invite accomplished urologists and scientists to give the AUA abstract highlights for kidney, bladder and prostate cancers, BPH, voiding dysfunction/female urology, stone, endourology/robotic surgery, sexual dysfunction and infertility.  The AUA abstract highlight sessions in the past WCUS meetings were rated highly by participants.

Holding the WCUS meeting during the annual AUA meeting serves as a venue to share cutting edge information in basic and clinical urology for Chinese speaking urologists and friends as well as for social networking. Even though our goal is to provide a platform for effective communication among Chinese-speaking urologists and urological scientists, the slides will be presented in English, and we welcome all urologists and urological scientists to attend this meeting and to meet our friendly and gifted Chinese colleagues.   

Tom F. Lue, MD, ScD (Hon), FACS and Run Wang, MD, FACS 

Program - 2011  

8:00 - 8:05 am          Welcome and introduction

Tom F. Lue, USA

8:05 - 8:10 am          Scientific Program

                                    Run Wang, USA

8:10 - 8:35 am 

Session 1:                  Lo Ping-wan Memorial Lectureship

Moderators:             Richard Lo, Hong Kong; Hong-Jeng Yu, Taiwan; Apichat Kongkanand, Thailand

8:10 - 8:30 am          Provenge and the endangered surgeon scientists

                                    Paul Lange, USA

8:40 - 8:50 am          Discussion 

8:35 - 9:10 am         

Session 2:         Endourology and BPH  

Moderators: Zeyu Sun, China; Tung Shu, USA; Ming-Kwong Yiu, Hong Kong     

8:35 - 8:45 am          The first step to be a good endourologist: urologists training with simulators in China

Yanqun Na, China

8:45 - 8:55 am          Revisiting the management of Male LUTS – can we use symptoms to guide initial diagnosis and treatment?

                                    Kuo Harn Chorng, Taiwan

8:55 - 9:05 am          TUR in saline plasma vaporization (Button)

                                 Peggy Chu, Hong Kong

9:05 - 9:10 am          Discussion

9:10 - 9:15 am          WCUS awards

9:15 - 9:50 am         

Session 3:         Evidence Based Medicine in Urology 

Moderators:             Yinghao Sun, China; Yao-Chi Chuang, Taiwan; Kavirach Tantiwongse, Thailand

9:15 - 9:30 am          Evidence Based Medicine for Urologists: a review from AUA evidence based medicine course director

Steven Canfield, USA

9:30 - 9:45 am          Evidence Based Medicine for Urologists: status in China

Qiang Wei, China      

9:45 - 9:50 am          Discussion

9:50 - 10:40 pm  

Session 4:          Radical Prostatectomy: Surgical Tips and

                            Outcomes

Moderators:             Guang Sun, China; Steve Chan, Hong Kong; Edmund Chiong, Singapore

9:50 - 10:05 am       Robotic Assistant

                                    Christopher Cheng, Singapore

10:05 - 10:20 am     Laparoscopic 

Lulin Ma, China

10:20 - 10:35 am     Open

                                    Chi-Rei Yang, Taiwan

10:35 - 10:40 am     Discussion  

10:40 - 11:15 am    

Session 5:         Men’s Health Issues

Moderators:  Tiejun Pan, China; Shaw Zhou, USA; Ban-Ping Jiann, Taiwan

10:40 - 10:55 am     Combined surgical therapy for male stress incontinence and ED

                                    Run Wang, USA

10:55 - 11:10 am     Obesity and testosterone deficiency - why this is of interest for the urologist

                                    Farid Saad, Germany

11:10 - 11:15 am     Discussion

11:15 - 12:35 pm    

Session 6:          2011 AUA Abstract Highlights 

Moderators: Liping Xie, China; Lao Hio Fai, Macau; Carson Wong, USA

11:15 - 11:25 am     Kidney Cancer                    

                                    Liping Xie, China                   

11:25 - 11:35 am     Bladder Cancer      

                                    Dai-Lung Cha, Taiwan

11:35 - 11:45 am     Prostate Cancer

                                    Ningchen Li, China

11:45 - 11:55 am     BPH

                                    Chan Tai Ip, Macau

11:55 - 12:05 pm     Voiding Dysfunction/Female Urology

                                    Dominic Lee, Australia

12:05 - 12:15 pm     Urolithiasis/Endourology

Kwan Lun Ho, Hong Kong

12:15 - 12:25 pm     Sexual Dysfunction / Andrology/Infertility

                                    Eric Chung, Australia

12:25 - 12:35 pm     Laproscopy/Robotic Surgery

                                    Yuhui Wang, Sweden and Norway

            12:35 - 12:40 pm    

            Session 7:          Scientific Publication 

         Moderators: Guan Wu, USA; Philip Li, USA; Yutian Dai, China 

12:35-12:45pm        How to get your urological-andrology research published at the AJA successfully?

                                    Danqing Ren, AJA

            12:45-12:55pm        How to demonstrate the research outcomes?

                                                Suning You, Chinese Medical Association

12:55 - 1:00 pm       Closing Remarks

                                    Zhangqun Ye, China