USC Institute of Urology

4th Annual Conference:

PRACTICAL Urology
January 31, February 1–2, 2019

Guest Faculty
Jeffrey Cadeddu, MD Thomas S. Lendvay, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Seattle Children’s Hospital
James Quentin Clemens, MD Herbert Lepor, MD
University of Michigan New York University
Scott Eggener, MD Sumanta Pal, MD
University of Chicago City of Hope National Medical Center
Behfar Ehdaie, MD Eila Skinner, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Stanford University
Cancer Center Ashutosh Tewari, MD
Francesco Greco, MD Icahn School of Medicine at
Hospital Humanitas Gavazzeni  Mount Sinai
Jorge Gutierrez, MD
Wake Forest University
Thursday January 31, 2019
6:30 AM Registration and breakfast
7:30 AM Welcome
TESTICULAR CANCER
Moderator: Hooman Djaladat
8:00 AM Early Stage Testicular Cancer Management
Sia Daneshmand, MD
8:15 AM Testicular Cancer: Case Discussion
Hooman Djaladat, MD
KIDNEY CANCER
Moderator: René Sotelo
8:45 AM Imaging for Kidney Cancer: 2019
Vinay Duddalwar, MD
9:00 AM Kidney Tumor Ablation in 2018: Optimal Outcomes
Jeffrey Cadeddu, MD
9:15 AM BREAK
9:30 AM Robotic Partial Nephrectomy: Impact of Surgical
and Host Factors
Giovanni Cacciamani, MD
9:45 AM Ischemia Techniques in Nephron-sparing Surgery: A
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Francesco Greco, MD
 10:00 AM Robotic IVC Thrombectomy
Inderbir Gill, MD
10:15 AM Update on adjuvant therapy for kidney cancer
Sumanta Pal, MD
10:30 AM BREAK
10:45 AM Live Surgery - Case Discussion - Kidney Cancer
Mihir Desai, MD
BLADDER AND UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CANCER
Moderator: Sia Daneshmand
12:15 PM Blue Light and Novel Therapies for Bladder Cancer
Anne Shuckman, MD
12:30 PM Risk Adapted Management of Non-Muscle Invasive
Bladder Cancer
Eila Skinner, MD
12:45 PM Management of BCG Refractory NMIBC
Eila Skinner, MD
1:00 PM Management of High Grade T1 Urothelial Cell Carcinoma
Sia Daneshmand, MD
1:15 PM PICK UP LUNCH - BREAK
1:45 PM Robotic Radical Cystectomy. Where We Stand in 2019?
Mihir Desai, MD
2:00 PM ERAS Protocols
Hooman Djaladat, MD
2:15 PM Radical Cystectomy vs Multimodal Bladder Sparing
Francesco Greco, MD
2:30 PM Systemic Therapy for Bladder Cancer
Anishka  D’Souza, MD
2:45 PM BREAK
3:00 PM Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma
Hooman Djaladat, MD
3:15 PM Case Discussion - Bladder Cancer
Sumeet Bhanvadia, MD
BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
Moderator: Jamal Nabhani
4:15 PM TURP and Enucleation Treatments for BPH
Jamal Nabhani, MD
4:30 PM UroLift: USC Experience
Andre Berger, MD
4:45 PM Aquablation: Initial Experience
Mihir Desai, MD
5:00 PM Adjourn

4th Annual Conference: PRACTICAL Urology 2019

Friday February 1, 2019
7:00 AM Registration and breakfast

SPECIAL TALKS
7:40 AM Immunotherapy for GU cancer: Why We Should Get
Involved With This Approach
Ashutosh Tewari, MD
PROSTATE CANCER
Moderator: Monish Aron
8:00 AM Novel Screening Biomarkers
Scott Eggener, MD
8:15 AM Genomics and its Impact on Prostate Cancer
Management
Ashutosh Tewari, MD
8:30 AM Debunked Myths about Prostate and Practical Tips
to Minimize Overdetection of Prostate Cancer
Scott Eggener, MD
8:45 AM Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: MRI based pathway
Andre Abreu, MD
9:00 AM BREAK
9:15 AM Management of Clinically Localized High-Risk
Prostate Cancer
Scott Eggener, MD
9:30 AM Managing Patient Expectations and Patient Selection in
Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Comparative Patient-
Reported Outcomes and Oncologic Efficacy
Ehdaie Behfar, MD
9:45 AM HIFU Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Andre Abreu, MD
10:00 AM Focal Ablation for Prostate Cancer:
Ready for Prime Time? Debate
Herbert Lepor, MD and Ehdaie Behfar, MD
10:30 AM BREAK
10:45 AM Anatomical Foundations and Technical Refinement for
Robotic Prostatectomy
Ashutosh Tewari, MD
11:00 AM Open vs Robotic Prostatectomy: Lessons Learned
and How To Improve Short and Long-Term Outcomes
Following RP
Herbert Lepor, MD
11:15 AM Surgery for Oligo-Metastatic Disease
Monish Aron, MD
11:30 AM Surgery for “Node-Only” Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Inderbir Gill, MD

4th Annual Conference: PRACTICAL Urology 2019

 11:45 AM BREAK
12:15 PM Robotic Repair of Genitourinary Fistulas
Rene Sotelo, MD
12:30 PM Inflatable Penile Prosthesis and Artificial Urinary
Sphincters: Practical Tips and Tricks for Successful
Outcomes 
Jeffrey Loh-Doyle, MD
12:45 PM XRT for Prostate Cancer: 2019
Leslie Ballas, MD
1:00 PM Systemic Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Harris Zahoor, MD
1:15 PM PICK UP LUNCH - BREAK
1:45 PM Live Surgery - Case Discussion - Prostate Cancer
Monish Aron, MD
SPECIAL TALKS
3:15 PM Male Menopause: Myth or Reality?
Mary Samplaski, MD
3:35 PM BREAK
3:50 PM What Every Urologist Needs to Know About Male
Infertility
Mary Samplaski, MD
4:10 PM Introduction to Transgender Surgery
Leo Doumanian, MD
4:30 PM Adjourn

Saturday February 2, 2019

7:00 AM Registration and breakfast
SPECIAL TALKS
7:40 AM Payment Reform and Urology
James Quentin Clemens, MD
STONE / ENDOUROLOGY SESSION
Moderator: Mike Nguyen
8:00 AM Kidney Stone Prevention: Common Dietary
Myths and the Realities 
Mike Nguyen, MD 
8:15 AM Stones Between 1-2 cm: What Treatment Alternatives
Work Best?
Jorge Gutierrez, MD
8:30 AM Improving Laser Lithotripsy Outcomes: Fragmentation,
Dusting, and more
Mike Nguyen, MD
8:45 AM Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery
RIRS for Kidney Stones: Technique and Limitations
Gerhard Fuchs, MD

4th Annual Conference: PRACTICAL Urology 2019

9:00 AM The “Mini PCNL”: It Is Not For Every Stone
Jorge Gutierrez, MD
9:15 AM BREAK
9:30 AM Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery
(RIRS) for Upper Tract TCC: When and How
Gerhard Fuchs, MD
9:45 AM Case Discussion - Endourology
Gerhard Fuchs, MD
PEDIATRIC UROLOGY
10:45 AM Pediatrics Talks
FEMALE UROLOGY
Moderator: Larissa Rodriguez, MD
11:15 AM Management of Recurrent UTIs
James Quentin Clemens, MD
11:30 AM The New Era of Neuromodulation for the
Management of OAB
David Ginsberg, MD
11:45 AM The Future of Surgery for SUI: Will the MUS Survive?
Larissa Rodriguez, MD
12:00 PM Contemporary Role of Urodynamics in the
Management of Incontinence: Is it Necessary?
Evgeniy Kreydin, MD
12:15 PM PICK UP LUNCH - BREAK
12:30 PM Contemporary Clinical Management of IC/BPS
James Quentin Clemens, MD
12:45 PM Q & A: Management of Difficult FPMRS cases
David Ginsberg, MD
SURGICAL ASSESSMENT & TRAINING
Moderator: Andrew Hung,MD
1:30 PM A Path to Surgical Excellence: Crowdsourcing
Skills Assessment
Thomas S. Lendvay, MD
1:45 PM Automated Performance Metrics and Deep Learning
Algorithms to Predict Urinary Continence after Robot-
assisted Radical Prostatectomy 
Andrew Hung, MD
2:00 PM Adjourn

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