Invited Faculty
The chart is organized in alphabetical order by last name.
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U-Syn HA
Department of Urology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
U-Syn HA
Department of Urology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea
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BM Zeeshan Hameed
Department of Urology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
BM Zeeshan Hameed
Department of Urology, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
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Geng-Long Hsu
Director, Puli Christian Hospital, Taiwan
Geng-Long Hsu
Director, Puli Christian Hospital, Taiwan
Dr. Geng-Long Hsu was an aircraft mechanic, fixed and rotary wing, and engineer from 1971 to 1978. Extending from this background, sexual medicine, addressing the penile hemodynamic, was developed at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) from 1985 to 1989, when 101 cases of penile vascular surgery (PVS) were conducted. He was attending a research fellowship at the University of California under the mentorship of Professor Tom F. Lue in 1991. The Jean-Paul Ginestie Prize was awarded at the 5th World Meeting on Impotence for discovering the penile fibro-skeleton. From 2001 to 2004, he was the director of the microsurgery potency reconstruction center at Taipei Medical University. Afterward, he established his private practice, "Hsu's Andrology", then acted as a clinical professor at China Medical University till 2011, where he pursued unique, groundbreaking research topics. For example, "Penile Veins Are the Determining Contributor for Erection: The Hemodynamic Evidence from the Study in Defrosted Human Cadavers" was awarded the second prize at the 3rd World Congress on Controversies in Urology (CURy). The penile fibro-vascular assembly, the last piece of an elucidated compartment in the human cardiovascular system, was granted the Zorgniotti-Newman prize on November 19, 2021, at a virtual ISSM world meeting.
Refined PVS was granted a USPTO patent in 2012. He contributed five chapters to the Encyclopedia of Reproduction, 2nd edition, published on August 1, 2018. Although officially retired, he works part-time at NTUH, aiming for varied potency reconstructive strategies shared with the young generation, including PVS, penile clitoroplasty, penile implant with glans enhancement, combing PVS, and factual penile enhancement. Acupuncture-assisted local anesthesia was developed in 1988, which has been unexceptionally ambulatory. -
William J. Huang
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
William J. Huang
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
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Andrew Hung
Vice Chair for Academic Development, Associate Professor of Urology and Computational Biomedicine, Department of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States
Andrew Hung
Vice Chair for Academic Development, Associate Professor of Urology and Computational Biomedicine, Department of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States
Dr. Hung is a surgeon scientist who specializes in robotic surgery for diseases of the kidney and prostate. His research interests include the development of artificial intelligence methods to improve surgeon skills assessment and training. Dr. Hung received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Yale University, and he completed his medical education at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University with honors in research. Dr. Hung completed his urology residency at the University of Southern California, and he stayed at USC for a fellowship in advanced laparoscopy and robotics. After spending 9 years on faculty at USC and attaining tenure, he joins the Department of Urology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2023 as Vice Chair for Academic Development. Dr. Hung is internationally recognized as a leader in the development of innovative surgical simulation and assessment technologies. Supported by the National Institutes of Health with over $10M in funding, Dr. Hung has also become a leading innovator in the development of automated performance metrics for robotic surgery. His collaboration with data scientists at Caltech has harnessed deep learning algorithms to better predict robotic surgical outcomes and automate surgeon skills assessment. Dr. Hung has produced over 200 papers on surgical assessment and training in leading journals, including Nature Biomedical Engineering, JAMA Surgery, and the Journal of Urology. He served as the first Consulting Editor on Artificial Intelligence for the British Journal of Urology International. He currently serves on several advisory panels around the world. He is a member of the National Institutes of Health study section on Image-guided Interventions and Surgery. He is also a member of the United Kingdom Responsible AI advisory board.
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Michael Jewett
Chair, Board of Directors, International Kidney Cancer Coalition, United States
Michael Jewett
Chair, Board of Directors, International Kidney Cancer Coalition, United States
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Seung Il Jung
Chonnam national Hwasun hospital, Korea
Seung Il Jung
Chonnam national Hwasun hospital, Korea
Professor of Urology at Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, South Korea. With a distinguished career spanning over two decades, he specializes in uro-oncology and urogenital tract infections, contributing extensively to academic research and clinical advancements in urology. Prof. Jung actively engages in international collaborations and serves as the Director of the International Relationship Committee in the Korean Urological Association and the director of Korean antimicrobial resistance monitoring system for urinary tract infection
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Tatsuo Kawai
Department of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States
Tatsuo Kawai
Department of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States
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Isaac Kim
Chair, the Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine, United States
Isaac Kim
Chair, the Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine, United States
Dr. Isaac Yi Kim is currently the Professor and Chair, Department of Urology, Yale School of Medicine. He is an expert in minimally invasive robotic surgery and has completed more than 2,400 robotic surgeries for prostate cancer. His laboratory research interests include tumor microenvironment and androgen signaling in prostate cancer while clinical research programs focus on racial disparity as well as role of surgery in advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. He is the principal investigator of the international multi-institution clinical study on cytoreductive radical prostatectomy, SIMCAP.
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Rajeev Kumar
Professor of Urology, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Rajeev Kumar
Professor of Urology, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Rajeev Kumar is Professor of Urology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India where he obtained all his medical training. His principal areas of clinical work are minimally invasive urology with a focus on adrenal surgeries, percutaneous stone surgery, and microsurgery for male infertility. His research interests are MR techniques for prostate cancer diagnosis and aetiology of male infertility. He has published over 300 scientific articles and book chapters and delivered over 100 international lectures. He is Editor of The National Medical Journal of India, was Editor of the Indian Journal of Urology, and serves in various editorial capacities for the Journal of Urology, International Journal of Urology, and Investigative & Clinical Urology. He is Adjunct Secretary General of the Urological Association of Asia (UAA), immediate Past-President of the Société Internationale d' Urologie (SIU), and a member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons (AAGUS). He is also a Director of the World Association of Medical Editors.