Invited Faculty

The chart is organized in alphabetical order by last name.

Poh Choo Toh

Singapore

Poh Choo Toh

Singapore
Yeong-Shiau Pu

Senior Urologist, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan

Yeong-Shiau Pu

Senior Urologist, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan

• MD 1987, Ph.D. 1995, EMBA 2007 at National Taiwan University • Urology Board certification 1992 • Surgery Board certification 1993 • President, Taiwan Urological Association (2018 – 2020) • President and Founder, Taiwan Maple Urological Association (2014 – 2021) • Director, Dept of Urology, NTU College of Medicine and Hospital (2012 – 2018)
Marcerey Sison Quejada

Charge Nurse, Medical Surgical Ward, Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, United Arab Emirates

Marcerey Sison Quejada

Charge Nurse, Medical Surgical Ward, Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital, United Arab Emirates

Marcerey, fondly known as Marc to friends and colleagues, has called the UAE home for the past 20 years. Originally from the Philippines, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in Manila. With decades of experience and dedication in the healthcare field, Marc has built a reputation for professionalism, compassion, and excellence in patient care.
Mohd Rafie

President, Bahrain Urology Association, Bahrain

Mohd Rafie

President, Bahrain Urology Association, Bahrain
Narasimhan Ragavan

Senior consultant, Department of Urology, Apollo Hospitals, India

Narasimhan Ragavan

Senior consultant, Department of Urology, Apollo Hospitals, India

Dr. N. RAGAVAN Adjunct Professor in UroOncology , TN DR MGR Med University Senior Consultant Urological Surgeon and Uro-Oncologist (Robotics and Laparoscopy) Apollo Hospitals, Chennai Qualifications MBBS, MS, FRCSEd, MD (Uro-Oncology), FRCS (Urol) PGCTLCP, Fellow in Robotics and Laparoscopy (Germany) Biography An alumni of PGI Chandigarh (General Surgery) , Dr. N. Ragavan, trained and worked as a Consultant Urologist and UroOncologist in UK. He did his fellowship in Germany under Prof Stolzenburg. He has 15 + years of working in UroOncology with expertise in open, laparoscopy and robotic surgeries for patients with prostate , bladder, kidney , penile and testicular cancers. He was first in South India to perform novel and pioneering works in Robotics including Extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy Total Intracorporeal nephroureterectomy , RPLND, Cystectomy with ileal conduit, Boari flap , Culp pyeloplasty and more. A keen academician, researcher and teacher, Dr Ragavan conducts training programme in UroOncology , mentors Urology trainees and has published 35 papers in international journals, He is a member and faculty in national and international urology and urooncology societies . Has completed more than 1000 robotic surgeries Primary Interests • Complete Uro-Oncology care ( covering Kidneys, Bladder , Prostate , Penile and Testicular Cancers) • Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery (Robotics and Laparoscopy). • Prostatic diseases and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Special Expertise • Robotic and Laparoscopic Uro-Oncological Surgery ( including Radical Prostatectomy, Radical Cystectomy, Radical Nephrectomy and Partial Nephrectomy and Nephroureterectomy) • Robotic and Laparoscopic Incontinence and Reconstructive surgery ( along with UroGynec team) • Penile and Testicular Cancer surgery Fellowship/ Membership / Work Experience including International Experience • Consultant Urological Surgeon and Uro-Oncologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK (Regional Cancer Centre) • Fellow in Laparoscopy and Robotics with Prof. Stolzenburg, Germany • Completed Specialist Registrar Training in Urology , Liverpool , UK • Uro-Oncology research and training , Preston, UK • Senior Resident in General Surgery at JIPMER Pondicherry and PGIMER Chandigarh, India • Junior Resident General Surgery PGIMER Chandigarh, India • Membership - SOGO - USI - ASU - TAPASU - British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), UK - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), UK - General Medical Council , UK - European Association of Urologist (EAU) Awards, Honours and Grants • Best of BAUS – Poster no 90 , Manchester 2006 • Brian Booth Research Prize - Rosemere Cancer Foundation, 2005 • Best Poster award – Poster session 37 at EAU, 2005 • Best Presentation prize - North West Trainee’s Research Meeting, 2004 • Best young Scientist award -1993-94, State Medical Council for Science and Technology. • Gold medal in surgery -1993, SRMC, India. • Gold medal in anatomy -1990, SRMC, India • Grant for fellowship from Prostate UK • Norman Gibbon Travelling Fellowship • Seedcorn funding by the research directorate of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust • Rosemere Cancer Foundation funding for my research project. Publications and Presentations 40 publications in the international medical journals and have presented extensively in the international meetings. Some are listed below • Ragavan .N , Selvaraj N etal. Robot assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy . Does size matter? Cureus 12(8); e9887 ( Accepted) • Ragavan. N, Dholaki K; Day Case Laparoscopic nephrectomy – Feasibility and Safety . JCU 2019 • Ragavan N, Dholakia K, Ramesh M, Stolzenburg JU. Extraperitoneal vs. transperitoneal robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy-analysis of perioperative outcomes, a single surgeon's experience. J Robot Surg. 2019 Apr;13(2):275-281 • Shah P, Ragavan N, Bhat S, Dholakiya K. Case report: Robot-assisted laparoscopic excision of giant ganglioneuroma of the adrenal gland. J Robot Surg. 2017 Jul 26. • Primary Intrarenal Yolk Sac Tumour . N Ragavan, K Dholakia, S Annapurneswari. IJU 2017 ; 33;2; 167 • Robot assisted Laparoscopic excision of Organ of Zuckerkandl . N Ragavan, NK Narayanan, Malavizhi Ramesh, YVC Reddy. J. Robotic surgery. 2016. Dec;10(4):373-374 • Prostate Biopsy for elevated PSA – Indian Perspective .N. Ragavan Indian J Med Res. 2014 Jun;139(6):802-3. • Feasibility of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy in prostate cancer patients with high prostate-specific antigen: feasibility and 1-year outcomes Do M, Ragavan N, Dietel A, Liatsikos E, Anderson C, McNeill A, Stolzenburg JU. Int J Urol. 2012 Oct;19(10):923-7. • Comments on the extraperitoneal approach for standard laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: what is gained and what is lost. Liatsikos E, Kyriazis I, Kallidonis P, Do M, Haefner T, Dietel A, Holze S, Ragavan N, Stolzenburg JU. Prostate Cancer. 2011
Deepak Ragoori

Senior Consultant Urologist & Facility Director, Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology, India

Deepak Ragoori

Senior Consultant Urologist & Facility Director, Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology, India
Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman

President, Bangladesh Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), Bangladesh

Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman

President, Bangladesh Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), Bangladesh
Anggie N. Rahwanto

Head of Urology and Endourology dept. of Siloam Hospitals TB Simatupang, South Jakarta, AUSET Department of Urology, Siloam International Hospitals, Indonesia

Anggie N. Rahwanto

Head of Urology and Endourology dept. of Siloam Hospitals TB Simatupang, South Jakarta, AUSET Department of Urology, Siloam International Hospitals, Indonesia

Dr Anggie is a Urologist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He underwent residency of Urology in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Padjadajaran University, Bandung in December 2013. He also attended fellowship in advanced Laparoscopic surgery in Binh Dan hospital, Ho Choi Minh city, Vietnam in 2017 and studied to Seoul National University Hospital under Prof Sung Yung Cho in 2022. His interest is endourology and stone dissease and has been serving as l board member of AUSET since 2022, and member of the Indonesian Endourology Society since 2024, stone division. He also works and research in male sexual health and advancement reconstruction in Beyoutiful clinic in Jakarta.
Shailesh Raina

Department of Uro-Genital Sciences, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, India

Shailesh Raina

Department of Uro-Genital Sciences, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, India

Dr. Shailesh Raina is the Director Urology and Renal Transplantation at the Jaslok Hospital Mumbai, India. Sr. Consultant Urologist and Andrologist – Lilavati, Breach Candy, Sir. H.N. Reliance Mumbai He is a graduate (1975) and post graduate (1981). from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and later trained in urology in Mumbai (3 years) and in the UK (2years) at The Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol; The institute of Urology (London) and The Taunton and Somerset Hospitals. He returned to Mumbai as a Consultant Urologist in 1989 and helped set up ESWL and upper tract Endourology (PCNL and URS) at the Jaslok Hospital Mumbai. He is the first in country to use the HPS 120 and 180 green light lasers for BPH. He has been actively involved in setting up the Pelvic Floor Clinic at the Jaslok Hospital and established Neurourology as a subspecialty at the Jaslok Hospital. He conducted the first ever International workshop on Neuropathic bladder and incontinence at Jaslok Hospital in 2006. He is one of few in the country to have performed artificial sphincter surgery and surgeries for atonic bladders. He started Sacral Neuromodulation for Hypotonic Bladder in India in 2010 and has experience of implanting IPG – interstim II and X5. He has been on the Faculty for lectures and workshop of USI, Mumbai Urological Society, Bangladesh Association of Urological Surgeons, Mumbai obstetrics and Gynecology Society, Asian Congress of Urology, S.I.U (Indian Section), ASEAN Urology, and EUA (European Urology Association) and AUA (American Urology Association) Dr. Raina was felicitated last month (June 2023) for having helped start Renal Transplantation in Government Medical Collage SRINAGAR AND JAMMU in the year 2022. He still helps the patients of J&K in Renal Transplants and Neurourology
Prem Rashid

School of Clinical Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Prem Rashid

School of Clinical Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Australia