2018 Agenda

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Hot Topics

  • Prostate cancer
  • Bladder cancer
  • Renal cancer
  • Urinary incontinence and overactive bladder
  • Endourology
  • New BPH procedures
  • Assessment and approval of new technology

Friday, November 9, 2018

(each session will include 25% of its time for interactivity btw audience and session presenters)

0700

Registration

Continental Breakfast with exhibitors

0755 Welcome
Dr. Sender Herschorn

Localized Prostate Cancer
Moderator: Robert Hamilton

0800 Debate: MRI should become part of the standard of care prior to biopsy for prostate cancer

  • PRO – Dr. Nathan Perlis
  • CON – Dr. Antonio Finelli
0830 Risk calculators for prostate cancer prediction and prognosis: Are we any further ahead?
Dr. Robert Nam
0840 In whom should I reconsider active surveillance? Use of ancillary testing and genomics for risk stratification.
Dr. Neil Fleshner
0850 Discussion with audience
0900 Vincent Colapinto Memorial Lecture
The role of lifestyle, diet and cholesterol metabolism in prostate cancer development and progression: implications for practicing urologists
Dr. Stephen Freedland
0920 Discussion
0930 Break with exhibitors

Kidney Cancer
Moderator: Michael Jewett

1000 Debate: Biopsy should be the standard of care for all small renal masses

  • PRO – Dr. Antonio Finelli
  • CON – Dr. Alexander Kutikov
1030 Debate: Renal ischemia is of paramount importance when performing partial nephrectomy

  • PRO – Dr. Michael Jewett
  • CON – Dr. Dipen Parekh
1100 Cytoreductive nephrectomy: when and in whom?
Dr. Steven Boorjian
1115 Adjuvant chemotherapy in RCC: should I be referring my patients?
Dr. Alexander Kutikov
1130 Discussion audience
1145 Lunch with exhibitors

Health technology assessment of Robotic Surgery – Views from different provinces
Moderator: Sender Herschorn

1230 The Ontario assessment of robotic surgery
Dr. Irfan Dhalla
1255 The Alberta assessment of robotic surgery
Dr. Devidas Menon
1320 Panel discussion: Robotic surgery and other new technologies
Drs. Iran Dhalla, Devidas Menon, Murray Krahn, Neil Fleshner

Bladder Cancer
Moderator: Girish Kulkarni

1400 Robotic Cystectomy: the RAZOR trial and its implications for clinical practice
Dr. Dipen Parekh
1415 The emerging role of precision medicine in Bladder Cancer
Dr. Alexandre Zlotta
1430 Chemotherapy for Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: When should I be referring my patients?
Dr. Girish Kulkarni
1445 Urothelial carcinoma case based discussion
PANEL: Drs. Zlotta, Parekh, Fleshner
1500 Break with exhibitors

Advanced Prostate Cancer
Moderator: Neil Fleshner

1530 Androgen Targeted Therapy in Prostate Cancer: A clinically relevant update for 2018
Dr. Laurence Klotz
1545 A Canadian perspective on PSMA PET imaging in prostate cancer: implications for the M0CRPC state
Dr. Robert Hamilton
1600 In whom should we be offering oligometastectomy in prostate cancer?
Dr. Steven Boorjian
1615 Treatment of the primary tumour in metastatic prostate cancer: are we ready for cytoreductive prostate therapy?
Dr. Stephen Freedland
1630 Prostate cancer case-based discussion
PANEL: Drs. Klotz, Hamilton, Freedland, Boorjian
1700 Adjourn

Saturday, November 10, 2018

(each session will include 25% of its time for interactivity btw audience and session presenters)

0715

Registration

Continental breakfast with exhibitors

Endourology
Moderator: Kenneth Pace

0800 A practical approach to stone metabolics
Dr. Martin Schreiber
0820 Discussion with audience
0825 Debate: Who needs a 24h urine metabolic workup in 2018?

  • Pro: The 24h urine metabolic evaluation is still important
    Dr. Martin Schreiber
  • Con: All you need is a stone analysis
    Dr. Mitchell Humphreys

What’s new in Endourology?

0855 New technologies for ureteroscopy
Dr. Monica Farcas
0907 Tips for minimizing radiation exposure in Endourology
Dr. Mitchell Humphreys
0919 Shock wave lithotripsy: Alive and kicking in 2018!
Dr. Kenneth Pace
0931 When should we dust? When should we fragment?
Dr. Michael Ordon
0943 Discussion with audience
1000 Break with exhibitors

Endourology
Moderator: Kenneth Pace

1020 The intermediate sized renal stone: Case-based discussion

  • The case for ureteroscopy
    Dr. Michael Ordon
  • The case for PCNL
    Dr. Mitchell Humphreys
  • The case for SWL
    Dr. Kenneth Pace

Practical tips for the practicing urologist: Case-based discussions

1050
  • The asymptomatic calyceal stone: Should we treat?
    Dr. Monica Farcas
  • Stones in a pelvic kidney
    Dr. Mitchell Humphreys
  • Tips for dealing with post-ureteroscopy ureteric strictures
    Dr. Jason Lee

Incontinence and OAB
Moderator: Sender Herschorn

Case of primary SUI in women

1120 Evidenced-based workup for SUI
Dr. Kathleen Kobashi
1135 Status of non-invasive options – bulking agents and vaginal laser procedures
Dr. Lesley Carr
1145 Non-mesh versus mesh repairs for primary surgery – which is better?
Dr. Dan Elliott
1200 How I manage complications and bad outcomes of SUI surgery

  • Retention and voiding dysfunction
    Dr. Dan Elliott
  • Mesh erosion and extrusion
    Dr. Kathleen Kobashi
  • Persistent or recurrent incontinence
    Dr. Sender Herschorn
1220 Lunch with exhibitors

Postprostatectomy incontinence
Moderator: Sender Herschorn

1305 Is there an evidence-based workup?
Dr. Sidney Radomski
1315 Indications and evidence for slings.
Dr. Sender Herschorn
1330 The artificial sphincter – current status
Dr. Dan Elliott
1345 Cases of post-prostatectomy incontinence
Panel discussion and questions

OAB – difficult problems in management
Moderator: Lesley Carr

1400 What is the right way to manage mixed incontinence in women?
Dr. Kathleen Kobashi
1410 Management of OAB in men with BPH/LUTS
Dr. Sidney Radomski
1420 Evidence for third-line therapy and why is it underused?
Dr. Lesley Carr
1430 Do urologists have to worry about anticholinergic burden in elderly OAB patients?
Dr. Sender Herschorn
1440 Case discussion with audience
1505 Break with exhibitors

New BPH procedures
Moderator: Sidney Radomski

1530 Case of man with BPO and failed medical therapy
Dr. S. RadomskiDebate: optimal surgical procedure for 80 gm prostate; 150 gm prostate; anticoagulation
1535 Transurethral enucleation
Dr. Naeem Bhojani
1545 TURP or plasma button
Dr. Sid Radomski
1555 Greenlight laser
Dr. Dean Elterman
1605 Rebuttal

Emerging technologies for BPH

1610 Aquablation
Dr. Naeem Bhojani
1620 Urolift and embolization
Dr. Dean Elterman
1630 Rezum
Dr. Naeem Bhojani
1640 Case discussion with audience
1700 Adjourn