Associate Professor, Department of Urology National Defense Medical College, Japan
Specialty: Urinary reconstruction surgery
Deputy Director, Emergency Trauma Medical Subcommittee, Japan Urology Association
Arnaud Kerzmann, MD.
Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Private lecturer in vascular surgery at the Paracelsus Medical University, Germany
Specialty: the minimally invasive insertion of stent prostheses into the main artery.
Ashok Agarwal, MD.
Director of the Andrology Center at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
Director of Research at the American Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
According to Scopus, Ashok’s Lab is the current world leader in Sperm Proteomics research based on the number of peerreviewed original articles published in high- impact journals.
Athanasios Katsargyris, MD.
Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany & Athens University Medical School, Greece
Specialty: Vascular Surgeon, Expertise in Endovascular Treatment of complex aortic aneurysms
Bernard Malavaud, MD.
Professor of Urology, Toulouse Medical School, France
Head of Onco-Urology to the newly installed Institut Universitaire du Cancer in Toulouse and co-director with Dr. Olivier Cuvillier of the sphingolipids and cancer group of the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique”.
Carlo Bettocchi, MD. FECSM.
Professor of Urology in the Urological Unit at Policlinico, University of Bari, Italy
Director of the Department of Andrology and External Genital Surgery
President of the European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM)
Christian Saussine, MD. PhD.
Professor, CHRU of Strasbourg, Nephrology-Urology-Diabetology-Endocrinology center (N.U.D.E.), France.
Devin F. Borna, MD.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA.
David K. Imagawa, MD.
Professor, Surgery School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, USA
Leading expert in minimally invasive liver and pancreatic surgery
Chief of the Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas surgery.
Dr. Cho Wing (Bryan)Li, MBBS. MRCP. FHKCP. FHKAM.
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, in 2004.
Completed basic and higher physician training at Queen Mary Hospital.
Currently serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Centre of Cancer Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong.
Specializes in the treatment of genitourinary and gynecological cancers.
Active member of the Medical Oncology Specialty Board (HKCP) and member of the Hong Kong Society of Geriatric Oncology.
Enrico Finazzi Agrò, MD.
Professor at Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery of Tor Vergata University, Roma, Italy
Director of the Unit for Functional Urology and Mini-Invasive Surgery of the Policlinico Tor Vergata University Hospital in Rome.
President of the Italian Society of Urodynamics.
Farzad Farrokhi, MD.
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Gavin M. Wright, MBBS. FRACS. PhD.
Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery
Director of Surgical Oncology at St. Vincent’s Hospital
Works at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre as both a thoracic surgeon and as the Research and Education Lead for Lung Cancer at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Jason B. Samarasena, MD. MBA FACG. AGAF.
Associate Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Director of the UC Irvine Interventional Endoscopy Training Program
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, H. H. Chao Digestive Health Institute, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Jay Simhan, MD. FACS.
Professor, Department of Urology
Vice Chair, Department of Urology
Director of Reconstruction and Prosthetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Rockledge , USA.
Jennifer B. Valerin, MD. PhD.
Associate Professor — Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medicine, University of California Irvine, USA
2019: Medicine Ph.D, University of Texas at Houston/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cancer Biology, Clinical and Translational Research.
Joel Gelman, MD.
Clinical Professor – Director of the Center for Reconstructive Urology, University of California Irvine, USA
Diplomat of the American Board of Urology and served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons.
John Elefteriades, MD.
W.L. Glenn Professor of Surgery (Cardiac) Yale School of Medicine, USA
He has been among the most clinically active academic surgeons in America
In 2020, Dr. Elefteriades was recognized by Expertscape as the top aortic specialist in the world
Among his research projects, he is working to identify the genetic mutations responsible for thoracic aortic aneurysms
Ki-Hun Kim, MD. PhD.
Professor and Director of Asan Liver Center, Chairman-elect of Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division of Hepatobiliary surgery and Liver transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University, Seoul, Korea
Dr. Kim has more than 4,000 open hepatectomies and more than 1,500 laparoscopic hepatectomies including living donor hepatectomies.
Kwang-Woong Lee, MD.
Professor of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
He is currently the president of the Korean Liver Transplantation Society and a secretary general of iLDLTG (International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Group).
He has performed more than 150 master classes of LDLT in Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Myanmar since 2013.
He has performed all living donors laparoscopically since Dec. 2015 and performed the world’s first minimal invasive recipient surgery using a Robot and/or laparoscopic approach.
Laurian Bogdan Dragos, MD.
Professor, General Urology, Endourology and Uro-Oncology Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, England.
Nadir Osman, MD. PhD. FRCS.
Consultant Urological Surgeon with a Specialist interest in Functional, Reconstructive and Neurological Urology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK
Honorary Senior Lecturer, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, UK.
Natzi Sakalihasan, MD. PhD.
Professor, University of Liege Medical Center (CHU), Belgium
Cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon
Director of the “Center of the Research and Experimental Surgery” (CREDEC) at the University of Liege, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences Liege, Belgium.
Nghia (Michael) Pham, MD.
Dr. Nghia Pham is a hematologist/oncologist in Orange, California and is affiliated with University of California, Irvine Medical Center
He obtained his medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
He obtained his undergraduate degree from University of California, Berkeley
Nikolaos Sofikitis, MD.
Professor of Urology and the Chairman of the Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece
Professor, Junior Hospital Director, Director of Gastric Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Working on minimally invasive surgery since 2005 and incorporating robotic surgery
Takashi Akiyoshi, MD.
Director of Department of Colorectal Surgery and Rectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Treatment Center, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Specialty: Colorectal Cancer, Minimally invasive surgery, Extended surgery, Multidisciplinary treatment for rectal cancer
Thomas Chi, MD. MBA
Professor of Urology, Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Kutzmann Endowed Professor in Clinical Urology, University of California San Francisco, USA
His research focuses on understanding the genetic and microbial environment of the kidney related to how kidney stones form and developing new medical preventative interventions.
Thomas E. Ahlering, MD.
Professor and Vice Chairman, University of California Irvine, USA
Specialty: Urological Cancers
Recognized as top 1-2% experts in academic prostatectomy research, most recently was recognized as a Top 2% of Medical Scientist in the World in a Stanford Study.
