As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:
List the factors associated with patient satisfaction after urethroplasty
Outline the benefits of a boot camp for junior urology residents
List some key aspects of a successful urology boot camp
Moderator: Keith Rourke
Defining which outcomes are associated with patient satisfaction after urethroplasty
Jordan Bekkema
University of Alberta
Experience and results of the first three years of implementing a competency-based didactic and simulation-focused boot camp for incoming urology residents
Hark Randhawa
Department of Urology, McMaster University
As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:
Understand the relationship between diet and male sexual function
Understand the relationship between exercise and male sexual function
Understand the relationship between sleep patterns and male sexual function
Introducer/Moderator: Ryan Flannigan
Beyond the Prescription Pad: Maximizing Male Sexual Health
Aaron Spitz
University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Bio
Dr. Spitz completed a Bachelors of Arts in Government at Cornell University. He earned his medical degree from Weil/Cornell Medical College and he completed his Urology residency at the University of Southern California, and then obtained fellowship training in infertility at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Spitz has expertise in the treatment of male infertility and sexual dysfunction, and he has participated in clinical trials and research in the area of andrology, male sexual dysfunction, and male infertility. Dr. Aaron Spitz serves as a voluntary assistant clinical professor in the U.C. Irvine department of Urology, Dr. Spitz currently directs the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Orange County Urology in Laguna Hills and Mission Viejo, California. Dr Spitz is the immediate past president of the California Urologic Association. He is the Orange County District representative to the Western Section of the American Urologic Association. He served as the lead delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates representing the American Urologic Association. He sits on the Health Policy Council of the American Urologic Association. He is co-chair of the Telehealth Task Force of the American Urologic Association and he serves on the AUA Workforce Work Group and the AUA Advanced Practice Practitioner Work Group as well as the AUA opioid position statement workgroup. Dr. Spitz has served as faculty for the American Urological Association's national microsurgical course. Dr. Spitz has been awarded several prestigious honors including Alpha Omega Alpha at the University of Southern California. Dr. Spitz is the author of The Penis Book: A Doctor’s Complete Guide to the Penis, from size to function and everything in between published by Rodale/Crown/Penguin which has been translated in 4 languages including Italian, Dutch, and soon to be released in Chinese with rights secured in Check, Romanian, and Turkish. He appears regularly on CBS The Doctors to discuss urology topics. He is a regular guest on Sirius XM radio medical talk shows. He has authored and co-authored book chapters and articles in peer reviewed publications on the topic of telemedicine, male infertility and sexual dysfunction, including the AUA white papers on Telemedicine and on Advanced Practice Providers. . Dr Spitz is a member of the American Urological Association, American Medical Association, Society for the Study of Male Reproduction, American Society or Reproductive Medicine, Western Urologic Forum, California Urology Association, California Medical Association and the American Telemedical Association. He serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Endourology and the Journal of Andrology and Urology Practice.
8:45 - 9:15 pm
Educational Forum
The next frontier of erectile dysfunction: Fact or fiction?
As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:
Recognize the Indications for catheterizable stomas
Diagnose the complication possibilities of stomas
Appreciate the workup for incontinence
Distinguish different stoma problems
Identify surgical approaches to stoma repair
Introducer/Moderator: Kourosh Afshar
Catheterizable stomas: Indications, Surgical approach and how to manage the complications
Dominic Frimberger
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Omaha, OK, USA
Bio
Dr. Frimberger is board certified by the American Board of Urology. He is a Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the Chief of Pediatric Urology at the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma. Dr. Frimberger received his medical degree from the University of Wurzburg in Germany, and completed his urology residency in a combined program through the Department of Urology of the Ludwig- Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He went on to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Urology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and afterwards came to Oklahoma where he has been practicing for the last 15 years. Dr. Frimberger serves on the Board of the American Academy of Pediatric Urology and is a member of several national and international Societies for Pediatric Urology. Dr. Frimberger has a general pediatric urology practice and specializes in neonates and children with severe congenital urologic birth defects such as hypospadias, bladder reflux (VUR), hydronephrosis, spina bifida, DSD, bladder exstrophy and cloacal anomalies. He established the first program for robotic surgery in Pediatric Urology here in Oklahoma and is a skilled reconstructive and minimal invasive surgeon. In addition Dr. Frimberger has a number of research interests in specialized areas of pediatric urology including spina bifida and reconstructive surgery and has over 100 published articles in peer reviewed journals and contributed book chapters to a large variety of highly regarded urological and surgical text books. Dr. Frimberger is very engaged in the community and is a Board member of the Oklahoma Adaptive Sports Association (OKASA), a non-profit organization to develop, sponsor and promote recreational and competitive athletic opportunities for individuals with physical challenges. On a personal note, he is happily married to his wife for over twenty-five years, has two children and 4 dogs. As a family they enjoy outdoor activities and raise cattle and sheep.
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