- UAA Congress 2025

Biography

14th August 2025

Time	Session

08:30 17:00	Asian Robotic Urology Society (ARUS) Opening Remarks Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Speaker Tai-Lung ChaTaiwan Speaker Ponco BirowoIndonesia Speaker Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker Mario Gyung-Tak SungKorea (Republic of) Speaker Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Speaker ARUS–PRUS Partnership Ceremony: A New Chapter in Asia Robotic Urology Collaboration Jason Lui LetranPhilippines Speaker Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Speaker Session 1: Advances in Robotic Surgery Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Moderator Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Moderator Chi-Fai NgHong Kong, China Moderator Enhancing Robotic Surgery with AI and Imaging Navigation: Bridging Precision and Efficiency Gang ZhuChina Speaker From Console to Cloud: The Evolution of Robotic Telesurgery in Urology – Innovations, Trials, and Ethical Frontiers Xu Zhang China Speaker Open Surgery Training: Is It Necessary in the Era of Robotics? John DavisUnited States Speaker Hinotori Robotic System in Urological Surgery: Clinical Applications and Future Potential Ryoichi Shiroki Japan Speaker What's Next in Urologic Robotics in Asia: Future Perspectives Mario Gyung-Tak SungKorea (Republic of) Speaker Panel Discussion Coffee Break Session 2: Robotic Prostate Surgery Bo DaiChina Moderator Edmund ChiongSingapore Moderator KoonHo RhaKorea (Republic of) Moderator Lessons from 20,000 Robotic Prostatectomies: A Global Expert’s Perspective Vipul R. PatelUnited States Speaker Aquablation Revolutionizing BPH Treatment: A New Era of Minimally Invasive Therapy-Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital Experience Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Speaker Debulking the Primary: Robotic Cytoreductive Radical Prostatectomy Isaac KimUnited States Speaker Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: Trying to Fit the Right Surgery to the Right Patient Cheng-Kuang YangTaiwan Speaker Single-Port vs. Multi-Port Robotic Prostatectomy: Balancing Innovation, Precision, and Outcomes Simone CrivellaroUnited States Speaker Comparison of Hood technique vs Retzius sparing RARP: Beijing Hospital Experience. Ming LiuChina Speaker Panel Discussion Lunch Break Session 3: Robotic Kidney and Vascular Surgery Shancheng RenChina Moderator Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Moderator Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Moderator Expanding horizons: SP for complex RAPN Ketan BadaniUnited States Speaker Partial Nephrectomy: Managing Complications and Challenging Cases Hsiao-Jen ChungTaiwan Speaker Robotic IVC Thrombectomy: Expanding the Role of Robotics in Vascular Involvement Xuepei ZhangChina Speaker Panel Discussion Session 4: Robotic Reconstructive Surgery Jason Lui LetranPhilippines Moderator Jianming GuoChina Moderator Pai-Fu WangTaiwan Moderator Robotic Sacrocolpopexy: Techniques, Challenges, and Long-Term Outcomes Jimmy NomuraJapan Speaker Robotic Vesico-Rectal and Vesico-Vaginal Repair: Innovations in Complex Fistula Management Narasimhan RagavanIndia Speaker Robotic Ureteral Reconstruction: Managing Strictures and Injuries Xuesong LiChina Speaker Panel Discussion Coffee Break Session 5: Robotic Bladder Surgery Zhuo-Wei LiuChina Moderator Jeremy TeohHong Kong, China Moderator Rajeev KumarIndia Moderator Mastering the Details: Tips and Tricks on Robotic Radical Cystectomy Kittinut KijvikaiThailand Speaker Step-by-Step: Intra-Corporeal Orthotopic Bladder Creation Wei-Yu LinTaiwan Speaker Robotic Pelvic LN Dissection: A critical Component of Bladder Cancer Surgery Noor Ashani Md YusoffMalaysia Speaker Panel Discussion Closing Remarks Ryoichi Shiroki Japan Speaker Gang ZhuChina Speaker TICC - 1F 101D	Asian Urological Surgery Training & Education Group (AUSTEG) Management of UTUC and RIRS Updates Management of UTUC Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Moderator Chen-Hsun HoTaiwan Moderator Overview of UTUC: from Diagnosis to Treatment to Surveillance Kay Seong NgooMalaysia Speaker Renal Preservation in UTUC Srinath K. ChandrasekeraSri Lanka Speaker Current Evidence Supporting Adjuvant and Neo-Adjuvant Treatment Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker Multidisciplinary: Metastatic Disease Lukman HakimIndonesia Speaker Case-Based Discussion Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker Coffee Break RIRS Updates Michael WongSingapore Moderator Takaaki InoueJapan Moderator Laser Lithotripsy in RIRS: Choosing the Right Settings for Better Outcomes Chen-Hsun HoTaiwan Speaker ECIRS in Daily Practice: How to Achieve Better Stone-Free Rates with Fewer Complications Shuji IsotaniJapan Speaker Troubleshooting in Endoscopic Stone Surgery: How to Handle Unexpected Challenges in RIRS and ECIRS Rajeev KumarIndia Speaker FANs in Endourology: Finding the Best Combination with Lasers and Scopes for Optimal Outcomes Joseph LiHong Kong, China Speaker Robotic URS: Can It Really Improve Precision and Reduce Surgeon Fatigue? Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Speaker TICC - 1F 102
09:00 15:00	Asian Society of Urologic Oncology (ASUO) Welcome Remarks Tai-Lung ChaTaiwan Speaker Welcome Remarks Hong Gee SimSingapore Speaker Bladder Cancer Track Edmund ChiongSingapore Moderator Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Moderator Hanjong AhnKorea (Republic of) Moderator MDT Discussion: Treating High-Risk BCG Refractory NMIBC in a ECOG2 75-year-old Po-Hung LinTaiwan Speaker Raj TiwariSingapore Speaker Debate: Bladder Preservation Should Be Considered for All Cases of MIBC Jeremy TeohHong Kong, China Speaker Tuan Thanh NguyenVietnam Speaker Edmund ChiongSingapore Speaker Technical Pearls: Node Dissection in Robotic Cystectomy Noor Ashani Md YusoffMalaysia Speaker Technical Pearls: Robotic Intra-Corporeal OBS Lui Shiong LeeSingapore Speaker Practice Changing Papers Bhoj Raj LuitelNepal Speaker Coffee Break Prostate Cancer Track Teng-Aik OngMalaysia Moderator Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Moderator Sunil KimKorea (Republic of) Moderator MDT Discussion: Personalizing Treatment in High Volume CSPC Winnie LamSingapore Speaker Chao-Yuan HuangTaiwan Speaker Peter Ka-Fung ChiuHong Kong, China Speaker Debate: PIRADS 4/5 Negative Biopsies Should Enrique Ian LorenzoPhilippines Speaker Kenneth ChenSingapore Speaker Technical Pearls: Retzius Sparing Tanet ThaidumrongThailand Speaker Technical Pearls: Nerve-Sparing Hung-Jen WangTaiwan Speaker Technical Pearls: Total Extraperitoneal Technique John YuenSingapore Speaker Practice Changing Papers Raj TiwariSingapore Speaker Group Photo Lunch Break Kidney Cancer Track John YuenSingapore Moderator Agus Rizal HamidIndonesia Moderator Treating SRM in a 65-Year-Old ECOG 1 with Multiple Previous Operations-Is Minimally Invasive Treatment Feasible? Tanet ThaidumrongThailand Speaker Treating SRM in a 65-Year-Old ECOG 1 with Multiple Previous Operations-Is SBRT the New Kid on the Block? Jeffrey TuanSingapore Speaker Debate: Should We Only Offer Consolidative Cytoreductive Nephrectomy in Metastatic RCC? Enrique Ian LorenzoPhilippines Speaker Peter Ka-Fung ChiuHong Kong, China Speaker Technical Pearls: Wheel-Barrow Techniques Henry HoSingapore Speaker Technical Pearls: Renorrhaphy Techniques Vorapot Choonhaklai Thailand Speaker Practice Changing Papers Tuan Thanh NguyenVietnam Speaker Closing Remarks Lui Shiong LeeSingapore Speaker TICC - 1F 101A

15th August 2025

Time	Session

08:30 10:00	Plenary Session 1-1 UAA Lecture: Innovations in Renal Stone Surgery Man-Kay LiSingapore Moderator John DenstedtCanada Speaker Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future of UAA Yasser FarahatUnited Arab Emirates Moderator Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker EAU Lecture: AI to Support Informed Decision Making (INSIDE) for Improved Literature Analysis in Oncology. Shin EgawaJapan Moderator Arnulf StenzlGermany Speaker AUA Lecture: 2025 Update of AUA and EAU NMIBC Guidelines Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Moderator Stephen A. BoorjianUnited States Speaker A Programmatic Approach to Prostate Cancer Screening Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Moderator David PensonUnited States Speaker PSMA PET Scan in Diagnosing Early/Advanced Localized Prostate Cancer Especially Comparing Various Radioactive Tracers Ponco BirowoIndonesia Moderator Declan MurphyAustralia Speaker TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

Time

Session

08:30

10:00

Plenary Session 1-1

UAA Lecture: Innovations in Renal Stone Surgery

Man-Kay LiSingapore Moderator

John DenstedtCanada Speaker
Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future of UAA

Yasser FarahatUnited Arab Emirates Moderator

Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker
EAU Lecture: AI to Support Informed Decision Making (INSIDE) for Improved Literature Analysis in Oncology.

Shin EgawaJapan Moderator

Arnulf StenzlGermany Speaker
AUA Lecture: 2025 Update of AUA and EAU NMIBC Guidelines

Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Moderator

Stephen A. BoorjianUnited States Speaker
A Programmatic Approach to Prostate Cancer Screening

Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Moderator

David PensonUnited States Speaker
PSMA PET Scan in Diagnosing Early/Advanced Localized Prostate Cancer Especially Comparing Various Radioactive Tracers

Ponco BirowoIndonesia Moderator

Declan MurphyAustralia Speaker

TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

16th August 2025

Time	Session

08:30 10:00	Plenary Session 4 UTI & Hydronephrosis: What's New and Asian Guideline Update Hio Fai LaoMacau, China Moderator Stephen S. YangTaiwan Speaker Prostate Cancer Nomograms and Their Application in Asian Men Samuel Vincent G. YrastorzaPhilippines Moderator Rajeev KumarIndia Speaker BJUI Lecture: 2025 Protect Trial update & the Caveats of Its Generalizability Yeong-Shiau PuTaiwan Moderator Freddie HamdyUnited Kingdom Speaker Active Surveillance for Early Prostate Cancer Eddie ChanHong Kong, China Moderator Mikio SugimotoJapan Speaker PSA Kinetics Following PADT in mHSPC. Is It a Real-World Tool for Predicting Oncologic Outcome? Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Speaker The Potential Role of Urinary Microbiome in Benign Prostate Hyperplasia/Lower Urinary Tract Horie ShigeoJapan Moderator Seung Il JungKorea (Republic of) Speaker TICC - 3F Banquet Hall

Time

Session

08:30

10:00

Plenary Session 4

UTI & Hydronephrosis: What's New and Asian Guideline Update

Hio Fai LaoMacau, China Moderator

Stephen S. YangTaiwan Speaker
Prostate Cancer Nomograms and Their Application in Asian Men

Samuel Vincent G. YrastorzaPhilippines Moderator

Rajeev KumarIndia Speaker
BJUI Lecture: 2025 Protect Trial update & the Caveats of Its Generalizability

Yeong-Shiau PuTaiwan Moderator

Freddie HamdyUnited Kingdom Speaker
Active Surveillance for Early Prostate Cancer

Eddie ChanHong Kong, China Moderator

Mikio SugimotoJapan Speaker
PSA Kinetics Following PADT in mHSPC. Is It a Real-World Tool for Predicting Oncologic Outcome?

Bannakij LojanapiwatThailand Speaker
The Potential Role of Urinary Microbiome in Benign Prostate Hyperplasia/Lower Urinary Tract

Horie ShigeoJapan Moderator

Seung Il JungKorea (Republic of) Speaker

TICC - 3F Banquet Hall