- UAA Congress 2025

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

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

15th August 2025

Time	Session

13:30 15:00	Semi-Live Surgery 1 Tips and Tricks in Challenging Cases of Robotic Radical Prostatectomy Thomas HsuehTaiwan Moderator John DavisUnited States Speaker Technical Considerations for Large Prostates over 100gms Hiroshi KitamuraJapan Moderator Vipul R. PatelUnited States Speaker Single Port Retroperitoneal Partial Nephrectomy Satoru TaguchiJapan Moderator Simone CrivellaroUnited States Speaker Single-Port Robotic Partial Nephrectomy for Multiple or Large Renal Tumors Teng-Aik OngMalaysia Moderator Ketan BadaniUnited States Speaker Imaging Management Over Robotic Dysfunction Shomik SenguptaAustralia Moderator Wenjie ZhongAustralia Speaker Experience of 100 Consecutive Hugo Robotic Radical Prostatectomies Uttam Kumar MeteIndia Moderator Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Speaker TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

Time

Session

13:30

15:00

Semi-Live Surgery 1

Tips and Tricks in Challenging Cases of Robotic Radical Prostatectomy

Thomas HsuehTaiwan Moderator

John DavisUnited States Speaker
Technical Considerations for Large Prostates over 100gms

Hiroshi KitamuraJapan Moderator

Vipul R. PatelUnited States Speaker
Single Port Retroperitoneal Partial Nephrectomy

Satoru TaguchiJapan Moderator

Simone CrivellaroUnited States Speaker
Single-Port Robotic Partial Nephrectomy for Multiple or Large Renal Tumors

Teng-Aik OngMalaysia Moderator

Ketan BadaniUnited States Speaker
Imaging Management Over Robotic Dysfunction

Shomik SenguptaAustralia Moderator

Wenjie ZhongAustralia Speaker
Experience of 100 Consecutive Hugo Robotic Radical Prostatectomies

Uttam Kumar MeteIndia Moderator

Yen-Chuan OuTaiwan Speaker

TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

16th August 2025

Time	Session

08:30 10:00	Plenary Session 3-1 ACU Lecture: Videourodynamic Study for Precision Diagnosis and Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Chun-Hou LiaoTaiwan Moderator Hann-Chorng KuoTaiwan Speaker Future Direction of AI Application in Urology Yoshihisa MatsukawaJapan Moderator Andrew HungUnited States Speaker Applying AI in Urological Robotic Surgery Takashi KobayashiJapan Moderator Mahendra BhandariUnited States Speaker Update on the Results of SIMCAP Study Srinath K. ChandrasekeraSri Lanka Moderator Isaac KimUnited States Speaker Practice-Changing Development in RaLRP Ravindra SabnisIndia Moderator John YuenSingapore Speaker Telesurgery: The Future of Surgery Dinh Khanh LeVietnam Moderator Vipul R. PatelUnited States Speaker TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

Time

Session

08:30

10:00

Plenary Session 3-1

ACU Lecture: Videourodynamic Study for Precision Diagnosis and Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction

Chun-Hou LiaoTaiwan Moderator

Hann-Chorng KuoTaiwan Speaker
Future Direction of AI Application in Urology

Yoshihisa MatsukawaJapan Moderator

Andrew HungUnited States Speaker
Applying AI in Urological Robotic Surgery

Takashi KobayashiJapan Moderator

Mahendra BhandariUnited States Speaker
Update on the Results of SIMCAP Study

Srinath K. ChandrasekeraSri Lanka Moderator

Isaac KimUnited States Speaker
Practice-Changing Development in RaLRP

Ravindra SabnisIndia Moderator

John YuenSingapore Speaker
Telesurgery: The Future of Surgery

Dinh Khanh LeVietnam Moderator

Vipul R. PatelUnited States Speaker

TICC - 3F Plenary Hall