- UAA Congress 2025

12th August 2025 - Asian Urology Residents' Courses (AURC)

Time	Session

08:00 08:30	Welcome Speeches Tai-Lung ChaTaiwan Moderator Welcome Speech from Chairman of UAA Congress 2025 Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Speaker Welcome Speech from Secretary General, UAA Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker Introduction of Asian Urology Residents' Course Thomas HsuehTaiwan Speaker Group Photo TWTC - 2F Conference Room 5

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

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

10:30 12:00	Robotic Robotic Surgery Robotic Surgery Jian-Ri LiTaiwan Moderator KoonHo RhaKorea (Republic of) Moderator Pai-Fu WangTaiwan Moderator How to Standardize Training by AI-Learning from The Best Practice of Urological Robotic Surgery Ketan BadaniUnited States Speaker Discussion Complex Robotic Assisted Surgery for Urinary Fistula Repair Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker Discussion Pros and Cons in the daVinci SP System Applications in Urological Surgeries Steven L. ChangUnited States Speaker Discussion TICC - 2F 201DE
12:00 13:00	Luncheon Symposium 17【Intuitive】 Role of Da Vinci SP in Urology Opening Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Speaker SP Partial Nephrectomy Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Moderator Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Moderator Ketan BadaniUnited States Speaker Single Port Prostate Surgery Allen W. ChiuTaiwan Moderator Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Moderator Simone CrivellaroUnited States Speaker Q&A Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Speaker TICC - 2F 201BC