M. Sivashankar

Dr. M. Sivashankar is a Consultant Urologist at District General Hospital, Hambantota, Sri Lanka. He obtained his MBBS from the University of Jaffna and completed his MD in Surgery at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. He earned his MRCS (Glasgow) in 2018 and underwent overseas training in urology at Northern Health, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to his current position, he served as a Consultant Urologist at the National Hospital, Kandy, and District Hospital, Ampara. His special interests include supine PCNL, reconstructive urology, and laparoscopic uro-oncological surgeries.

15th August 2025

Time	Session

10:30 12:00	South Asian Association of Urological Surgeons (SAUS) Welcome Address Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker Session (1): Uro-Oncology Madhu S AgrawalIndia Moderator Mohammad Saiful IslamBangladesh Moderator Uttam Kumar MeteIndia Moderator Retroperitoneal vs. Transperitoneal Robot Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for RCC Sarbartha Kumar PratiharIndia Speaker Post RNU Adjuvant Treatment in UTUC- Recent Update Parash Mani ShresthaNepal Speaker Treatment Option for Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy T0- Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Speaker Management of NMIBC during BCG Shortage Era M. SivashankarSri Lanka Speaker BCG Refractory Cancer: Current Status of Intravesical Treatment Athanasios PapatsorisGreece Speaker Session Wrap Up Session (2): Uro-Oncology Keshavamurthy RamaiahIndia Moderator Mahesh Bahadur AdhikariNepal Moderator Rajeev TPIndia Moderator Beyond the Chips: Enbloc Enucleation in NMIBC - Enhancing Diagnostic and Oncological Precision Bulent OnalTurkey Speaker Quality of Life Issues with Androgen Blockade in Prostate Cancer Md Jahangir KabirBangladesh Speaker Prostate Biopsy Technique: Current Evidence Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker Radical Prostatectomy without Biopsy: Are We There? Keval PatelIndia Speaker Session Wrap Up Lunch Break TICC - 1F 101D

Time

Session

10:30

12:00

South Asian Association of Urological Surgeons (SAUS)

Welcome Address

Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker
Session (1): Uro-Oncology

Madhu S AgrawalIndia Moderator

Mohammad Saiful IslamBangladesh Moderator

Uttam Kumar MeteIndia Moderator
Retroperitoneal vs. Transperitoneal Robot Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for RCC

Sarbartha Kumar PratiharIndia Speaker
Post RNU Adjuvant Treatment in UTUC- Recent Update

Parash Mani ShresthaNepal Speaker
Treatment Option for Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy T0- Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

Jacob See-Tong PangTaiwan Speaker
Management of NMIBC during BCG Shortage Era

M. SivashankarSri Lanka Speaker
BCG Refractory Cancer: Current Status of Intravesical Treatment

Athanasios PapatsorisGreece Speaker
Session Wrap Up
Session (2): Uro-Oncology

Keshavamurthy RamaiahIndia Moderator

Mahesh Bahadur AdhikariNepal Moderator

Rajeev TPIndia Moderator
Beyond the Chips: Enbloc Enucleation in NMIBC - Enhancing Diagnostic and Oncological Precision

Bulent OnalTurkey Speaker
Quality of Life Issues with Androgen Blockade in Prostate Cancer

Md Jahangir KabirBangladesh Speaker
Prostate Biopsy Technique: Current Evidence

Hammad Ather Pakistan Speaker
Radical Prostatectomy without Biopsy: Are We There?

Keval PatelIndia Speaker
Session Wrap Up
Lunch Break

TICC - 1F 101D