Karl Marvin Tan

Dr. Karl Marvin Tan is a distinguished Filipino urologist whose expertise in endourology and minimally invasive surgery has shaped both national practice and international collaboration. A Diplomate of the Philippine Board of Urology and Fellow of the Philippine Urological Association, he currently serves as Chief of Endourology and Training Officer at Veterans Memorial Medical Center, where he also leads advanced surgical programs and fellowship initiatives. He is a key executive leader across regional and global organizations — including the Philippine Endourological Society, Philippine Alliance for Urolithiasis, and Federation of ASEAN Urological Associations — and plays a strategic role in the Asian Urological Society for Endoluminal and Technology (AUSET), promoting excellence in laser surgery, stone treatment, and prostate enucleation. He is a speaker and workshop faculty across ASEAN for topics ranging from different aspects of endourology to robotic innovation. With several peer-reviewed publications and several podium and poster presentations in prestigious conferences (UAA, SIU, EAU), Dr. Tan reflects a commitment to evidence-based, technology-enhanced urological care. He also holds a Master’s in Hospital Administration, bridging clinical excellence with health systems leadership.

14th August 2025

Time	Session

08:00 16:50	Asian Urological Society of Endoluminal Surgery & Technology (AUSET) Part I: Urolithiasis & Technology (Fundamental) Opening Remarks & Congratulatory Remarks from Experts Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Speaker Welcome ETS Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Speaker Session: Reshaping Upper Tract Endourology Intervention Abhay MahajanIndia Moderator Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Moderator Chong-Tsung WenSingapore Moderator How Suction Changed My Hospital Practice of Flexible Ureteroscopy Yi Quan TanSingapore Speaker Digitalization in Suction PCNL Can Change Practice Jaisukh KalathiaIndia Speaker Endoscopic Combined Intra Renal Surgery: New Frontiers Han Kyu ChaeKorea (Republic of) Speaker Navigating the Complex Renal Anatomy with FANS? Chu Ann Chai Malaysia Speaker Suction PCNL vs Suction RIRS? Do We Have a Winner Boyke SoebhaliIndonesia Speaker Q&A Session: Global Leaders Share the Evidence Anil ShresthaNepal Moderator Chinnakhet Ketsuwan Thailand Moderator Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Moderator Thullium Fibre Laser: A Unique Laser for Urological Use Mohamad Afzal Bin Farikhullah KhanMalaysia Speaker Do We Need Augmented Reality for Renal Stone Management? Takaaki InoueJapan Speaker Battle of the Robots in Flexible Ureteroscopy: What's the Verdict? Albert El HajjLebanon Speaker Transurethral En Bloc Resection of Bladder Tumor: Where Are We Now? Jeremy TeohHong Kong, China Speaker Best Laser for UTUC Hsiang-Ying LeeTaiwan Speaker Q&A Session: Surgical Advancement of Asia for Stone Management: ECIRS Nguyen Ngoc ChauVietnam Moderator Jia-Lun Kwok Singapore Moderator Albert El HajjLebanon Moderator Impact of Ureteral Access Sheath on Kidney Stones before and after FANS Anggie N. RahwantoIndonesia Speaker How to Perform Supine PCNL in Pediatrics? Is It Different from Adults? Azimjon TursunkulovUzbekistan Speaker ESWL for Ureteric Stones: Art of Achieving 100% Stone Free Rate Shemeem Kachereente VitaQatar Speaker Discussion Part II: Endoluminal Technology Symposium (ETS), Advance Course of Urolithiasis & Technology, Company Sponsored Symposium 1st Company Session: Luncheon Symposium Hsiang-Ying LeeTaiwan Facilitator Majed AlharthiSaudi Arabia Facilitator Single-Use Cysto-Nephro Scope in ECIRS/ PCNL Yasser FarahatUnited Arab Emirates Speaker Experimental and Real World Take Away Messages on DISS Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker Q & A 2nd Company Session Jia-Lun Kwok Singapore Moderator Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Moderator The Power of Magneto and Vapour Tunnel in Holep Giorgio BozziniItaly Speaker Take Home Messages to Prevent Bladder Neck Contracture in Enucleation Sarvajit Biligere Singapore Speaker Q & A 3rd Company Session Joy CastilloPhilippines Moderator Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator Intra Renal Pressure Defines Outcomes: Current Evidence Chinnakhet Ketsuwan Thailand Speaker Pressure Management Strategy in RIRS using Tidor System Ponco BirowoIndonesia Speaker Q & A 4th Company Session Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Moderator Vineet GauharSingapore Moderator The Power of Powerbend in Management of Lower Pole and Complex Stones. Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Speaker What I Need as a Clinician in Single Use Scopes Manint UsawachintachitThailand Speaker Q & A 5th Company Session Boyke SoebhaliIndonesia Moderator Takaaki InoueJapan Moderator Clearpetra the Sheath of Choice for Lower Pole Stones Anil ShresthaNepal Speaker How to Use Clearpetra Shetah to Minimize Post Operative Stenting after FANS Deepak Ragoori India Speaker Q & A TICC - 2F 201DE

Time

Session

08:00

16:50

Asian Urological Society of Endoluminal Surgery & Technology (AUSET)

Part I: Urolithiasis & Technology (Fundamental)
Opening Remarks & Congratulatory Remarks from Experts

Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Speaker
Welcome ETS

Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Speaker
Session: Reshaping Upper Tract Endourology Intervention

Abhay MahajanIndia Moderator

Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Moderator

Chong-Tsung WenSingapore Moderator
How Suction Changed My Hospital Practice of Flexible Ureteroscopy

Yi Quan TanSingapore Speaker
Digitalization in Suction PCNL Can Change Practice

Jaisukh KalathiaIndia Speaker
Endoscopic Combined Intra Renal Surgery: New Frontiers

Han Kyu ChaeKorea (Republic of) Speaker
Navigating the Complex Renal Anatomy with FANS?

Chu Ann Chai Malaysia Speaker
Suction PCNL vs Suction RIRS? Do We Have a Winner

Boyke SoebhaliIndonesia Speaker
Q&A
Session: Global Leaders Share the Evidence

Anil ShresthaNepal Moderator

Chinnakhet Ketsuwan Thailand Moderator

Jeff S. ChuehTaiwan Moderator
Thullium Fibre Laser: A Unique Laser for Urological Use

Mohamad Afzal Bin Farikhullah KhanMalaysia Speaker
Do We Need Augmented Reality for Renal Stone Management?

Takaaki InoueJapan Speaker
Battle of the Robots in Flexible Ureteroscopy: What's the Verdict?

Albert El HajjLebanon Speaker
Transurethral En Bloc Resection of Bladder Tumor: Where Are We Now?

Jeremy TeohHong Kong, China Speaker
Best Laser for UTUC

Hsiang-Ying LeeTaiwan Speaker
Q&A
Session: Surgical Advancement of Asia for Stone Management: ECIRS

Nguyen Ngoc ChauVietnam Moderator

Jia-Lun Kwok Singapore Moderator

Albert El HajjLebanon Moderator
Impact of Ureteral Access Sheath on Kidney Stones before and after FANS

Anggie N. RahwantoIndonesia Speaker
How to Perform Supine PCNL in Pediatrics? Is It Different from Adults?

Azimjon TursunkulovUzbekistan Speaker
ESWL for Ureteric Stones: Art of Achieving 100% Stone Free Rate

Shemeem Kachereente VitaQatar Speaker
Discussion
Part II: Endoluminal Technology Symposium (ETS), Advance Course of Urolithiasis & Technology, Company Sponsored Symposium
1st Company Session: Luncheon Symposium

Hsiang-Ying LeeTaiwan Facilitator

Majed AlharthiSaudi Arabia Facilitator
Single-Use Cysto-Nephro Scope in ECIRS/ PCNL

Yasser FarahatUnited Arab Emirates Speaker
Experimental and Real World Take Away Messages on DISS

Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker
Q & A
2nd Company Session

Jia-Lun Kwok Singapore Moderator

Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Moderator
The Power of Magneto and Vapour Tunnel in Holep

Giorgio BozziniItaly Speaker
Take Home Messages to Prevent Bladder Neck Contracture in Enucleation

Sarvajit Biligere Singapore Speaker
Q & A
3rd Company Session

Joy CastilloPhilippines Moderator

Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator
Intra Renal Pressure Defines Outcomes: Current Evidence

Chinnakhet Ketsuwan Thailand Speaker
Pressure Management Strategy in RIRS using Tidor System

Ponco BirowoIndonesia Speaker
Q & A
4th Company Session

Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Moderator

Vineet GauharSingapore Moderator
The Power of Powerbend in Management of Lower Pole and Complex Stones.

Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Speaker
What I Need as a Clinician in Single Use Scopes

Manint UsawachintachitThailand Speaker
Q & A
5th Company Session

Boyke SoebhaliIndonesia Moderator

Takaaki InoueJapan Moderator
Clearpetra the Sheath of Choice for Lower Pole Stones

Anil ShresthaNepal Speaker
How to Use Clearpetra Shetah to Minimize Post Operative Stenting after FANS

Deepak Ragoori India Speaker
Q & A

TICC - 2F 201DE

15th August 2025

Time	Session

10:30 12:00	The Federation of ASEAN Urological Associations (FAUA) Exploring Urology Service Challenges in ASEAN The Federation of ASEAN Urological Associations Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Moderator Noor Ashani Md YusoffMalaysia Moderator Highlight and Limitation in Urology Service in Malaysia Noor Ashani Md YusoffMalaysia Speaker Challenges in BPH Management in Singapore Thiruchelvam JegathesanSingapore Speaker Highlights and Limitations in Urology Service in Thailand Kamol PanumatrassameeThailand Speaker Highlights and Limitations in Urology Service in Indonesia Ferry SafriadiIndonesia Speaker Uro-Laparoscopic Activities in Cambodia at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital since 2018 Sotheavy VongCambodia Speaker Enhancement of Endourological Services in Myanmar Phone MyintMyanmar Speaker Factors Defining Urology: Philippine Setting Patrick TuliaoPhilippines Speaker Discussion TICC - 3F South Lounge
12:00 13:00	Luncheon Symposium 3【HugeMed】 Precision Over Size: The Era of Ultra-Thin RIRS Trauma-Free Access: How 6.3Fr Scopes Negate Pre-Stenting Needs Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Speaker Learning from 7.5Fr: Key Lessons for the Future of Ultra-Thin RIRS Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator Kuo-Jen LinTaiwan Speaker Flow, Force, and Flexibility: The Advantages of using 6.3Fr Flexible Ureteroscope Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Speaker Smaller Ureteroscopes & Primary Access - Revolutionising Approach to Flexible URS and ECIRS Steffi YuenHong Kong, China Moderator Jia-Lun Kwok Singapore Speaker Discussion TICC - 1F 101B
15:30 17:00	Industrial Symposium 6 【FARCO Pharma GmbH】 Innovations in Urolithiasis Treatment: Clinical Evidence on mediNiK and Insights of Hydrogel-Suction Synergy Innovations in Urolithiasis Treatment: Clinical Evidence on mediNiK and Insights of Hydrogel-Suction Synergy Christopher NetschGermany Speaker Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Speaker TICC - 1F 101C

16th August 2025

Time	Session

13:30 15:00	Urolithiasis 1 New Frontiers in RIRS Surgery New Frontiers in RIRS Surgery Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Moderator Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Moderator Suction in Renal Stone Treatment: DISS, FANS or Combined Procedure? Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker Need of Future Endourology Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker Which Laser for RIRS: Holmium YAG Laser Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Speaker Which Laser for RIRS: Thulium Fiber Laser Yi-Sheng TaiTaiwan Speaker Which Laser for RIRS: Pulsed Thulium YAG Laser Takaaki InoueJapan Speaker SFR Assessment: Timing and Modalities Anil ShresthaNepal Speaker Infection Complications after Stone Surgery Chong-Tsung WenSingapore Speaker Panel Discussion TICC - 2F 201DE

Time

Session

13:30

15:00

Urolithiasis 1

New Frontiers in RIRS Surgery

New Frontiers in RIRS Surgery

Cheng-Chia LinTaiwan Moderator

Sung Yong Cho Korea (Republic of) Moderator
Suction in Renal Stone Treatment: DISS, FANS or Combined Procedure?

Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker
Need of Future Endourology

Vineet GauharSingapore Speaker
Which Laser for RIRS: Holmium YAG Laser

Karl Marvin TanPhilippines Speaker
Which Laser for RIRS: Thulium Fiber Laser

Yi-Sheng TaiTaiwan Speaker
Which Laser for RIRS: Pulsed Thulium YAG Laser

Takaaki InoueJapan Speaker
SFR Assessment: Timing and Modalities

Anil ShresthaNepal Speaker
Infection Complications after Stone Surgery

Chong-Tsung WenSingapore Speaker
Panel Discussion

TICC - 2F 201DE