Albert El Hajj

Dr Albert El Hajj is an Associate Professor and Head of the Urology Division at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. He is the medical director of the Surgery Clinics and Codirector of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) center. After graduating from the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, he completed his robotic and minimally invasive surgery fellowship in Paris. He joined AUBMC in July 2013 where he founded the Robotic Urology program. Dr El Hajj’s main clinical and research interests are Robotic Surgery, Endourology and Prostate Cancer.

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

16th August 2025

Time	Session

10:30 12:00	Plenary Session 3-2 Which Position is the Best for PCNL in 2025? Thomas HsuehTaiwan Moderator Michael WongSingapore Speaker AAU Lecture: Robotic Flexible Ureterorenoscopy - Gimmick or a True Helper? What’s It Cost Performance Value? Mordechai DuvdevaniIsrael Moderator Albert El HajjLebanon Speaker Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Endourology - Is It the Way Forward? Takahiro YasuiJapan Moderator BM Zeeshan HameedIndia Speaker Infectious Complications after Endourological Procedures Michael ChongAustralia Moderator Mahesh Bahadur AdhikariNepal Speaker Newer Advances in the Endourological Management of Stones - Have We Reached the Zenith Sung Kyu HongKorea (Republic of) Moderator Rajeev TPIndia Speaker Clinical Utility of AINAFHIC: AI-Guided Navigation for Hunner's Lesion and Interstitial Cystitis Chun-Hsien WuTaiwan Moderator Nobutaka ShimizuJapan Speaker TICC - 3F Plenary Hall

Time

Session

10:30

12:00

Plenary Session 3-2

Which Position is the Best for PCNL in 2025?

Thomas HsuehTaiwan Moderator

Michael WongSingapore Speaker
AAU Lecture: Robotic Flexible Ureterorenoscopy - Gimmick or a True Helper? What’s It Cost Performance Value?

Mordechai DuvdevaniIsrael Moderator

Albert El HajjLebanon Speaker
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Endourology - Is It the Way Forward?

Takahiro YasuiJapan Moderator

BM Zeeshan HameedIndia Speaker
Infectious Complications after Endourological Procedures

Michael ChongAustralia Moderator

Mahesh Bahadur AdhikariNepal Speaker
Newer Advances in the Endourological Management of Stones - Have We Reached the Zenith

Sung Kyu HongKorea (Republic of) Moderator

Rajeev TPIndia Speaker
Clinical Utility of AINAFHIC: AI-Guided Navigation for Hunner's Lesion and Interstitial Cystitis

Chun-Hsien WuTaiwan Moderator

Nobutaka ShimizuJapan Speaker

TICC - 3F Plenary Hall