1. Promoting urological education worldwide
Société Internationale d’Urologie
Promoting urological education worldwide

2. SIU Fast Facts Founded in 1907 by Jean-Casimir-Félix Guyon
Members: 4,300
Countries represented: 121
National delegates and deputies: 107
Central Office in Montreal, Canada since 2003
Nine full-time staff
Starting in 2011, Congresses held annually

3. SIU Board of Chairmen 2009-2011 Executive Committee President
Joachim W. Thüroff (Germany)
President-Elect
Mahesh Desai (India)
Vice-President
Chris F. Heyns (South Africa)
Immediate Past President
Mostafa M. Elhilali (Canada)
General Secretary
Luc Valiquette (Canada)
Treasurer
Patrick Coloby (France)
Adjunct General Secretary
Simon Tanguay (Canada)
Congress Organizing Chairman
William Lynch (Australia)

4. SIU Board of Chairmen 2009-2011 Committee Chairs Strategic Planning
Christopher Cheng (Singapore)
Fundraising and Public Relations
Yoshihiko Hirao (Japan)
Consensus and Education
Richard Santucci (USA)
Scientific Programme
Gerald H. Jordan (USA)
Institutes and Scholarships
Hassan Abol-Enein (Egypt)
Publications
Antonio Pompeo (Brazil)
International Relations
Catherine deVries (USA)
Internet & Telecommunications
Reynaldo Gomez (Chile)
Subspecialties
Nasser Simforoosh (Iran)
Nominating Committee
Mostafa M. Elhilali (Canada)
Elected by the National Delegates
Peter Hammerer (Germany)
Yinghao Sun (China)
Elected by the General Assembly
Serigne Gueye (Senegal)
Jae Seung Paick (South Korea)

5. SIU Educational Initiatives
SIU-UCSF Fellowship
Annual research fellowship for a fully-trained urologist from Africa to perform research for one year at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
Training Scholarships
Over 100 scholarships awarded over last 10 years. Each scholarship has a value of $5,000 US. Apply online at
Accredited Training Centres
23 SIU-accredited training centres around the world
SIU Foundation
Founded in 1998 and dedicated to supporting urological education worldwide

8. SIU Training Centres North America Europe South America
McGill University Health Centre
Montreal, Canada
Prof. Mostafa M. Elhilali
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, USA
Dr. Khurshid Guru
Johannes Gutenberg University
Medical School
Mainz, Germany
Prof. Joachim W. Thüroff
City Hospital No. 50
Moscow, Russia
Prof. Dmitry Pushkar
Institute of Urology and Nephrology
London, UK
Prof. Anthony Mundy
Hospital de Clinicas José
de San Martín
University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prof. Osvaldo Mazza
Europe
Asklepios Clinic Bambeck
Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Andreas Gross
Universitaetsklinikum
Hamburg-Eppendorf
Prof. Margit Fisch
South America
Universidade São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Miguel Srougi
State University of Campinas
Campinas, Brazil
Prof. Paulo Palma

9. SIU Training Centres Africa Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Abdel-Wahab El-Kassaby
Assiut University
Assiut, Egypt
Prof. Magdy El Akkad
Al-Azhar University
Prof. Ismail Khalaf
Mansoura University, Urology
and Nephrology Centre
Mansoura, Egypt
Prof. Hassan Abol-Enein
Hôpital Sahloul
Sousse, Tunisia
Prof. Ali Mosbah
Kilimanjaro Christian
Medical Centre
Moshi, Tanzania
Prof. Kien Alfred Mteta
University of Natal Congella
Durban, South Africa
Prof. Tjaart Fourie
University of Stellenbosch
and Tygerberg Hospital
Tygerberg, South Africa
Prof. Chris F. Heyns
University of Cape Town
Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, South Africa
Prof. Dick Barnes
Steve Biko Academic Hospital
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Evelyn M. Moshokoa

10. SIU Training Centres Asia
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
Karachi, Pakistan
Prof. S. Adibul Hasan Rizvi
Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital
Nadiad, India
Prof. Mahesh Desai
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute
of Medical Sciences
Prof. Anant Kumar
Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre
Mumbai, India
Dr. Vijai Kumar
Kyorin University
Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Eiji Higashihara
Singapore General Hospital
Singapore
A. Prof. Christopher Cheng

11. SIU Publications Urology – The Gold Journal www.goldjournal.net
iClinics
SIU Website
International Consultation on Urologic Disease (ICUD)
books and supplements
Congress webcasts
Quarterly newsletter

12. SIU-ICUD Joint Consultations
GU Trauma [Stockholm 2002 – Chair: Dr. Jack McAninch ]
Bladder Cancer [Honolulu 2004 – Chair: Dr. Mark Soloway]
Congenital Anomalies of the Genitalia
[Cape Town 2006 – Chair: Dr. Jack Elder]
Stone Disease [Paris 2007 – Chair: Dr. John Denstedt]
Testis Cancer [Shanghai 2009 – Chair: Dr. Jerome Richie]
Urethral Strictures [Marrakech 2010 – Chair: Dr. Gerald Jordan]
Vesico-vaginal Fistula [Marrakech 2010 – Chair: Prof. Serigne Gueye]

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