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2020 SESAUA Annual Meeting Abstracts and Award Winners

Posted: April 8, 2020

Despite the cancellation of our annual meeting in New Orleans, we wanted to recognize the hard work of the residents and faculty members who were scheduled to present their abstracts at the meeting. The main goal of our Section continues to be resident and member education, and we have published these abstracts on our website.

SESAUA 2020 Abstracts

2020 SESAUA Award Recipients

We wish to acknowledge and congratulate the following individuals for receiving SESAUA awards this year:

Resident Humanitarian Award

Elizabeth Chang Wendel, MD; Emory University

Distinguished Member Recognition Award

W. Bedford Waters, MD

2020 Montague Boyd Essay Contest Winners

1st Place — Mark Ehlers, MD; UNC Chapel Hill Submission: “A National Cross-Sectional Survey of Financial Toxicity Among Bladder Cancer Patients”

2nd Place — Hamza Beano, MD; Atrium Health Submission: “Describing and Determining the Clinical Value of Early Post-Radical Cystectomy Urinary Flora”

3rd Place — Bradley Potts, MD; Duke University Submission: “Barrington’s Reflexes Revisited: Proximal Urethral Electrical Stimulation as a Treatment for Underactive Bladder in Rats”

AUA Update

The AUA has been actively conducting an effort to maximize online learning and will be hosting a live two-day virtual education experience on June 27 - 28, 2020, which will include keynote lectures, sessions on new clinical guidelines, and semi-live surgeries. In addition, those abstracts that were accepted for presentation have been published in the April issue of the Journal of Urology. The surgical videos are accessible online for AUA members at no charge. You can view the videos and learn more on the AUA Virtual Education site.

Our warmest thoughts go out to all of you and your families during this difficult time.

With best regards,

Ricardo Sanchez-Ortiz, MD, FACS
SESAUA President

Chad W.M. Ritenour, MD
SESAUA Chair, Committee on Education and Science