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HOTEL RESERVATIONS
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conference registration. There is limited
space, so reserve your room today and take
advantage of the NWUS negotiated discount
room rate of $169.
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Bellevue, WA 98004
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2009 NWUS
55th Annual Scientific Conference
HYATT REGENCY 
Bellevue, WA USA   EDUCATIONAL FORMAT
December 4‐5, 2009  scientific sessions established by the 2009 Program
Accreditation:
This activity has been planned and implemented in
accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of
the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship
of the University of Washington School of
Medicine and Northwest Urological Society. The
University Of Washington School Of Medicine is
accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing
medical education for physicians.
The University of Washington School of Medicine
designates this educational activity for a maximum
of 14.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate
with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Peer reviews, 2008 conference course evaluations,
consensus of experts and focus groups, interviews
with the members of the society, current literature
and highlights of new techniques in urology
determined the needs for the annual scientific
conference. These sources indicated a need for
further education in Uro-oncology, endourology,
minimally invasive surgery, bladder and urethra,
female urology/voiding dysfunction, pediatrics, and
transplant/infertility
TARGET AUDIENCE
This conference is for urological surgeons, urology
residents, students and associated medical staff to
include physician assistants, nurses and medical
assistants. Participants will be from academic and
community urology practices throughout the
Northwest
There will be a concurrent forum on Friday,
December 4, for urology practice managers and
administrators.
Submitted abstracts are included into predetermined
Committee and the needs assessment process.
The sessions conclude with designated questions
and answer periods. Experts who have reviewed
the abstracts prior to the conference moderate each
session. There will be short breaks lasting
approximately 30 minutes, designed to provide
participants time to visit exhibits and learn about
new products and services available to Northwest
Urology Practices.
COURSE GOALS
1) Provide instruction from national experts in
specific urological subspecialties including
female urology, health care reform and
outcomes, genitourinary trauma,
reconstruction, and urologic oncology
COURSE GOALS (continued)
2) Provide a forum for individual members
and trainees to present the results of
recent or ongoing urologic research in the
Northwest region.
3) Provide opportunities for clinical urologists
to present their experience with patients
who have specific urologic disorders, with
unusual or difficult clinical problems.
KEYNOTE FACULTY
Scientific Keynote Speaker
Raymond R. Rackley, MD
Professor of Surgery
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of
Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Staff, Center for Pelvic Health and
Reconstructive Surgery Glickman Urological
Institute at The Cleveland Clinic
Director, Urothelial Biology Laboratory
Lerner Research Institute at The Cleveland
Clinic
GUEST and STATE-OF-THE-ART
SPEAKERS
Christopher Amling, MD - Professor and Chief,
Division of Urology, Oregon Health and Sciences
University, Portland, OR
David Penson, MD - Professor of Urologic Surgery at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Hunter Wessells, MD - Professor and Chairman,
University of Washington Department of Urology,
Seattle, WA

COURSE OBJECTIVES and
Agenda Highlights
FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 2009 (8:30am – 5:00pm)
8:30 – 12:00 Health Policy Forum
Jeff Kaufman, MD – AACU Past President, CUA Past
President
David Penson, MD - Professor of Urologic Surgery at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN and
Director of the Center for Surgical Quality and
Outcomes Research at the Vanderbilt Institute of
Medicine and Public Health in Nashville
Jeff Frankel, MD – President of the American
Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU) and
Government Affairs Chairman for the Washington State
Urology Society
United States Congressman David Rechert (invited)
• Canadian Health Care System: Similarities and
Differences to proposed changes in US Healthcare
• Health Care reform 2009: Its Impact on the
practice of Urology and our Patients
• Pay for Performance, Value-based purchasing and
other new payment models
• 2010 Legislative Preview: Hot issues for Northwest
Urology Practices
• Panel Discussion: Relevant Issues in the
Northwest Concerning Urology
• Infertility/Transplant
1:00 – 1:40 Keynote Lecture #1
Successful management of IC and Pelvic Pain
Syndromes
Raymond R. Rackley, MD - Professor of Surgery, The
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
1:40 – 2:25 Scientific Session I: Oncology I
1. Discuss the role of robotic and laparoscopic
surgery in the treatment small renal lesions
2. Discuss novel management strategies for post-
operative pain following laparoscopic radical
prostatectomy
3. Understand the surgical complications of robotic
radical prostatectomy
4. Recite the differences in presentation and
outcomes of unique prostate cancer histologies.
2:25 – 3:15 Scientific Session II:
Bladder/Urethra
1. Discuss the choice of urinary diversions
available to patients following radical
cystectomy and in patients following renal
transplantation
2. Understand the long term outcomes and patient
satisfaction with artificial urinary sphincters
3. Discuss the outcomes and predictors of success
in posterior urethroplasty
4. Identify emerging data and basic science
models of urethral stricture disease and diabetic
bladder dysfunction
5. Discuss the role and use of botulinum toxin in
men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome
3:15 – 3:45 Break and View Exhibits
3:45 – 4:40 Scientific Session III:
Endourology/ Minimally Invasive Surgery
1. Discuss early experience with laparoscopic and
robotic techniques in multiple urologic conditions
such as augmentation cystoplasty, donor
nephrectomy, and simple prostatectomy
2. Articulate attempts to standardize laparoscopic
port placement
3. Understand novel and newly discovered
techniques in the treatment of nephrolithiasis
4:40 – 5:00 Guest Lecture:
Secondary therapy in prostate cancer: What
happens when clinical concerns and health
reimbursement policies collide?
David Penson, MD - Professor of Urologic Surgery at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
and Director of the Center for Surgical Quality and
Outcomes Research at the Vanderbilt Institute of
Medicine and Public Health in Nashville
5:00 Adjourn
SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 2009 (8:15am – 5:00pm)
8:15 – 8:45 Keynote Lecture #2:
Female Pelvic Anatomy
Raymond R. Rackley, MD - Professor of Surgery,
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
8:45 – 9:30 Scientific Session IV:
Female Urology/Voiding Dysfunction 11:50 – 12:15 State of the Art Lecture #1: GU
1. Articulate the outcomes of various anti-
incontinence surgeries, including management of
Injuries: Treatment and Prevention Strategies
Hunter Wessells, M.D. - Professor and Chairman,
unique complications and complex salvage
University of Washington Department of Urology,
scenarios
2. Discuss recent discoveries in neurourology and
Seattle, WA
female pelvic neuroanatomy 12:15 – 1:15 Lunch, Membership Meeting and
View Exhibits
9:30 – 9:45 Point Counter Point:
1:15 – 2:00 Scientific Session VII: Oncology II
Controversies in Pelvic Floor Medicine
1. Discuss the incidence of antibiotic resistance
Moderated by Kathleen Kobashi, MD, Panelists:
following prostate biopsy and articulate the
Raymond Rackley, MD and Elizabeth Miller, MD.
implications on clinical practice
1. Be able to discuss various techniques in pelvic
2. Describe the transition from open to robotic
floor therapy
prostatectomy with particular attention to
2. Understand the evaluation and management of
incidence of positive margins and understand the
various sequela of pelvic floor surgery.
implications of positive surgical margins on
9:45 – 10:15 Break and View Exhibits
prostate cancer mortality
10:15 – 11:00 Scientific Session V: Pediatrics 3. Identify novel pathways that influence prostate
1. Compare the learning curve and outcomes of
cancer growth in animal models
open versus robotic pediatric pyeloplasty
4. Discuss potential benefits of selective estrogen
2. Discuss novel advances in minimally invasive
modulating agents in prostate cancer progression
surgery in pediatric urology, such as
2:00 – 2:30 State of the Art Lecture #2:
laparoendoscopic single site surgery
3. Understand novel, non-invasive methods to Optimizing Outcomes after radical
Prostatectomy: Technology or Technique?
evaluate lower urinary tract function in children
4. Articulate the predictors of successful Christopher Amling, M.D. - Professor and Chief,
Division of Urology, Oregon Health and Sciences
vesicoureteral reflux resolution after Deflux
University, Portland, OR
5. Discuss the frequency and health care patterns in
2:30 – 3:00 Break and View Exhibits
pediatric female genital trauma in the US
3:00 – 4:00 Scientific Session VIII:
11:00 – 11:50 Scientific Session VI:
Miscellaneous
1. Discuss various renal transplantation outcomes in
1. Understand men’s health from a population health
perspective both donor and recipients
2. Discuss the impact of diabetes on quality of life in 2. Compare outcomes of various techniques of
men and women vasovasostomy and penile prosthesis surgery
3. Highlight recent developments in both 3. Understand erectile function in normal men
undergraduate medical education and post- 4. Report treatment options for priapism
graduate urology education 5. Understand scope of infertility in male veterans
4. Provide management strategies for and predictors of successful in vitro fertilization.
ureteroinguinal hernias 4:00 – 5:00 Keynote Lecture #3:
FACULTY DISCLOSURE The argument against the use of synthetic
Disclosure of relevant financial relationships and mesh kits for POP
discussion of off-label or Investigational Products have Raymond R. Rackley, MD - Professor of Surgery, The
been received by all participating planning committee Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case
members, faculty, presenters, moderators, and panelists. Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
The full details of their disclosure will be included in the 5:00 Adjourn
conference syllabus, written evaluation forms, and
verbally by the moderators of the respective sessions.