The Department of Urology kept busy at SESAUA 2019! Many of our faculty, residents and School of Medicine medical students represented the department in podium, poster and video sessions. A big congratulations goes to all who had articles accepted.

SESAUA also included some invited talks like Dr. Soroush Rais-Bahrami's talk, "State-of-the-Art Lecture: Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance and MRI-Targeted Biopsy".

See below for more conference highlights:

Wednesday, March 13

Podium Session: Socioeconomics and Health Services Research

4:12 pm CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF INDICATIONS FOR URINALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES
Peter Kolettis, MD, Kyle Gennaro, MD, Gerald McGwin, Jr., MS, PhD
Presented By: Kyle Harrison Gennaro, MD

Poster Session: Nephrolithiasis

3:30-5 pm RNA INTERFERENCE OF HEPATIC LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE AND LIVER METABOLOMIC EFFECTS (Poster #4)
Carter Boyd, John Knight, PhD, Ross Holmes, PhD, Dean Assimos, MD, Kyle Wood, MD Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Presented By: Carter Boyd, BS

3:30-5 pm ASSOCIATION OF OBESITY WITH INCREASED ENDOGENOUS OXALATE SYNTHESIS (poster #9)
Carter Boyd, John Knight, PhD, Ross Holmes, PhD, Dean Assimos, MD, Kyle Wood, MD
Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Presented By: Carter Boyd, BS

3:30-5 pm ENZYMATIC CHANGES IN ENDOGENOUS OXALATE PATHWAY IN OBESE MOUSE MODEL (poster #11)
Carter Boyd, John Knight, PhD, Ross Holmes, PhD, Dean Assimos, MD, Kyle Wood, MD Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Presented By: Carter Boyd, BS

Video Session I

4-5 pm ROBOTIC-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR OF BLADDER NECK STENOSIS USING A BUCCAL MUCOSA GRAFT (video #3)
Omotola Ashorobi, MD, Nathan Mendoza, MD, Patrick Selph, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Urology
Presented By: Omotola Ashorobi, MD

Thursday, March 14

Poster Session: Prostate Cancer

7-8:30 am VALIDATION OF MSKCC PRE-PROSTATECTOMY NOMOGRAM IN MEN WHO UNDERGO TARGETED BIOPSY USING LESION-BASED AGGREGATE CORE HISTOLOGY REPORTING (poster #46)
Zachary Glaser, MD, Jennifer Gordetsky, MD, Sejong Bae, PhD, Jeffrey Nix, MD, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Preventative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Radiology
Presented By: Zachary A. Glaser, MD

Podium Session: Urethral Disease and Voiding Dysfunction

7:21 am A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF COMBINED VENTRAL FASCIOCUTANEOUS SKIN FLAP AND DORSAL BUCCAL MUCOSA GRAFT VS. OVERLAPPING BUCCAL MUCOSA GRAFT FOR URETHRAL STRICTURE DISEASE
Alexander Nocera, MS, Omotola Ashorobi, MD, Patrick Selph, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine, UAB Department of Urology
Presented By: Alexander Nocera, MS

7:35 am PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS AFTER URETHROPLASTY DO NOT REDUCE URETHRAL STRICTURE DISEASE RECURRENCE
Omotola Ashorobi, MD, Joseph Fougerousse, MD, Kimberly Martin, PhD, John Selph, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Epidemiology
Presented By: Omotola Ashorobi, MD

Poster Session: Health Services Research

3:50-5 pm IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND SYSTEMIC DISEASE ON URINARY STONE RISK PARAMETERS AMONGST STONE FORMERS (poster #59)
Carter Boyd, Dustin Whitaker, Omotola Ashorobi, MD, Robert Oster, PhD, John Knight, PhD, Ross Holmes, PhD, Dean Assimos, MD, Kyle Wood, MD
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Presented By: Carter Boyd, BS

Friday, March 15

Poster Session: Urologic Oncology

7-8 am HOW WOULD MRI-TARGETED PROSTATE BIOPSY ALTER RADIATION THERAPY APPROACHES IN TREATING PROSTATE CANCER? (poster #95)
Daniel Dix, Andrew McDonald, MD, Jennifer Gordetsky, MD, Jeffrey Nix, MD, John Thomas, MD, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD,
Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL., Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Presented By: Daniel Dix

Poster Session: Outpatient Urology

7-8 am FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF BIPARAMETRIC PROSTATE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (poster #105)
Kristin Porter, Alex King, Samuel Galgano, Rachael Sherrer, Jennifer Gordetsky, Soroush Rais-Bahrami
Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL., 2Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL., Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Presented By: Rachael Leigh Sherrer, BA

5-6 pm COMPLETION OF THE ERAS PATHWAY IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR BENIGN URINARY DIVERSION IS LOW (poster #152)
Omotola Ashorobi, MD, Alexander Nocera, MS, John Selph, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Urology, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Presented By: Omotola Ashorobi, MD

Saturday, March 16

Poster Session: Andrology II

7-8 am REVISITING THE VALUE OF A SECOND SEMEN ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATION OF THE INFERTILE MAN (Poster #174)
Carter Boyd, Daniel Osula, MD, Peter Kolettis, MD
UAB School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, Department of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Presented By: Daniel Osula, MD

Podium Session: Prostate – Benign and Malignant

7:14 am COMPARISON OF BI-PARAMETRIC MRI TO FULL MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI FOR DETECTION OF CLINICALLY-SIGNIFICANT PROSTATE CANCER
Rachael Sherrer, Zachary Glaser, MD, Jennifer Gordetsky, MD, Jeffrey Nix, MD, Kristin Porter, MD, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD
Department of Urology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL., Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL., Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Presented
By: Rachael Leigh Sherrer, BA

T. Leon Howard Imaging Session

12-1 pm 54 YEAR OLD MALE WITH GROSS HEMATURIA IN HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK (case #4)
Ava Saidian, MD, James Ellenburg, MD, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, MD University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center
Presented By: Ava Saidian, MD