

Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS)
Friday, May 15, 2026 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · 7 hr. (America/New_York)
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Specialty Society
Transgender and Gender Affirming CareTrauma/Reconstruction/Diversion
Information
Learning Objectives:
1. Evaluate emerging diagnostic and risk-assessment strategies in the management of urological disease.
2. Demonstrate optimization of the surgical patient prior to and after urinary diversion surgery.
3. Analyze the latest evidence underlying the surgical management of urethral strictures and emerging areas of research.
1. Evaluate emerging diagnostic and risk-assessment strategies in the management of urological disease.
2. Demonstrate optimization of the surgical patient prior to and after urinary diversion surgery.
3. Analyze the latest evidence underlying the surgical management of urethral strictures and emerging areas of research.
Continuing Medical Education
CME
Friday, May 15
Welcome
Friday, May 15, 2026 10:00 AM to 10:02 AM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Charles Devine Lecture: The Evolution of Robotic Surgery in Reconstructive Urology and What Does the Future Hold?
Friday, May 15, 2026 10:02 AM to 10:30 AM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Should We Grow the Number of Fellowships in GURS?
Friday, May 15, 2026 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
How Best to Optimize the Reconstructive Patient Prior to Surgery?
Friday, May 15, 2026 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Melanie Aube-Peterkin
Lichen Sclerosis Biology and Disease Management
Friday, May 15, 2026 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
William Boysen
Presidential Address
Friday, May 15, 2026 12:15 PM to 12:30 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Non-CME Industry Sponsored Lunch Presented by Legally Mine
Friday, May 15, 2026 12:45 PM to 1:30 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
GURS Members Town Hall
Friday, May 15, 2026 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Management of the Devastated Bladder Neck (Semi-Live Surgery)
Friday, May 15, 2026 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Brian Chao · NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Ahmad El-Arabi
Should We Continue to Do Medical Missions? What are the Benefits, Risks, and Considerations
Friday, May 15, 2026 2:45 PM to 3:15 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Reynaldo Gomez · Hospital del Trabajador
Volodymyr Bondarchuk · Communal Non-commercial Enterprise «Kyiv City Clinical Hospital №18
Pablo Damian Lopez
Wellington Ledesma
Gender Affirmation Surgery Update
Friday, May 15, 2026 3:15 PM to 3:45 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Wai Gin Lee · University College London
Incontinence and Radiation: Treatment of Post Prostatectomy SUI in a Patient Post-Pelvic Radiation
Friday, May 15, 2026 3:45 PM to 4:10 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Jeffrey Loh-Doyle · University of Southern California
Erectile Dysfunction and Incontinence: Patient with Stress Incontinence and Concomitant Refractory ED
Friday, May 15, 2026 4:10 PM to 4:30 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Young GURS 2024-2025 Reconstructive Literature Update
Friday, May 15, 2026 4:30 PM to 4:55 PM
Marriott Marquis: Independence Ballroom Salon B
Xinyuan (Lisa) Zhang · Cleveland Clinic Foundation

