April 18-20, 2013 ARIA Hotel, Las Vegas
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Female Urology & Urogynecology Symposium (FUUS) Full Agenda
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Female Urology & Urogynecology Symposium (FUUS) Agenda

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

6:30 AM Breakfast/Exhibits
7:30 AM Urology & Gynecology Collaborating for the Good of Women: Past, Present & Future
Jerry Blaivas, MD
7:35 AM Defining this New Subspecialty of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery
Mickey Karram, MD
Evaluation & Non-Surgical Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction
7:40 AM Lower Urinary Tract Anatomy, Physiology & Neurophysiology of Storage and Evacuation of Urine
Karl Kreder, MD
The Basics of Diagnosis and Treatment: A Case Study Approach
8:00 AM Initial Evaluation & Treatment of Overactive Bladder
Jerry Blaivas, MD
  • How much history and exam is necessary?
  • Behavior modification
  • Pharmacologic treatment
  • How to measure outcomes
  • Follow-up
  • When is enough, enough? Going on to the next step
8:20 AM Initial Evaluation & Treatment of Stress and Mixed Urinary Incontinence
Jerry Blaivas, MD
8:30 AM Initial Evaluation & Treatment of Voiding Dysfunction
Jerry Blaivas, MD
8:40 AM Evaluation & Treatment of Nocturia
Jerry Blaivas, MD
8:55 AM Evaluation & Treatment of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection
Karl Kreder, Jr. MD
9:10 AM Initial Evaluation & Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Mickey Karram, MD
  • History and exam: How much is necessary?
  • Staging prolapse
  • Functional derangements vs prolapse symptoms
  • Hormone replacement therapy
  • Pessaries
  • How to measure outcomes
  • When is surgery indicated
9:30 AM Q & A
10:00 AM Break/Exhibits
Management of Treatment Failures
10:30 AM Refractory Overactive Bladder Diagnostic Evaluation & Treatment Guidelines
Jerry Blaivas, MD
  • Case study
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Role of urodynamics and cystoscopy
  • Treatment of remediable conditions
10:50 AM Treatment of Idiopathic Refractory Overactive Bladder
Eric Rovner, MD
  • Intra-detrusor Botox
  • Neuromodulation
  • Enterocystoplasty
11:10 AM Urethral Obstruction: Diagnosis and Treatment
Jerry Blaivas, MD
  • Case study
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Role of urodynamics and cystoscopy
  • Surgical Treatment:
    • Sling incision
    • Urethrolysis
    • Transurethral incision/resection of bladder neck
    • Urethroplasty
    • Urethral dilation
11:30 AM Sphincteric Incontinence: Diagnostic Evaluation
Jerry Blaivas, MD
  • Case study
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Role of urodynamics and cystoscopy
11:40 AM Overview of Surgical Management of Stress Incontinence
Eric Rovner, MD
12:00 PM Q & A
12:15 PM Luncheon Symposium (Additional 1.0 CME Credits)
Challenges in the Management of OAB: What Would You Do?
Eric S. Rovner, MD — Chair
Mickey M. Karram, MD

Sponsored by Primary Care Education Consortium
Supported by an educational grant from Allergan
1:30 PM Dessert Break in Exhibit Hall
Slings Update
2:00 PM RetroPubic Mid-Urethral Slings(RPMUS)
Transobturator Mid-Urethral Slings(TOMUS)
Mini-Sling (MMUS)
Mickey Karram, MD
2:30 PM Rectus Fascial Bladder Neck Sling
Jerry Blaivas, MD
2:45 PM Q & A
3:05 PM Management of Sling Failures: Recurrent Stress Incontinence
Eric Rovner, MD
3:20 PM Mesh Sling Complications
Jerry Blaivas, MD
3:40 PM Panel Discussion: Case Studies
Jerry Blaivas, MD (Moderator)
Mickey Karram, MD
Karl Kreder, Jr. MD
Eric Rovner, MD
4:00 PM Break/Exhibits
4:30 PM Practice Building
Neil Baum, MD
5:30 PM Adjourn for Evening

Friday, April 19, 2013

6:45 AM Breakfast/Exhibits
7:00 AM Breakfast Symposium (Non-CME)
Sacral Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of urinary and decal Incontinence
Mickey Karram, MD
Sponsored by Medtronic
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
8:00 AM Surgical Anatomy of Pelvic Support and Principles of Surgical Repair
Mickey Karram, MD
8:30 AM Clinical Case Discussions on Evaluating and Surgically Managing Uterovaginal Prolapse, Post-hysterectomy Apical Prolapse, Anterior and Posterior Vaginal Wall Prolapse
Mickey Karram, MD
Marie Paraiso, MD
9:15 AM Surgical Videofest Demonstrating Techniques for Vaginal Hysterectomy Native Tissue Suture Repairs Laparoscopic, Robotic and Open Sacral Colpopexy
Mickey Karram, MD
Marie Paraiso, MD
10:00 AM Q & A
10:15 AM Break/Exhibits
10:45 AM Panel Discussion on FDA Warning and Future of Meshes for Prolapse and Incontinence
Mickey Karram, MD (Moderator) and all faculty
11:15 AM Case Presentations and Discussions Regarding Patients with Recurrent Pelvic Organ Prolapse; Indication and Techniques for Vaginal Mesh Augmentation
Marie Paraiso, MD
11:45 AM Q & A
12:00 PM Luncheon Symposium (Non-CME)
Analyzing Medical Legal Tools and Strategies-The KEY to Lawsuit Prevention and Tax Reduction
Sponsored by Legally Mine
1:30 PM Dessert Break in Exhibit Hall
1:50 PM Uterine Preservation in Patients with Prolapse: Indications and Techniques for Hysteropexy
Marie Paraiso, MD
2:20 PM Laparoscopic Energy Sources: What's Best & Why
Marie Paraiso, MD
2:50 PM Female Sexual Dysfunction: What Every Gynecologist and Urologist Should Know - Case Discussions
Marie Paraiso, MD (Moderator)
3:20 PM Break & Exhibits
Breakout Sessions
3:50 PM Group 1- Urology for Gynecologists
Jerry Blaivas, MD
Karl Kreder, Jr., MD
Eric Rover, MD
3:50 PM Atlas of Normal and Abnormal Cystoscopy
4:05 PM Avoiding and Managing Ureteral injury during Pelvic Surgery
4:20 PM Evaluations & Management of Hematuria
4:35 PM Case Discussions Related to Lower Urninary Tract.
Procedures and Complications
3:50 PM Group 2 - Gynecology for Urologists
Mickey Karram, MD
Marie Paraiso, MD
3:50 PM How to Take a Good History and Do a Pelvic Exam As It Relates To Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
4:05 PM Hormones, Pessaries and Preoperative Discussions
4:20 PM Tips and Tricks to Doing a Native Tissue Repair Transvaginally
4:35 PM Q & A
4:50 PM Simultaneous Video Sessions: You Pick Which Procedures You Want to See
Session 1 – Advanced surgery of the Lower Urinary Tract
  • Vesicovaginal Fistula
  • Urethral Diverticulum
  • Urethral Reconstruction
  • Urethral Stricture Repair
  • Mesh Complications
Session 2
  • Robotic & laparoscopic surgery
  • Vaginal repairs for posterior pelvic floor disorders
  • Mesh augmented vaginal repairs

5:50 PM Adjourn for Evening

Saturday, April 20, 2013

7:00 AM Breakfast
Mini-Symposium on Pelvic Pain Syndromes
8:00 AM Is IC/PBS a Systemic Disease? What We have Learned from the Multidisciplinary Approach to Pelvic Pain Network (MAPP Network)
Karl Kreder, Jr., MD
8:20 AM A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of IC/PBS.
What Works?
Karl Kreder, Jr., MD
9:00 AM Pelvic Pain outside the Bladder: Endometriosis, Vulvodynia
Mickey Karram, MD
9:30 AM Neuromodulation and Its Role in Treating Pelvic Pain
Karl Kreder, Jr. MD
10:00 AMBreak
10:15 AM Videofest: Avoiding and Managing Surgical Complications (Case Discussions with Video)
11:15 PM Coding and Reimbursement
Michael Ferragamo, MD
   
12:15 PM Symposium Adjournment