Imaging and Focal Therapy of Early Prostate Cancer

Thomas J. Polascik, MD FACS is the Lawrence C. Katz Distinguished Professor of Urologic Surgery and Professor of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center. He is the Director of Surgical Technology, Duke Prostate and Urological Cancer Center. He is the co-founder and co-director of the International Symposium on Focal Therapy and Imaging of Prostate and Kidney Cancer, which began at Duke in 2008. Dr Polascik is the Editor of the text Imaging and Focal Therapy of Early Prostate Cancer, now in its third edition. He currently is the founder and immediate past President of the Focal Therapy Society, Duke’s Genitourinary Program on Focal Therapy and the founding and past Director of the Society of Urologic Oncology fellowship training program at the Duke Cancer Institute. He is the Medical Director of Duke Men’s Health Initiative Screening event each June and is a governing member of several medical boards and societies. His clinical and research interests focus on prostate and kidney cancer. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.

Dr de la Rosette is Professor of Urology, at Istanbul Medipol Mega University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey since 2018. Upon completion of his medical degree and urology residency at St Radboud University Hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands he worked there as urologists from 1992 - 2002. He was appointed Professor and Chair at the department of urology at Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 2002-2020. His main fields of interest are minimal invasive surgery and endourology with a special focus on ablative treatments and urological ultrasound. He is founding co-chairman of the EAU Section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) and the founding chairman of the European Association of Urology (EAU) working party on BPH guidelines. He served as board member of the Society of Endourology during 1996-2016. He is strongly committed to research and is the founding-chair of the CROES (Clinical Research Office of the Endourology Society). He held since 2016 the position of General Secretary of the Societe International d’Urologie and is since 2023 the President Elect of the Societe International d’Urologie. Dr de la Rosette is (co)author of over 750 peer-reviewed publications and has authored many book chapters.

Rafael Sanchez-Salas

McGill University

Department of Surgery, Division of Urology

Montreal, Quebec

Canada

Ardeshir R. Rastinehad

Northwell Health System

Smith Institute for Urology at Lenox Hill

New York, USA