Endourological Society Journal

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Journal of Endourology (ISSN: 0892-7790), published bimonthly, provides a forum for papers dealing with the closed controlled manipulation of the urinary tract. All business communications should be addressed to the Publisher. Reprints, except special orders of 100 or more, are available from the authors.

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Editors

Ralph V. Clayman, M.D.
University of California, Irvine
Department of Urology
333 City Blvd. West, Ste. 2100
Orange, CA 92868-5395
rclayman@uci.edu

Arthur D. Smith, M.D.
Department of Urology
The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology
450 Lakeville Road – Suite M41
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
asmith@lij.edu

Managing Editor

Gopal H. Badlani, M.D.
Dept. of Urology
Wake Forest University Baptist Med. Ctr.
Medical Center Blvd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
gbadlani@wfubmc.edu

Editorial Coordinator

Michele Paoli
Endourological Society
Telephone: 516-520-1224
michelelij@aol.com

Associate Editors

Demetrius H. Bagley, M.D.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Joseph A. Smith, Jr., M.D.
Vanderbilt University

Craig A. Peters, M.D.
The Children’s Hospital Boston

Glenn M. Preminger, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center

Christian Chaussy, M.D.
Stadt Krankenhaus Harlaching, Munich

Louis Kavoussi, M.D.
The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology

John Denstedt, M.D.
University of Western Ontario

Inderbir S. Gill, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Section Editors

“Controversial Cases in Endourology”
Stephen V. Nakada, M.D.
University of Wisconsin

“Endourology Surveys”
Howard Winfield, M.D.
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

“Epochs in Endourology”
Sakti Das, M.D.
University of California at Davis, Sacramento

“Highlights”
Jaime Landman, M.D.
Columbia University
Mantu Gupta, M.D.
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

“Images in Endourology”
Chandhru P. Sundaram, M.D.
Indiana University

“Letters to the Editor”
Dean G. Assimos, M.D.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

“New Technologies in Endourology”
David Duchene, M.D.
University of Kansas
Stavros Gravas, M.D.
University Hospital of Laressa, Greece
Dan Stoianovici, Ph.D.
John Hopkins Hospital

“Review Editors”
Margaret S. Pearle, M.D..
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Pilar Laguna, M.D.
University of Amsterdam

“Socio-Economics”
Larry C. Munch, M.D.
Indiana University

“Techniques in Endourology”
J. Stuart Wolf, M.D.
University of Michigan
Benjamin R. Lee, M.D.
Tulane University Medical Center

“Trends in Endourology Practice”
Glenn S. Gerber, M.D.
University of Chicago

“Tricks of the Trade”
William K. Johnston, II, M.D.
Northwestern University

Assistant Editors (Section Editors *)

Clément-Claude Abbou, M.D.
CHU Henri Mondor, France

David M. Albala, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center

Yoshio Aso, M.D.
University of Tokyo, Japan

Richard Babayan, M.D.
Boston University Medical Center

Jeffrey Cadeddu, M.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Jean de la Rosette, M.D.
University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands

Mahesh Desai, M.D.
Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, India

Stephen Dretler, M.D.
Harvard Medical School

Gerhard J. Fuchs, M.D.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Michael Grasso, III, M.D.
St. Vincents Medical Center, New York

Donald Griffith, M.D.
UroCenter of Houston, LLP

Bertrand Guillonneau, M.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Jorge Gutiérrez Aceves, M.D.
University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Ashok Hemal, M.D.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Gunter Janetschek, M.D.
Universitatsklinik Fur Urologie, Austria

Alan Jenkins, M.D.
University of Virginia Hospital

Gerald H. Jordan, M.D.
Eastern Virginia Medical School

Adrian Joyce, M.D.
St. James University, United Kingdom

David Lee, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Michael Marberger, M.D.
University of Vienna, Austria

Elspeth M. McDougall, M.D.
University of California, Irvine

Maurice Stephan Michel, M.D.
University of Mannheim, Germany

Manoj Monga, M.D.
University of Minnesota

Robert C. Newman, M.D.
University of Florida

Yoshinari Ono, M.D.
Nagoya University, Japan

Jens Rassweiler, M.D.
Klinikum Heibronn, Germany
Nelson Rodrigues Netto, Jr., M.D.
University of Campinas Medical Center, Brazil

Raju Thomas, M.D.
Tulane University, New Orleans

David A. Tolley, M.D.
Western General Hospital, Scotland

Paul J. Van Cangh, M.D.
St. Luc University Hospital, Belgium

Graham Watson, M.D.
Esperance Private Hospital, East Sussex, UK

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Presidents of National Affiliated Societies

Presidents of National Affiliated Societies

Prof. Giampaolo Bianchi
Associazione Italiana di Endourologia

M.C. Conradie, M.D.
Southern African Endourology Society

Mahesh Desai, M.D.
Muljibhai Patel Society for Research in NephroUrology

José Mario Ulises Pérez Toriz
Mexican Endourological Society (AMELL)

Joung Sik Rim
Korean Endourology & ESWL Society

Hui-Meng Tan
Malaysian Society of Endourology

Nestor Piaggio
Argentian Endourology Society

Awards Commitee

Chairman
Adrian Joyce, M.D. - United Kingdom

Li-Ming Su, M.D. - United States

Michael Wong, M.D. - Singapore

Margaret Pearle, M.D. - United States

Allen Chiu, M.D. - Taiwan

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Arthur D. Smith, M.D.
Department of Urology
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
270-05 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11042

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