| President | Margaret Pearle, M.D. | President-Elect | John Denstedt, M.D. | Past-President | Adrian Joyce, M.D. | Secretary General | Li-Ming Su, M.D. | Treasurer | Chandru Sundaram, M.D. | Director of Education | Brian Matlaga, M.D. | Associate Director of Education | Bradley Schwartz, D.O. | Research Chair | Ben Chew, M.D. | Board of Directors | Norberto Bernardo, M.D. | Jeffrey Cadeddu, M.D. | Tomonori Habuchi, M.D. | Mordechai Duvdevani, M.D. | Nicole Miller, M.D. | Olivier Traxer, M.D. | Ashutosh Tewari, M.D. | Jihad Kaouk, M.D. | Seung Hyun Jeon, M.D. | Anthony Ng, M.D. | Abhay Rane, M.D. | Hassan Razvi, M.D. | Christopher Netsch, M.D. | Historian | Stephen Nakada, M.D. | Founding President | Arthur Smith, M.D. | Journal of Endourology Editor | Jaime Landman, M.D. | VideoUrology Editor | Mantu Gupta, M.D. | Subgroup Leaders: | Ben Chew, M.D. (CROES) | Craig Rogersi, M.D.. (SURS) | Necole Streeper, M.D. & Etienne Keller, M.D. (Young Endourologists) | Joseph Liao M.D. (E&U) | Dirk Lange, M.D. (Urological Stents) | Executive Director | | Executive Director |
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Message from the President |  After 3 years of stops and starts, disappointment and hope, the Endourological Society finally succeeded in hosting the 39th World Congress of Endourology and Uro-Technology in San Diego this month. Above all else, it was an opportunity to reconnect with old friends and colleagues, a simple gesture we had come to expect until it wasn’t possible. The meeting was a somber reminder that in the age of technology, as small as our world can be, we remain separated by a wide gulf if we cannot share the essence of live human connection. In that sense it was hard for the meeting to NOT be considered a success. However, thanks so our wonderful hosts, Roger Sur, Jaime Landman and Ralph Clayman, the meeting met all of our scientific and social expectations. With visionary state-of-the-art talks, lively debates, and exciting semi-live surgery, the meeting exceeded our scientific needs. Against the backdrop of San Diego paradise, it was the perfect meeting to quench our thirst for scientific collaboration. Furthermore, the resort venue, with the convention center on premises, meant that the opportunity to run into friends and colleagues abounded. Our Secretary General, Li-Ming Su, along with our Congress President, Roger Sur, deserve tremendous praise for their nimble assembling of the program, speakers and social events. It was a yeoman’s effort! However, the Society was not idle, anticipating the WCET, during the rest of this year. The successful webinar series, initiated during the pandemic, outlasted nearly all other web-based educational efforts from other societies and still draws a surprisingly robust live attendance and even greater on-demand attendance. Not only does our educational leadership, Brian Matlaga and Brad Schwartz, deserve credit for this successful enterprise, but the faculty who have contributed their time and expertise so selflessly deserve our sincere gratitude, as it is they who drive the content. We look forward to further iterations in the on-line educational series as we move forward. Our Diversity and Inclusion Committee was active as well, producing a highly popular Webinar series and guiding the Executive Committee and Board in the direction of greater diversity. Their efforts will enrich our Society and assure that everyone who shares our mission and vision and is welcome. Finally, the close of the 2022 WCET brought to an end the tenure of our President, Adrian Joyce. I think I speak for the entire Executive Committee when I say that Adrian Joyce was one of the most engaged, committed, hard-working and dedicated presidents our Society has ever seen. With service on the Executive Committee dating back to 2014 with his 6-year term as Director of Education, Mr. Joyce was instrumental in transforming our educational portfolio, first initiating our global educational courses and then pivoting to webinars throughout the pandemic. As President, he led the Executive Committee and Board of Directors in both difficult and positive directions as circumstances dictated, and he made himself available night and day for Society needs. As I begin my tenure as President, I can only commit to strive to provide the same level of dedication, commitment and leadership as our outgoing president. With that, I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and look forward to a productive, interactive and hopefully blissfully uneventful 2023! | Respectfully, | Margaret S. Pearle | President, Endourological Society |
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