The Endourology Society is pleased to announce the following recipients of this year’s 2021 Summer Student Scholarships.

• Bethany R. Regan

  Siracusa, NY - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Scott Vincent Wiener

  Program:

  Upstate Medical University

  Research Project:

  “Inter-Modality Prostate Volume Calculations in BPH Surgical Candidates”

• Xavier C. Cortez

  San Francisco, CA - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Thomas Chi

  Program:

  University of California, San Francisco

  Research Project:

  “Validating the kidney injury test (KIT) as a point of care diagnostic for urinary stone disease"

• Akhil Peta

  Irvine, CA - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Roshan M. Patel

  Program:

  University of California, Irvine

  Research Project:

  “Evaluation of Augmented Reality as a Perioperative Aid to Assist with Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy – A Pilot Study”

• Micah A. Levy

  New York, NY - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Michael Palese

  Program:

  Mount Sinai

  Research Project:

  “The Role of Experience: How Surgeon Volume and Fellowship Training Impact Surgical Outcomes of PCNL, ESWL, and URS for Kidney Stone Removal”

• Justin James

  Lake Success, NY - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Arun Rai

  Program:

  Arthur Smith Institute for Urology

  Research Project:

  “Feasibility of Intraoperative Audiovisual Recording for Correlation of Intraoperative Adverse Events to Post-Operative Clinical Outcomes in Urologic Surgery using Root Cause Analysis”

• Henry J. Paiste

  Birmingham, AL - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Dean Assimos

  Program:

  University of Alabama Birmingham

  Research Project:

  "The Role of Weight Loss on Endogenous Oxalate Synthesis, Gastrointestinal Oxalate Absorption, and Renal Oxalate Handling"

• Bergen Lemack

  Gainsville, FL - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Benjamin Canales

  Program:

  University of Florida – Department of Urology

  Research Project:

  "RAISE YOUR GLASS! AMERICAN CHESTNUT LEAVES CAN REDUCE TEA OXALATE CONTENT"

• Ailed Flores Delgao

  Ciudad de México, MX - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Carlos Enrique Méndez Probst

  Program:

  The National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán

  Research Project:

• Athanasios Nikolaos Vagionis

  Rio, GC - Accepted

  Program Director:

   

  Program:

  University Hospital of Rio, Rio, Greece

  Research Project:

• Vinson Wai Shun Chan

  Ma Liu Shui, HK - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh

  Program:

  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Research Project:

  “Transurethral en bloc resection for bladder cancer – A multicentre collaborative global registry ”

2020 Summer Student Scholarships

• Douglas William Schneider

  Irvine, CA - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Jaime Landman

  Program:

  University of California, Irvine

  Research Project:

  “Evaluation of Intrarenal Gel for Stone Fragment Containment and Extraction during Endoscopic Procedures”

• Roxana Ramos Carpinteyro

  Cleveland, OH - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Aaron W. Miller

  Program:

  Cleveland Clinic

  Research Project:

  “In Vitro Analysis of Urine Isolates to Determine the Stone Promoting/Inhibition Properties”

• Avery Rose Wolfe

  Dallas, TX - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Alaina Garbens

  Program:

  UT Southwestern Medical Center

  Research Project:

  “Using a Multi-Task Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Surgeon Skill and Patient Outcomes in Robotic Partial Nephrectomy”

• Emily Gelber

  New York, NY - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Mantu Gupta

  Program:

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  Research Project:

  “Artificial Intelligence, Computer vision algorithm for real time detection of kidney stone composition”

• Amanda Elizabeth Kahn

  Jacksonville, FL - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. David D. Thiel

  Program:

  Mayo Clinic Florida

  Research Project:

  “THE ASSOCIATION OF GLYCOPROTEOMICS AND RADIOMICS WITH RENAL CELL CARCINOMA CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL: AN ADJUNCT EVALUATION FOR SMALL RENAL MASSES”

• Alex Reed Sandberg

  Philidelphia, PA - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. David Lee

  Program:

  University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center

  Research Project:

  Project Title TBA - Computer Learning for Pelvic Anatomy

• Bertie Zhang

  Valhalla, NY - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Majid Eshghi

  Program:

  New York Medical College

  Research Project:

  “The Feasibility of Digital Ureteroscopy in an Office Setting for Followup Surveillance of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma”

• Tiange Li

  Toronto, OT - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Monica Farcas

  Program:

  St. Michael’s Hospital

  Research Project:

  “Advanced Uroflowmetry Device”

• Claudia Deyirmendjian

  Montreal, QC - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Sero Andonian

  Program:

  Royal Victoria Hosptial – MUHC Glen Site

  Research Project:

  “Low-Dose Computerized Tomography (CT) for Patients Presenting with Urolithiais Evaluating Radiation Exposure after Protocol Implementation”

• Hyatt Maura O’Callaghan

  Bristol, UK - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Mr. Joe Philip

  Program:

  Bristol Urological Institute

  Research Project:

  “Evaluation of an Enhanced Acute Stone Service for Patients with Recent Hospital Admission with Renal Colic”

• Edward Christopher Yo

  Jakarta, ID - Accepted

  Program Director:

  Dr. Dyandra Parikesit

  Program:

  Universitas Indonesia Hospital

  Research Project:

  “Assessing webinar outcomes for health professionals: a perspective from Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic”