The 100th Diamond Anniversary Annual Meeting held at The Grand Hyatt Kauai concluded on November 1, 2024. Total registered attendance included 655 urologists, 82 Advance Practice Provider / Allied health pros, 154 Spouse/Guest, and over 200 exhibitors. With total attendance of over 1200 persons makes this among one of our top largest meetings of all time! Congratulations to General Arrangements Chair: Dr. Franklin Lee (pictured left) and his local arrangements committee!

For those who participated, we thank you for being with us at this meeting! For those who could not, session videos are now available for viewing.

• View live recorded sessions
• Read Dr. John Barry's 2024 meeting take aways
• View the Program Book
• Click here to search and view the abstracts
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• View the Speakers
• View the list of Exhibitors
• View posts on X (twitter) #wsaua24

Miley B. Wesson Resident Essay Contest Winners:

• 1ST PLACE: Kevin Shee MD, PhD, UC San Francisco
• 2ND PLACE: Nicolette Payne, MD, Mayo AZ
• 3RD PLACE: Meera Chappidi, MD, Univ. of WA

Joseph F. McCarthy Physician Essay Contest Winners:

• 1ST PLACE: Carissa Chu, MD, UC San Francisco
• 2ND PLACE: Samuel Washington, MD, UC San Francisco
• 3RD PLACE: Muhannad Alsyouf, MD, Loma Linda Univ.

History Essay Contest Winner:

• 1ST PLACE: Emily Hacker, MD, UC San Francisco
• 2ND PLACE: Lee White, MD, Stanford Univ.
• 3RD PLACE: Michelle Leach, MD, UC San Diego

Health Policy Contest Winners

Anthony Middleton Grand Prize Award:

Jerad Harris, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA

Jeffrey Kaufman Grand Prize Essay Award:

1ST PLACE: Emily Clennon, MD, OR Health Sci. Univ.

HON. MENTION: Jenna Winebaum, MD, UC San Francisco

MODERATED POSTER SESSION WINNERS: - OVERALL WINNERS

Grand Prize: #07 – Meera Chappidi, MD, MPH - Utilizing machine learning approaches for cancer detection and prediction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

2^nd Place: #105 – Simon John Christoph Soerensen, MD - Urologist Density and the risk of Prostate Cancer Mortality in US Counties.

3^rd Place: #23 – Leilei Xia, MD - Assessing potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical outcomes following radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

 Poster Session 1 – Best of Session

1^st Place: #23 Leilei Xia, MD - Assessing potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical outcomes following radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

2^nd Place: #08 – Noah Kaplan, BS - A Real World Experience of BCG Utilization For NMIBC In A Community Urology Practice.

3^rd Place: #07 Meera Chappidi, MD, MPH - Utilizing machine learning approaches for cancer detection and prediction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

 Poster Session 2 – Best of Session

1^st Place: #29 – Daniel Jhang, MD - Does Deep Learning Reconstruction Improve Ureteral Stone Detection and Subjective Image Quality in the CT Images of Patients with Metal Hardware?

2^nd Place: #36 – Colton Leavitt, MD - H2O or H2 No? Is Water Safe To Use in PCNL?

3^rd Place: #47 – Kshitij Pandit, MBBS - Comparative Analysis of Performance of Large Language Models in Urogynecology.

 Poster Session 3 – Best of Session

1^st Place: #105 – Simon John Christoph Soerensen, MD - Urologist Density and the risk of Prostate Cancer Mortality in US Counties.

2^nd Place: #98 – Steve Zhou, MD - Artificial intelligence detects more prostate cancer than urologists on micro-ultrasound.

3^rd Place: #112 – Valerie Wong, MD - Accuracy of MRI Fusion-Guided Biopsy For Prostate Cancer Diagnosis In Hawaii.

UNMODERATED POSTER SESSION WINNERS:

1^st Place: #179 – Kiarad Fenderski, MD - The Association Between Urine Culture Antimicrobial Resistance And Place Of Residence Among Positive Urine Cultures From Pediatric Patients In Utah.

2^nd Place: #131 – Jonathan Wright, MD, MS - An Observational Study of Cxbladder Monitoring for Recurrence of Urothelial Carcinoma in Low, Intermediate, and High-Risk Patients (LOBSTER).

3^rd Place: #121 – Minji Jung, PharmD, PhD - Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Overtakes Cancer Mortality In Renal Cell Carcinoma Survivors: A Population-Based Cohort Study.

Round Table Program Awards

• The Henry Hadley Award – Michael Sanford, MD – (paper#433)
• Bodner – Stegemann Award – Lauren Poniatowski, MD – (paper#445)

Whova Meeting App Contest Winners

Community Leaderboard

• 1st Place: John C. Prince – 430,100 points
• 2nd Place: Christopher Tenggardjaja – 390,300 points
• 3rd Place: Arriana Rieland, – 361,000 points
• 4th Place: Jennifer Lee – 338,900 points

Exhibits Passport Contest

• Jerad Harris, MD
• Justine Yamashiro, MD
• Trisha Kruger, MD
• Nancy Ye, MD

Resident's Rock 'n Roll Bowl Teams

• The Lin-credibles
• The Presti-cles - Winners!
• U.S. Sia

WSAUA Election Results, 2024-2025 Leadership

Honoring our Past-Presidents

Divers of the Western Section

"getting their feet wet outside the office"

Pictured above are attendees of the first ever scuba divers of the WSAUA under the direction of Dr. Mike Sanford. Everyone reported back to the meeting and enjoyed the experience.

The meeting highlights would not be complete without mentioning the craziest session: The Frank J. DeSantis Resident's Rock 'n Roll Bowl under the direction of rock'n Joe Presti (pictured at far-out right) with his motley crew of players. Congratulations to the winning team, The Presti-cles, who will go on to represent us at the national AUA Resident Bowl in Las Vegas! Good luck to team WSAUA!

Whova Meeting App Photo Contest