Scientific program (preliminary version)
Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Hotel, Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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Laser & Endoscopic Frontiers: Head-to-Head in Two Live Operating Theatres |
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| Time | Session | |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
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| 08:40 - 11:30 | Live Surgery Session I Live Transmission, Dual Theatre, Bucharest/ Cluj-Napoca |
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| ROOM A | ROOM B | |
| 08:40 - 09:30 | ThuLEP | HoLEP |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | NLP | fURS |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | ThuLEP | fURS |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | To be announced | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Live Surgery Session II Live Transmission, Dual Theatre, Bucharest |
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| ROOM A | ROOM B | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | ThuLEP | HoLEP |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | fURS | fURS |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | To be announced | |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Live Surgery Session III Live Transmission, Dual Theatre, Cluj-Napoca |
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| ROOM A | ROOM B | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | ThuLEP | fURS |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | STATE-OF-THE-ART SESSION Four evidence-focused talks on technique selection and outcomes |
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| Choosing the right approach in miniNLP – tips and tricks Matching percutaneous access strategy and tract size to stone burden and renal anatomy outcomes |
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| HoLEP – peak power and clinical outcomes How laser energy settings translate into enucleation efficiency and durable functional results |
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| Mastering RIRS – tips and tricks for complex renal stones Optimising scope selection, access sheaths and laser settings for high-volume or anatomically challenging stones. |
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| Complications in advanced endourology – prevention and management A structured look at avoiding, recognising and managing the complications that matter most in daily practice. |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Live Surgery Session IV Live Transmission, Dual Theatre, Cluj-Napoca |
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| ROOM A | ROOM B | |
| REZUM | fURS | |
| 20:00 | Networking Dinner |
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Robotic & Minimally Invasive Oncologic Surgery: From the Console to Precision Medicine |
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| Time | Session |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | LIVE SURGERY SESSION I Robotic Surgery |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | Live robotic surgery, broadcast with faculty commentary (Dual Theatre) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | To be announced |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Prerecorded Surgery – "How I Do It" | |
| TBC Karl Kowalewski |
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| Retroperitoneal Single-port Surgery Gianluca Spena |
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| Single-port approach in awake patients Giancarlo Marra |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | LIVE SURGERY SESSION II Laparoscopic Surgery |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Live laparoscopic surgery, broadcast with faculty commentary (Dual Theatre) |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Prerecorded Surgery – "How I Do It" |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | SPECIAL SESSION Innovation in Prostate Cancer Care From robotic surgery to precision oncology: Innovation in prostate cancer care: from robotic surgery to precision oncology |
| Teleproctoring in robotic surgery: lessons from the first transcontinental remote procedures Marcio Moschovas |
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| Maximising oncological outcomes of robotic radical prostatectomy James Eastham |
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| Biomarker-driven precision oncology in prostate cancer: from circulating tumor cells to molecular imaging Dan Dănilă |
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| 16:30 - 18:00 | LIVE SURGERY SESSION III Robotic Surgery |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Live robotic surgery, broadcast with faculty commentary (Dual Theatre) |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | SPECIAL SESSION The next surgical platform generation |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Single-Port robotic surgery: from first-in-human to global standard Jihad Khaouk |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards: Reasoning Through Complex, Real-World Cases |
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| Time | Session |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | My robotic program – national perspectives |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | MDT — Challenging Scenarios in Kidney Cancer • Tumor in a solitary kidney • Kidney tumor with IVC thrombus |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | To be announced |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | MDT — Beyond Localized Disease: Multidisciplinary Strategies for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer • Locally-advanced PCa • Oligometastatic Pca |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Closing Lecture ▸ From vision to standard of care: the journey of minimally-invasive surgery in Romania Ioan Coman |
| 14:00 | Farewell Lunch |







