CET – Central European Time (GMT+1)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2026
7.30-8.00 Registration of the participants
8.00-8.15 Welcome and Introduction by the Chairmen of the Course:
Cesare M. Scoffone and Cecilia M. Cracco
8.15-9.15 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Oriol Angerri, Stefania Ferretti, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Bhaskar Somani (online), Michele Talso
OR 1: RIRS – Francesco Esperto
OR 2: ECIRS – Luigi Bevilacqua, Federico Dotta
9.15-9.45 PRERECORDED SURGERY
Moderators: Marcos Cepeda Delgado, Mariano Gonzalez, Eugenia Vercelli, Stefano Zanetti
ECIRS – Thomas Tailly
9.45-11.05 ROUND TABLE:
What’s new in the endoscopic management of bladder cancer?
Moderators: Dmitri Enikeev, Paolo Gontero
Panelists: Thomas R.W. Herrmann, Lukas Lusuardi, Francesco Soria, Michael Straub, Jeremy Teoh (online)
9.45-9.55 Beyond white light: enhanced cystoscopy and AI – Ready for routine practice? – Paolo Gontero
9.55-10.05 TURBT done right: essential rules, common mistakes and how to avoid complications – Thomas R.W. Herrmann
10.05-10.15 Laser en-bloc resection: are there really no limits in tumor size and location? – Dmitry Enikeev
10.15-10.25 Bipolar en-bloc resection: simple, reproducible, and effective – Lukas Lusuardi
10-25-10.35 Robotic en-bloc resection: the next step or just another technology? – Jeremy Teoh (online)
10.35.10.50 Beyond resection: new tools and techniques for bladder tumor extraction – Michael Straub
10.50-11.00 After TURBT: single-dose chemotherapy, bladder irrigation or nothing? – Francesco Soria
11.00-11.15 Discussion and Conclusions
11.15-12.15 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Felipe Figueiredo, Fernando Gomez Sancha, Mariano Gonzales, Michael Straub
OR 1: ThuFLEP 120 W – 1200W peak power – Martin Kanne
OR 2: Totally-en-bloc low-power no-touch HoLEP – Cesare M. Scoffone
12.15-13.15 PRERECORDED SURGERIES
Moderators: Vineet Gauhar, Wojciech Krajewski, Bhaskar Somani (online), Steffi K.K. Yuen
12.15-12.45: ECIRS – Ewa Bres-Niewada
12.45-13.15: PCNL with irrigation – Antonio Servera
13.15-13.45 Opening address of the Board of the Cottolengo Hospital:
– Don Carmine Arice, General Father of the Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza
– Avv. Gianpaolo Zanetta, General Director of the Cottolengo Hospital
– Dr. Claudio Plazzotta, Health Director of the Cottolengo Hospital
– Suor Nicoletta Arrivabene, General Vice Director of the Cottolengo Hospital
Dr. Alberto Cirio, President of the Regione Piemonte
13.45-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.30 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Luigi Bevilacqua, Emanuele Montanari, Mario Sofer, Andreas Skolarikos
OR 1: ECIRS – Carlo Casablanca, Alberto De Gobbi
OR 2: RIRS – Eugenio Ventimiglia
15.30-17.00 ROUND TABLE:
MIS FOR BPO: technique and drawbacks
Moderator: Leye Ajayi, Jean-Nicolas Cornu (online)
Panelists: Feras Al-Jaafari, Luca Cindolo, Stefania Ferretti, Davide Perri, Silvia Secco
15.30-15-42: Aquablation – Davide Perri
15.42-15.54: Greenlight – Luca Cindolo
15.54-16.06: I-TIND – Feras Al Jaafari
16.06-16.18: Rezum – Silvia Secco
16.18-16.30: Urolift – Stefania Ferretti
16.30-17.00: Discussion and Conclusions
17.00-17.15 COMPANIES’ CORNER
Presenter: Silvia Secco
MIS for BPO, challenging surgery or medical therapy? The RCT Vapeur – Jean-Nicolas Cornu (online)
17.15-18.15 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Felipe Figueiredo, Martin Kanne, Giorgio Mazzon, Javier Romero Otero
OR 1: ThuFLEP – Javier Sanchez Macias
OR 2: Urolift – Dario Peretti
18.15-19.15 ROUND TABLE:
Managing complications during prostatic enucleation: lessons learned from real clinical cases
Moderators: Fernando Gomez Sancha, Javier Romero Otero
Panelists: Felipe Figueiredo, Mariano Gonzalez, Ioannis Kartalas Goumas, Thomas R.W. Herrmann, Arkadiusz Miernik, Marek Zawadski
Thursday, November 26th, 2026
8.00-8.15 FOCUS ON
Presenter: Emanuele Montanari
Pediatric stone patients, current surgical practice – Stefano Zanetti
8.15-9.15 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Wojciech Krajewski,Thomas Tailly, Michele Talso, Oliver Wiseman
OR 1: ECIRS – Andrea Bosio, Eugenia Vercelli
OR 2: RIRS – Olivier Traxer
9.15-10.15 PRERECORDED SURGERIES
Moderators: Giorgio Bozzini, Dmitry Enikeev, Javier Romero Otero, Ivan Schwartzmann
9.15-9.45: AEEP – Pierluigi Bove
9.45-10.15: ThuFLEP – Giorgio Mazzon
10.00-10.15 COMPANIES’ CORNER
Presenter: Oriol Angerri (online)
Re-evaluating scope size in RIRS. When smaller truly makes a clinical difference – Thomas Tailly
10.15-10.35 PRERECORDED SURGERY
Moderators: Guido Giusti, Giorgio Mazzon, Antonio Servera, Michele Talso
MiniPCNL reinvented – Laurian Dragos
10.50-11.50 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Lukas Lusuardi, Arkadiusz Miernik, Ivan Schwartzmann, Marek Zawadski
OR 1: MoLEP with T.E.V. technique – Tev Aho
OR 2: BipolEP – Thomas R.W. Herrmann
11.50-12.50 ROUND TABLE:
Managing complications during PNL/ECIRS: lessons learned from real clinical cases
Moderators: Thomas Knoll (online), Panagiotis Kallidonis
Panelists: Oriol Angerri (online), Ewa Bres-Niewada, Antonio Servera, Emanuele Montanari, Palle Osther, Antonio Servera, Andreas Skolarikos
12.50-13.10 PRERECORDED SURGERY
Moderators: Alberto Breda, Juan Lopez Martinez, Daron Smith, Eugenia Ventimiglia
Intrarenal pressure management: smarter and safer stone surgery with Intelligent Pressure Control System – Laurian Dragos
13.10-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.00 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Feras Al-Jaafari, Giorgio Bozzini, Lukas Lusuardi, Daron Smith
OR 1: RIRS – Cesare M. Scoffone
OR 2: AEEP, Bipolar Approach – Ioannis Kartalas Goumas
15.00-16.00 PRERECORDED SURGERIES
Moderators: Alberto Breda, Luca Cindolo, Pablo Contreras, Alberto De Gobbi
15.00-15.30: RIRS – Guido Giusti
15.30-16.00: RIRS – Marcos Cepeda Delgado
16.00-17.15 ROUND TABLE
What’s new in the endoscopic management of UTUC
Moderator: Alberto Breda, Angelo Territo (online)
Panelists: Wojciech Krajewski, Silvia Proietti, Mario Sofer, Francesco Soria, Olivier Traxer, Øyvind Ulvik
17.15-18.15 LIVE SURGERIES
Moderators: Andrea Bosio, Laurian Dragos, Francesco Esperto, Alberto Saita
OR 1: RIRS – Davide Perri
OR 2: RIRS with High Power Holmium laserThulium laser – Silvia Proietti
18.15-19.15 ROUND TABLE: Managing complications during URS/RIRS: lessons learned from real clinical cases
Moderators: Daron Smith, Olivier Traxer
Panelists: Juan M. Lopez Martinez, Arkadiusz Miernik, Silvia Proietti, Alberto Saita, Øyvind Ulvik, Oliver Wiseman
Friday, November 27th, 2026
8.00-8.15 FOCUS ON
Presenter: Morena Turco
How to improve the clinical outcomes of BPO and stone surgeries with tailored medical therapies – Cristian Fiori
8.15-8.30 WORDS OF WISDOM
Presenter: CeciliaM. Cracco
RIRS, the dawn of a new era? – Palle Sloth Osther
8.30-8.45 FOCUS ON
Presenter: Evangelos Liatsikos
New systems for suction aspiration: what to expect in 2027 – Vineet Gauhar
8.45-9.45 PRERECORDED SURGERIES
Moderators: Federico Dotta, Evangelos Liatsikos, Davide Perri, Oliver Wiseman
8.30-9.00: RIRS – Steffi K. K. Yuen
9.00-9.30: ECIRS – Marco Giampaoli
9.45-10.10 COMPANIES’ CORNER
Presenter: Mario Sofer
From data to daily practice: Aquablation therapy, redefining standards for BPH treatment? -Leye Ajayi
10.00-10.15 COMPANIES’ CORNER
Presenter: Eugenio Ventimiglia
Your laser, your choice – Ioannis Goumas Kartalas
10.15-11.15 ROUND TABLE:
Managing complications during morcellation of the prostate: lessons learned from real clinical cases
Moderators: Tevita Aho, Giorgio Bozzini
Panelists: Pierluigi Bove, Luca Cindolo, Pablo Contreras, Dmitry Enikeev, Javier Sanchez Macias, Marek Zawadski
11.15-11.30 FACE TO FACE
Presenter: Martin Kanne
Ejaculation-sparing surgery, reality or fashion?
Reality – Pablo Contreras / Fashion – Tevita Aho (Voting)
11.30-12.30 FACE TO FACE
Moderators: Vineet Gauhar, Evangelos Liatsikos
11.30-11.45 Is stone fragmentation in URS/RIRS dead?
YES – Stefania Ferretti / NO – Panagiotis Kallidonis (Voting)
11.45-12.00 Do we have to dismiss traditional UAS in favor of FANS?
YES – Ewa Bres-Niewada / NO – Marco Giampaoli (Voting)
12.00-12.15 Should we abandon multiuse flexible ureteroscopes in favor of single use ones with DISS?
YES – Steffi K. K. Yuen (online) / NO – Øyvind Ulvik (Voting)
12.15-12.30 – Discussion and Conclusions
12.30-13.30 BALLOON DEBATE on a stone case
Presenters: Leye Ajayi, Cecilia M. Cracco
Panelists:
Medical therapy – Cristian Fiori
ESWL – Andreas Skolarikos
RIRS – Juan M. Lopez Martinez
Miniaturized PCNL – Michael Straub
Standard ECIRS – Marcos Cepeda Delgado
13.30 CONCLUSIONS by Cesare M. Scoffone with his team
followed by a FAREWELL LUNCH
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