Career Award

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2012
John Fitzpatrick 

John Fitzpatrick was born and educated in Dublin. He qualified as a doctor in 1971 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1975. He received his Masters degree in 1976. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Glasgow.

Between 1977 and 1981, he trained in the St. Peters’ Hospitals and the Institute of Urology in London. In 1981, Professor Fitzpatrick returned to Dublin as Consultant Urologist and Senior Lecturer in Urology in the Meath and St. James’ Hospitals and Trinity College Dublin. In 1986, he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College Dublin. He is also Head of Research at the Irish Cancer Society.

Professor Fitzpatrick has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and 94 chapters, and has edited 18 books. He is on the editorial board of 26 journals, and is Editor-in-Chief of the BJU International. He has been President of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and of the Irish Society of Urology. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Urological Foundation and was Chairman of the Scientific Committee of that foundation.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2012 
Michael Jewett

Dr. Michael Jewett is a Professor of Urology at the University of Toronto and a member of the Department of Surgical Oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. He holds the Farquharson Chair in Clinical Oncology. He is also the past program director and chairman of the Division of Urology at the University of Toronto Department of Surgery, and head of urology at the University Health Network.

Dr. Jewett received his MD from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and did his residency in urology at the University of Toronto under Dr. Charles Robson, with further postgraduate training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. 

He is known for his contributions in the fields of testis cancer, bladder cancer and most recently, in kidney cancer in particular, and holds research funding from peer-reviewed agencies. 

He is past President of the Canadian Urology Association and received the Canadian Urological Association Award in 2011. He was elected an honorary member of the American Urological Association and received the Distinguished Contribution Award in 2011. He received the Society of Urological Oncology Medal in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. He has been a visiting professor to more than 100 universities and associations. He has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2012 
Saad Khoury

Dr. Saad Khoury was born in Sidon, Lebanon and received his MD from the French University of Medicine in Beirut in 1965. He received a Certificate in Oncology and Immunogenetics in 1977 and has served as Secretary of the International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD) since 1980. 

Dr. Khoury is an active member of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (OERTC), the American Urological Association (AUA), the European Association of Urology (EAU), the International Continence Society (ICS), and the Société Internationale d’Urologie.

In 1994, Dr. Khoury received the AUA Achievement Award. He has also received the Prix Félix Guyon, in 2000, and was awarded the Ordre de la Pleiade in July 2009. Dr. Khoury is an Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettre and Commandeur de l’Ordre National Libanais du Cèdre. 
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2012  
Narmada P. Gupta

After receiving his medical degree and completing post-graduate training in surgery, Dr. Gupta specialized in urology and became a faculty member in the Department of Urology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1979. Dr. Gupta rose to the position of Professor and Chairman from 1998-2010, and currently serves as Chairman, Academic and Research in Urology at Medanta- The Medicity hospital in Gurgaon, India.

Over a distinguished 37-year career, he contributed immensely to the growth of urology in India and Asia. He has made significant contributions in the diagnosis and management of genitourinary tuberculosis, urinary stone disease, urinary bladder cancer, benign enlargement of prostate (BPH) and urethral strictures. He has published more than 320 scientific papers in various national and international journals, written six books on urology, contributed chapters to nine books, and produced 28 teaching videos. Under his leadership, the Department of Urology at AIIMS was recognized as an SIU training center.

Dr. Gupta was elected as National Delegate, Indian National Section, Société Internationale D’Urologie (1994-2000), was a Board Member of SIU (2004-06), President of the Urological Society of India (2007-2008) and President of the Urological Association of Asia (2008-2010). Dr. Gupta has received many awards, including the Golden Jubilee Oration and Gold Medal, Delhi Chapter, ASI (2007), the Himadri Sarkar Memorial Oration by USI (2009), the Urology Gold Medal by USI (2009), and the Lifetime Achievement Award by North Zone Chapter USI (2010).
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2011

Per-Anders Abrahamsson  

 Born in 1949 in Karlshamn, Sweden, Per-Anders Abrahamsson attended Lund University, obtaining his MD in 1977 and PhD in 1988. He gained Swedish certification as a urologist in 1983, and has been associated with Lund University since, serving as Professor of Urology since 1993 and Chairman of Urology of both Malmö and Lund University Hospitals since 1998, and of Skåne University Hospital since 2009. He was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY from 1991-1993. He holds Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from Athens University (Greece), Odessa State Medical University (Ukraine), and the Polish Urological Association, and is an Honorary Professor of the Belgrade Medical Faculty of Serbia. He has also been Adjunct Professor at the Russian Institute of Urology since 2009.

Dr. Abrahamsson’s prolific publications include over 350 scientific articles, book chapters and review articles. He is or has been on the Editorial Boards of 13 international scientific publications related to the field of urology.

From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Abrahamsson was Adjunct Secretary General of the European Association of Urology and in 2007acceded to the position of Secretary General, a post he currently holds. Other distinctions include the Bard Urology Award for best papers at the Swedish Society of Medicine (1987 and 1993), First Prize for an Outstanding Poster Presentation at the AUA meeting in San Antonio, Texas (1993), and the Ben Turpin Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Improve Diagnosis of Urological Disorders in 1996.
 

  SIU Distinguished Career Award 2011 

  Sharad Dattatraya Bapat 

 Born in India in 1932, Sharad Bapat attended Seth G. S. Medical College, Parel,              Mumbai, graduating in 1955. He completed resident surgical training in Mumbai,            and specialized in urology at the Institute of Urology in London. He was Professor            and Head of the Department of Urology, L.T.M. Medical College & L.T.M.G. Hospital,   Sion, Mumbai for 15 years, and in 1991 he became Visiting Professor of Urology and Director, Postgraduate Teaching and Training in Urology at the Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, Gujarat, a position he still holds. He has been Examiner of the National Board of Urology and visiting professor at several institutions in India, and since 1977 has trained more than 75 urologists.

In addition to membership in major national and international urological societies (USI, AUA, BAUS and others), he has held the position of both Treasurer and President of the Urological Society of India, President of the Mumbai Urological Society, and in 2000 presided over the Millennium International Urology Congress in New Delhi. He has been the National Delegate of the SIU for India and a member of the SIU Board of Chairmen.

Dr. Bapat has received several scholarships and prizes for excellence during his career, most notably for his academic standing.
 

  SIU Distinguished Career Award 2011 

  Jack W. McAninch 

 Jack McAninch received his undergraduate BS degree at Texas Tech University, a        MS degree from the University of Idaho, and his MD degree from the University of          Texas Medical Branch where he was an honor graduate and recipient of the Gold          Headed Cane Award in recognition as the outstanding graduating senior. He                received his general surgery and urology training at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, and joined the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) faculty in 1977. He currently serves as Chief of Urology at San Francisco General Hospital and is Professor of Urology at UCSF.

Dr. McAninch is recognized as a national and international expert in the field of genitourinary trauma and reconstructive surgery. He has directed a highly recognized surgical team that has led the development of numerous new surgical techniques and new management methods in the field. He continues to be a principal investigator for many active research projects. His textbook, Traumatic and Reconstructive Urology, continues to be acclaimed worldwide. He is an active member of numerous medical societies, and has served as President of the American Urological Association and the Western Section of the AUA, the American Board of Urology, the Société Internationale d’Urologie, and Vice President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He also has been a Vice President and Regent of the American College of Surgeons. He has received the Harry Spence Medal from the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, the Saint Paul’s Medal awarded by the British Association of Urological Surgeons and, in 2009, he received the prestigious Ramon Guiteras Award from the American Urological Association, for contributions to the art and science of urological surgery. He is also the recipient of the Ferdinand C. Valentine Medal from the New York Academy of Medicine and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

 

  SIU Distinguished Career Award 2011 

  Michael Joseph Rochford 

  Dr. Rochford studied medicine at the University of Sydney, and following graduation 
  in 1961, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 1966 and         a Fellow (Urology) of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1972. He                      entered practice at the  Nepean Hospital, Penrith, New South Wales and Liverpool Hospitals, Liverpool, NSW, respectively teaching hospitals of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. He became Head of the Urology Department of both hospitals in 1985. From 1984 to 1985 he was Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the Nepean Hospital. He also spent 22 years as specialist urologist to the Royal Australian Air Force, the last 5 years as Senior Consultant, retiring with the rank of Group Captain.

Dr. Rochford was Chair of the SIU Congress Organizing Committee for the successful Singapore SIU Congress in 2000, and in 2002 became President of the SIU, serving in this capacity until 2004. He also served as Executive Member and Treasurer of the Urological Society of Australasia from 1983 to 1988, as the founding (1995) Chair of the Australasian Foundation for Urological Research, and as Trustee and Vice-President of the Fondation Internationale d’Urologie (Geneva) from 1997 to 2009. As Co-Convenor of the SIU Sydney Congress in 1994, he pioneered the progression of SIU Congresses into the successful world events that they have become.

Other prestigious awards include the Reserve Force decoration of the Royal Australian Air Force in 1990 and the Silver Medal of the Australasia Society of Urology in 2005 for services to urology.
 

  SIU Distinguished Career Award 2011 

  Edwin Darracott Vaughan, Jr. 

  Dr. Vaughan attended first Washington and Lee University, and later received his MD     degree from the University of Virginia in1965. After residency in Urology there, he           held a NIH Fellowship in hypertension research at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical           Center, and in 1978 was named the James J. Colt Professor and Chairman of           Urology at what is now the Weil-Cornell Medical College – New York Presbyterian Medical Centre. He retired in 2010 after also serving as Dean of Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer of the Weil-Cornell Physician Organization and now holds an Emeritus Professorship in Urology.

He is a past Editor of Campbell’s Urology, Editor of Seminars in Urology and serves on numerous editorial boards. His publications include over 350 publications and 100 book chapters.

Dr. Vaughan is a Past President of the American Urological Association, the American Board of Urology, the American Foundation for Urological Disease, the Clinical Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, and is currently President of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons. He was an initial member of the Board of Chairmen of the SIU and active in its US Section.

Past awards include the Valentine Medal of the AUA New York Section, the St. Paul’s Medal of the British Association of Urologic Surgeons and the Gold Cystoscope, Hugh Hampton Young and Ramon Guiteras awards from the AUA.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2009
Keong Tatt Foo

Prof. Keong Tatt Foo graduated in Medicine in 1965 and obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1971. A year later he joined the University Department of Surgery of the Singapore General Hospital as a lecturer. In 1976/77 he was awarded Smith and Nephew Fellowship which allowed him to return to the UK to study, at the Institute of Urology in London and at Cambridge University. Following his return to Singapore, he worked to establish urology as a specialty and helped establish structured postgraduate training as Chairman of the Specialty Board in Urology. He was promoted Associate Professor of Surgery in 1979 and was Head of the Urology Department of the Singapore General Hospital until 2001 when he was appointed Associate Dean of the National University of Singapore.

Prof. Foo’s main research interests were in the fields of urinary stones, urinary cancer, and BPH and its pathological classification.

He was the Founding President of the Singapore Urological Association in 1986 and in 1998 he became Secretary General of the Urological Association of Asia to help promote Urology in the area.
Previous awards include the Wu Jieping Medal of the Chinese Urological Association for his work on BPH, and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) was conferred to Prof. Foo in 2001 by the President of Singapore. He has also been named an Honorary Member of the Malaysian Urological Association for his contribution to urology in the region.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2009
Jose Maria Gil Vernet Vila

Professor Gil-Vernet was born in Barcelona in 1922, and after university studies and surgical training, in the period 1961 to 1991, he held many visiting professorships in the US, South Africa, Brazil, Hungary, Berlin, USSR, UK, Belgium, Japan, and France. He was named Professor of Urology at the University of Barcelona in 1972.

He performed the first renal transplant in Spain in 1965 and the first pancreatic transplant there in 1983. He was the director and author of 90 scientific films, and was Co-Chairman with Willy Grégoir of ten International Urology Courses and two International Courses on Renal Transplant. During his career, he performed over three hundred surgical interventions in foreign university hospitals.

Prof. Gil-Vernet is an honorary Member of the French Society of Transplantation, the Academy of Medicine of the former Soviet Union, and was a Vice-President of the SIU.

Previous awards include the National Award of Surgery in 1967, the Gold Medal at the First International Competition of Urological Films in Brussels in 1958, and the Golden Eagle Award of the Council of International Non-Theatrical Events in New York in 1980.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2009
Alain Le Duc

Professor Alain Le Duc was born in 1936 and after medical and specialist training, qualified as a Urologist in 1970. From 1970 to 1980 he worked at the Hôpital Foch near Paris with Maurice Camey, concentrating on radical cystectomy and bladder substitution. In 1980 he became Department Head at the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris and oversaw the opening of a Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation Unit in 1982 and an Endourological and Percutaneous unit in 1984.

Prof. Le Duc was appointed Professor of Urology in 1980 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Paris from 1996 until 2006.

Previous awards include the EAU Scientific Prize for Medical Research on Laser Therapy for BPH in 1978, the Willy Grégoire Medal in 2004, and the Karl Storz Endourology Award in 2005. He has been a member of the SIU and the EAU for over 30 years and President of the EAU Academy since 1999. He is currently serving as a consultant for the UNFPA on fistula repair in Mali and teaches urology in Chad.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2009
Nelson Rodrigues Netto Jr.

Professor Nelson Rodrigues Netto Jr. received his MD from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine in 1961. He qualified as Doctor in Surgery-Urology in 1970, and from 1973 to 1976 did fellowships at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Washington, and Stanford University, and in 1976 earned a PhD in Transureterouretero Anastomosis. At that time he became Associate Professor of Urology at the University of São Paulo. In 1984 he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Division of Urology of the University of Campinas in São Paulo and Chief of the Division of Renal Transplantation. The following year he also became Head of Urology at the Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa.

Prof. Netto has published 20 books, contributed to over 100 book chapters and produced over 500 scientific publications. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Jornal Brasileiro de Urologia, and five other urological journals in Brazil and on the editorial Board of many other urological Journals in South and North America and Europe.

Prof. Netto was President of the Brazilian Society of Urology from 1991 to 1993 and General Secretary of the International Prostate Health Council from 1992 to the present. He currently is a member of 15 international medical societies.
 

2007 SIU Distinguished Career Award 2007
León Bernstein Hahn

León Bernstein Hahn was born in 1928 and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his MD in 1954 and his PhD in 1956 from the University of that city, subsequently training in Philadelphia, New York and Savannah in the United States. He has served as Chief of Urology at the Gutierriez Hospital for Children, as Associate Professor of Urology at the Buenos Aires University, Visiting Professor at universities in Latin America, USA, Europe and Japan, and as a member of the Argentine President’s Council on medical Bioethics.

León Bernstein has been President of both the Sociedad Argentina de Urologia and the Confederacion Americana de Urologia or CAU, the latter encompassing all Latin American urologists. In the SIU he has been Deputy and National Delegate for Argentina, a member of the Board of Chairmen, for Strategic Planning and Chairman of the SIU Meeting on Prostatic Disease in Bariloche, Argentina.

SIU Distinguished Career Award was presented to Dr. Bernstein Hahn at the SIU Centennial Congress in Paris on September 1, 2007 by Dr. Richard Fourcade noting that "as current President of the Association pour échanges urologiques France Amérique latine, it is particularly fitting for Paris to be the site of this presentation to him."

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2007
Christian Chatelain

Christian Chatelain was born in Aniche, in northern France, in 1932. During his medical studies, he came into contact René Küss and was resident under him, becoming “Docteur en Médicine” in1963, and remaining at his side for 44 years. He was appointed Hospital Surgeon and University Professor in 1967 and head of the Department of Urological Surgery at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital until his retirement in 1997. Many hospitals and universities around the world have welcomed him as Visiting Professor.

He has published a very large number of scientific articles, particularly in the field of urinary tract reconstruction, and several books, and is a founding member of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Lectures on Uro-Nephrology. He has been President of the Association française d’Urologie and recipient of their first Félix-Guyon Medal in 1996, and President of both the 84th French Urology Congress, and the 98th French Surgery Congress.

Christian Chatelain was made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 2000 and the SIU Distinguished Career Award was presented to him at the SIU Centennial Congress in Paris on September 1, 2007 by Dr. Alain Jardin, the SIU President.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2007
Martin Resnick (1943-2007)

Marty Resnick, as he was known to most, was born in New York in 1943, attended Alfred University in that state, and earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University in 1969. He began at Case Western Reserve University in 1981, eventually becoming chair of Urology in the School of Medicine.

Among his many achievements are the Gold Cystoscope Award in 1985, the presidency in 2003-2004, and the Distinguished Past Scholar award in 2007 of the American Urological Association. He also received the Spence Medal of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in 2007. Being named Editor of the prestigious Journal of Urology was a major recognition of his talent and a source of pride to him.

All wished that Marty Resnick could have been in Paris to receive this award in person, and he did know that he was to be recognized in this way. The SIU Distinguished Career Award was presented at the SIU Centennial Congress in Paris on September 1, 2007 to Vicki, his wife of 42 years, by Mostafa Elhilali, the SIU President-Elect.
 

SIU Distinguished Career Award 2007
Jieping Wu

Jieping Wu was born in Chang-zhou, China in 1917. He graduated from Peking Yenching University in 1937 and received his MD from Peking Union Medical College in 1942. He was a research Scientist in Chicago in 1947-48. As a pioneer scientist of urological surgery in China, he has contributed to male contraception, complications of renal tuberculosis, and identification of adrenal medullar hyperplasia.

In his 60 year period of contribution to medical education, in addition to many scientific articles, he has compiled 21 medical books, over half as principal author.

Amongst many important functions, Jieping Wu has served as President of the Chinese Medical Association and of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Vice-president of the China Association for Science and Technology. He is as well an Honorary Member of many societies around the world.

Although health considerations did not permit Dr. Wu to come to the SIU Centennial Congress in Paris to receive the award in person, Dr. Yinghao Sun was present to receive the SIU Distinguished Career Award on his behalf.

Previous winners of SIU-Distinguished Career Awards have been: Sami Arap, Yoshio Aso, John Donohue and Rudolf Hohenfellner (2004), Rolf Ackermann and Masaru Murai (2006).