HKUA 20th Annual Scientific Meeting

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Lectures by Overseas speakers

	“Molecular Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer – Genome-Wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer in Japanese”Professor Osamu Ogawa M.D., D. Med. Sci. Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, Kyoto University Graduate School of MedicineProf Osamu Ogawa graduated from Kyoto University Medical School in 1982. After 6-years of urologic residency in an affiliated hospital, he entered Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine to study molecular biology of urologic cancers. After finishing the postgraduate course, he went abroad to study molecular biology of Wilms’ tumor in Otago Univ., NZ. He came back to Dept. Urol., Kyoto University in 1993 as Assistant Professor, and moved to Dept. Urol., Akita University in 1996 as Associate Professor. After 2-years activity in Akita University, he was appointed to the present position in 1998. Prof. Ogawa was also appointed to Secretary General of UAA in 2010.
	“Systemic Therapies for CRPC” Professor Paul De Souza FRACP, MPH Syd, PhD Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Western SydneyProf Paul de Souza is the University of Western Sydney’s Foundation Professor in Medical Oncology. After receiving his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1992, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia where he developed his clinical and research interests in cancer drug development and urological cancers. He returned to Sydney in 1997 and founded the Clinical Trials Unit in the Cancer Care Centre. He has had medical oncology experience as a consultant medical oncologist in two continents and in five hospitals.
	“Continuing Professional Development in Urology” Professor Krishna Sethia, DM (Oxon), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed) Consultant Urologist and Medical Director Urology Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of East AngliaAfter training in Oxford and Newcastle, Prof Sethia was appointed as Consultant Urologist to the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in 1990. He developed specialist interests in urological oncology and andrology, and established the supraregional service for penile cancer. He became Medical Director of the hospital in 2009. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia and his previous roles have included Treasurer of The British Association of Urological Surgeons, Vice Chairman of the SAC in Urology and Examiner for the Intercollegiate Board in Urology. He is currently Treasurer and Chairman-elect of the British Journal of Urology International.

“Molecular Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer –
Genome-Wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer in Japanese”Professor Osamu Ogawa
M.D., D. Med. Sci.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology,
Kyoto University Graduate School of MedicineProf Osamu Ogawa graduated from Kyoto University Medical School in
1982. After 6-years of urologic residency in an affiliated hospital, he
entered Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine to study
molecular biology of urologic cancers. After finishing the postgraduate
course, he went abroad to study molecular biology of Wilms’ tumor in
Otago Univ., NZ. He came back to Dept. Urol., Kyoto University in 1993
as Assistant Professor, and moved to Dept. Urol., Akita University in
1996 as Associate Professor. After 2-years activity in Akita University, he
was appointed to the present position in 1998. Prof. Ogawa was also
appointed to Secretary General of UAA in 2010.

“Systemic Therapies for CRPC”
Professor Paul De Souza
FRACP, MPH Syd, PhD
Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Western SydneyProf Paul de Souza is the University of Western Sydney’s Foundation
Professor in Medical Oncology. After receiving his Fellowship of the
Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1992, he was appointed
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia where he
developed his clinical and research interests in cancer drug
development and urological cancers. He returned to Sydney in 1997
and founded the Clinical Trials Unit in the Cancer Care Centre. He has
had medical oncology experience as a consultant medical oncologist
in two continents and in five hospitals.

“Continuing Professional Development in Urology”
Professor Krishna Sethia,
DM (Oxon), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed)
Consultant Urologist and Medical Director Urology
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of East AngliaAfter training in Oxford and Newcastle, Prof Sethia was appointed as
Consultant Urologist to the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in
1990. He developed specialist interests in urological oncology and
andrology, and established the supraregional service for penile cancer. He
became Medical Director of the hospital in 2009. He is an Honorary
Professor at the University of East Anglia and his previous roles have
included Treasurer of The British Association of Urological Surgeons,
Vice Chairman of the SAC in Urology and Examiner for the Intercollegiate
Board in Urology. He is currently Treasurer and Chairman-elect of the
British Journal of Urology International.