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OFFICE BEARERS 2007-08 President: Dr. Anant Kamath – Bangaluru 9880196767 President Elect : Dr. A. Mohan 9845050069 Secretary: Dr. Ali Poonawala - Bangaluru 98453 63803 Treasurer: Dr. Joseph Thomas - Manipal 9448177625 Committee Members: Dr. Manohar Mamani - Davangere 94481 12534 Dr. Manjunath Shetty - Kasargod 98452 10150 Dr. Siddalingeshwara Neeli- Belgaum 9880977367 Past President: Dr. Prakash Prabhu - Mysuru 98452 67689 Past Secretary: Dr. Anant Kamath- Bengaluru 9880196767 Secretary Address: Dr. Ali Poonawala Alfa Clinic N-18, 24th Main 1st Phase JP Nagar Bangalore 560078 E-Mail: alfapoona@vsnl.com

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear Members, At the outset I would like to thank all the members for choosing me as the president of our association. Karnataka Urology Association is entering its teens-a period full of energy and growth but still in the process of taking shape. We are growing, making our presence in almost all districts of the state. Much good work is done but very little gets documented and still lesser gets published. I wish all members give a little more thought in this aspect. This will benefit them and others too, knowledge gets shared. For a change, this year we will be holding our annual conference outside the state at Kodaikanal. Organising Secretary,.Dr.Ganesh Kamath has been making efforts to make this event a memorable one. Known for his meticulous organizational skills, I am sure, he will exceed all our expectations. I request all the members to take time out of their busy schedules and attend this conference with family. Some plans are being chalked out for group travel from Bangalore Some of us will be meeting at SZUSICON at Tirupati, see you soon.

Dr. Anant Kamath

Important Dates to Remember

Dates of Conference: 5th – 7th September 2008 Last Date for Submission of Abstracts: 31st July 2008 Last Date for Early Registration: 5th August 2008 Last Date for submitting nominations: 31st July 2008

From the desk of Secretary

Dear Member, A warm Hello to you all This Newsletter should reach you before the SZUSICON 2008 and perhaps we are first off the block in state chapters to have our annual conference, in First week of September itself.

The 13th annual conference the association will be held at Kodai Kanal between 5th and 7th September 2008. There are two very distinguishing firsts to set this conference apart from the previous ones. Firstly, it is being held outside the state of Karnataka and secondly, it is a residential conference, i.e. all delegates will be housed at the conference venue itself, which is a holiday resort. Organizing secretary, Dr. Ganesh Kamath, is going to leave a new benchmark for the future secretaries to aim for. I am sure we all will have a gala time academically as well as socially. Let us make this trip with our families to experience this unique blend of business and pleasure ! The details of Prizes and awards of the conference are given in Awards Section. As you may be aware, two awards have already been on offer: Best Video Prize instituted by NU Trust and Best Poster Prize instituted by Bangalore Medical College Urology Dept. Kindly send your abstracts for these as well as for the Dilip Adappa Best Paper Award before 31st July 2008. Better still, submit them online at www.kua.in If you have any thing to be presented in other category like case discussion, please send the same to the Honorary secretary. Please send Materials also for the category of “Black pearls”

Please go through proposed constitution and send valuable feed back before 31st July; please check your personal details in Members’ section and if necessary revise them. Any suggestions to strengthen the association from members will always be welcome.

With warm regards,

Dr. Ali Poonawala

Secretary Learning without wisdom is a load of books on ass’s back Japanese proverb

Murphy’s computer law 24: The first myth of management is that it exists

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE KUA CONFERENCE 2007 12th KUACON 2007 on 3rd and 4th November 2007 at Hotel Regaalis, Mysuru, was hosted by Mysore Society of Genito-urinary surgeons, Dr. K. Madappa being the Organising Secretary. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. R.P. Sharma IPS IGP Southern Range, Mysuru. Previous year’s winners received awards. Trade Exhibition was opened by Prof. G.K. Venkatesh, Director of Institute of Nephro-Urology, Bengaluru. 83 delegates had registered. Prof. P. Venugopal Oration was delivered by Prof. H.L. Trivedi, Director of Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Ahemdabad on “Stem Cells: Promises made, Promises kept” Two guest lectures, one by Dr. Venkatesh K. on ‘Dysfunctional voiding’ and another by Dr. Radhesh on ‘CT and MRI in Modern Urology’ were of top notch quality and appreciated by all. Symposium on ‘Status of Lymph nodes in Urology in Laparoscopic era’ moderated by Dr. A. Mohan with Dr. Hemant Tongaonkar and Dr. Geeta Mukharjee as Panelists gave different focus for uro oncology. Members participated actively in 14 podium, 6 video and 6 poster presentations. Following Prizes were won: Dr. D. Adappa Best Paper Prize: Dr. Prasanna M.K. NU Trust Bengaluru NU Trust Best Video Prize: Dr. Sanjay Bhat AIMS Kochi BMC Urology Best Poster Prize: Dr. B.V. Srinivas NU Trust Devon Traveling Fellowship: Dr. Ashish Koura KLES Foundation Belgavi PIKA Uroquiz: 1. Dr. Ali Poonawala St. Martha’s Bengaluru 2. Dr. Siddeligeshwar Neeli Belgavi GBM of KUA took place on 3rd, details follow in a separate section. Dr. Madappa had arranged a live musical evening with Banquet and Illuminations at Fun Fort which was enjoyed by one and all. A wonderful conference, superbly organized, in beautiful Mysuru- to be remembered by all.

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The Chief Guest, Dr. Sharma lighting up the traditional lamp. Dr. Prakash Prabhu, Dr. Madappa and Prof. P.G. Venugopal in the foreground.

Dr. Sharma Chief Guest with Dr. Prakash Prabhu, the President KUA and Prof. Venugopal on the dais with Dr. Madappa organizing secretary and Dr. Poonawala by their side.

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF KARNATAKA UROLOGY ASSOCIATION 2007

Venue: Hotel Regaalis, Mysuru,

0500PM 03 November 2007

Ø Meeting was called to order by President, Dr. Prakash Prabhu. welcoming the members Ø Minutes of the previous General Body Meeting held at Bapuji Auditorium Davangere

on 14th October 2006, already circulated through the Newsletter, were approved Ø Secretary’s report was read out Acceptance was proposed by Dr. G.K. Venkatesh and

seconded by Dr. A. Kamath. There were a few comments during the reading: o 1. Prof. Venugopal said during inauguration Awards should be given by the

President and not the chief guest. And the President should be in the middle on the dais and especially during joint meetings, KUA President and other office bearers must be given their due recognition and importance.

o 2. Dr. Keshavmurthy also lamented on breach of various protocols, like non office bearers being on the dais during the Oration etc.

o It was proposed to have a subcommittee to draft various protocols. Dr. A. Mohan, Dr. D. Ramesh and Dr. Keshavmurthy were proposed as members and provide the same in 3 month’s time. Other KUA members can provide their suggestions to the subcommittee.

o Dr. Keshav also objected to inclusion of scientific papers presented many times over at various other fora previously and suggested their rejection. Dr. Mohan suggested other sessions may be included if we have fewer papers.

Ø Treasurer’s report consisted of a statement of various deposits and their purpose and maturity details. This was read out by the secretary. However this was rejected since there was no balance sheet. Again few points were raised during this discussion.

o Dr. K. Venkatesh very graciously agreed to augment Dr. Dileep Adappa Best Paper Award Corpus amount by Rs. 50,000 in near future.

o The corpus of Bangalore Medical College best poster prize also needs to be supplemented by a sum of Rs.50.000 as promised in the last GBM and Dr. C.S.Ratkal agreed to a dead line of GBM of 2009 to bridge the shortfall.

Ø KUACON 2006 was described as a successful event by its Organising Secretary Dr. Manohar Mamani and same was acknowledged by the GBM. Dr. Mamani indicated a surplus of Rs 60,000/- to be gifted to KUA. He wanted this to be used as a corpus to start a Davangere award for the best Post Graduate Student. GBM requested him to make it to a mandatory minimum of Rs. One lakh. He agreed to do the same by the December end.

Ø Societies: o Bengaluru Urology Society President Dr. Ramesh informed of a successful year

of academic activities with regular monthly meetings on last Friday. Culmination as TS Jairam CUE on ’Lasers for BPH ’ was held at MS Ramaiah Medical College Hospital with KTP, Holmium and Thulium all three being used side by side for the first time in India.

o Dr. Keshavmurthy informed of the successfully conducted USI –CME for the post graduates at Institute of Nephro Urology with distinguished national faculty.

o Mangaluru Urologists with Dr. Ranjith Shetty as secretary, meet regularly.

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o Mysuru Society of GU Surgeons meetings on last Wednesdays of the month, Dr.

Prakash Prabhu informed, consisted of case discussions, talks by experts and teleconferencing as well.

Ø New Members: o Dr. Prasanna M.K. NUTH - change from LMA to LMF o Dr. Shivalingaiah – INU - change from LMA to LMF o Dr. Prashant Kulkarni –PG Puttaparthy LMA o Dr. Narsimhamurthy – PG Puttaparthy LMA o Dr. Krishna Prasad T. - PG – NUTH LMA o Dr. Sreenivas B.V.- Registrar NUTH LMA o Dr. Pramod BR – PG VIMS Bellary LMA o Dr. T. Manohar – Columbia Asia LMF

Ø Registration of the society will necessitate changes in the constitution and possibly some of the activity time tables as well. This is essential for Income Taxes and other legal requirements. This was conveyed by Mr. Gowthama, Chief Auditor from a firm in Bengaluru.. GBM requested the EC to go into the details, circulate the necessary documents and call for GBM again, if required. President thanked Mr. Gowthama for coming.

Ø President’s address was delivered by Dr. Prakash Prabhu, thanking the members for attending the meeting in Mysuru and making the programme a grand success He also thanked the Executive Council members for their cooperation and assistance for the conference.

Ø SZ USICON 2009 Venue was to be conveyed to South Zone Secretary. Dr. Shreedhar Reddy requested it to be given to Mangalore, supported by Dr. D. Ramesh. Dr. Nerli from Belgaum had also expressed interest in hosting the event. Secretary informed that Dr. Joseph Thomas, in one of the previous executive meeting, had accepted to withdraw his bid if Dr. Nerli was very keen on hosting the meet. Dr. Nerli assured of excellent facilities for the delegates as well as trade. Dr. HK Nagraj testified to the correctness of the claim. Since Belgaum had even for 2005 shown interest to host the meeting, GBM awarded 2009 SZ USICON as well as KUACON 2009 to Belgaum with Dr. Nerli as Organising Secretary for the combined event.

Ø Election of Executive Council for the posts of President Elect and a Council Member in place of Dr. Amar Kumar Jayaram were next on agenda and Secretary informed of Dr. A. Mohan’s nomination for the President Elect proposed by Dr. GK Venkatesh and seconded by Dr. Mohan Suvarna. He was declared elected unopposed. Dr. Siddalingaiah Neeli was proposed as EC member by Dr. Nerli and seconded by Dr. Mohan. Two points were raised:

o Dr. Ramesh wondered if it should be mandatory for nominee for President Elect to be Council member previously, as is in USI. Dr. Keshav suggested it should be brought as an amendment.

o Dr. K. Venkatesh objected to the idea of a ’cozy’ Executive Council based on major cities like Bangalore and reminded the objective is to go to smaller cities for the council meetings and take the academic activities along

Ø During Any other matters, Dr. Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy brought to the notice of the house of the letter he had written to the Secretary. It was to include in the agenda an amendment to Associate Membership rules. Amendment to enable non doctors to be admitted as Associate Members of KUA. He chided the Secretary and the EC for going beyond their powers in denying him the right.

o Dr. Poonawala said that the rights of council in this regard are not defined. The matter was discussed in two previous EC meetings and EC Members were against including it in this year’s agenda with the explanation that it is a sensitive matter and needs more time for mature discussion to take place. It may be raised by the member this time as any other matter -as it is being done now - and to be included in the official agenda next year for voting to place, if required,

o Dr. Laxman Prabhu welcomed the idea of non doctors becoming members and said it is essential to be all inclusive as we move forward.

o Dr. Mohan said that amendments, if of grave import, may be circulated to members beforehand, to enable them to be ready for a ‘mature’ discussion.

Ø KUA 2008 Organising Secretary Dr. Ganesh Kamath informed that the venue for the meeting will be Kodai Kanal and not Ooty as mentioned earlier. He suggested a Resort based Conference with a package deal. He also requested cooperation from the GBM to mobilize the funds in view of possible difficulty since it will be held outside the state and may be used as a reason by sponsors for refusal.

Ø Handing over was done by Dr. Prabhu to Dr. Anant Kamath who thanked him for the services.

Ø Vote of thanks for attendance was extended to members by Dr. Ali Poonawala, leading to conclusion of the GBM 2007 of KUA.

NEWS: Ø St. John’s Medical College Hospital has started DNB Urology programme. Contact Prof

A. Mohan dept of Urology SJMCH Sharjapur road Bengaluru for details. Ø Institute of Nephro-Urology held, amongst various academic activities, held live operative

workshops on Bladder Extrophy by Dr. Sripathy (Chennai) and laparoscopic surgery by Dr. Anup Ramani (Mumbai).

Ø KLE Academy of renal Sciences (Belgaum) held National operative workshop on Hypospadias with Dr. Mane and Dr. Pathak (Mumbai) Dr. Bhat Anil (Bikaner) as faculty.

VACANCIES FOR THE COUNCIL The following post of the council will fall vacant for the forthcoming year; 1. President Elect - 1 2. Secretary - 1 3. Treasurer - 1 4. Council Member - 1

Members desirous of contesting for the above posts should send their nominations duly proposed, seconded to the Honorary Secretary three weeks before the Annual General Body Meeting to be held on 6th September 2008. The nominations form can be downloaded from the website www.kua.in. The last date for withdrawal of the applications is 30th August 2008.

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AWARDS & GRANTS OF KUA

Dr. Dilip Adappa Award for the best paper This annual competition is open to any member of the KUA, full or associate, and post-graduates in urology (M.Ch. or Dip.NB). The paper must be in field of urology or any ancillary discipline, contributing to the practice of urology. The material being presented in the paper should not have been presented at any other forum, either in the form of a publication, paper presentation, poster or video etc. The paper should preferably be the work of one author and written by him. In case of collaborative work, a certificate from the others, stating the author’s major contribution should accompany the paper. All papers to be considered for the award, should specifically state on a separate accompanying sheet, that the paper is for the Dilip Adappa Award. The abstracts of the paper, must reach the office of the Secretary of the KUA, before the specified date for submission of the paper, during each annual conference. NU Trust Best Video Prize and Bangalore Medical College Best Poster Prize: These awards have the same conditions as Dr. Dilip Adappa Best Paper. Abstract for the poster is to be submitted in the same way. Video to be submitted only in Windows Media Player compatible format on a VCD/DVD as a hard copy with the form and same deadlines apply. Prof. P.Venugopal Oration

The oration will be awarded to a full or associate member of any Nephrology / Urology Association. The honour of the Oration will be for people who have excelled in either original Urological work, Research in urology, Teaching, or for outstanding experience in any particular field, contributing to the progress of urology. The nominees for the award and the award is decided by discussion amidst a full committee meeting. No member of the executive committee is eligible for the award while he is a member of the committee. In any year in the absence of any applicant, or withholding of the award, the interest accrued will be added to the Principal amount. “All work considered for the Oration should have been carried out in India only.”

Pika Uroquiz

The contestants must be full/associate members of the KUA or postgraduates in the MCh/Dip. NB programmes.

The Prize shall be award to two winners. If in any year, the results are not to the expectation of the committee, the award may be withheld, and the interest thereby accrued added to the principal amount.

Award Amount Rs. 2000.00 1st Prize Rs. 1000.00 2nd Prize Devon Traveling Fellowship One fellowship will be awarded every year. An amount of Rs. 5,000 /- will be awarded to facilitate travel and stay. All postgraduate students of Karnataka, undergoing training for the MCh / DNB Urology degrees, who are also members of the Karnataka Urology Association, only are eligible to apply. Application should be made in a prescribed form which can be downloaded from the website. This should be completed and mailed back before the 31st of August 2006 to Honorary Secretary.

Selection will be based on a total of the marks obtained in the following categories.

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A. Pre-assessment credit-total 15 marks for past awards, prizes, Presentation and publications.

Every paper presentation in national /state level urology conferences – 0.5 Every paper Presentation in international urology conference 2.5. Every publication in non indexed medical journal – 2.5 Every publication in indexed medical journal – 5

B. MCQ in urology at a post graduate level-Total 60 marks. This MCQ will be conducted during the annual conference of the KUA.

KUACON ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM Fill in block letters, Please follow guidelines for submission given on next page

Format: I wish to present as: Podium Video Poster Black Pearls AUTHORS CORRESPONDENCE: Name: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Address: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ City: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pin: _ _ _ _ _ Phone: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Fax: _ _ _ _ _ E-mail: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Member Signature

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY

Received on --------------------- Serial No. ----------- Presentation Session Abstract No.

TITLE & AUTHORS

ABSTRACT

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Important:

q Last date for submission of Abstracts is 31st July 2008. q Members are requested to submit abstracts online by logging on to www.kua.in q Those submitting hard copies should send 4 photo copies along with the abstracts. q VCD/DVD - each CD should contain only one paper. q Please send the abstracts to the Hon. Secretary at

Dr. Ali Poonawala Alfa Clinic

N-18, 24th Main 1st Phase JP Nagar Bangalore 560078

E-Mail: alfapoona@vsnl.com

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDE LINES ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS

q The paper must be the Original and unpublished work of the authors. q Only members of Karnataka Urology Association will be allowed to present papers /

poster / videos during the Annual Conference. Applicant members may also be allowed to make presentations provided they submit proof of having applied for membership.

q The member of KUA submitting scientific paper must have registered for the conference before his paper can be considered for the presentation.

q In case the presenting author is unable to present the paper he should inform the secretary and submit the name of co-author who will present the paper in his stead.

q If the presenting Author / Co-author fails to present their scientific paper in the conference after its acceptance without appropriate justification they will be debarred from presenting scientific papers for the next 1 year.

FORMATTING ESSENTIALS

q The abstract should consist of a maximum of 250 words typed in single space in the provided form. It will be printed as such in the abstract booklet by a photo –offset technique, hence spelling and typographical errors, as well as folding of the form, are to be avoided.

q The abstract should contain a brief informative title in capitals. It should be printed in “ARIAL FONT SIZE 14 AND BOLD”.

q Name of all authors – first name, initials of middle name, last name. q Name of presenting author should be first and underlined. q Degrees and prefixes should be mentioned. q Institution affiliations of the authors should be mentioned. q This & subsequent abstract should be printed in “ARIAL FONT SIZE 11” q One line should be left blank between authors & abstract. No line to be left between title

and the authors. Abstract should be structured into introduction, Aims, Material & Methods, Results & Conclusions.

q Video submission: Only one paper should be included with one cassette/CD. The cassette must be submitted with the abstract. Original tapes should not be sent. Submit VHS-PAL tapes only. Maximum duration of the tapes should be of 8 minutes.

INTIMATION OF APPROVAL The abstract are accepted after scrutiny / review. The Hon. Secretary, will notify the main author about acceptance of their abstract by 15th August 2008 directly.