Dr Evangelos Liatsikos is Professor of Urology - Chairman of the Department of Urology and Medical Director of the University Hospital of Patras. He is a Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig in Germany. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He is member of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons (AAGUS), and member of the Scientific Working Group of the National Registry of Patients with Neoplastic Diseases. He was Chairman of the European Section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) from 2016 to 2020 and now he is the Chairman of the European School of Urology (ESU). He is distinguished in literature for his research in Laparoscopy-Robotic and Endourology. Dr. Liatsikos, with over 400 publications and, has also been invited as a speaker and live surgeon in a series of the most prestigious urological congresses worldwide.
For his scientific contribution, Professor Liatsikos was nominated for the "Arthur Smith Endourology Lectureship" award in 2009 by the World Association of Endourology. He also received the award of "Academic Endourology Fellowship Program Director" in November 2016 during the World Congress of Urology. Dr. senol Tonyali is an Associate Professor of Urology, internationally recognized for his research and clinical expertise in endourology and urolithiasis. He currently serves as a faculty member at Istanbul University, Istanbul School of Medicine, Department of Urology. After graduating from Ankara University School of Medicine in 2009, Dr. Tonyali completed his urology residency at Hacettepe University and expanded his academic horizon through an observership at the Cleveland Clinic, USA. He became a Fellow of the European Board of Urology in 2015 and was appointed Associate Professor in 2020.
He received a 1-year research fellowship scholar from European EAU and conducted researches on anatomic endoscopic enucleation of prostate at University Medical Center Freiburg, Section of Urotechnology, Germany. He is a member of the Turkish Association of Urology and the European Association of Urology; he has been also actively contributing to the EAU Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Urolithiasis and Endourology Working Party since 2019. He has 86 published articles on Pubmed and his h-index is 15. His work on kidney stone disease and minimally invasive urologic surgery has been internationally recognized and cited, contributing to advancements in clinical practice and education. ilker Seckiner President of Turkish Endourological Society. Dr. Ilker Seçkiner graduated from Ankara University School of Medicine in 1995. In the same year, he began Urology residency in Ankara University Medical School, Department of Urology.
He completed his residency training in 2000 and took the title Urologist. In 2003, he began working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology, Karaelmas University School of Medicine. In this period, he worked as an observer for one month in Berlin Charite Hospital. Between February 2010 and June 2010, he worked in the United States at the University of Illinois at Chicago Urology Department, Section of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Urology as ''Visiting Associate Professor''. Dr. Seckiner was appointed.