UMN Urology at 2026 AUA Annual Meeting
The 121st American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting begins on Thursday, May 14 in Washington, D.C. Sixteen University of Minnesota Department of Urology faculty, residents, fellows, and medical students will present their research, share techniques during video sessions, and moderate panels throughout the conference. See the full presentation schedule below.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Title | Speaker | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/14/26 | 7:00AM-11:00AM | Hands-on Training Pavilion, Booth #4325, S&T Hall | Advanced Cystoscopy Training for APPs: Morning Session | Vishnu Ganesan, MD | Instructional Course |
| 5/14/26 | 1:00PM-5:00PM | Hands-on Training Pavilion, Booth #4325, S&T Hall | Advanced Cystoscopy Training for APPs: Afternoon Session | Vishnu Ganesan, MD | Instructional Course |
| 5/15/26 | 7:00AM-7:10AM | 207B | Robotic Parastomal Hernia Repair of Ileal Conduit: Keyhole Technique with Novel Mesh Collar Modification | Sean Elliott, MD, MS | Video Presentation |
| 5/15/26 | 9:00AM-10:30AM | Hall B, The Square, Learning Lab | Resident Bowl | Bowen Yao, MD (PGY-4) | Competition as part of the North Central Section |
| 5/15/26 | 1:00PM-1:10PM | Hall B, The Square, Learning Lab | Robotic Parastomal Hernia Repair of Ileal Conduit: Keyhole Technique with Novel Mesh Collar Modification | Sean Elliott, MD, MS | Video Presentation |
| 5/15/26 | 3:30PM-5:30PM | 145AB | Penoscrotal Skin versus Peritoneal Flaps for Primary Gender-Affirming Vaginoplasty: a Comparison of Outcomes | Cathrine Keiner, MD (PGY-3) | Interactive Poster |
| 5/15/26 | 3:30PM-5:30PM | 146B | Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Surgical Therapy and New Technology III | Michael Borofsky, MD | Moderator |
| 5/16/26 | 7:30AM-8:30AM | Hall D | When Disaster Strikes: Managing Nightmare Cases in Urology | Michael Borofsky, MD | Panel Discussion |
| 5/16/26 | 10:26AM-10:34AM | 206 | Long-term outcomes of adults undergoing catheterizable channel creation | Shree Agrawal-Patel, MD | Podium presentation |
| 5/16/26 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | 206 | Prostate Cancer: Advanced (including drug therapy) | Christopher Warlick, MD, PhD | Moderator |
| 5/16/26 | 3:30PM-5:30PM | 146B | Reconstruction: Ureteral Reconstruction (including pyeloplasty) and bladder reconstruction (including trauma-related fistula) | Joseph Pariser, MD | Moderator |
| 5/16/26 | 3:46PM-3:54PM | 206 | Antibiotic Prophylaxis for UTI Prevention after Radical Cystectomy (A-PURC): Interim Analysis of a Non-Inferiority Randomized Controlled Trial | Jonathan Sussman, MD (PGY-5) | Podium Presentation |
| 5/17/26 | 7:30AM-12:00PM | Marriott Marquis Hotel, Salons 1-5, Level 2 | Povidone Iodine for Prostate Biopsy | Onuralp Ergun, MD (PGY-2) | Poster session as part of the Urological Society for American Veterans (USAV) Meeting |
| 5/17/26 | 9:30AM-11:30AM | 146B | Enhancing Research Education and Reporting Quality in Urology Conferences: Validating GPT-5 for Automated PRISMA Assessment of Systematic Review Abstracts (AUA & EAU 2021–2025) | Pardis Ziaeefar, MD, MPH | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 9:30AM-11:30AM | 146B | Education Research I | Rachel Mann, MD | Moderator |
| 5/17/26 | 9:30AM-11:30AM | Hall D | Urologic Care after Vaginoplasty | Joseph Pariser, MD | Panel Discussion |
| 5/17/26 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | 147B | 5-Year Outcomes of the Optilume Drug Coated Balloon for Recurrent Anterior Urethral Strictures: Pooled results from the ROBUST I, II, and III Trials | Sean Elliott, MD, MS | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | 145B | Artificial Intelligence Model Accurately Predicts 30-Day Emergency Room Visit and Re-admission After Urologic Surgeries Using Patient Portal Messages | Bowen Yao, MD (PGY-4) | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | 146B | Who Is Most at Risk When Temperatures Rise? Stratified Effects of Heat on Kidney Stone Emergency Visits | Carla Miguel, MD | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 3:46PM-3:54PM | 207A | Validation of a Deep Learning Framework for Automated Detection of Sacral Neuromodulation Leads and Anatomic Landmarks | Bowen Yao, MD (PGY-4) | Podium Presentation |
| 5/17/26 | 3:54PM-4:02PM | 207A | Toward a Surgical Navigation and Tracking Tool for Sacral Neuromodulation: A Pilot Study Linking Three-Dimensional Lead Geometry With Clinical Outcomes | Sean Elliott, MD, MS | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 3:30PM-5:30PM | 147B | Systematic Review Published in the Urological Literature are of Critically Low or Low Methodological Quality | Pardis Ziaeefar, MD, MPH | Interactive Poster |
| 5/17/26 | 3:30PM-5:30PM | 145AB | Beyond infection: Sociodemographic drivers of antibiotic use in patients with kidney stones in the emergency department | Carla Miguel, MD | Interactive Poster |
| 5/18/26 | 7:00AM-9:00AM | 146A | Predicting the Unplanned: A Low-Burden Machine Learning Model to Predict 30-Day ED Visits After Cystectomy | Bowen Yao, MD (PGY-4) | Interactive Poster |
| 5/18/26 | 7:30AM-9:30AM | 152A | Laser Enucleation of the Prostate: Beyond the Basics | Deepak Agarwal, MD | Instructional Course |
| 5/18/26 | 9:30AM-11:30AM | 146A | Trends and Determinants of Adequate BCG Therapy for NMIBC in Veterans During the BCG Shortage Era: A 15-Year Analysis | Bowen Yao, MD (PGY-4) | Interactive Poster |
| 5/18/26 | 9:30AM-11:30AM | 146C | Exploring the Relationship between Lipid Dysregulation and Peyronie's Disease | Daniel Turin, MS3 | Interactive Poster |
