This book provides a comprehensive guide to the latest techniques in female genitourinary and pelvic floor disorders. It features detailed insight into these conditions along with detailed descriptions of how treatment has changed in recent times for these disorders. The latest methodologies for pharmacological treatment, conservative therapy, surgical techniques, and how to avoid potential complications are discussed. Topics including relevant neurophysiology, measurement of urinary symptoms, pelvic organ prolapse and ureteral reconstruction are covered.
Female Genitourinary and Pelvic Floor Reconstruction is a detailed resource detailing the latest developments in the field, making it an ideal resource for all clinicians who encounter these patients in their daily practice.
Francisco E. Martins obtained his Medical Degree at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Lisbon in 1983. He earned his title as Specialist in Urology by the Portuguese Medical Association, College of Urology, in 1993. He has been engaged in several humanitarian outreach clinical visits in Ethiopia, Angola, and Tanzania. His areas of major clinical and research interest are Genito-urethral and Pelvic Trauma and Reconstruction, Vesicovaginal and Rectovaginal Fistula, Female Pelvic Medicine, Erectile Dysfunction, Urinary Diversion, and Penile Cancer. He has been Consultant Urological Surgeon at Santa Maria University Hospital (2008-present date). In May 2017, he was elected to the GURS Board of Directors (Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons) and in October 2017 and September 2018 was granted Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Urological Association (HUA) and South African Urological Association (SAUA), respectively. In May 2019, he was elected President of the GURS (Society of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons). He is a member of several national and international societies and associations.
Dr. Kurt McCammon is the Devine Chair in Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery and Chairman and Professor of the Department of Urology at Eastern Virginia Medical School where he serves as Urology Residency Program Director and fellowship director of the adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery program. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio and had his urology residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School followed by a two-year fellowship in genitourinary reconstructive surgery also at EVMS.
Dr. Henriette Veiby Holm is a Consultant Urological Surgeon and Professor of Urology in the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, and Co-Director of the Reconstructive Urology and Neurourology Unit at the University of Oslo, in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Holm obtained her MD at Semmelweis University in Budapest in 2004 and her Residency training in Gynecology/Obstetrics in 2007, and in General Surgery and Urology at the Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet in 2013. She then undertook an Oncology Research Fellowship and Ph.D. Thesis Program in the Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet from 2013 - 2015.
Dr. Jaspreet S. Sandhu is an Attending Urologist within the Department of Surgery (Urology Service) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Associate Professor of Urology at the Weil Cornell Medical College. He graduated from Duke University and after spending five years as an engineer in the telecommunications industry, obtained his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and received a fellowship in voiding dysfunction at Columbia-Presbyterian and Weill-Cornell Medical Centers.
