Urology Times Innovation Celebration Video Series

Videos of experts providing background summaries on the innovations and how they impacted the field of urology.

EP1: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: BCG therapy for bladder cancer

March 16th 2022

"It is clearly the standard and it's the treatment of choice. When you have that, and it's very good, it's evidenced by the fact that none of the agents are compared against BCG because it sets such a high standard of effectiveness," says Sam S. Chang, MD, MBA.

EP2: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for stones

March 23rd 2022

"The seminal innovation was the idea that you could create a focused shock wave that could be delivered into the body in a non-invasive way that had sufficient energy to break up a stone but not damage other structures," says James E. Lingeman, MD.

EP3: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Treatment of female hypoactive sexual desire disorder

March 30th 2022

"We as urologists are board certified to take care of all genders. We are really good sexual medicine doctors, and we need to apply what we know about sexual medicine, not just for our male patients, but for all of our patients," says Rachel S. Rubin, MD

EP4: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Cryotherapy for kidney and prostate cancer

April 6th 2022

"Cryotherapy was the first energy source that we were able to ablate tissues with in either the kidney or prostate and understand what that ablation would do," says J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS.

EP5: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Intralesional therapies for Peyronie's disease

April 13th 2022

"Peyronie's disease has really seen a wide range of intralesional options through the years," says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.

EP6: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Radiation therapy for prostate cancer

April 20th 2022

"I would say our greatest advance of the past 30 years is our clinical trials infrastructure, because we can now use our therapies with intelligence," says Anthony Zietman, MD.

EP7: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: β3 agonists for overactive bladder

April 27th 2022

"β3 agonists really provided a new drug class of medications for patients with overactive bladder. Previously, there were no alternatives," says Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH.

EP8: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Microsurgical testicular sperm extraction

May 4th 2022

"Micro TESE is associated with higher sperm retrieval rates compared with conventional testicular sperm extraction, so this approach has really become the gold standard for sperm extraction in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia," says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.

EP9: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Anatomic radical prostatectomy

May 11th 2022

"Anatomic radical prostatectomy really transformed radical prostatectomy from a very morbid operation with high risk, performed rarely, to one that became a commonly utilized treatment for prostate cancer," says Christopher L. Amling, MD, FACS.

EP10: Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Dr. Kelvin Moses on sipuleucel-T for mCRPC

May 19th 2022

“In using an immune therapy approach, and using your own cells, it's very innovative in the mechanism that it works,” says Kelvin A. Moses, MD, PhD.