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“Time will tell as we move forward, but it has allowed us to use MDT, with or without ADT and ARPIs, to potentially look at hormone-free treatments,” says Jason M. Hafron, MD, CMO.

"I think that now we have good data that patient-reported outcomes have to be considered in these patient populations," says Andrew C. Peterson, MD, MPH.

"This year, we are starting an international rotation with a focus on global health and humanitarian work," says Akanksha Mehta, MD, MS.

"Every practice is going to be a little bit different on how they would like to approach this," says Michael Jenson, PA-C.

"I joke that on face value, the APPs work for me, but I feel like I'm really working for them, because they basically do everything except for the surgery," says Andrew Y. Sun, MD.

"This has been exciting from a physician-surgeon standpoint," says Helen L. Bernie, DO, MPH.

Specifically, Jayram highlights pembrolizumab, nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg, and N-803 (Anktiva).

"Whenever they discuss germline testing, an important part of that is this pretest counseling process where you talk about the pros and the cons," says Daniel Kwon, MD.

APPs can help in introducing genetic testing and in the interpretation of results, according to Kara Cossis, PA-C, MPH.

"What we found is that it's very difficult to raise your review on these websites, but fairly easy to drop your review," says Jake Miller, MD.

“Put another way, with Apple Vision Pro, what we're hoping to do is have our residents be able to put on a headset and walk through a case before they actually walk into an operating room,” says Vikram M. Narayan, MD.

"I think what we definitively have is a device that's been around for over 50 years now that now we know significantly improves quality of life," says Andrew C. Peterson, MD, MPH.

Tim A. Richardson, MD, outlines the 2 key scenarios for utilizing genetic testing in clinical practice.

"It's often a balancing act of truly kind of pinning down people on what exactly they want to treat," says Landon Trost, MD.

“The 1 main assumption that we've been very wrong on although we've had the data for a long period of time, [is that] although we assume that the stone fragments are small enough to pass, oftentimes they don't,” says Thomas Mueller, MD.

"[Veterans] may be missing out on potentially life-saving treatments, and their family might also be missing out on some benefits as well," says Daniel Kwon, MD.

“It's really a reapplication of the existing technology for BPH that is familiar to many of us already and we use in our clinical practices,” says Arvin K. George, MD.

“Opportunity wise, I always say that if you don't perform the test, then you're limiting treatment options for your patients,” says Kara Cossis, PA-C, MPH.

“When a patient knows that there are so many tools that are there for people, it gives them hope. It gives their caregivers hope,” says Joy Maulik, CRNP.

"It's a little tedious to find these patients, but it's really critical. Otherwise, you're not going to get reimbursed for these therapies," says Jason Hafron, MD.

“We then talked a little bit about BCG unresponsive disease, which is a really hot topic,” says Gautam Jayram, MD.

“We're really excited as robotic surgeons, because this will be the first time in a couple decades that there'll be competition for robots, and that's only going to make things better,” says Ronney Abaza, MD, FACS.

“The guidelines have changed. They used to be called third-line therapies, and they're no longer quote "third-line" anymore, based on the new guidelines that have come out,” says Kari Bailey, MD.

“Part of the reason that we created this Working Group Session is to essentially highlight the role that APPs can play in building men's health practices,” says Andrew Y. Sun, MD.

“I would say, about 10 years ago, there was a real skepticism, a healthy skepticism, I would say, in the beginning. Now that has slowly changed into optimism,” says Arvin K. George, MD.

“I think that it is upon us as urologists to try to start to embrace this clinical accomplishment, and that being trying to make our patients as stone free as possible,” says Tom Mueller, MD.

"We only have so much time with our patients, but we want to show them that we support them," says Ava Saidian, MD.

"I cannot wait to see what the SMSNA is going to have in store next year," says Helen L. Bernie, DO, MPH.