Pediatric Surgery

Prem Puri, MS, FRCS, FRCS (ED), FACS, FAAP (Hon.), is Newman Clinical Research Professor at University College Dublin and President of the National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin. He is also a Fellow at UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Dublin and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Beacon Hospital, Dublin. Professor Puri is President of both the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons and the European Paediatric Surgeons Association and Secretary of the International Board of Pediatric Surgical Research. He is Visiting Professor to many universities across the world, including Harvard, Columbia, Indianapolis, Michigan, Colorado, Hong Kong, Toronto, Wisconsin, Atlanta and Fukuoka and has been a Distinguished Overseas Guest Lecturer at 186 scientific meetings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Surgery International, Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and the Journal of Medical Case Reports and a member of various other editorial boards. He has authored 9 books/monographs, 105 chapters in textbooks and more than 440 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Franco Soave Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to Hirschsprung’s disease and related disorders; the Gandhi Gold Medal, Denis Brown Gold Medal, and Kafka Medal for outstanding contributions to paediatric surgery; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Asian Association of Paediatric Surgeons.

1. Embryology of the Urinary Tract 2. Antenatal Hydronephrosis 3. Evaluation and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Children 4. Imaging of the Urinary Tract 5. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Urinary Tract 6. Urodynamic Studies of the Urinary Tract 7. Principles of Minimally Invasive Surgery 8. Chronic Kidney Disease 9. Dialysis 10. Renal Transplantation 11. Congenital Renal Anomalies 12. Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney Disease 13. Renal Calculus Disease 14. Ureteropelvic Junction Obstructions 15. Ureterovesical Junction Obstruction 16. Anatomical and Functional Basis of Vesicoureteral Reflux 17. The Diagnosis and Medical Management of Vesicoureteral Reflux: An Update and Current Controversies 18. Endoscopic Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux 19. Surgical Treatment of Vesicoureteric Reflux 20. Ureteral Duplication and Duplex Systems 21. Ureteroceles 22. Nocturnal Enuresis 23. Daytime Urinary Incontinence 24. Injectable Bulking Agents in the Treatment of Pediatric Urinary Incontinence 25. Bladder Exstrophy, Epispadias and Cloacal Exstrophy 26. Bladder Diverticula, Urachal Anomalies, and Other Unusual Conditions of the Bladder 27. Posterior Urethral Valves 28. Prune-Belly Syndrome 29. Neurogenic Bladder 30. Hypospadias 31. Male Epispadias, Genitourinary Implications 32. Phimosis and Buried Penis 33. Cryptorchidism 34. Varicocele 35. Testicular Torsion 36. Cloaca and Urogenital Sinus with Normal Rectum 37. Different Sexual Development 38. Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology 39. Continent Urinary Diversion 40. Augmentation Cystoplasty 40