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.

Embryology of the Urinary Tract.- Antenatal Hydronephrosis.- Evaluation and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Children.- Imaging of the Urinary Tract.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Urinary Tract.- Urodynamic Studies of the Urinary Tract.- Principles of Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Chronic Kidney Disease.- Dialysis.- Renal Transplantation.- Congenital Renal Anomalies.- Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney Disease.- Renal Calculus Disease.- Ureteropelvic Junction Obstructions.- Ureterovesical Junction Obstruction.- Anatomical and Functional Basis of Vesicoureteral Reflux.- The Diagnosis and Medical Management of Vesicoureteral Reflux: An Update and Current Controversies.- Endoscopic Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux.- Surgical Treatment of Vesicoureteric Reflux.- Ureteral Duplication and Duplex Systems.- Ureteroceles.- Nocturnal Enuresis.- Daytime Urinary Incontinence.- Injectable Bulking Agents in the Treatment of Pediatric Urinary Incontinence.- Bladder Exstrophy, Epispadias andCloacal Exstrophy.- Bladder Diverticula, Urachal Anomalies, and Other Unusual Conditions of the Bladder.- Posterior Urethral Valves.- Prune-Belly Syndrome.- Neurogenic Bladder.- Hypospadias.- Male Epispadias, Genitourinary Implications.- Phimosis and Buried Penis.- Cryptorchidism.- Varicocele.- Testicular Torsion.- Cloaca and Urogenital Sinus with Normal Rectum.- Different Sexual Development.- Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology.- Continent Urinary Diversion.- Augmentation Cystoplasty.