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Editors

Ralph V. Clayman, M.D. [email address="This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."]
Arthur D. Smith, M.D. [email address="This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."]

Managing Editor

John Denstedt, M.D. [email address="This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."]

Editorial Coordinator

Debra Caridi Endourological Society Telephone: 516-520-1226 [email address="This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it."]

Associate Editors

Demetrius H. Bagley, M.D. Thomas Jefferson University HospitalGlenn M. Preminger, M.D. Duke University Medical CenterChristian Chaussy, M.D. Stadt Krankenhaus Harlaching, Munich Louis Kavoussi, M.D. The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology
Inderbir S. Gill, M.D. Cleveland Clinic FoundationJaime Landman, M.D. University of California, IrvineJean de la Rosette, M.D. University of Amsterdam Medical Center Tadashi Matsuda, M.D. Kansai Medical University

Section Editors

“Letters to the Editor”

Dean G. Assimos, M.D. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

“New Technologies in Endourology”

David Duchene, M.D. University of Kansas
Stavros Gravas, M.D. University Hospital of Laressa, Greece
Dan Stoianovici, Ph.D. John Hopkins Hospital

“Review Editors”

Manoj Monga, M.D. The Cleveland Clinic
Pilar Laguna, M.D. University of Amsterdam

“Techniques in Endourology”

J. Stuart Wolf, M.D. University of Michigan
Benjamin R. Lee, M.D. Tulane University Medical Center

“Pediatric Endourology”

Michael Ost, M.D. The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pasquale Casale, M.D. Columbia University Hospital

Assistant Editors (Section Editors *)

Ahmed Al-Kandari, M.D. Kuwait University
Cassio Andreoni, M.D. Federal University of Sao Paulo
Fatih Atug, M.D. Istanbul Bilim University
 
Richard Babayan, M.D. Boston University Medical Center
Jeffrey Cadeddu, M.D. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Timothy Averch, M.D. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
Mahesh Desai, M.D. Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, India
Mihir Desai, M.D. University of Southern California
Matthew Gettman,M.D. Mayo Clinic, Rochester
 
Peter J. Gilling,M.D. University of Auckland
Andreas Gross, M.D. Asklepios Klinik Barmbek
Mantu Gupta, M.D. St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center
 
Tomonori Habuchi, M.D. Akita University
Ashok Hemal, M.D. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Gunter Janetschek, M.D. Universitatsklinik Fur Urologie, Austria
 
R. John Honey, M.D. St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto
William K. Johnston, III, M.D. Oakland University/Beaumont School of Med
Hyeon Hoe Kim, M.D. Seoul National University
 
David Lee, M.D. University of Pennsylvania
Michael Marberger, M.D. University of Vienna, Austria
Elspeth M. McDougall, M.D. University of California, Irvine
 
Thomas Knoll, M.D. Klinikum Sindelfingen-Boeblingen
Olivier Traxer, M.D. Hospital Tenon Urologie
Bodo Knudsen, M.D. Ohio State University
 
Evangelos Liatsikos, M.D. University of Patras
Jens Rassweiler, M.D. Klinikum Heibronn, Germany
Brian R. Matlaga, M.D. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
 
Raju Thomas, M.D. Tulane University, New Orleans
David A. Tolley, M.D. Western General Hospital, Scotland
Paul J. Van Cangh, M.D. St. Luc University Hospital, Belgium
 
Stephen Y. Nakada, M.D. University of Wisconsin
Margaret S. Pearle, M.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Abhay Rane, M.D. East Surry Hospital
 
Lee Richstone, M.D. The Smith Institute for Urology
Bradley Schwartz, D.O. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Yinghao Sun, M.D. Changhai Hospital
 
Chandru Sundaram, M.D. Indiana University
Howard Winfield West Alabama Urology Associates
 
Statistician: Kathryn E. Osann, PhD University of California, Irvine
 

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