Editor-in-Chief 

Francesco Greco, MD, PhD

Professor of Urology; CEO, Centro Salute Uomo, Bergamo, Italy.

Interests: Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery, LESS surgery, Minilaparoscopy, Uro-oncology, Endoscopy, GREEN-LIGHT laser, REZUM.

Email: francesco_greco@ymail.com

Website: www.francescogreco.info

Associate Editors 

Shahrokh F. Shariat, MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

Interests: Biomarkers, Pharmacological; Diagnostic Techniques, Urological; Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; Oncology; Patient Outcome Assessment; Prostate; Prostatic Diseases; Urinary Bladder Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Urology.

Email: shahrokh.shariat@meduniwien.ac.at

Website: https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/forschung/researcher-profiles/researcher-profiles/detail/?res=shahrokh_f_shariat&cHash=9acd54fa7adcb1a53b62f9adec2dbbd5


Rene Sotelo, MD

Professor of clinical Urology. USC Institute od Urology. University Southern California 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Suite 7416. Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Interests: Female Urology/Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Surgical Oncology.

Email: rene.sotelo@med.usc.edu

Website: https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/rene-sotelo


Giovanni E. Cacciamani, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Interests: Oncology; Robotics; Prostate Cancer; Bladder Cancer; Laparoscopic Urology; Renal Cell Carcinoma; Robotics & Minimally Invasive Urology; Hospital Urology Department; Prostate Carcinoma; Evidence Based Medicine.

Email: gc_178@usc.edu

Website: https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/giovanni-cacciamani


Riccardo Autorino, MD, PhD, FEBU

Associate Professor, Division of Urology, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA, USA.

Interests: Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Email: ricautor@gmail.com

Website:  https://grandroundsinurology.com/author/rautorino


Paolo Fornara, MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology and Kidney Transplantation Center, Martin Luther University Halle Saale, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Interests: Robotically assisted prostatectomy, robotic-assisted kidney transplantation, robotically assisted kidney surgery, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, robotic lymph node removal from urological tumors, robotic cystectomy, continental orthotopic and heterotopic bladder replacement, bladder emptying disorder, laparoscopy, kidney transplantation, living kidney donation, metastasis surgery, laparoscopic and robotic adrenal surgery.

Email: paolo.fornara@uk-halle.de

Website:  https://www.medizin.uni-halle.de/portraets/prof-dr-paolo-fornara


Alessandro Antonelli, MD

Professor, Department of Urology, University of Verona, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Piazzale Stefani 1, Verona, Italy.

Interests: Cancer; Renal; Diagnosis; Tumors; Oncology; Kidney; Pathology; Prostate Cancer; Treatment; Prognosis.

Email: alessandroantonelli@univr.it

Website:  https://www.dscomi.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=58978&lang=en


Guido Giusti, MD

Head of European Training Center of Endourology at Ospedale San Raffaele, Ville Turro Division, Department of Urology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Interests: Endourology; Kidney Stones; Urolithiasis; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Email: drguidogiusti@gmail.com

Website: http://www.guidogiusti.it


Aly M. Abdel-Karim, MD, PhD

Professor Department of Urology, Alexandria University, Egypt

Interests: Laparoscopic Urology, Minilaparoscopy, Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery, URO-Oncology, Laparoscopic Female Urology

Email:  alym_68@yahoo.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aly-Abdel-Karim


Jihad Kaouk, MD, FACS

Professor, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Interests: Urology, surgery.

Email: kaoukj@ccf.org

Website:  https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/4363-jihad-kaouk

Editorial Board Members

Costantino Leonardo, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Maternal-Child and Urological Sciences, Sapienza University Rome, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Interests: Bladder cancer, urology.

Email:  costantino.leonardo@gmail.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costantino-Leonardo


Denis V. Krakhotkin, MD, PhD

Outpatient Department, Central District Hospital, Kamenolomni, Rostov Region, Russia.

Interests: Urology, oncology, infectious diseases, uroradiology, urolithiasis, urological infections, basic science, sexual medicine, andrology.

Email: den_surgeon@mail.ru

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krakhotkin-Denis


Enrico Checcucci, MD

Department of Urology, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy.

Interests: Prostate cancer, robotic surgery, augmented-reality, three-dimensional model, artificial-intelligence.

Email: checcu.e@hotmail.it

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Enrico-Checcucci


Alessandro Veccia, MD

Division of Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.

Interests: Urologic oncology, minimally invasive surgery.

Email:  a.veccia88@gmail.com

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kN7c09wAAAAJ&hl=en


Guglielmo Mantica, MD

Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences (DISC), University of Genova, Genova, Italy.

Interests: Prostate Cancer, prostate specific antigen, lithotripsy, urology.

Email:  guglielmo.mantica@gmail.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guglielmo-Mantica


Volodymyr Chernylovskyi, MD

Private Urological Practice, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Interests: Adrenal surgery, BPH treatment and BPH surgery, endourology, urinary stone disease, laparoscopy in urology, urodynamics, urological infections and new technologies in urology.

Email:  chernylovskyi@gmail.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Volodymyr-Chernylovskyi


Selcuk Guven, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Urology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Interests: Minimally invasive management of lower tract diseases (bladder tumor, BPH), urinary tract stone disease, endourology.

Email:  selcukguven@hotmail.com

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Selcuk-Guven



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