FACULTY

Convenor

Dr Isaac Thyer 

Invited Guest Presenters 

Rick Catterwell graduated from Adelaide University Medical School in 2003 and was accepted asa Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 2015. He subsequently completed focusedfellowships on the management of complicated urolithiasis at the Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospitalin Nadiad, India and University Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia. Following the completion of a 12month robotic fellowship at Guy’s Hospital, London, UK he remained in London as a robotic focusedconsultant at Guy’s Hospital and clinical lead for upper tract oncology at King’s College Hospital. Rickis currently a consultant urologist at The Queen Elizabeth and Royal Adelaide Hospitals in Adelaide, South Australia. Heis passionate about teaching and training and was the recipient of the RACS award for the most outstanding trainer andmentor in 2022. He is a clinical senior lecturer, on faculty for the University of Adelaide’s Masters in Minimally InvasiveSurgery, the head of unit for urology and director of surgical training at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and current statechair for urology training in South Australia. He is an avid mountain climber, adventure traveler and passionate AdelaideCrows fan.

Professor Eric Chung is a consultant urological surgeon at the AndroUrology Centre for Sexual, Urinary, and Reproductive Excellence and holds a professorial clinical appointment at the University of Queensland. He holds numerous executive positions in various scientific organisations such as the Chair of the Male LUTS and Past Chair of the Andrology sections for the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ), Past Secretary-General for the Asia Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM), and Member-at-Large and Chair of the Surgical Committee at the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM). He is the only USANZ urologist to be invited to serve in the recent 5th International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) and the 7th International Consultation on Incontinence (ICI). He runs an active clinical research unit and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

Dr Joseph Ischia is a urologist with a special interest in urologic oncology. He specialises in the medicaland surgical management of diseases of the prostate, bladder, and kidney. He is the founder of JiffyStent™, a revolutionary new ureteral stent inserter designed for safe, swift, and secure stent placement, forrapid relief from kidney stone pain. He has also founded MedLitGo.com - a free online resource fordoctors to get quick, easy, and reliable insights from the latest medical papers at the relevant point inthe disease journey. Alongside his clinical commitments, he continues to be heavily involved in research at the University of Melbourne where he is currently studying the beneficial effect of high-dose intravenous zinc inischaemia reperfusion injury of the kidney, as well as multiple other smaller projects with the Department of Urologyat Austin Health. He is a member of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Urological Society of Australia and NewZealand, Australia and New Zealand Urological and Prostate (ANZUP) Cancer Trials Group, American Urology Association,The European Association of Urology, the Urological Research Society, and the Societe Internationale d’Urologie.