Workstream 2

Workstream 2: Functional urogenital conditions requiring highly specialised surgery

Workstream 2 focuses on functional urogenital conditions requiring highly specialised surgery. The Expertise Areas (EAs) covered by Workstream 2 are:

These EAs demand require specific diagnoses and surgical correction. Expertise is crucial to prevent costly and harmful secondary surgeries. Multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) offer life-long care, enhancing post-operative well-being. ERN eUROGEN bridges paediatric and adult care gaps, enhancing outcomes through crossover and workstream transfer from WS1 to WS2. Improved transition ensures lifelong positive outcomes and disease self-management, ensuring continuous care across life stages.

Leads

Workstream Lead: Margit Fisch

Prof. Margit Fisch is a Fellow of the European Board of Urology (F.E.B.U.) and a Fellow of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology (F.E.A.P.U.). Her major scientific interests are reconstructive urology (especially urethral reconstruction and urinary diversion) and paediatric urology. She trained with Prof. Rudolf Hohenfellner and Prof. Joachim Thüroff in Mainz, Germany. In 2000, she moved to AK Harburg in Hamburg and became Director of the Department of Urology and Paediatric Urology two years later. Since 2008, she has been (the first female) Chair of a Urology Department (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) in Germany.

Margit Fisch was president of the Society of Genito-Urinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS), the European Society of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (ESGURS) and the German Association of Urology (DGU). She is a member of the American Academy of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (AAGUS), the Association of Academic European Urologists (AAEU), the Society of Pelvic Surgeons (SPS), the European Association of Pediatric Urology (ESPU), and the Society of Pediatric Urologic Surgeons (SPUS). She has published over 300 papers and book chapters, with over 90 as first author. She is the organiser of the International Meeting on Reconstructive Urology (IMORU). In 2021, she received the SIU Distinguished Career Award.

Clinical Lead: Michel Wyndaele

Education Lead: Frank van der Aa

Research Lead: John Heesakkers