J o u r n a l   I n f o r m a t i o n
 
 
EDITORIAL BOARD

Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology - SBU


EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
 
Sidney Glina, M.D, PhD
ABC Medical School and Ipiranga Hospital, SP, Brazil

 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
 
Fernando J. Kim (International Editor)
Denver Health Medical Center, CO, USA
 
Luciano A. Favorito
State University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
 
Paulo Monti
Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, MG, Brazil
 
Sandro Esteves
Androfert, SP, Brazil


 
SECTION EDITORS
 
Revisions

Gustavo Carvalhal
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio Grande do Sul,

RS, Brazil

 
Basic Science

Leopoldo Alves Ribeiro Filho
State University of Sao Paulo,

SP, Brazil

 
Sexual Medicine

Ernani L. Rhoden
Federal Foundation of Med Sci,

RS, Brazil

 
Neurourology

Flavio Trigo Rocha
School of Medicine USP,

SP, Brazil

 
Female Urology
João Luiz Amaro
Paulista University - UNESP,
Botucatu, SP, Brazil
 
Infertility

Marcello Cocuzza
School of Medicine USP,

SP, Brazil

 
Oncology

Lucas Nogueira
Federal University of Minas Gerais,

MG, Brazil

Antonio A. Ornellas
National Cancer Institute Rio de Janeiro,

RJ, Brazil

Marcus V. Sadi
Federal University of Sao Paulo - UNIFESP,
SP, Brazil
 
Pediatric Urology

Adriano Calado
University of Pernambuco - UPE,

PE, Brazil

 
Uropatologia
Athanase Billis
State University of Campinas, Unicamp
SP, Brazil
 
Benign Prostate Disease
Fernando G. Almeida
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo,
SP, Brazil
 
Reconstructive Urology
Andre G. Cavalcanti
Souza Aguiar Hospital,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
Lithiasis
Valdemar Ortiz
Federal University of Sao Paulo,
SP, Brazil
 
Laparoscopy and Robotics
Dr. Cassio Andreoni
Federal University of Sao Paulo,
SP, Brazil
 
Transplant

Dr. William Nahas
School of Medicine USP,

SP, Brazil

 
Clinical Cases
Leonardo O. Reis
State University. Campinas - UNICAMP,
SP, Brazil
 

 
VIDEO SECTION

 


Philippe E. Spiess (Editor)
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA
 
Tariq Hakki (Webmaster)
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
 
CONSULTING EDITORS

 

Erik Busby
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL, USA

Rafael Carrion
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, USA

Jose J. Correa
Ces University
Medellin, Columbia

Karim Kader
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Wassim Kassouf
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Wade J. Sexton
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

Shahrokh Shariat
Cornell University
New York, NY, USA

A.J. Stephenson
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Hubert Swana
Nemours Children’s Clinic
Orlando, Florida, USA



 
RADIOLOGY PAGE
 

Erich K. Lang (Editor)
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Jeffrey P. Weiss (Consulting Editor)
SUNY Downstate Medical School
Brooklyn, New York, USA


 
CONSULTING EDITORS 
 

Athanase Billis
State University Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Andreas Bohle
Helios Agnes Karll Hospital
Bad Schwartau, Germany

Sean P. Elliott
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Fernando J. Kim
University of Colorado
Denver, CO, USA

Ricardo Miyaoka
State Univ. Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazi

Manoj Monga
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Adilson Prando
Vera Cruz Hospital
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Leonardo O. Reis
State Univ. Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazil

M. Chad Wallis
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

 
Laparoscopic & Minimally Invasive Surgery Committee

Jeffrey A. Cadeddu
Univ of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas, USA

Lisias N. Castilho
Catholic University
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Ralph V. Clayman
Univ California Irvine Med Ctr
Orange, California, USA

Inderbir S. Gill
USC Keck Sch of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Anuar I. Mitre
University of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Stephen Y. Nakada
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA

Jens Rassweiler
University of Heidelberg
Heilbronn, Germany

Mauricio Rubinstein
Federal University State RJ
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

M. Tobias-Machado
ABC Medical School
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

 

Endourology & Lithiasis Committee

Monish Aron
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, USA

John Denstedt
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada

Evangelos N. Liatsikos
University of Patras
Patras, Greece

Margaret S. Pearle
Univ of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas, USA

Glenn M. Preminger
Duke University Medical Ctr
Durham, NC, USA

 

 

Urological Oncology Committee

Lennart Andersson
Karolinska Institute & WHO
Stockholm, Sweden

Matthew C. Biagioli
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

Joseph L. Chin
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada

Marcos F. Dall’Oglio
University of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Simon Horenblas
Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Fernand Labrie
Laval University Med Ctr
Quebec, Canada

Judd W. Moul
Duke University Med Ctr
Durham, NC, USA

Alan M. Nieder
Columbia University
Miami Beach, FL, USA

Antonio A. Ornellas
National Cancer Institute
Rio de Janeiro, RJ

J. Edson Pontes
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA

Julio Pow-Sang
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

Leonardo O. Reis
State University of Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Philippe E. Spiess
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, USA

Sittiporn Srinualnad
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Bangkok, Thailand

 

Prostatic Diseases & Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Committee

John M. Fitzpatrick
Mater Misericordiae Hospital
Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Franklin C. Lowe
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA


Jae-Seung Paick
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, Korea

Fabio Lorenzetti
Clinic Hospital
Caieiras, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Neurourology & Female Urology Committee

Fernando G. Almeida
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

João Luiz Amaro
Paulista University, Unesp
Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Homero Bruschini
University of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Michael B. Chancellor
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI, USA

Roger R. Dmochowski
Vanderbilt University Sch Med
Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Hann-Chorng Kuo
Buddhist Tzu Chi Sch Med
Hualien, Taiwan
 

Paulo Palma
State University of Campinas
Campinas, SP, Brazil

Monthira Tanthanuch
Prince of Songkla University,
Haad Yai, Thailand

Jose Carlos Truzzi
University of Santo Amaro
Sao Paulo, SP

 

Urogenital Trauma Committee

Jack W. McAninch
Univ California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Allen F. Morey
Univ. Texas SW Med. Ctr.
Dallas, Texas, USA

Richard A. Santucci
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA
 

Reconstructive Urology Committee

Guido Barbagli
Ctr Urethral & Genitalia Surgery
Arezzo, Italy

Sean P. Elliott
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Andre G. Cavalcanti
Souza Aguiar Hospital
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Manoharan
University of Miami Sch Med
Miami, FL, USA

Karl-Dietrich Sievert
University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany

 

 

Infections in Urology Committee

Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark


Anthony J. Schaeffer
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
 

Renal Transplantation & Renovascular Surgery Committee

Alexandre L. Furtado
Coimbra University Hospital
Coimbra, Portugal

Wojtek Rowinski
Univ of Warmia and Mazury
Olsztyn, Poland

 

Erectile Dysfunction & Andrology Committee

Joaquim A. Claro
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sidney Glina
H. Ellis Institute
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Luca Incrocci
Erasmus Mc-Daniel Cancer Ctr
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ernani L. Rhoden
Federal Foundation of Med Sci
RS, Brazil

Ahmed I. El-Sakka
Suez Canal University Sch Med
Ismailia, Egypt

 

Infertility Committee

Ashok Agarwal
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Fabio Pasqualotto
Univ of Caxias do Sul
RS, Brazil

Paul J. Turek
Univ California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Wolfgang Weidner
Justus-Liebig Univ Giessen
Giessen, Germany

 

General Urology Committee

C. F. Heyns
University of Stellenbosch
Tygerberg, South Africa

A. Marmo Lucon
Univ of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Antonio C. Martins
State Univ of Sao Paulo
Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil

K. Mutaguchi
Hiroshima University Med Sci
Hiroshima, Japan

Valdemar Ortiz
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Athanasios Papatsoris
Univ of Athens, Sismanoglio Hospital
Athens, Greece

 

Pediatric & Fetal Urology Committee

Laurence Baskin
Univ California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Boris Chertin
Shaare Zedek Med Ctr
Jerusalem, Israel

Francisco T. Denes
University of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, Brazil

F. Hadziselimovic
Ktk-Kindertagesklinik
Liestal, Switzerland

Barry A. Kogan
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY, USA

Antonio Macedo Jr
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Eugene Minevich
Univ of Cincinnati Med Ctr
Cincinnati, OH, USA

J. L. Pippi Salle
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

 

Urological Pathology Committee

A. Lopez-Beltran
Cordoba University Sch Med
Cordoba, Spain

Liang Cheng
Indiana University Sch Medicine
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Jonathan I. Epstein
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

Katia R. M. Leite
University of Sao Paulo, USP
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Rodolfo Montironi
Polytechnic Univ of Marche Region
Ancona, Italy

 

 

Uroradiology & Interventional Radiology Committee

William H. Bush
University Washington Med Ctr
Seattle, Washington, USA

Wilfrido Castaneda
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Ferdinand Frauscher
Medical University Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

Erich K. Lang
SUNY Downstate Medical School
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Arthur T. Rosenfield
Yale University Sch Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

Renan Uflacker
Medical Univ South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA

Antonio C. Westphalen
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

 
 

Basic Science & Investigative Urology Committee

Serge Carreau
Univ of Caen Basse-Normandie
Caen, France

Luiz E. M. Cardoso
State Univ of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Waldemar S. Costa
State Univ of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vincent Delmas
Universite Rene Descartes
Paris, France

Donna M. Peehl
Stanford University Sch Med
Stanford, CA, USA

Marco Pereira-Sampaio
Fluminense Federal University
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz F. Poli de Figueiredo
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Nestor Schor
Federal Univ of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil


FORMER EDITORS


Alberto Gentile (Founder)
(1975 - 1980)

Lino L. Lenz
(1981)

Rubem A. Arruda
(1982 - 1983)

G. Menezes de Góes
(1984 - 1985)

Sami Arap
(1986 - 1987)

N. Rodrigues Netto Jr
(1988 - 1993)


Sami Arap
(1994 - 1997)

Sérgio D. Aguinaga
(1998 - 1999)

Francisco J. B. Sampaio
(2000 - 2010)

Miriam Dambros
(2011 - 2011)

Sidney Glina
(2012 -           )

 


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The International Braz J Urol, ISSN: 1677-5538 (printed version) and ISSN: 1677-6119 (electronic version) is the Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology– SBU, has a circulation of 6,000 copies per issue and is published 6 times a year (bimonthly, starting in January - February).
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