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  • IUGA Webinar Recording Now Available Online
  • Apply to be a Host Site for an IUGA Fellowship or Observership Grant Recipient

IUGA Webinar Recording: An Update on Transvaginal Mesh
Now Available Online

Last Saturday IUGA  offered again the webinar, ‘An Update on Transvaginal Mesh’.  This presentation was recorded and is available to members for viewing on the members-only section of the IUGA website. 

Click on this URL: http://www.iuga.org/?page=webinar to go to the page with the connection to the webinar.

If you don’t recall your user id or password to access the members-only section of the IUGA website, please contact Amy Cassini, the Membership Manager, at amy@iuga.org and she would be pleased to help you.
The webinar features the following presenters:

Moderator:
Chris Maher, Brisbane Australia

Speakers:
Lynsey Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand – ‘Background to the Use of Mesh’
Kaven Baessler, Berlin, Germany – ‘Mesh Use: Indications, Alternatives, Appropriate Approach, Credentialing’
Steven Swift, Charleston, South Carolina, USA – ‘Getting it right: Consenting Patients for Transvaginal Synthetic Mesh Implants’
We hope that you find this program useful. IUGA will continue to offer webinars as a means of offering members timely and easily accessible continuing professional development programs.  If you have suggestions for future webinar topics, please submit them to webinar@iuga.org.

 


Apply to be a Host Site for an IUGA Fellowship or Observership Grant Recipient

In an effort to promote training and the dissemination of information in urogynecology, IUGA offers one international fellowship and a number of educational observership grants per year. If you wish to be a potential host site for IUGA fellows (1 year), please click here for the application information, or for observers (2-4 weeks), please click here. The document is labeled apply to be an IUGA host site. Note the host site application is the same for both grants.

Submit your completed application to the IUGA office via email at amanda@iuga.org along with a copy of your CV by September 20.  More details and the host site requirements are described on the first page of the application.  Once you have been approved as a host site, you and your institution will be listed in the IUGA Host Site Directory.  Applicants will use this directory to choose an appropriate host site and shape their application accordingly.

Please note each host site must renew their ability to host observers and/or fellows every three years.  If you are currently an IUGA host site you will be contacted soon to renew your status.


To renew your IUGA membership, please click here or visit www.iuga.org/?membership to sign-up.

Save the Date for the 2014 Joint Annual Meeting
with the American Urogynecologic Society
July 21-26, Washington, D.C.
Visit www.augs-iuga2014.org for more information.