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In this issue:
  • 2014 abstract notifications sent via e-mail
  • OAB webinar recording available online
  • IUGA-ICS joint working group members needed


2014 abstract notifcations have been e-mailed

Abstract notifications for the AUGS/IUGA joint meeting were e-mailed this week. If you did not receive your notification or have questions related to abstracts, please e-mail office@iuga.org.

OAB webinar series part 1 of 2: “What’s Sexy about OAB? Part I: An Urgent Update”
Recording now available online

On Saturday, March 15 IUGA offered a webinar entitled “What’s Sexy about OAB? Part I: An Urgent Update”. 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
Sylvia Botros (USA)

Speakers
Sylvia Botros (USA)
             Basics: definition of OAB and appropriate tools to aid diagnosis
Marijke Slieker-ten Hove (Netherlands)
             Conservative approaches to management of OAB through physiotherapy and lifestyle changes
Christopher Chapple (UK)
             Current medical management of OAB, including Mirabegron         
The pharmacology of medication for treatment of OAB                    

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.

IUGA - ICS Joint Working Groups, volunteers needed to develop Standardization Reports on:
Recording now available online

  • The Terminology for the Assessment of Sexual Health in Women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
  • The Terminology for Pelvic Organ Prolapse

The IUGA Terminology and Standardization Committee and the ICS Standardisation Steering Committee jointly invite applications from IUGA and ICS members who wish to be Chair / Member of Working Groups to develop Standardization Reports. With the support by the two Organizations, these Groups will aim to clarify all Terminology related to these areas.
For more information about this project, including how to apply to become a member of the working group, please click here.




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