• 2015 Annual Meeting call for abstracts and workshop proposals
• Webinar Date Confirmed: Annual Meeting Highlights
• Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety

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2015 Annual Meeting
Call for abstracts and workshop proposals important dates
It’s time to start planning to submit abstracts and workshop proposals for the 2015 Annual Meeting in Nice, France. Important submission dates are listed below:

September 15th-Call for workshops opens
November 4th- Call for abstracts opens
November 10th-Call for workshops closes
February 1st- Call for abstracts closes

As information about submissions becomes available it will be posted on the 2015 annual meeting web site at www.iugameeting.org.

IUGA Webinar: “Highlights of the Annual Meeting”
Sept 25, 2014 at 3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT (in North America)
On Thursday, September 25 at 3:00pm EDT (early Sept 26 in Asia and Oceania) IUGA will offer a webinar showcasing the highlights from the 2014 annual meeting.  As with previous webinars, this session will be recorded and will be available to members via the IUGA website. 

This session will feature the following speakers and topics:

Moderator – Dudley Robinson (UK)

John DeLancey (USA)
Raymond A. Lee Lecture: Imagine

Emmanuel Trabuco (USA)
Best Abstract Award: A Randomized Comparison of Incontinence Procedures Performed Concomitantly with Abdominal Sacral Colpopexy: The Burch Versus Mid-Urethral Sling Trial

Joseph Lee (Australia)
Miniarc Monarc Suburethral Sling in Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence - an RCT - 24m Follow Up

Manami Kinjo (Japan)
Comparison of Safety and Efficacy of Mirabegron And Solofenacine in Treatment-Naive Japanese Female Overactive Bladder Patients

Jeroen van Bavel (Netherlands)
Does Mediolateral Episiotomy During Operative Vaginal Delivery Decrease The Risk Of Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries? - A Ten Year Analysis of a National Registry

Thursday, September 25 at 3:00pm EDT is equivalent to:

12:00pm to 1:30pm in Los Angeles
4:00pm to 5:30pm in Sao Paolo
8:00pm to 9:30pm in London
9:00pm to 10:30pm in Amsterdam and Cape Town
10:00pm to 11:30pm in Riyadh
12:30am to 1:30am in New Delhi (on Friday, September 26, 2014)
2:00am to 3:30am in Bangkok (on Friday, September 26, 2014)
3:00am to 4:30am in Singapore and Beijing (on Friday, September 26, 2014)
5:00am to 6:30am in Sydney (on Friday, September 26, 2014)
7:00am to 8:30am in Auckland (on Friday, September 26, 2014)

If your city is not listed above, please consult this link to see the time difference between your local time and 3pm EDT: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html 

If you think you will attend this webinar, it is strongly advised that you visit the IUGA website at: http://www.iuga.org/?page=webinar and review the webinar tools that are posted.  This webinar will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.  Information regarding connecting to the webinar will be distributed to members a couple of days before the event.

To view recordings of the previous 2 part OAB webinar series as well as the 3 part mesh webinar series, click here and find the section labeled “Previously Recorded Webinars”. The recordings are available to members only. If you are not already logged-in to the IUGA web site, you will be prompted to log-in.

Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety | Harvard School of Public Health
This is a free online course on global health. It will discuss why quality matters, how it might be measured and what can be done to make it better.  The course starts September 16th. 
For more information about the course and to sign-up, simply click on the course link below.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ph555x/