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CUANEWS

Newsletter of the Canadian Urological Association

cua.org
SPRING 2020

President’s Message

In this issue
Andrew MacNeily
President
Vancouver, BC CUA Executive 2020-2021............ 2
History Committee Report ........... 2

Treasurer Report ........................... 3
Interesting times
Resident and Fellow
hen I talk to my colleagues in various specialties regarding their national Committee Report ....................... 3
Wassociations, the others sound mostly like pirate ships held together with tape and
bubble gum, compared to our multi-faceted, multi-media, not-for-profit educational and Secretary’s Report ........................ 4
professional organization that is clearly The Voice of Urology in Canada. This could not be Community Urology
possible without the exceptional volunteerism of our membership and the hard and smart
work of the corporate office employees. Within the pages of this newsletter you will read Committee Report ....................... 5
about how your leadership has been labouring over the last six months in order to keep the Office of Education Report ......... 6
many moving parts of the CUA operating synchronously. It’s humbling to be the President
of such a complex and successful organization. Continuing Professional
Development Report ................... 7
For example:
• This year your president and secretary, as well as key members of the corporate office CUAJ Update ............................... 8
were invited to represent the CUA at the 2020 EAU in Amsterdam. Although the CUA
has had a presence at the EAU Congress since 2012 and we meet periodically with their CUASF Report ............................... 9
leadership to dialogue on common issues, Amsterdam was meant to feature the first
EAU-CUA joint plenary session. The session, entitled “Urology beyond Europe.” was Corporate Office Report ........... 10
organized by past presidents Yves Fradet and Joe Chin. It was designed to feature key CUA Night School....................... 11
opinion leaders from Canadian urology duking it out with their European counterparts
over various uro-oncology topics. Picture this: Canada, with less than one tenth the Guidelines Report ....................... 12
population, and twice the land mass of the EU, debating representatives from 27
European countries. Classic David and Goliath material. And we know how that story Communications Report ..........12
ended… Unfortunately, a small virus got in the way of the EAU meeting March 20-24
and the grudge match had to be postponed. Stay tuned to place your bets.
• For the first time in 24 years, our annual meeting was scheduled to return to Victoria, BC.
The updated Fairmont Hotel and convention centre looked fantastic. Your CUA 2020
team had a series of productive on-site planning sessions with local organizing chairs
Linda Lee and Jeff McCracken. All venues were secured, and The Void was booked.
Eleven guest speakers and their topics were lined up, 350 submitted abstracts were 1945-2020
reviewed by scientific chairs Keith Rourke, Peter Black and their team. Things were
shaping up for a most memorable, informative and enjoyable meeting. Unfortunately,
the 75 anniversary celebration of the CUA planned in Victoria will have to wait. The
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core leadership of the CUA felt that the most responsible course of action was to cancel
the annual meeting, given the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic. We did not take
this decision lightly. My apologies to all of you who had worked so hard up until now to
make the meeting possible.
• Rest assured, the CUA is still alive and well. Your corporate office is hard at work planning
a series of regional “Best of CUA 2020” presentations around Canada later this year in YEARS OF CUA
order to highlight what was meant to be presented in Victoria.

I hope to see you all at next year’s CUA meeting in Niagara Falls once this pesky virus is
dealt with!