1. Personal Data

Born in Innsbruck, Austria, December 5, 1942

Austrian Citizen

Licensed as Urologist in Austria and Germany

2. Professional Career

Elementary and Grammar School in Innsbruck, Austria

Medical School at the University of Innsbruck and University of Göttingen (Germany) Medical Schools 1962 - 1968

Doctor of Medicine 6/28/1968 University of Innsbruck

3. Membership in Professional Associations

- Austrian Society of Urology (Past President)

- Austrian Society of Pediatric Surgery

- Austrian Academy of Science (Corresponding Member)

- German Association of Urology (Past Member of Executive Board)

- International Society of Urology (Past Vice President, Past Assistant Secretary General)

- Urological Research Society (Past President)

- Committee on Strategic Issues in World Urology - SIWU (Chairman)

- European Association of Urology

- European Society of Intrarenal Surgeons (Past President)

- American Association of Urology (Corresponding Member)

- Amercian Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons (Corresponding Member)

- British Association of Urological Surgeons (Corresponding Member)

- Australasian Society of Urology (Honorary Member)

- New York Section, American Association of Urology (Honorary Member)

- Asian Surgical Association (Honorary Member)

- Jordan Society of Surgery (Honorary Member)

- American Lithotripsy Society (Honorary Member)

- Durch Urological Association (Honorary Member)

- Hungarian Society of Urology (Honorary Member)

- Slovakian Association of Urology (Honorary Member)

- Singapore Urological Association (Honorary Member)

- Czech Association of Urology (Honorary Member)

- Malaysian Urological Association (MUA) (Honorary Member)

- Chai Urological Association (TUA) (Honorary Member)

- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Honorary Member)

4. Awards and Prizes

1979 "1979 Theodor-Billroth Award" of the Austrian Society of Surgery

1979 William R. Smart Motion Picture Award, American Urological Association

1979 German Association of Urology, 1st Prize, Film Contest

1980 European Association of Urology

1st Prize, Best Clinical Film

1st Prize, Best Scientific Exhibit

1980 German Association of Urology

1st Prize, Film Contest

1982 2nd World Congress for Urologic Endoscopy,

1st Prize, Best Scientific Exhibit

1983 American Urological Association, 3rd Prize, Film Contest

1987 ISUE Award 1987 of the International Society of Urologic Endoscopy

1989 Award for Best Technical Film, Videourology, Genua, Italy

1990 American Urological Association, Third Prize, Annual Audio Visual Award

1990 -1998 Corecipient of approximately 20 awards as senior author

1998 Annual Research Award for Medicine, City of Vienna

5. Member of Editorial Boards

Current Opinion in Urology (Editor in Chief)

European Urology (Editor)

Aktuelle Urologie

World Journal of Urology

Urological Research

British Journal of Urology

Archivo Italiano di Urologia

Endourology

Videourology

Journal of Lithotripsy and Stone Disease

Indian Journal of Urology

Annales d' Urologie

European Urology Today

Urologia Integrada y de Investigación

Urology Research and Treatment

6. Invited "Key note speaker"

- 1st World Congress on Percutaneous Surgery, London, 1983

- New England Section, AUA, Bermudas, 1983

- East German Association of Urology, Magdeburg, 1983

- Chinese Society of Surgery, Taipei, 1984

- Italian Society of Urology, Central Section, Ancona, 1984

- Italian Society of Urology, Northern Section, Stresa, 1984

- 2nd World Congress on Percutaneous Surgery, Mainz, 1984

- South African Urological Association, Skukuza, 1984

- Urological Society of India, 19th Annual Conference, Ooty,1985

- 3rd World Congress on Percutaneous Surgery, New York, 1985

- German Society of Urology, 37th Congress, Mainz, 1985

- Australasian Society of Urology, 19th Annual Convention, Adelaide, 1985

- 1st Symposion on Renal Stone Disease, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

- Austrian Society of Surgery, 26th Annual Congress, Vienna, 1985

- Annual Congress, Collegio Mexicano de Urologia, Mesida, Mexico, 1986

- VAIL Urology Course, Vail, USA, 1986

- 50th Congress, Spanish Association of Urology, Teneriffa, 1986

- Collegio Urologico Mexicano, Morelia, Mexico, 1986

- Fundacion Borjos, Caracas, Venezuela, 1986

- Urological Research Club, New York, 1986

- European Association of Urology, Budapest, 1986

- 4th World Congress of Endourology, Madrid, 1986

- 2nd Singapore Stone Conference, Singapore, 1986

- 3rd ESWL Symposium Indianapolis, USA, 1987

- 2nd Symposium Renal Stone Disease, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,1987

- 10th International Course in Urology, Barcelona, 1987

- 4th Congress, Int. Society of Urological Endoscopy, Buenos Aires, 1987

- World Congress, International Society of Surgery, Sydney,1987

- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, 39.Kongreß Stuttgart,1987

- New York Section, AUA, Wien 1987

- European Association of Urology, London, 1988

- 5th International Symposium on Urolithiasis Vancouver, 1988

- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie, 40.Kongreß, Saarbrücken, 1988

- 6. World Congress on Endourology and ESWL , Paris 1988

- 21st Congress of the International Society of Urology, Buenos Aires 1988

- 3rd Congress Asian Surgical Association, Penang, Malaysia,1989

- International Symposium on Renal Cancer, San Remo, Italy,1989

- Jours de Hopital Cochron, Paris, 1989

- Symposium 25 Years Department of Urology Nijmegen, Holland

- Centennial Congress of the Polish Society of Urology, Krakow,Poland, 1989

- Congress of the Jordan Society of Surgery, Amman, 1989

- Jours d'Urologie de Lille, France 1989

- International Symposium on Incidental Prostatic Carcinoma,Munich, Germany, 1989

- 4th International Course in Urology, Madrid, Spain, 1989

- 7th World Congress on Endourology and ESWL, Kyoto, Japan, 1989

- International Symposium on Urolithiasis, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 1990

- Finnish Urological Club Meeting, Helsinki, 1991

- Royal Australasian Collegua of Surgery, Honorary Lecturer, Japan, 1991

- Giornata Internazionale Sulla Chirurgia Ricostruttiva Dell'Uretra, Rom, 1991

- Medtech 91- Endoscopic Surgery, Wien,1991

- World Congress on Endourology and ESWL, Wien, 1991

- German-Japanese Confederation of Urology, Vienna, 1992

- European Association of Urology, Genova 1992

- World Congress on Endourology/ESWL, Singapore, 1992

- American Association of Pelvic Surgeons, Innsbruck 1992

- Schweizerische Gesellschaft f. Urologie, Aspen, Schweiz,1992

- Urolithorama, London 1992

- European Urological Winter Forum, Davos, 1993

- "Endourology in Children" Boston 1993

- European Urological Summer Forum, Vaals, 1993

- WHO-BPH International Consultation Conference, Paris 1993

- Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie, Wiesbaden 1993

- Annual Congress, Brasilian Society of Urology, Sao Paulo, 1993

- International BPH Symposium, Munich 1993

- World Congress on Endourology, Florence 1993

- High Tech in Urology, London, 1993

- Dutch Urological Association, Amsterdam, 1993

- 2. Congress, Asian Urological Association, Bangkok, 1993

- Annual Meeting, American Lithotripsy Society, New York, 1994

- Annual Congress, South African Association of Urology, 1994

- 3rd Consensus Conference Urological Turnus, Paris, 1994

- Annual Meeting, British Urological Association, Birmingham, 1994

- 2nd Euro-American Urological Conference, Athen, 1994

- Jahrestagung d. Deutschen Gesellschaft f. Urologie, Stuttgart, 1994

- Kongreß der Internationalen Gesellschaft f. Urologie,  Sydney, 1994

  (Chairman and Reporter, Main Topic I)

- Tagung d. Belgischen Ges.f.Urologie, Ghent, Belgien, 1994

- Annual Meeting, Japanase Society of Endourology, Nara, Japan. 1994

- World Congress of Endourology and ESWL, St.Louis, MA, USA, 1994 - 7th Congress, Asian Surgical Society, Bali,     Indonesia, 1995

- 50th Anniversary Meeting, Canadian Urological Assoc., Ottawa 1995

- Speaker of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, Ottawa, Canada June 1995

- Controversies in Gu Oncology and Urology, Vancouver, August 1995

- 2nd Biennial Conference, Pan African Urological Surgeons’ Ass. Nairobi, Kenya 1995

- XLVII. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft f. Urologie, Hamburg, 1995

- Int. Symp. Urol. Oncology Update, Luxor, Egypt 1995

- 47th Annual Meeting Northeastern Section of AUA and 30th Annual Conference Egyptian Urological Assoc. Cairo, 1995

- 1st Croatian Urological Congress, Zagreb, Croatia, 1995

- 3rd Int. Congress Dutch Urological Association, Nijmegen, Niederlande, 1995

- 4th Triannual Meeting German-Japanese Confederation of Urology, Nara, Japan, 1995

- 13th World Congress Endourology and ESWL, Jerusalem, Israel 1995

- 3rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Federation of Asean Urological Assoc. Jakarta, Indonesia, 1995

- 23. Biennial Congress South African Assoc. Urol. Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1996

- Workshop: Urology in Africa, Zimbabwe, 1996

- Annual Meeting, British Prostate Group, York, UK, 1996

- 91th Convention of the American Urological Association, Orlando, USA 1996

- 16th Athenian Days of Urology, Athen, 1996

- Svensk Urologisk Förenring, Göteborg, 1996

- Harvard Med. School, Boston, MA, 1996

- Congress Libanais D’Urologie, Libanon, 1996

- XLVIII. Kongress der Deutschen Ges.f.Urologie, Düsseldorf, 1996

- XII Congress of the Eur. Ass. of Urology, (EAU), Paris, 1996

- Singapure Urological Days, 1996

- Euro Trans Med., London 1997

- International Symposium: Molecular Biology of Prostata Cancer, Dresden, 1997

- International Workshop: Update in BPH, Pavia, Italy 1997

- UICC Consensus Conference, Vienna 1997

- XLIX. Kongress d. Deutschen Ges. f. Urologie, Wiesbaden, 1997

- 51th Meeting of the British Association of Urological, „BAUS Lecture“ Bournemouth, UK 1997

- 15th World Congress on Endourology and ESWL, Edinburgh, UK, 1997

- 10th Congress of the Society of Hungarian Urologists,   Debrecen, Ungarn, 1997

- 70th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of Ultrasonic in Medicine, Sendai, Japan, 1997

- 1st International Galician Urological Meeting, Krakow, Polen, 1997

- 17th Annual Urology Course, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 1997

- Uro Didattica, Milano, 1997

- SFAUMB 97’, Paris 1997

- Int. Symp: Defining Curability in Prostate Cancer, Wien 1997

- 24th World Congress, Societe Int. d’Urologie (SIU), Montreal, Canada

- 5th Congress Asian Urological Ass., Thailand, 1997

- XIIth Congress of Czech and Slovak Urological Society, Prague1998

- 4th Asian Congress in Urology, Singapore, 1998

- 14th Hellenic Urological Congress, Kos, Greece, 1998

- XIIIth European Association of Urology, Barcelona, 1998

- 16th World Congress on Endourology& SWL, New York, 1998

- 24. Gem. Tagung der Bayerischen/Österreichischen Urologenvereinigung, Wien, 1998

- Cornell Seminar, Salzburg, 1998

- TUMT Symposium Nijmegen, Niederlande, 1998

- 6th Symposium Progress in Urological Oncology, Rotterdam, 1998

- 6th International Congress of the Middle East Society for Organ - - Transplantation (MESOT) Karachi, Pakistan, 1998

- Réunion Euro Africaine D’Urologie, Tozeur/Tunesien, 1999

- Uro-Oncology Consensus Conference, Singapore, 1999

- International Urology Course, Barcelona/Spanien, 1999

- XIVth Congress of the European Association of Urology, Stockholm, Schweden, 1999

- Association des Urologues du Quebec, Quebec, Canada, 1999

- First Slovenian Congress of Orology, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, 1999

- Curso Urologia del Sur, Malage, Spain, 1999

- 72° Congresso Nazionale, Rom, Italy, 1999

- 17th World Congress on Endourology & SWL, Rhodos, Greece, 1999

- Czech. Urologentagung, Pilsen, CZ, 1999

- Curse International de Urologa, Madrid, Spain, 1999

- 5th Congress, Asian Federation of Urology, Malaysia, 1999

- European Society of Uro-Technology (EAU), Nice, 1999

- 5th Asian Congress on Urology, Beijing, China, 2000

- 18th World Congress on Endourology & Shockwave, Sao Paulo, 2000

- 15th Congress of the European Association of Urology, Brüssel, 2000

- XIIIth Congress of the Slovak and Czech Uroligical Societies, Kosice, Slovakia, 2000

- 16th Türkischer Urologenkongreß, Izmir, 2000

Lecturer at Postgraduate Courses in Austria, Australia, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United States (AUA 1981, 1982, 1984), West Germany, Kuweit, Belgium, Venezuela, Quatar, Bahrain, Saudi- Arabia, Spain, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brasil, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Egypt, Czechia, Hungary, Poland

Faculty Member, Satellite Conference on Endourology of the AUA Office of Education, 1983

7. Visiting Professor

- Wake Forest University, Salem, North Carolina, 1977

- University of California, San Francisco, 1978

- Royal Alfred Hospital, Sydney, 1980

- Meath Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, 1981

- Cleveland Clinic (Charles C.Higgins Professorship), 1986

- University of California, Los Angeles, 1988

- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1991

- Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1992

- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MA 1991

- Duke University, Durham NC, 1992

- Cornell University (Marshall Lecturer), New York, 1992

- Southwestern Medical School, Dallas Tx, 1993

- Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover 1993

- Mansoura University, Egypt, 1993

- University of Virginia (Vest Lecturer), Charlottesville, 1994

- Lahey Clinic, Boston, USA, 1994

- Division Urology, Dept. Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1995

- Boston University, Boston 1996

- University of Western Ontario/London Canada, 1997

- Department of Urology, University Graz, Austria, 1998

- University of Mazedonia, Skopije, 1998

- Columbia University, New York, 2000

8. Publications

~ 370 Publications in PEER-Review ed Journals

5 Text books of Urology

See Medline for Details.