Sufu Winter 2020 Newsletter
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SUFU WINTER 2020 NEWSLETTER PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By: Sandip Vasavada, MD Dear SUFU members, speakers from many parts of the world. Dr. David Ginsberg and Dr. Stu Reynolds and the clinical committee have created I hope every one of you is doing well and a fantastic program that promises to still be as educational and staying healthy in this difficult time. I must say, thought provoking as ever. Both parts to the program will have this is not quite what I envisioned my SUFU several keynote speakers from around the world as well as Presidency would be like, but like so many of several “rooms” of virtual posters and podiums to enlighten us you, I have had to adapt to changes. One of the on the latest in FPMRS research and innovations. The clinical biggest paradigm shifts has been to replace portion of the program will be held on Friday, February 26 and our usual in-person annual meeting with a Saturday, February 27 from about 10:00 a.m. EST to 5:30 p.m. virtual option for this winter. Heather and the EST. Our meetings could not be held without the strong support WJ Weiser team did a great job in negotiating from so many of our industry partners. They will also be having with the hotel in Nashville and secured the commitment for several breakout symposia throughout the meeting that will be SUFU to be there now in 2023. Our 2022 meeting is slated to both engaging and interactive. be in San Diego. As always, please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any I know like many of you, I will miss the camaraderie and in- suggestions or to get more involved in SUFU. Stay safe and we person networking that has made SUFU so successful over the look forward to a fantastic, albeit virtual, meeting in February! last several years. The modified plan is that the basic science program, led by Dr. Larissa Rodriguez and Dr. MaryRose Sullivan, Sincerely, will be held on Thursday, February 25 and includes outstanding basic and translational science discussions with excellent Sandip Vasavada, MD MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD By: David A. Ginsberg, MD One of the fun jobs I have as SUFU Vice President is planning Saturday) and how long the sessions will go each day. We also the winter meeting. Little did I know planning would be double made a decision that if we were going virtual we were going the fun this year as we first organized an in-person meeting to take advantage of friends and colleagues around the world. which then evolved into planning the virtual meeting. However, This format will allow for participation of luminaries in our field before I speak to our upcoming meeting, I have to give a big that we all know but don’t necessarily attend our winter meeting shout of thanks to my planning committee (Stu Reynolds, with regularity. Because of these changes in speakers and the Doreen Chung, and Benji Dillon), the SUFU executive shortening of the program, many of you that were on the “in- committee, and both Heather and Michelle at Weiser who all person” program may not be part of the revised schedule. We contributed significantly to the entire process. look forward to getting your session back on for 2022. As you would expect, the initial program contained the usual Thank you all for your patience as we worked out the various sessions that went from early in the morning to late in the changes to the program. Not only do I look forward to our afternoon. The virtual program is different. The meeting will be upcoming meeting I very much look forward to 2022 where we shorter in regard to both number of days (Thursday through can all (hopefully!) meet again in person in San Diego. 1 History of SUFU: Frank Hinman, Jr. By: Steven J. Weissbart, MD and Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD, FACS One would imagine that when urologists hear the name, Frank emerging interest in neurogenic bladder, ureteral physiology, Hinman, Jr., they immediately think of his Atlas of Urologic and urinary tract infections, and several national symposia were Surgery, which nearly all of us have studied during training. held on these topics. In 1964, Frank Hinman, Jr. (along with Perhaps some urologists would connect the name Frank other soon to be founding members of the Urodynamics Society) Hinman, Jr. to his eponymous syndrome (Hinman’s Syndrome). attended an important symposium on pyelonephritis, and in Urologists and Society members may, however, be unaware that 1968, he organized a pivotal symposium on the hydrodynamics he was the 2nd President of our Society and was highly influential of micturition in Iowa City, Iowa. He was a core member of in its formative years. Thus, in this history column, we highlight numerous meetings on lower urinary tract function, and along the career of Frank Hinman, Jr., with a special emphasis on his with a core group of urologists and basic scientists, Frank contributions to our Society. Hinman, Jr. helped to form the Urodynamics Society, attending its first formal meeting in 1969. Urology may have been in Frank Hinman, Jr.’s DNA, having been born on October 2, 1915 to the first trained urologist in California: The Urodynamics Society did not attain formal structure until Frank Hinman, Sr. Frank Hinman, Jr. completed undergraduate 1973, when it decided to have both a scientific meeting and college at Stanford in 1937, graduating summa cum laude, and a business meeting as well as an election with three Society he attended Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he also officers: President, Vice President, and Secretary. Frank completed internship training in internal medicine. He then went Hinman, Jr. worked along Saul Boyarsky (our Society’s first to Cincinnati for two years for general surgery residency and President) to institute formal structure in the Society (Figure trained under Mont Reid. He subsequently served in WWII as a 1). Frank Hinman, Jr., as the Society’s first Vice President also surgeon on the aircraft carrier, Intrepid. After returning from the focused on introducing clinical topics to Society meetings as war, he completed urology residency at University of California. the meetings were previously more targeted to basic scientists His first job started in 1946 with his father in private practice. (Figure 2). Frank Hinman, Jr. became the second president of the Urodynamics Society and served his term from 1980-1982. While in practice, Frank Hinman, Jr. was involved in academics, serving as a clinical instructor at the University of California. While Frank Hinman, Jr. authored more than 250 research He was on staff at Franklin Hospital as well as Women’s and papers and books, his most well-known contributions include his Children’s Hospital. During this time, he treated children with 1973 paper on the occurrence of an uncoordinated detrusor and bladder exstrophy and published on adrenogenital syndrome. sphincter muscle (which earned the name Hinman Syndrome), It was in the setting of his treatment of children with urologic his 1983 textbook Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, and his Atlas disease that he helped found the Society of Pediatric Urology of Urologic Surgery (first published in 1992). Frank Hinman, in 1951. Remarkably, this would not be the only subspecialty Jr. possessed a lifelong interest in painting, and so it does not society that Frank Hinman, Jr. helped to found. come as a surprise that he was able to capture urologic surgical anatomy so vividly in his atlas. And for all us who review his In 1958, he became chief of the Urology Service at San surgical atlas, it certainly reminds us of the old adage “a picture Francisco General Hospital. During this time, there was an is worth a thousand words.” Figure 1: Correspondence between Frank Hinman Jr. and Saul Boyarsky regarding Society matters (from the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 2 History of SUFU Continued By: Steven J. Weissbart, MD and Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD, FACS Figure 2: Society Meeting Programs from the 1979 and 1980 meetings. Frank Hinman Jr. presided over these meetings and focused on clinical topics. References: • Bloom DA, Kogan BA. Conversations with Frank Hinman, Jr. Urology. 2001 Apr 1;57(4):843-6. • Hinman F, editor. Hydrodynamics of micturition. Thomas; 1971. • Hinman F Jr (Ed): Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1983. • Hinman F. Nonneurogenic neurogenic bladder (the Hinman syndrome)–15 years later. The Journal of urology. 1986 Oct;136(4):769-77. • Hinman F, Baumann FW. Vesical and ureteral damage from voiding dysfunction in boys without neurologic or obstructive disease. The Journal of urology. 1973 Apr;109(4):727-32. • Hinman F Jr: Atlas of Urologic Surgery, 1st ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1992. 3 SUFU Member Highlight: Steven J. Weissbart, MD - Part of the SUFU Young Members Committee a) Demographics so-called “Brindley event” occurred when Sir Giles Skey Brindley • Age: 37 years old injected himself with a vasoactive agent and walked around • Medical School: The George Washington University the room with his pants down to show urologists his erection. School of Medicine and Health Sciences (graduated This took place at the 1983 Urodynamic Society meeting in Las 2009) Vegas. When people think about SUFU, they probably think • Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai more about lower urinary tract and pelvic floor dysfunction than (graduated 2014) ED. However, I learned that the Urodynamics Society was also • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania – FPMRS initially interested in erectile dysfunction. Another surprising (graduated 2016) aspect of the Society was learning that it was formed by such a • Current employment: I am currently a faculty member small close-knit group of members.