January 2011 Volume 7 Issue No1 Letter from Jacques Corcos, ICS General Secretary Lifetime Achievement Award – To get this new award off the Dear Members, ground, the ICS Board of Trustees nominated and voted for Paul Abrams to receive the first ICS lifetime achievement award. Paul will The TrusTees meT in April 2010 collect this award in Glasgow. However, it is now up to the members in Barcelona, faced with the many to make nominations – deadline also 1 April. problems caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Fortunately honorary membership Awards – this is now clearly distinct from most of the Board members were the lifetime achievement award in that this will be awarded to all able to attend even if they strug- General Secretaries when they have finished their term. Paul Abrams gled to get home! The Trustees met will collect his in Glasgow and I was pleased to present Walter again in Toronto, this time without Artibani’s award at the Gala Dinner in Toronto. natural disasters, although Ted essay competition – There is also an essay competition, closing date Arnold returned home to an earth- 1 January each year. quake in New Zealand! Jacques Corcos, General Secretary The task forces continue their work Plans for 2011 include reducing the size of the Board and other and it is of note to mention that the Meetings task force has suggested internal structures to make the governance of the ICS even better some changes to the social events based on the surveys conducted. and also as a cost-saving exercise. We also intend to strengthen our I would like to reassure the membership that the changes will not relationship with industry, while maintaining our ethical principles. compromise the fun nature of these events, but for ethical reasons it was felt that too much was being spent on social events. Further Committees details can be found in the article by Adrian Wagg in this issue. Children’s Committee – this committee saw increased exposure at The Awards & Scientific task force has concluded a large amount of the Annual Scientific Meeting with a state-of-the-art lecture, in addi- work formalising new grants and fellowships to be made available tion to a role in the education course in Thailand last year. Meetings to the membership. During 2010, we launched the following awards: will be held between ICS and ICCS to strengthen bonds between Conference travel award – There are 5 awards available to provide the societies. Future plans will be to complete the adolescent manu- financial and travel support to those who have had an abstract scripts currently being worked on and to expand the committee. accepted from underdeveloped countries/those in training and Continence Promotion Committee – World Continence Week held nurses & physiotherapists. Unfortunately this was not very popular in the last week of June every year is now really starting to become this year but this was due to a lack of lead-in time for advertising. popular with many events reported on all over the globe. The Public Hopefully more people will apply next year for ICS 2011. Forum held in Toronto was very successful and another is planned Fellowships – New fellowships are available in research/clinical and for Glasgow where local patients will be invited to listen and interact neurourology/urodynamics (supported by Laborie). The deadline for with the experts. Future plans will be to continue to push forward the these grants is 1 April each year and more information can be found WCW, hold a public forum in Glasgow, and work actively with the ICS on the website. Fistula Committee. research grants – The purpose of the ICS-sponsored Research education Committee – The Education Committee had one of its Grants is to fund the development of research in the science of blad- busiest years in 2009-2010. There have been 11 Education Courses der and bowel incontinence. Seed funding grants (support grants) since San Francisco and 10 guest lectures around the world, including are available to facilitate a) the development of new international, a live web lecture to delegates in Brazil. The committee’s main focus multidisciplinary research partnerships and b) the execution of for the coming year will be the development of ICS e-learning, work- pilot research projects performed with the aim of preparing for ing together with the new ICS staff member, Chris Angle. subsequent grant application to a major funding agency. The next deadline for applications will be 1 April. .../ continued on page 3 Below: Pelvic floor exercises workshop at the ICS-IUGA Meeting, Toronto Hig s HligHt Record-Breaking ICS-IUGA Meeting pages 4-6 ICS Education Courses pages 6-7 ICS Fistula Committee pages 14-15 ICS NewS Volume 7, Issue No 1 January 2011 The InTernaTIonal ConTInenCe SoCIeTy The aims of the International Continence Society are the advance- ment of basic and clinical sciences concerned with the function and dysfunction of the urinary tract, bowel and pelvic floor: Contents • to raise public awareness of both urinary and anal incontinence, and other functional abnormalities including obstruction and ...............1 pain and the fact that it can be corrected, improved or at least LtRJEt E F oM acqUES CoRCoS, ICS GENERAL SECREtARy better managed and to enhance the knowledge and skills of B ALLot RESULtS .............................................................................................3 health professionals involved in prevention and management of incontinence and thereby to improve the standard of healthcare RC E oRd-BREAkING ICS-IUGA MEEtING! delivery t oronto, Canada, 23-27 August 2010 ....................................................................4 • to initiate, coordinate and give advice on research projects undertaken for the benefit of the public Prizes and Awards ICS-IUGA 2010 .........................................................................6 • to carry on and to stimulate medical education and promotion U RodyNAMICS CoMMIttEE on the subject of incontinence and its prevention, treatment and care New Urodynamics Committee Launched at ICS AGM in toronto ...........................7 • to act as a consultative body for public organisations and Lifetime Achievement Award: karen Logan oBE ...................................................7 individuals undertaking research for public benefit on the medical aspects of incontinence Ed UCAtIoN CoMMIttEE ICS Educational Course Istanbul, turkey ...............................................................8 The International Continence Society is a company limited by guarantee. ICS Educational Course Beijing, 26-27 September 2010 .......................................8 Registered Office: Further meetings in China ....................................................................................9 9 Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8ST, United Kingdom. ICS Add-on Education Course, Limassol, Cyprus in collaboration with Correspondence address: the 20th Panhellenic Urological Congress ............................................................9 19 Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected] Website: www.icsoffice.org First ICS Educational Course for Nurses in thailand ............................................ 10 Tel +44(0)117 944 4881 Fax +44(0)117 944 4882 Upcoming Educational Courses ........................................................................... 10 Registered Charity Number 1074929 N URSING CoMMIttEE Company Number 3689542 (England and Wales) Multinational Meeting of Nurses ........................................................................ 10 ICS Board of TruSTeeS PhyI S othERAPy CoMMIttEE Jacques Corcos (ICS General Secretary) Limin Liao 9th Physiotherapy Round table ......................................................................... 11 Ajay Singla (ICS Treasurer) Helmut Madersbacher ME E tINGS tASk FoRCE Heinz Koelbl (Exec. Committee) Jane Meijlink Sherif Mourad (Exec. Committee) Katherine Moore Reducing Meeting Expenditure – Capping the Costs ......................................... 12 Adrian Wagg (Exec. Committee) Christopher Payne Puna Manawanui: a Gift from New Zealand Maori to ICS ................................... 12 Ted Arnold Piotr Radziszewski Chantale Dumoulin Werner Schaefer StNR A dA dISAtIoN StEERING CoMMIttEE Mandy Fader Jennifer Skelly t he ongoing importance of the Standardisation Steering Committee ............... 13 Mary Pat Fitzgerald Vasan Srini ICS-IUGA Complication Classification Calculator ................................................. 13 Jerzy Gajewski Jean-Jacques Wyndaele FS I tULA CoMMIttEE ICS News is published by the ICs staff: Publication & Communications Avicia Burchill Many Challenges Lie Ahead for the Fistula Committee ...................................... 14 Committee of the ICS (Administration Manager) obstetric Fistula: Awareness and Prevention ...................................................... 15 Dominic Turner (IT Director) editor: Jane Meijlink Dan Snowdon t hE CoNtINENCE PRoMotIoN CoMMIttEE Associate editors: Susie Orme, (Projects and Events Manager) Hashim Hashim, Katherine Moore, Chris Angle t hird Public Forum toronto ................................................................................ 16 Ian Pearce (Flash Developer/Designer) World Continence Week 2010 – Local Success, Global Reach ............................. 16 editorial Board: Jerzy Gajewski, Ashley Brookes (Analyst Programmer) Daniela Marschall-Kehrel, Jennifer Ellis Neurourology & urodyNamics UPdAtE ..........................................