News

2025

• January 18: GURS State of the Art Lecture, Society of Government Service Urologists 71st Annual Kimbraugh Meeting, "Urinary Diversion in Neurogenic Bladder Phenotypes"; Memphis, TN

• January 10-11: Trauma and Urologic Reconstruction Network of Surgeons research retreat; Salt Lake City, UT

2024

• December 13-14: Neurogenic Bladder Research Group, research retreat and conference; Houston, TX

• November 19: YouTube Release: "Bladder Neck Closure in Women: Transvaginal and Transabdominal Approaches"

• October 11: Named President of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons, 2024-25

• October 9-11: Charles Devine Honorary Lecture: "Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion for Radiation Cystitis", and "Optilume Update", GURS/EGURS Annual Meeting; Antwerp, Belgium

• September 17: Invited Speaker, Boston Scientific "Everyone Makes an Impact" Conference; Arden Hills, MN 

• September 5: YouTube Release: "Suprapubic Tube vs. Mitrofanoff"

• August 17: YouTube Release: "How to Fix Scar Tissue in a Blocked Mitrofanoff"

• August 14-17: Invited Speaker, Colombian Urological Society annual meeting; Bucaramanga, Colombia 

• June 25: YouTube Release: "Robotic Repair of Long Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury"

• June 25: YouTube Release: "How to Make an L-stent for Mitrofanoff Stenosis"

• June 13: YouTube Release: "Submucosal Cystectomy and Detrusor Myoplasty"

• June 13: YouTube Release: "Robotic Pubourethral Fistula Excision"

• June 4: YouTube Release: "Robotic Repair of Bladder Neck Disruption after Radical Prostatectomy"

• May 17-18: Trauma and Urologic Reconstruction Network of Surgeons research retreat; Minneapolis, MN

• May 4-6: multiple abstract presentations at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association

• May 3: "Best Treatment of the Incontinent Patient after AUS Cuff Erosion with Salvage Radiotherapy?". Invited lecture at the Spring  meeting of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons; San Antonio, TX

• April 9-10: Visiting Professor and Surgeon at the Belgrade Center for Genital Reconstructive Surgery; Belgrade, Serbia

• April 8: "Optilume for Urethral Strictures". Invited lecture at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology; Paris, France

• March 21-23: Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Urology; Raleigh, NC

• March 20: "Urinary Diversion in the Hostile Abdomen". Invited lecture at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Urological Association; Austin, TX

• March 1: YouTube Release: "Challenges in Non-Continent Diversion"

• February 1: Website page addition: "Pubo-urethral Fistula: Diagnosis" and "Pubo-urethral Fistula: Surgery"

• January 29: Publication: "Proposed Revision of the American Assosication for Surgery of Trauma Renal Trauma Organ Injury Scale: Secondary Analysis of the Multi-Institutional Genitourinary Trauma Study"

• January 27: YouTube Release: "Percutaneous Cystolithotomy"

• January 20: YouTube Release: "Mitrofanoff Revision/Fix"

• January 3: YouTube Release: "Self-Catheterizing a Mitrofanoff as a Quadraplegic"

2023

• December 20: Publication: "Bladder Management is the Top health Concern Among Adults with a Spinal Cord Injury" 

• October 21: YouTube Release: "Mitrofanoff: What, Why, How?"

• October 15-16:  V​isiting Professor and Surgeon at the Belgrade Center for Genital Reconstructive Surgery; Belgrade, Serbia

• October 13: "ROBUST III 3-year Results of a Randomized Trial of a Drug-coated Balloon for Urethral Strictures". Abstract poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of International Urology; Istanbul, Turkey. 

• September 14: YouTube Release: "Bladder Augmentation: What, Why, How"

• September 10: Elected President-Elect of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons

• September 9-10: "My Worst Complications" Moderator of Panel; Fall Meeting of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons; Seattle, Washington

• August 14: YouTube Release: "Perineal Urethrostomy"

• July 21: YouTube Release: "AUS (Artificial Urinary Sphincter): How it Works"

• July 1: Website Launch: www.seanelliottmd.com

• June 8-10: Visiting Professor at University of Washington; Seattle, Washington. Hirschler Invited Lecture: "Urinary Diversion for Neurogenic Bladder: The Impact of Neurologic Phenotypes"