Highlights of the 40th IUGA meeting in Nice, June 2015

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The 40th IUGA meeting was held in beautiful Nice from 9 to 13 June in the Acropolis Convention Centre in conjunction with the 2nd World Congress on Abdominal & Pelvic Pain. For the first time, the conference was chaired by one urologist, Dr Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, and by one gynaecologist, Dr Brigitte Fatton. Continuing the experience from previous meetings, this year’s conference included highly interesting presentations and posters from dozens of countries all over the world. Live surgery sessions were performed on Tuesday from the co-chair’s hospital, the University Hospital in Nimes, offering all state-of-the-art incontinence and prolapse surgeries. During Tuesday and Wednesday, 29 high level workshops were offered on numerous topics across the field of urogynecology. The meeting consisted of 18 state-of-the-art roundtable debates, 141 podium presentations, 10 video presentations, and several hundred non-discussed posters, which together represented an enormous amount of information. …