President of Umm Al-Qura University Dr. Bakri bin M'atooq bin Bakri Assas will launch on Thursday Jumada Al-Thani 3, 1438 H the 29th Saudi International Conference of the Kidney and Urinary Tract Surgery Association organized by the College of Medicine in collaboration with King Abdullah Medical City in Makkah, and the Saudi Association for Kidney and Urinary Tract Surgery at the grand hall in Vermont Hotel from March 1 to 4 2017. The conference will discuss 74 scientific papers. 

Meanwhile, Dean of the College of Medicine and the Head of the organizing committee of the conference Dr. Anmar Anaam Nassir said the conference will feature several specialized workshops to provide training for the junior physicians in the different specializations of the kidney and tract surgery including; live practical training  and direct transmission of a number of surgery operations to be conducted at King Abdullah Medical City, besides surgery operations to be conducted on some animals at the veterinary surgery platform in Al-Noor hospital. These workshops will include also training on the latest surgical means of endoscopic operations, fertility and sterility cases. He added that a number of workshops on  urinary tract surgery for children, neurological disorders of urinary tract and 
urodynamic procedures.  

Within the same vein he said the workshops will be overseen by a constellation of specialized and expert physicians at the local, regional and international levels. During the vents of the conference he added the latest applied and academic scientific researches submitted to the committee will be presented amounting up to 74 scientific papers, indicating that presentation mechanism will take place via the electronic posters at the hall assigned for the event, whilst 33 scientific papers will be presented in the scientific sessions.  " A number of recommendations and guidelines of the urinary tract sciences related to the specialized groups in the fields of  urinary tract tumors, science of endoscopy and other specialized sciences will be submitted" he expounded.  

All the more, Dr. Anmar explained that the conference is intended to serve and develop urinary tract via the continuing medical training to encourage and spread relevant specialized scientific researches, set general standards of quality based on disciplined scientific foundations which include putting a framework for diagnosis and treatment for all cases of kidney and urinary tract surgeries, upgrading medical service for patients by intensifying medical workshops in the field of urinary tract surgery,  adherence to establish continuing medical education rules in the field of Kidney and urinary tract surgery through the specialized scientific meetings besides involving with all local, regional and international health institutions concerned with developing kidney and urinary tract surgery.   

It's worth mentioning here that, the conference events will witness launching the website of the Saudi Association for Kidney and Urinary Tract Surgery which include scientific materials for the benefit of the physicians specialized in the field, besides awareness program for patients in all that relevant to the diseases of the urinary tract.