Faculty from multiple leading institutions joined the OMI throughout the years for our Urology courses, from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to our ultimate Urology partner: The European School of Urology (ESU). The ESU is a trailblazer in knowledge sharing and medical collaboration in the field and has a clear mission “to raise the level of urological care throughout Europe and beyond.” (ESU’s Uroweb, 2024). Through its membership, education, and research training founded on the concept of collaboration and utmost care for the patients, the OMI and ESU make a perfect couple.
Now in Mexico, we were privileged to host the course director, Dr. Evangelos N. Liatsikos, none other than the Chairman of the European School of Urology. Dr. Liatsikos’ first time with us in Mexico was in 2022, and he shares a bit of his experience coming back to OMI MEX this year:
“I had the pleasure to meet a motivated group of young urologists eager to learn and ‘thirsty’ for knowledge. It is really very inspiring for me to interact with such a group of young colleagues and contribute to building a solid foundation harmonized across Europe and Latin America. Faculty and fellows interacted and exchanged ideas in a very friendly environment.”
Conveying the ESU and OMI’s commitment to quality education, Dr. Liatsikos further states:
“The utmost goal of all our efforts is to educate and fascinate the young generation by providing them with a fully structured educational portfolio. Standardization of education has been the main goal when organizing different training activities.”
Leading the course along with Dr. Liatsikos, 18-year OMI faculty member Dr. Peter Schlegel, Managing Director of New York Men’s Health Medical Clinic, joined in to share his renowned expertise in male infertility and other topics surrounding his lifelong leading career in urology. Also from New York, we were joined by Dr. John P. Mulhall, Director of Male Sexual and Reproductive Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. From France, we welcomed Dr. Evanguelos Xylinas, professor at Paris Cité University in Paris and board member of the ESU. Lastly, bridging the international and local approaches in medicine, Dr. Mariano Sotomayor, former president of the Mexican Society of Urology, was our faculty member from Mexico.
The professors’ international background enriched the seminar experience for the fellows. What is regularly seen in our Salzburg seminars and what remains at the core of OMI is the broadening of perspectives made possible through the in-person interactions we proudly provide. The Urology seminar in Mexico was no different, all while representing a further step towards indeed broadening the scope of medical education worldwide.
