Author Biographies

Cosimo De Nunzio, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Urology at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is also a Consultant Urologist in the Division of Urology at Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Roma, where he holds a highly specialized position in uro-oncology. He has served on numerous National guideline panels for prostatic diseases and chaired the European Association of Urology, Young Academic Urologists BPH group. He earned his medical degree from the Sapienza University of Rome and continued his training with a residency in Urology and a PhD in Advanced Surgical technologies at the Sapienza University of Rome. He completed his fellowship at the Freeman Hospital, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (UK), and the Henry Mondor University Hospital, Paris (France). He was also selected for the EAU/AUA exchange program. His clinical area of expertise focuses on urological diseases, particularly benign prostatic hyperplasia, voiding dysfunction, prostate cancer, and minimally invasive surgery. His research interests particularly include investigations on the role of lifestyle, metabolic syndrome, inflammation in prostatic disease development and progression, new non-invasive imaging modalities for the diagnosis of prostatic diseases, as well as new minimally invasive treatments for men with voiding dysfunction and benign prostatic obstruction.
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Andrea Tubaro graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Sapienza University of Rome and completed his postgraduate training in Urology at the same institution. In 1988, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Urology at L’Aquila University, L’Aquila, Italy, where he served until 2001, when he was nominated Associate Professor of Urology in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2010, he has been Chairman of the Department of Urology at the Sant’Andrea Hospital, which is the campus of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome. He has participated in and chaired several international committees on BPH and urinary incontinence. He is a member of the EAU guideline committee for urinary incontinence, sits on the Board of the EAU Foundation for Urological Research, and is the President of the Italian Foundation for Urological Research. His research has focused on functional urology, mainly incontinence and BPH, and early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
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