The 2020 KARL STORZ Lecture: PROF. ALAA EL-GHONEIMI

Prof. Alaa El-Ghoneimi, MD, PhD, FEBPS, FEAPU, is Pediatric Urologist, Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Paris. He is Head of department of Pediatric Surgery and Urology at the University Children Hospital Robert Debré. He is the coordinator of the national reference center of rare malformations of urinary tract, MARVU. He accomplished training, fellowship, clinical and academic practice in different programs of pediatric surgery and urology: Cairo (Egypt), Toronto (Canada), Paris, Nice, Marseilles (France). His fields of expertise are minimal invasive surgery, DSD and hypospadias surgery, renal transplantation, and reconstructive surgery. He is a research director; on the main topic of obstructive uropathy. He is member of the French Academy of Surgery. He has published more than 120 international publications. He is the past-president of the French Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Urology (SFUPA), and the past scientific secretary of the European Society for Pediatric Urology (ESPU). He has been awarded in April 2013, the title of “Chevalier de l’ordre national de la legion d’honneur” by the President of the republic of France.​