IKSI: 1st Annual International Urolithiasis Research Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）： 一代人以前，随着微创治疗（如冲击波碎石术、输尿管镜检查和皮前取石）的引入，症状性结石患者的治疗方法发生了巨大变化。经过多年的渐进式改进，尿石症领域再次在肾结石疾病的管理和预防方面取得了革命性的发现。此外，很少有主要的国际会议关注这一领域的临床和基础科学新发现。因此，国际肾结石研究所（IKSI）认为，现在是时候举行一次研讨会，以解决肾脏发病机制和治疗的临床和基础科学方面。因此，IKSI组织并将主办一次题为“第一届国际尿石症研究年会”的研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自地球仪的40名临床和基础科学专家，以：1）解决肾结石的最新发现，2）研究一组精选的最先进的技术，这些技术似乎有可能迅速推进我们对石头如何形成和生长的理解，3）提供科学的 氛围，以刺激和挑战学生和初级教师考虑职业生涯， 肾结石本次研讨会的另一个特点是，一些从未参加过研讨会的国际科学家将从他们的专业领域讨论肾结石疾病。最后，由于肾结石疾病相关的临床和基础科学课题 由于涉及多个学科，没有一个学会在其年会上完全涉及这一领域。因此，我们认为，在肾结石病领域似乎迫切需要定期举行一次全面的国际会议，以便能够方便和迅速地分享新的数据和想法，从而改善对所有肾结石患者的护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A generation ago, the management of patients with symptomatic stones was forever dramatically altered with the introduction of minimally invasive treatment such as shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy and precutaneous stone removal. After many years of incremental improvements, the field of urolithiasis is on the cusp of, again, revolutionary discoveries in the management and prevention of kidney stone disease. In addition, there has been very few major international meeting that have focused on the new clinical and basic science discoveries in this field. Thus, the International Kidney Stone Institute (IKSI) believes the time is right to hold a symposium to address the clinical and basic science aspects of both kidney pathogenesis and treatment. Therefore, IKSI has organized and will host a symposium entitled "the Ist Annual International Urolithiasis Research symposium" that will bring together forty clinical and basic science experts from around the globe to: 1) address the latest findings in nephrolithiasis, 2) examine a select group of state-of-the-art techniques that appear to have the potential to rapidly advance our understanding of how stone form and grow and 3) provide an scientific atmosphere to stimulate and challenge students and junior faculty members to consider a career in kidney stone disease. Another feature of this symposium is that a number of international scientists that have never participated in a symposium together will discuss kidney stone disease from their area of expertise. Finally, because the clinical and basic science topics relevant to kidney stone disease cross a number of disciplines, no one society has covered this field completely at their annual meeting. Therefore, in our view, there appears to be a critical need in the field of nephrolithiasis for a comprehensive international meeting that is conducted on a regular basis so that new data and ideas can be easily and rapidly shared with the goal of improving care for all kidney stone patients.