USANZ & ANZUNS 2025 ASM Award Recipients
At the USANZ & ANZUNS 2025 ASM in Perth, the following Members were recognised with these honours:
Fellow of the Society
Fellow of the Society is the highest honour that USANZ can bestow upon a Full Member, in recognition of distinguished service to the Society and practice of urology. Congratulations to this year’s deserving recipient, Prof Mohamed Khadra AO.
Prof Khadra, known as 'Mo' to his friends and colleagues, made dramatic changes to the clinical practice of Urology at Nepean. He was fundamental in the procurement of the first Public DaVinci Robotic system in NSW. The Nepean Urology department has grown to being one of the most sought after units for our trainees, with over 10 urologists in the constantly growing department. Mo's extra clinical accolades are even more impressive with having authored several books, written and published plays and most recently finished a fine arts degree at University of Sydney.
Mo, we thank you for your outstanding contributions and we honour your legacy as Fellow of the Society.
Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand Medal
This honour is awarded in recognition of exceptional service and leadership that has been provided by Society members in at least one aspect of the Society's work over a considerable number of years. This year, the Medal was awarded to two of our esteemed Members.
Congratulations the first recipient of the Society Medal, Prof Eric Chung. Eric holds professorial academic appointments at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He is the current Leader of the USANZ Male LUTS Specialty Advisory Group and Past Chair of the Andrology group, and serves as an Advisor on the Panel of Clinical Experts (PoCE) for the Australia Government Department of Health. Internationally, he sits in executive positions in various organisations such as the President-elect of the International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM), Chair of the Education and Research Office on Sexual Medicine (EROS) at the Asia Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine (APSSM), and member of the International Research Working Group for the American Urological Association (AUA). Eric is recognized as a leader in the field of male sexual, urinary and reproduction. He has been invited as a speaker and surgeon mentor at many national and international meetings and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.
We want to also congratulate the second recipient of the Society Medal this year, Dr John Miller. John has provided guidance and leadership throughout his Urological career in many avenues of USANZ. In addition to being intimately involved in training of South Australia’s Urologists, he was Chair of the Board of Urology from 2009-12 where he oversaw many changes during challenging times for RACS. He has also served as the International Medical Graduate supervisor, an examiner for the FRACS (Urol) until 2024 and multiple RACS committees. He has been active participant in meetings and convened a very successful USANZ ASM in Adelaide in 2015. John has been very active in USANZ governance and served on the Board of Directors as its South Australian Representative on several occasions since 2005. During his career he has developed many overseas contacts, the most prominent in Malaysia. John’s leadership and collaboration played a significant part in the signing of a memorandum of understanding between USANZ and the Malaysian Urological Association.
Congratulations Eric and John!
Honorary Member of the Society
This year USANZ awarded the position of Honorary Member of the Society to Dr Makarand Khochikar. This award is available to any person who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, has made a distinguished contribution to urology or the Society.
Makarand has contributed significantly to the field of Urology via original research, innovations, impactful publications, guest lectures, teaching and mentoring the young trainees (both at national and international level) and while actively working with international societies, study groups, guidelines committees and collaborative work. This was all born out of the large volume of clinical work that has been done under his leadership for the last three decades. The achievements and the accolades he has garnered over the years are true testimony of his dedication, hard work and the distinguished services he has given to the field of urology. It is no wonder that he has just received Distinguished Career Award by SIU.
We warmly congratulate Makarand on this prestigious and well-deserved nomination.
Board of Urology Pin
From this year USANZ will be presenting a pin to the Chair of the Board of Urology. The RACS Board of Urology is responsible for the regulation and delivery of the SET Program in Urology. This is a new initiative introduced by the past chairs to recognise the prestige of the position of Chair.
The Pin was presented to the current Chair, Dr Lydia Johns Putra.
Congratulations Lydia and thank you for your ongoing service to USANZ and the Board of Urology!
The Daniel Christidis Scholarship
This scholarship was established to honour the memory of Daniel Christidis, a respected and valued SET1 Trainee Member of USANZ. To commemorate Daniel's dedication to research, this scholarship is intended to assist a current USANZ Trainee to present their research at an international urological meeting.
The recipient of this year's scholarship is Dr Jennifer Xu, for her project: 'Suprapubic vs urethral catheters post robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy'. The abstract for the project has been submitted for presentation at AUA 2025. Alexander's co-authors on this project are Philip Dundee, Daniel Moon, Damien Bolton, and Peter Liodakis.
The Keith Kirkland Award
This award is given to the best presentation of a study by a SET Urology Trainee in the Keith Kirkland and Villis Marshall session at the USANZ ASM. The study must have research endpoints with a direct clinical impact or related to individual patient care.
Congratulations to this year's recipient, Dr Liang Qu for his presentation 'Comparing presentation, risk factors and urodynamic parameters of detrusor overactivity with detrusor underactivity between age groups'.
We acknowledge the support of the Australasian Urological Foundation in funding this prize.
Villis Marshall Award
This award is given to the best presentation of a study by a SET Urology Trainee in the Keith Kirkland and Villis Marshall session at the USANZ ASM. The study must have examined epidemiological, economic or basic science/translational content as the primary outcomes.
Congratulations to this year's joint winners, Dr Stuart Jackson and Dr Gavin Wei.
Stuart's presentation was 'Artificial intelligence and prostate cancer education: A multimetric assessment evaluating common prostate cancer questions posed to ChatGPT-4'. Gavin presented on 'Developing an immunohistochemical profile to predict response to intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) in patients with high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer'.
We acknowledge the support of the Australasian Urological Foundation in funding this prize.
Alban Gee Award
This is an award provided by USANZ for the best poster presentation at the ASM.
Congratulations to Dr Jess Wynn for 'Pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative considerations for sacral nerve stimulator infection prevention: A scoping review'.
Low-Arnold Award in Female and Functional Urology
This award is presented to the person with the best podium or poster presentation in the field of Female or Functional Urology by a Full Member of USANZ.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Johan Gani for his presentation 'Clinical features, risk factors and sequelae of detrusor underactivity: a study of possible cause and effect'.
BAUS Trophy
This award was established in recognition of the Society's enduring relationship with the British Association of Urological Surgeons. It is for the best scientific podium presentation by a Full Member of USANZ.
This year's winner was Prof Eric Chung for his presentation 'Phase 1 Open-Label, Single-Dose, Randomized Cross-Over Clinical Study Evaluating Pharmacokinetics Profile and Safety Outcomes Between Intranasal and Oral Vardenafil Formulations Administration in Healthy Male Adults'.
Platinum Trophy
The Platinum Trophy is awarded for the Most Innovative Research presented at the ASM by a Full Member of USANZ.
Congratulations to Prof Eric Chung, winner of the 2025 Platinum Trophy for his presentation on 'A randomized, controlled trial on the use of postoperative penile traction therapy in patients with Peyronie’s disease following penile plication surgery: Clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction rates'.
Best Oncology Presentation
The recipient of the Best Oncology Presentation will be invited to deliver the USANZ Lecture at the ANZUP ASM. ANZUP is a successful clinical trial co-operative research group in Australia, and the Society is pleased to collaborate with their ongoing research.
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Kim for his presentation on 'Oncological and functional outcomes of apical prostate cancers treated with focal laser ablation (ProFocal)'.
ANZUNS Awards
In addition to the USANZ Awards, ANZUNS presented several awards:
- Diamond Award presented to Luke Mitchell
- Emerald Award presented to Carla D'Amico and Marc Diocera
- Sapphire Award for Nursing Education to Marnelle Doctor
- ANZUNS Most Innovative Paper Award to Tammie Jones
- ANZUNS Best Paper Award to Nicole Lewis
- ANZUNS Best New Presenter Award to Jen Aiken
- ANZUNS Talbot-Crowe Award for Best Nursing Research presented to Russell Briggs