Autor: Philip M. Hanno

Philip M. Hanno, MD, MPH,  has a long-standing interest in bladder pain syndrome and female urology, and is Co-Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Interstitial Cystitis Association. He is chair of the American Urological Association Guideline Committee on Interstitial Cystitis.  He has been Chief of the Division of Urology of the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center and Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Temple University School of Medicine. He was a Medical Officer in the Division of Reproductive and Urologic Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania  and is Clinical Professor of Urology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD(hon.), FACS Alan J. Wein, MD, PhD(hon.), FACS is the Founders Professor of the Division of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Director of the Residency Program in Urology at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He completed training in Surgery and Urology at the University of Pennsylvania including a fellowship at the Harrison Department of Surgical Research.  He has been certified and recertified (voluntary) by the American Board of Urology.  He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Patras, Greece in September 2005.  He was made an honorary professor of the Federal State Institute of Urology of Russia in 2010.David R. Staskin, M.D. Dr. Staskin is an associate professor of urology at Tufts University. He held similar positions at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard. Dr. Staskin has an international reputation in lower urinary tract pharmacology and devices. He has specific expertise in pharmaceuticals used to treat overactive bladder and stress incontinence. He was member of HHS-AHCPR and a Section Chairperson of ICI-WHO. He has held advisory positions with numerous pharmaceutical and medical device companies.