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Topic: Current Management of Small Renal Masses: Is There an

Optimal Choice?

Prof. Hendrik Van Poppel

Department of Urology, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium.
Email: hendrik.vanpoppel@kuleuven.be

Prof. Hendrik Van Poppel, MD, PhD, graduated in General Surgery in
1980, in Urology in 1983 and joined the Academic Unit at KU Leuven in
1985 after his postgraduate training in London, Barcelona, Copenhagen,
Mainz, and Rotterdam. He was appointed full Professor of Urology
in 1993 and became Chair of the Department of Urology in Leuven in
2002. He has served as a visiting Professor in numerous institutions
across Europe and beyond, including Aachen (DE), Munster (DE), ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL), Linz (AU),
Barcelona (SP), Jönköping (SE), Marburg (DE), Cardiff (UK), London (UK), Heidelberg (DE), Mainz (DE),
Timisoara (RO), Surabaya (ID), and Vienna (AU), where he demonstrated live uro-oncologic surgery. He has
also conducted live demonstrations in Nijmegen (NL), Zaragoza (SP), L’Aquila (IT), Leuven (BE), Brussels
(BE), Milan (IT), Torino 2x (IT), Tbilisi (GE), Djakovié (RKS), La Vallette (MT), and Alexandria (EGIPT).

His clinical practice has been almost exclusively dedicated to uro-oncological surgery. Over the course of
his career, he has performed more than 2,500 radical prostatectomies and countless major open oncological
surgeries for kidney, bladder, prostate, testis, and penile cancer.

Prof. Van Poppel served as Treasurer of the EORTC Genito-Urinary Group from 1997 to 2011, a Board
Member of the EORTC from 2004 to 2008, and President of the Belgian Association of Urology from
2009 to 2010. He led the European School of Urology (ESU) as Director for eight years and served as EAU
Adjunct Secretary General responsible for Education from 2012 to 2021.

He is the co-founder and current Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Europa Uomo, a Faculty Member
of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), and a former Board Member of ECCO. He currently
serves as Co-Chair of the Inequalities Network at the European Cancer Organisation (ECO).

He holds honorary memberships in several professional associations, including the Asociatia Romana de
Urologie (ARU), the Dutch Urological Association (DUA), the Georgian Urological Association (GUA),
the Hungarian Association of Urology (HSU), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (DGU), the Chinese
Urological Association (CUA), the Polish Urological Association (PTU), the Georgian Association of
Oncological Urology (GUA), Taiwan Urological Association (TUA), and Japanese Urological Association
(JUA).