GIBS 2017 to be held in Mumbai

Eminent urologists from India will discuss on Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Pain Symptoms

Global Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain Society will organise second Global Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain Syndrome conference (GIBS 2017) in Mumbai from August 26-27. The event will include talks on the subject Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Pain Symptoms (IC/BPS) by eminent urologists from India. Focus will be given on every aspect of composite multidisciplinary care from ‘Best Clinical practices’ to create global leaders in the subject.

Under the umbrella of Swati Orphan Disease Foundation (ODF), GIBS- (Global Interstitial Cystitis Bladder Pain Society) was formed as a global body in 2016 to take the subject to each clinicians and every needy patient, thus bringing the evaluation and management in uniform to highest levels. It is a body conceptualised by the team of physicians lead by Dr Rajesh Taneja (Org. chairmen- GIBS) and Dr Sanjay Pandey (Org. Secretary-GIBS) and Swati Spentose as a lead patron dedicated exclusively to Interstitial cystitis and Bladder pain syndrome.

Discussions will be held on the following topics:

• BPS nomenclature and definitions
• Clinical presentation
• Investigations in a suspected case of IC/ BPS
• Cystoscopy in a IC/ BPS
• Intravesical instillation
• Pain management in IC/ BPS
• Concurrent endometriosis with IC/ BPS in chronic pelvic pain
• Assessing quality of life in bladder pain syndrome
• Chronic PID/ Correlation between PID and IC
• Food allergy –Does it affect IC?
• Etio-pathogenesis of IC/ BPS
• Clinical diffrentiation of various LUTS in women
• Bladder pain syndrome/ IC: Should we recognise the pillar of conservative management?
• Challenges in diagnosis of IC
• Clinical examination in case of IC/ BPS
• IC management using oral medications
• Current management of Hunner’s Lesion
• Intravesical cocktail instillation in BPS- our experience
• Managing patients of PBS/ IC: Single center experience
• Efficacy of daily low-dose Tadalafil for treating interstitial cystitis: Initial results
• GIBS Clinical practices for treatment of IC/ BPS

Faculties who will take part in the event are :

1. Dr Rajesh Taneja Senior Consultant Urologist, Apollo Hospitals
2. Dr Shivam Priyadarshini, Professor Urology, SMS Medical College, Jaipur
3. Dr Sanjay Pandey Head of department of Urology-Andrology & Renal Transplantation Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Research Institute, Mumbai
4. Dr Navita Purohit, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine (Physiatrist), Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Research Institute, Mumbai
5. Dr Amita Jain, Senior Consultant, Urogynaecology, Fortis Escorts
6. Dr Apul Goel Professor, Department of Urology, King George Medical University, Lucknow
7. Dr Rajeev Sood HOD- Urology Department : Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi
8. Dr CS Ratkal Director of Ratkal Speciality Hospital, Bangalore
9. Dr JG Lalmalani Urologist, Jaslok  Hospital, Mumbai
10. Dr Prabhudev Salanki, Urologist, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore
11. Dr Ajit Vaze Urological Surgeon, Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai
12. Dr Raman Tanwar Consultant Urologist & Andrologist at Jyoti Hospital and Urology Center, Gurugram
13. Dr Suhas Salpekar Consultant Urologist & Andrologist at Vasant Endo-Urology, Andrology & Holmium LASER Surgery Clinic, Nagpur
14. Dr Dilip Dhanpal Consultant Urologist – Sagar Hospitals-Bangalore
15. Dr Pawan Vasudev, Associate Professor at V. M. Medical College and Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi
16. Dr Monika Gupta Assistant Professor, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, VMMC Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
17. Dr Shailesh Raina Director of Urology, Neurourology and Renal Transplantation, Jaslok Hospital, South Mumbai
18. Dr Urmila Tripathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior
19. Dr Anuradha Koduri, HOD & Consultant and Urogynecology surgery Specialist: Superspecialty Hospital, Hyderabad
20. Dr Mala Arora Director Noble IVF Centre Chairperson ICOG 2017, New Delhi
21. Dr RB Sabnis Chairman, Urology Dept, MPUH, Nadiad
22. Dr Vidhur Bhalla Consultant Urological Surgeon, PGIMER, Chandigarh
23. Dr SK Jha consultant Urologist, Medica North Bengal Clinic, Siliguri
24. Dr Meera Raghwan, Consultant Obstetrician and UroGynaecologist, Apollo Hospital, Chennai