Tim O'Brien, Consultant Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, joins GU Cast to chat about his recent appointment as President of The British Association of Urological Surgeons. Tim has taken the reigns of BAUS during these most extraordinary of times, and is determined to make the most of the opportunities! Nothing like a pandemic to help make some changes. Tim joins usual hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen for a most entertaining and insightful chat. 

Today we are joined by USANZ President, Dr Stephen Mark, to discuss the big challenges faced by trainees during COVID. We include soundbites from many trainees and aspiring trainees who sent in voice memos to highlight the stresses and concerns they have - some  amazing comments! Stephen responds to these concerns and gives us a glimpse into USANZ plans for the future. 
Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk. 

Today GU Cast again joins up with our good friends at Urotoday.com to cross post this episode. Our own Dr Renu Eapen is interviewed by Dr Ashish Kamat (an old friend of GU Cast), as part of the Urotoday Bladder Cancer Centre of Excellence, to discuss urinary diversion in female patients following radical cystectomy. 
You can find the original Urotoday post, including some supporting slides, on the following link https://www.urotoday.com/video-lectures/bladder-cancer/video/mediaitem/1844-urinary-diversion-in-women-following-radical-cystectomy-renu-eapen.html 

With the COVID pandemic situation continuing to worsen in Melbourne, further restrictions have been put in place for elective surgery. Pre-op COVID swabs are already mandatory, and now only the most urgent surgeries can go ahead. We are joined by the Directors of three of Melbourne's busiest urology cancer centres to see what this means for patients. Professor Damien Bolton from the Austin, Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk from the Royal Melbourne Hospital (and Peter Mac), and co-host Professor Declan Murphy from Peter Mac. Dr Renu Eapen is co-host as ever. 

Today we chat with Dr Paul Cathcart, Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, who has a specialist interest in salvage radical prostatectomy. Paul is one of the world's most experienced salvage prostatectomists and joins us to chat about patient selection and surgical technique to optimise outcomes, especially for patients who have undergone focal therapy. Post-HIFU/brachy/cryo/Nano knife - he does them all! And has published lots of data in this area.
Paul also chats about the UK National Prostate Cancer Audit as he leads the Quality group in this huge project. Co-hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.

Today Melbourne is back in lockdown (boo), so to cheer ourselves up, we bring you a fantastic GU Cast with two great guests! Dr Jim Porter from Seattle has hit the headlines twice recently; first with a superb randomised trial of a point of surgical technique during robotic prostatectomy recently published in the BJUI; and second, the global headlines that he made when he mentored Dr Archie Fernando perform a complex robotic surgery in London, while in his pyjamas in Seattle! We chat with the founder and CEO of Proximie, whose technology enabled this, Dr Nadine Haram, an extraordinary surgical entrepreneur. Regular hosts Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Renu Eapen are joined by Peter Mac colleague, Associate Professor Daniel Moon. 

Today we look forward to #EAU20, the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Urology (EAU). Like all other scientific meetings at present, #EAU20 is not taking place in its usual format as a huge physical meeting (due to be in Amsterdam), but is instead a fully virtual meeting taking place from 17-19th July 2020. 
Today we chat with the Chair of the EAU Scientific Congress Office, Professor Peter Albers, about the challenges in switching over to a virtual meeting, and about the fantastic format they have created so delegates can still enjoy the usual very high quality EAU meeting experience. 
We also chat with Prof Joan Palou, Chair of the EAU European School of Urology about the UroWebinars which they are putting on in lieu of their usual program of educational courses. It all sounds fantastic!!! 
Full details here https://eaucongress.uroweb.org 

Dr Archie Fernando is a Consultant Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, specialising in testicular cancer and retroperitoneal fibrosis. BAUS posted a terrific video which she did recently to share her perspectives on telehealth, based on an interesting case she had recently had, and she shares seven great tips on telehealth for clinicians. Join Declan and Renu for a terrific podcast with Archie. 
Here is a link to her original video https://youtu.be/P3c3ZvVI-OY 

GU Cast today features two excellent online initiatives to facilitate online education. 
We are joined in studio by Associate Professor Jeremy Grummet, Urologist, to talk about https://www.mripro.io which provides an outstanding platform to learn how to interpret MRI prostate. A very well annotated set of 300 cases are presented in a very user-friendly platform with CME approval. Also a great set of multidisciplinary webinars. 
And Dr Lindsay Hampson joins us from California to discuss the fantastic online urology education program, #UrologyCOViD, which she and her colleagues have developed during COVID times. Originally aimed at urology residents in the USA, but with many trainees from all over the world joining in. 

We are joined today by the fantastic Dr Neeraj Agarwal of the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah to discuss some contentious areas in mCRPC, especially around DNA repair defects, immunotherapy and other targeted therapies. Also joined again in studio by our colleague Associate Professor Arun Azad, and regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen.