Board of ISC UTI Commission
History
International Symposia on Clinical Evaluation of Drug Efficacy in UTI
Publications
The Masaaki Ohkoshi Award
Global Prevalence Study on UTI and SSI in Urology
Meetings
Publications (updated January 2009)

Board of ISC UTI Commission
Chairperson	Kurt G. Naber (Straubing, Germany) E-mail: kurt@nabers.de
Co-chair	Tetsuro Matsumoto (Kitakyushu, Japan) E-mail: t-matsu@med.uoeh-u.ac.jp
Co-chair	Lindsay E. Nicolle (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Email: lnicolle@hsc.mb.ca
Committee Members	Soichi Arakawa (Kobe, Japan) Reinhard Fünfstück (Weimar, Germany) Suzanne Geerlings (Amsterdam The Netherlands) Kalpana Gupta (USA) Gabriel Levy Hara (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Thomas M. Hooton (Miami, Florida, USA) Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen (Aarhus, Denmark) Chul-Sung Kim, Gwangju (Korea) John N. Krieger (Seattle, Washington, USA) Hiromi Kumon (Okayama, Japan) Raul Raz (Afula, Israel) Anthony J. Schaeffer (Chicago, Illinois, USA) Yong-Hyun Cho (Seoul, Korea) Stephen Shei-Dei Yang (Taipei, Taiwan)
Honorary Members	Sadao Kamidono (Kobe, Japan) Yukimichi Kawada (Matamaru Gifu-shi, Japan) Yoshiaki Kumamoto (Sapporo, Japan) Joichi Kumazawa (Fukuoka, Japan) Allan R. Ronald (Winnipeg, Canada)

History
On the 10th anniversary of the Japanese UTI Committee, its chairman (Professor Masaaki Ohkoshi) invited interested colleagues from North America and Europe to the 1st International Symposium on Clinical Evaluation of Drug Efficacy in Urinary Tract Infection, in October 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. The international commission for UTI was founded, which later became affiliated to the International Society of Chemotherapy. It was decided, to organize an International Symposium on Clinical Evaluation of Drug Efficacy in Urinary Tract Infection biannually, in connection with the International Congress of Chemotherapy.

International Symposia on Clinical Evaluation of Drug Efficacy in UTI
The aims of these meetings are to discuss the various aspects of UTI on a broad international base, to achieve a widely accepted consensus concerning management and clinical studies and to come to a growing bibliography on this subject, which could be useful for the daily clinical decisions to be made.

The Masaaki Ohkoshi Award
The award was founded in 1995 for the best clinical study on the subject of urinary tract infections published during a two-year period. The first three awards were sponsored by Professor Masaaki Ohkoshi and all subsequent awards have been sponsored by the Japanese UTI Committee. These awards have been given at every International Congress of Chemotherapy since 1995.

More information:

Masaaki Ohkoshi Award; Former recipients (PDF)
Masaaki Oshkosh Award (HTM Page)

Global Prevalence Study on UTI and SSI in Urology
The ISC-WG UTI is supporting the 7th Global Prevalence Study on Infection in Urology (GPIU) 2009. The study is fully supported by the European Association of Urology (EAU) and is performed in cooperation with many international scientific societies. More than 20 000 urological patients have been screened for nosocomial urinary tract infections (NAUTI) in the former 6 studies (2003-2008). Two papers have already been published with the names of all investigators:

1. Bjerklund Johansen TE, Cek M, Naber KG, Stratchounski L, Svendsen M, Tenke P on behalf of the PEP and PEAP-study investigators and the board of the European Society of Infections in Urology. Hospital acquired urinaryn tract infections in urology departments: Pathogens, susceptibility and use of antibiotics. Data from the PEP and PEAP-studies. IJAA 2006;28S: S91-S107. Click here to view the paper.

2. Bjerklund Johansen TE, Cek M, Naber KG, Stratchounski L, Svendsen M, Tenke P on behalf of the PEP and PEAP-study investigators and the board of the European Society of Infections in Urology. Prevalence of Hospital-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections in Urology departments. Eur Urol 2007; 51:1100-1112
Click here to view the paper.
 
All urologists, in cooperation with their ID specialists and clinical microbiologists, are invited to take part in the GPIU 2009. Click here to view the invitation and protocol.

Summary of GPIU Study
A GPIU database with more than 1000 patients with NAUTI has been established.
GPIU-investigators will receive EU-ACME credit points. The GPIU study 2009 is Internet based and will investigate the prevalence of UTI and SSI in hospitalised urological patients. The study protocol, patient forms, and study days in November 2009 can be found on the following website:
Internet address: www.uroweb.org/gpiu2009 opens after 15 October 2009.

Please contact one of the following on behalf of the ESIU/EAU if you have any questions:

Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, MD, PhD
Chairman of ESIU/EAU
E-mail: tebj@ki.au.dk

Mete Cek, MD
GPIU-study coordinator
E-mail: metecek@yahoo.com

Kurt G. Naber, MD, PhD
Karl-Bickleder Str. 44c
94315 Straubing, Germany
E-mail: kurt@nabers.de

Meetings
The ISC Working Group on Urinary Tract Infections has (co-)organized the following meetings and symposia:

Publications

2008 publication

European and Asian guidelines on management and prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. P. Tenke, B. Kovacs, T.E. Bjerklund, Johansen, T. Matsumoto, P.A. Tambyah, K.G. Naber. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (2008) S68 – S78.
The ISC Working Group on UTI has collaborated with the following bodies to publish the guidelines detailed above:

European Association of Urology
European Society for Infections in Urology
Urological Association of Asia
Asian Association of UTI / STD
Western Pacific Society for Chemotherapy
Federation of European Societies for Chemotherapy and Infection

For a copy of the publication, please click here.

UTI Commission Symposia

The proceedings of the UTI Commission symposia have been published as either a separate booklet or, more often, as a supplement to a scientific journal. The intention of these publications is to discuss the various aspects of UTI on a broad international base, to achieve a widely accepted consensus concerning management and clinical studies and to come to a growing bibliography on this subject, which could be useful for the daily clinical decisions to be made.

The following symposia have been published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and are freely available at http://www.ijaaonline.com/issues

Volume 31, Supplement 1, pages 1-116 (February 2008)
Volume 28, Supplement 1, pages 1-112 (August 2006)
Volume 24, Supplement 1, pages 1-75 (September 2004)
Volume 23, Supplement 1, pages 1-87 (March 2004)
Volume 22, Supplement 2, pages 27-100 (October 2003)