Advanced practice providers (APPs) such as advanced practice nurses (APNs)/nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) can significantly enhance a urologic or sexual medicine practice. According to the results of the 2018 National Survey of Demographics and Clinical Roles in Urology, 72.5% of urologists have used the services of an APP in their practice.

Join us on Wednesday, November 3 for the Residents Arena, at which the 10 best scoring abstracts submitted by residents to the 22nd Annual Fall Scientific Meeting of SMSNA will be presented by the residents. The 3 best presentations, based on a combination of audience vote (50%) and judges’ scores (50%), will each win $1,000!

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At the SMSNA Annual Fall Scientific Meeting today, Lori Brotto, PhD, R Psych, expounded on the benefits of mindfulness for improving sexual function, particularly in women with sexual interest/arousal disorder.

Ashley Winter, MD, looked at inflatable penile prostheses (IPPs) from the couple’s perspective today at the SMSNA Annual Fall Scientific Meeting.

Telemedicine has been steadily gaining in popularity, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to increase the demand for virtual care.

Today, the attendees of the Genital Cosmetic Surgery session of the SMSNA Annual Fall Scientific Meeting enjoyed a lively discussion on the potential benefits and risks/burdens of genital cosmetic surgery, ranging from penile enlargement surgery to labiaplasty and more.

On the second day of the SMSNA’s 22^nd Annual Fall Scientific Meeting, Trinity Bivalacqua, MD, PhD, shared a recap of the SMSNA Position Statement on Restorative Therapies for Erectile Dysfunction (ED).

Emily Willingham, PhD, the keynote speaker of the 22^nd Annual Fall Scientific Meeting of the SMSNA, sought to contextualize the human penis within the greater world of animal penises in her lecture, “Life Lessons from the Animal Penis.”

Avery Braun, DO, presented new research on the location and severity of postoperative pain for patients who have undergone inflatable penile prosthesis implantation during the first Erectile Dysfunction Surgical Abstract Session of the SMSNA Annual Fall Scientific Meeting.

Today at the SMSNA Annual Fall Scientific Meeting during the APP Symposium, Lutricia Harrison, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, spoke on the topic of explicit and implicit biases and how they may impact patients.

Often, health care professionals provide soon-to-be parents with a surfeit of information on what to expect during a pregnancy. However, once the baby is born, the flow of information pertaining to the parents’ health tends to fall off as the attention generally shifts to the well-being of the newborn.

The American Urological Association (AUA) and the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) released a new clinical practice guideline to aid in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic priapism in men.