Dr. Elhiali was born in 1937 in Minia, southern Egypt. He joined the medical school at Cairo University and trained as a urologist. He headed to McGill in 1964 and earned a PhD on the subject of prostate cancer. He worked as a surgeon in Montréal and became chief of the Department of Urology at the University of Sherbrooke. He returned to McGill in 1982 as chair of the Department of Urology. He became general secretary of the Société International d’Urologie and moved their headquarters from France to Montréal in 1997. He received the Order of Canada in 2001, and the Order of Québec in 2009.

Vice-president: G. Bruce Piercy

Treasurer: Jack L. Sales

Secretary: Denis H. Hosking

Members-at-large:

Peter G. Wentzell

Jean Simard

Yves Fradet

Richard W. Norman

David R. Mador

S. Larry Goldenberg

Local Arrangements: Dr. David R. Mador 

Programme: Dr. J. Curtis Nickel                       

Chairman of C-SUUR: Dr. J. Curtis Nickel 

CUASF Treasurer: Dr. Normand Sullivan                          

CUASF Scholars: Dr. Armen-G. Aprikien, Dr. Gerald B. Brock, Dr. Mireille Grégoire, Dr. Keith A. Jarvi, Dr. Andrew E. MacNeily

Editor in Chief: Laurence H. Klotz (1994-2007)

49th annual meeting held in Jasper, AB

• Urology training now consists of 2 years of core surgical training and 3 years of clinical urology (with no internship) 
• By-laws and Membership Application are revised to be gender neutral in order to reflect that women constitute an important part of the Association 
• An ad hoc Planning and Priorities Committee, chaired by the Vice-President, proposes the first “strategic plan” for the CUA, with focus on improving communication with members and making the CUA relevant to the entire Canadian urological community 
• By-laws revised to clarify option to make nominations from the floor at the Annual General Meeting 
• The makeup of the Nominating Committee is revised in order to increase representation of community urologists within the CUA 
• Research Committee bestows unfunded CUASF Scholar designations to worthy applicants who have secured alternate funding 

Dr. Morales graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Columbia before doing his surgical training in Washington, D.C. as well as Boston. He completed his urological training at Queen’s University, Kingston, where he became part of the Urology department in 1972 until his retirement in 2004. His research on bladder cancer has been recognized as one of the most important in the last 100 years by the Journal of Urology. For his work, he received the Order of Canada in 2011.

Honorary Membership:  Dr. Donald S. Coffey 

Vice-president: Normand Sullivan

Treasurer: Jack L. Sales

Secretary: Denis H. Hosking

Members-at-large:

Peter G. Wentzell

Jean Simard

Yves Fradet

Richard W. Norman

Bryan J. Donnelly

Allan G. Toguri