Rare and Complex Urology

Jen Tidman is an experienced executive administrator, communications expert, and project manager with a demonstrated history of working in healthcare and publishing. She has studied at the University of Sheffield (BA Journalism Studies), Robert Gordon University (PGCert Publishing Studies), and The Open University (BSc Psychology) and has worked in the field of urology since 2004. From 2006-2015 she was the Managing Editor of the medical journal Neurourology & Urodynamics. She provided editorial support for the book “Urogenital Infections” published in 2010 by the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD). She worked on the initial application to form ERN eUROGEN, and following its official launch in 2017, she was appointed as the network’s Business Support Manager. Her responsibilities include project management, administration, and communication and dissemination. Prof. dr. W.F.J. Feitz studied Medicine in Nijmegen. He specialized in Urology (Fellow of the European Board of Urology) and specialized further in the field of Pediatric Urology (Fellow of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology). In 1993, he was appointed as Pediatric Urologist at the Department of Urology of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. In 2001 he became associate professor and on 1 November 2006 full professor in Pediatric Urology at the Radboud University Nijmegen. The Pediatric Urology research program concerns congenital anomalies of the Urinary Tract and involves multidisciplinary collaborations within the research programs of the RUNMC and NCMLS and national and international collaborations. It involves the epidemiological and genetic aspects of congenital Urinary Tract Anomalies and Regenerative Urology and Tissue Engineering. He is currently the coordinator of the EU program EuroSTEC Soft tissue engineering for congenital birth defects (www.EuroSTEC.eu), advisor for the EU MultiTERM program (www.multitermproject.eu) and Program director of the training program for Pediatric Urology for the European Paediatric Urology Fellowship Program of The Joint Committee of Paediatric Urology (JCPU) of the EUMS, RUNMC (www.espu.org). He is the mentor of different student programs and an EUSP program for Pediatric Urology research in the field of tissue engineering.