VI MIPS Annual Meeting

VI MIPS Annual Meeting is organized by Defoe Congresses / Defoe Congressi and will be held from Apr 25 - 27, 2019 at World Trade Center Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Conference Topics:
The scientific theme of the VI MIPS Annual Meeting is:
• Bringing global scientific evidence to daily clinical practice in the
• Mediterranean region
• Classical vaginal surgery and vaginal mesh surgery in 2019
• Laparoscopic sacro-colpopexy
• EUGA Lecture: Meshes for POP surgery
• Physiotherapy and Sacral Neuromodulation for faecal incontinence
• Artificial Sphincter in Mediterranean Setting
• Adjustable and Fixed Slings
• Urodynamics in OAB
• CPP: Physiotherapy, Instillation for BPS patients, Pudendal entrapment
• Neurogenic Bladder: Urodynamics, Intermittent self-catheterisation
• Management of recurrent UTI
• SIUD Lecture: SUI and detrusor underactivity
• PFMT and TOT in SUI
• SINUG lecture: Simultaneous treatment of SUI and POP
• Bulking agents in Mediterranean countries
• Evaluation and treatment of female sexual Dysfunction
• Laser treatment implications in female sexual dysfunction
• Vaginal therapies in menopausal sexual and orgasmic dysfunction 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure, as the President, to announce The Sixth MIPS Annual meeting. The venue is the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain- the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean and one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea with a rich historical and cultural heritage and spectacular sandy beaches. The meeting will be held on 25-27 April, 2019 in the Barcelona World Trade Centre located right on the seafront, just a few minutes from downtown Barcelona. The scientific theme is “ Bringing global scientific evidence to daily clinical practice in the Mediterranean region”.

Congratulations to our Host Chair: Dr, Carlos Errando-Smet, The Vice- President of MIPS, who will most certainly organize an excellent meeting to build on the outstanding successes of the previous five annual MIPS meetings. The scientific programme is, as always, multi-disciplinary and specific to heath care provider’s educational needs and training priorities as well as patient care in the Mediterranean countries. There will be two awards for the best basic science and clinical presentation. The two winners will receive free MIPS annual subscription for 2019 as well as free registration for MIPS 2020. I advise our young colleagues, whether fellows or residents, to use this opportunity, to share their research findings with Mediterranean colleagues. We are currently working on the scientific programme and hope to publish the first announcement by the second week of November on the website. 

We would like to cordially invite you to attend our sixth annual meeting. This is an occasion to further the scientific interaction and friendship between health care providers working in the Mediterranean region with a consequent positive impact on incontinence care and service delivery to our patients. Your participation in the Business Annual General Meeting of Members is very important to us because we want to listen to your views and ideas and maintain our personal interaction with all of our members. 

Carlos, our Executive Director Natalia Trotta and I are very much looking forward to welcome you in Barcelona in April, 2019!

Dear Urogynaecologists, Urologists and Physiotherapists from the Mediterranean Countries, 

I am very pleased to invite you to our Sixth Annual Meeting to be held in Barcelona, Spain on 25-27 April, 2019. From its foundation around 2000 B.C. under the different names of Barcilo, Barcino or Barkeno, the city has always influenced the social cultural and economical development of our Mediterranean culture. Taking advantage of attending an outstanding scientific event, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy a versatile city in the Spring, the best time of the year to visit Barcelona. 

The meeting will take place in the Barcelona World Trade Center, located right on the seafront, just a few minutes from downtown. Topics related to Urogynaecology, Reconstructive and Functional Urology and Pelvic floor Physiotherapy will be discussed and debated with the objective of integrating the global scientific evidence in these fields to clinical practice in our unique Mediterranean setting. 

I hope to see you all in Barcelona in April 2019.

Carlos Errando, Meeting Chair

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.