Lori B. Lerner is a well-versed urologist who diagnoses and treats patients at VA Boston Healthcare System in Boston, MA, where she serves as Chief of Urology and Deputy Chief of Surgical Services. Dr. Lerner is an Associate Professor of Urology in the Department of Urology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). She attended the University of Arizona College of Medicine, receiving her medical degree in 1994 and completing an internship in general surgery (1994–1995). She conducted her residency in urology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (1995–2000), followed by fellowship training in laser surgery and endourology at Urology Bay of Plenty in Tauranga, New Zealand (2000–2001). She received board certification in urology from the American Board of Urology. Dr. Lerner has served as Medical Director of Urology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Plymouth, MA (2014–2017), Chief of urology Section (2013–2014) and Staff Urologist (2007–2013) at VA Boston Healthcare System, Urologist at White River Junction VAMC (2001–2007), and Urologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2001–2007). Her areas of expertise include male voiding dysfunction and neurourology, minimally invasive benign prostate surgery, laser therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia, complicated open surgery, and reconstruction.

Richard Naspro is the Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Pavia Italy and Director of the Complex Operating Unit Urology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo. He graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Milan and specialized in urology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. He subsequently completed a fellowship in laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Clinique Saint Augustin in Bordeaux (France). His post-graduate training includes a university diploma in laparoscopic surgery of the gastrointestinal tract at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, (France) and completing the Surgical Leadership Program at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA), in 2019. From 2007 to 2011 he started and coordinated the laparoscopic-urological surgery program at Humanitas Gavazzeni in Bergamo and, subsequently, worked at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo. In 2013, he established the first urological surgery program at the CHD diocesan hospital in Toulouse, in the far north of the region of Cameroon 2013. His surgical activity includes a wide range of surgical cases with most of the major urological, oncological and non-oncological, elective, and emergency surgeries by traditional laparoscopic, single-port, robotic, open, and endoscopic approaches. He is the regional coordinator of the Italian Society of Uro-Oncology (SIURO) and a member of the guidelines of the European Society of Urology (EAU).