This year’s winner of the recently-instituted Endourology Section Lifetime Achievement Award is Prof. José Gabriel Valdivia Uría, the surgeon who developed a technique of percutaneous renal access with the patient in supine position in 1988. The Valdivia technique, in various forms is still used to this day. Prof. Traxer: “In the 90s Prof. Valdivia designed a new way to do … Continue reading Prof. Valdivia Uría honoured by Endourology Section at ICE26