AUA2025 Didusch History Exhibit Preview
Join us at the 2025 AUA History Exhibit, See. Do. Teach. Developing Urologists at Booth #1845 in the Science and Technology Exhibit Hall in Las Vegas. Curated by Robert Flanigan, MD, and other giants in the history of medical education, including Drs. Badlani, McDougall, Nitti, Preminger, Shortliffe and Niederberger, this exhibit features hands-on teaching artifacts from the Didusch Museum, as well as the opportunity to biopsy a modern prostate phantom from SURGE Lab (Rochester, NY). Explore how the past creates the future, play games and win prizes!
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How to Build a Didusch Exhibit
Since 2019, the AUA Didusch Center has invited a topic-specialist to act as the Annual Meeting Curator and create an exhibit for the upcoming annual meeting. AUA staff begin working with the curator, esteemed colleagues, History Committee members, and our exhibit company at least a year in advance of the exhibition.
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2025 William P. Didusch Art & History Award to Sutchin Patel, MD
Sutchin R. Patel, MD, FACS, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Department of Urology, has been actively involved with the William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History since 2011. He has served on the AUA History Committee and is currently on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Urologic History, the Board of Governors for the American Osler Society, and a member of the Endourological Society History Committee. Dr. Patel was a recipient of the AUA Earl Nation Retrospectroscope Award in 2011 for his paper, Standing on The Shoulders Of Giants: Teaching The History Of Urology, and is receiving the William P. Didusch Art and History Award for important contributions to the understanding and appreciation of the history of urology. Dr. Patel will curate the 2026 AUA/Didusch History Exhibit on urology in extreme conditions. Read his award-winning paper to learn how to teach the History of Urology.
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Erwin W. Rugendorff, MD, PhD (1927-2024)
Dr Erwin W Rugendorff, MD, PhD, died on September 10, 2024, at the age of 97, in San Diego, California. Dr Rugendorff was a valuable advisor and consultant to the AUA History Committee for the past 25 years. Dr Rugendorff had a long and illustrious career in urology in Romania and Germany, with sub-specialization in urologic oncology.
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Richard Hannigan (1933-2023)
This most unusual man has in fact waited on us, every single one of us, in some fashion or another, for 32 years! Initially he came aboard the AUA as an assistant meeting planner and rose to the position of executive secretary. There has not been an officer or member of the Board of Directors, or any of the few on the historic staff that he joined in 1965, or the elegant staff Dick surrounded himself with, who does not consider “RH" as a personal friend, confidant, prudent and astonishingly informed counsel, teacher, master wordsmith or sorter of information into its relevant shades. Not a single negative surfaced or could be extracted from anyone who ever knew Dick. Nor was he negative about anyone.
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Louis Love Keeler, Jr., MD (1932-2025)
We recently heard from Dr. Louis Keeler, III that his father, Louis Keeler, Jr., MD of Cherry Hill, NJ died on February 4, 2025, at the age of 92. Dr. Keeler became a member of the AUA in 1972. Both Dr. Keelers have been strong supporters of the Didusch Center for Urologic History and the AUA History Forum, but the elder Dr. Keeler is also remembered for donating a particular picture to the Museum.
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James Gordon Bucy, MD (1937-2025)
Dr. Bucy’s professional accomplishments included becoming a Major in the USAF as part of a six physician medical corps for the Apollo 11 moon landing, Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery at Washington University and running a successful private practice.
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