Asia Pacific Association of Paediatric Urologists -APAPU-

The establishment of the Asia Pacific Association of Paediatric Urologists was a step of some eminent persons with an objective of excellence on the advancement in the field of Pediatric Urology in 1998. The first congress of this organization was held in Beijing, China in the year 1999. Many prominent Pediatric urologists all over the world gave their participation in meeting. At the year 2005 the meetings of this organization were organized by the local organizing committee. Since 2006 the annual meeting of APAPU had been managed by the president and the Annual meeting are now organized by the chair of local committee.  Professor Saburo Tanikaze (Japan) became the first president of this association. The tenure of the president is for two years. The Registered office of APAPU will be situated in Hong Kong. In 6th meeting of APAPU, Journal of Pediatric Urology was proposed as the official journal of Asia Pacific Association of Paediatric Urologists. The previous meeting of APAPU was held in January 2016 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was mainly focussed on live demonstration surgery of various types of hypospadias with lectures and high quality presentations. The main objective of this association is to provide a forum to exchange the ideas in the field of Pediatric urology among Pediatric urologist and to reinforce excellence and enhancement of the standards of Pediatric urology an Asia Pacific region by creating awareness through education, training and research to improve the practices and research in the field of Pediatric urology, Medical and Pharmaceuticals industries with cooperation its executive members. The 19th Annual Congress of Asia-Pacific Association of Pediatric Urologists (APAPU 2017) will be in Zogzakarta, Indonesia managed by Tarmono Djojodemedjo, Chair of Organizing committee.