16. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Veronika Geng, RN MHSc/MNSc (DE), Chair
Registered Nurse, Infection Control Practitioner, Coach for Quality in healthcare, Master in health science specialisation in nursing.
Veronika Geng currently works as a project leader for the Manfred-Sauer-Foundation in Lobbach, Germany. She has performed clinical studies on the incidence of hospital-acquired UTIs. Veronika previously contributed, as a panel member, to guidelines on MECs and produced an instructional videotape on this topic.
Special interests: nutrition, bladder and bowel management in people with spinal cord injury.
Susanne Vahr, RN PhD student (DK)
Works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Urological Department, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Board member of EAUN. Member of the Danish Association of Urology Nurses and board member of the Danish Educational Council.
Mrs. Vahr has worked in the field of urology since 1992. Her primary focus has been competence development to secure updated and qualified care for urological patients.
Special interests: nursing interventions in bladder cancer patients, and prevention of UTI in patients treated with urinary catheters.
Hanny Cobussen-Boekhorst, PhD (NL)
Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner in continence and urostomy care for adults and children at the Department of Urology of the Radboud university medical centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Hanny is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and is involved in the national continence course for nurses in The Netherlands. In 2015, Hanny was involved in updating (in line with EAUN guidelines) a patient information booklet about clean intermittent catheterisation, including a protocol for nurses, in collaboration with the National Continence Nursing Society of the Netherlands.
Hanny is a member of National Urology Nursing Society (V&VN Urologie Verpleegkundigen), and the National Continence Nursing Society (CV&V). She is also a member of the National Stoma Nursing Society, a member of the ESPU-N (European Society for Paediatric Urology Nurses Group), and a member of the EAUN.
Special interests: urological problems in patients with a neurological diagnosis and (children with) spina bifida and extrophia vesicae, as well as urotherapy in children.
Hanneke Lurvink (NL)
Has worked for EAU since 2006. Was appointed coordinator for all EAUN activities in 2007. Assisted the EAUN Working Groups of all eight EAUN guidelines since 2007 with editorial work, finding the right illustrations, copyright issues, assisting with the literature search, data extraction and finding full-text papers, contributing to the design of clear flowcharts, and playing an important role in the planning and keeping of deadlines.
Hanneke is a member of the Guidelines International Network.
Ian Pearce (UK)
Ian has been a Consultant Urological Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK since 2002 having trained in Nottingham, Stoke and Greater Manchester.
He is currently the Honorary Treasurer Elect of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Urology
Special interest: bladder dysfunction & andrology.