17. About the authors
Veronika Geng (DE)
Registered Nurse, Infection Control Practitioner, Coach for Quality in Health Care, MSc in health science specialisation in nursing.
Veronika Geng currently works as a head of an advice centre for people with spinal cord injury especially for bowel and bladder problems 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 male external catheters and also produced instructional videotapes on the topics Male external catheter and intermittent catheterisation.
Special interests: nutrition, bladder and bowel management in people with spinal cord injury.
Hanneke Lurvink (NL)
Hanneke Lurvink has worked for the European Association of Urology since 2006. She was appointed coordinator for all European Association of Urology Nurses (EAUN) activities in 2006. She has assisted the EAUN Working Groups for all eight EAUN Guidelines since 2007 with editorial work, finding the right illustrations, copyright, literature search, data extraction and retrieving full-text papers, contributing to the design of flowcharts, and playing an important role in the planning and keeping of deadlines. She 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 Vice President and Honorary Secretary of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS).
Special interests: bladder dysfunction and andrology
Susanne Vahr Lauridsen (DK)
Susanne Vahr Lauridsen is a Clinical RN and Senior Researcher, working at the Surgical Department, Herlev-Gentofte, Copenhagen University Hospitals and at WHO-CC, the Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark. She has a Master in HRD/Adult Learning and a PhD.
She has worked in the field of urology since 1992.
Susanne is doing research in clinical health promotion with special focus on modifiable lifestyle factors Smoking – Nutrition – Alcohol – Physical inactivity (SNAP) and prevention of catheter-associated UTIs and trauma to the urinary tract.
Susanne is a member of the Danish Association of Urology Nurses and of the Danish Nurses Research Council.
Special interests: The patient perspective in order to improve outcomes and implementation of current guidelines.