REGISTRATION

OPENING CEREMONY & ELSA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

THREE KEYNOTE LECTURES

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HALL 1

HALL 2

HALL 3

HALL 4

Colorectal Symposium

• Minimally invasive approaches for diverticulitis; Evidence vs controversy
• Staging laparoscopy for metastatic colorectal cancer before HIPEC & peritonectomy. 
• MIS Approaches for splenic flexure tumours
• Single incision colon resection
• Robotic Colorectal Surgery 
• Laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection for rectal cancer

Upper GI Symposium

• The symptomatic patient after anti-reflux surgery: Causes, work-up and management strategies
• Laparoscopic endoscopic approaches for gastric SMTs 
• MIS vs. Endoluminal Approaches for Early gastric cancer
• Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment for gastric diseases: current status and future directions

Hepatobiliary Symposium

• Minimally invasive pancreatic resection
• Minimally invasive approaches to pancreatitis
• Minimally invasive Pancreatoduodenectomy - Prof. Shailesh V. Shrikhande, Mumbai
• Laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy - Prof. Go Wakabayashi, Japan
• Endoscopic and surgical management of non-ampullary duodenal neoplasms - Horacio J Asbun (Mayo Clinic)

Thoracic Symposium

• VATS & RATS- Minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer
• VATS for benign thoracic lesions
• VATS in the management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax

LUNCH SYMPOSIUM & LUNCH

Colorectal Symposium

• Patient selection, indications and contraindications, and procedure outline for taTME
• ICG for localization of lesions and for assessment of bowel perfusion
• EMR for colonic neoplasia
• Complete Mesocolic Excision- Moving Forward or Stepping Back?
• TAMIS vs. TEMS

Upper GI Symposium

• Achalasia management: Heller vs. POEMs
• Robotic gastrectomy
• Laparoscopic gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer: indications and current status
• Laparoscopic &/or thoracoscopic approaches for esophagogastric junction cancer: current status
• Minimal approaches to complications of esophagogastric surgery

Hepatobiliary Symposium

• Learning curve in laparoscopic liver resection - David Geller (USA)
• Robotic liver resection
• Role of laparoscopic approach to colorectal liver metastasis - Catherine Teh (Philipines)
• Safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis

Thoracic Symposium

• Uniportal versus three-ports VATS
• VATS sympathectomy
• How to deal with intra-operative complications by VATS Diego Gonzales Rivas

Paediatric Symposium

• Laparoscopic management of choledochal cyst
• Laparoscopic hernia repair in children: current evidences
• Challenges and special considerations in laparoscopic paediatric surgery

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Colorectal “How I Do It” Symposium

• MIS approaches to right colon
• Complete mesocolic excision
• Re-operative surgery
• Colonic stenting
• Laser haemorrhoidectomy
• taTME Step by Step: Pearls and Planes
• Robotic Transanal Surgery

Upper GI “How I Do It” Symposium

• Laparo/thoracoscopic surgery for esophagogastric junction cancer
• Laparoscopic total/ subtotal gastrectomy
• Laparoscopic fundoplication for paraesophageal hiatal hernia
• Oesophagogastric stenting
• Reconstruction for total/subtotal gastrectomy
• Laparoscopic endoscopic approaches for gastric SMTs
• Laparo/thoracoscopic approaches for esophageal diverticulum

Hepatobiliary “How I Do It” Symposium

• Laparoscopic donor right hepatectomy - Kyung-Suk Suh (Korea)
• Laparoscopic Whipple's resection - Prof. Shailesh V. Shrikhande, Mumbai
• Laparoscopic CBD exploration - BK Yoong, Malaysia
• Laparoscopic liver resection

Paediatric Symposium

• Laparoscopic assisted trans-anal pull through for Hirchsprung's disease
• Bariatric surgery in children
• Advances in paediatric urology MIS
• Thoracoscopy for congenital anomalies

Free paper

ELSA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING

DINNER

HALL 1

HALL 2

HALL 3

HALL 4

Meet the experts Colorectal

TWO KEYNOTE LECTURES

Nutritional optimization/ERAS symposium

• ERAS: Best perioperative care for MIS
• Dietary plan for bariatric surgery
• Nitrogen balance- the virtues in cancer surgery - Shukri Jahit, Malaysia

Endocrine Symposium

• Minimally invasive video assisted parathyroidectomy (MIVAP): Is there still a role
• Transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach (TOETVA): Safer with intraoperative nerve monitoring?
• Debate: Endoscopic thyroidectomy: Breast Axillary approach (BABA) vs Transoral approach (TOETVA) for multinodular goitre
• MIS in the management of paragangliomas - Weifeng Xu
• Current status of Robotic thyroidectomy: Is it an option in developing Asian countries?

Endo-Lap Surgery - Nurses/allied health

Technology & MIS symposium

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Laparoscopic Training Symposium

• Culture and teamwork in surgery
• Surgical Education & Innovation - Wayne Huang Shin-Wei, Taiwan
• Video assessment for ensuring competency in laparoscopic surgery

Endocrine Symposium

• Debate: Trans-peritoneal adrenalectomy or retroperitoneal adrenalectomy for a 4 cm adrenal pheochromocytoma?
• Handling complication of retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy
• Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for large adrenal tumour or for adrenal malignancy
• Partial or cortical sparing adrenalectomy for phaechromocytoma

Endo-Lap Surgery - Nurses/allied health

• Endo-lap Setup. Handling & Care of laparoscopic equipment
• The role of endoscopy nurse in management of GI bleed
• Insertion of endoscopic feeding conduit Hans - Alexander Mahendran, Malaysia
• Care, cleaning, disinfectant and sterilization of endo-lap instruments

Technology & MIS symposium

• ICG in laparoscopic surgery
• Robotic surgery- Past, presence & future
• 3D imaging in MIS - Jack Liu Kai-Che
• Percutaneous Image Guided Treatments- the new MIS
• Hand assisted laparoscopic surgery: real indications and trends
• 3D, 4K and Flex Tip: The latest & greatest technology

LUNCH SYMPOSIUM & LUNCH

Abdominal wall hernias Symposium/ Video Session

• Minimally invasive advances in complex abdominal wall hernia
• Chronic pain after ventral hernia repair: Do we care enough?
• Innovations in ventral hernia repair- New techniques in ventral hernia repair
• Innovations in ventral hernia repair- Pros/Cons Robotic ventral hernia repair?
• Innovations in ventral hernia repair- Stapled abdominoplasty

Endoscopic diagnostics and therapeutics Symposium

• Application of flexible endoscopy and endoscopic surgery: an overview
• Current application of colorectal ESD
• New technologies in endoscopic stenting
• Novel techniques: haemostasis in upper GI bleed

Bariatric Surgery Symposium

• Evidence based pathways in bariatrics
• Managing short/long-term complications of bariatric surgery
• The future of bariatrics, diabetic care, and metabolic surgery
• What's next? New techniques and technologies in bariatric surgery
• Bariatric surgery for super morbid obesity
• Novel & endoscopic techniques in bariatric surgery
• Revisional bariatric surgery

MIS in Emergency Symposium

• The role of MIS in intra-abdominal infections
• The role of MIS in acute abdomen
• The role of MIS in trauma
• The role of MIS in perforated diverticulitis
• The role of diagnostic laparoscopy for critically ill patients in the intensive care unit

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Inguinal hernia Symposium/ Video Session

• Update on current guidelines on laparoscopic hernia repair
• Minimally invasive advances in complex inguinoscrotal hernia
• Video: MIS Rectrorectus Approaches
• Video: Laparoscopic eTEP for ventral hernia

Free paper & poster

Bariatric “How I do it” Session

• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
• Mini-gastric bypass
• Sleeve gastrectomy with duodeno-jejunal bypass
• Salvage surgery for complications

Free paper & poster

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