Scientific and Social Programme

Sunday 24 January 2010
3:30 pm REGISTRATION
4:00 pm INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME Jean-Claude Givel, Lausanne
Neil Mortensen, Oxford 
MARC-CLAUDE MARTI LECTURE Chair:  
Jean-Claude Givel
Procare, the Belgian national rectal cancer project Freddy Penninckx, Leuven

 

4:45 pm TEA

 

5:15 pm LESSONS FROM NATIONAL COLORECTAL DATABASES Chairs:
TBC
Use and Abuse of Large National and Society Databases Jason Smith, London
Outcomes from Emergency Colorectal Surgery in Denmark Lene Iversen, Aarhus
Outcomes from Elective Colorectal Surgery in England Omar Faiz, London
Translating Outcomes into Changes inClinical Practice

Paris Tekkis, London

Cases

TBC

8:00 p.m. Drinks Reception Kings' Lounge & Café
Monday 25 January 2010
8:00 am

RECTAL CANCER AFTER NEOADJUVANT THERAPY (NAT)

Chairs:
TBC
 
Can MRI imaging after NAT be trusted Fergus Gleeson, Oxford
Complete Clinical Response still needs Surgery David Sebag-Montefor, Leeds
Complete clinical response - watch and wait is fine Rachel Midgley, Oxford
Local Excision Big Biopsy by TEM Nicolas Demartines, Lausanne
Cases

TBC

11:00 am COFFEE
4:00 pm TEA

 

4:30 pm NOTES IN COLORECTAL SURGERY, IIS SURGERY WITHOUT SCARS THE SAME AS SKIING WITHOUT SNOW?

Chairs:
Ronan Cahill, Oxford
Marc van Berge Henegouwen, Amsterdam

NOTES, the snowball that turned into an avalanche
Marc van Berge Henegouwen, Amsterdam
Monoskiing in Laparoscopic Surgery, SILS Miguel Cuesta, Amsterdam
Technical Advances in Notes: the downhill slalom between advanced laparoscopic surgery, endoscopy and robotics Antonello Forgione, Milan
Skiing uphill or downhill to scarless surgery, Oncological issues
Ronan Cahill, Oxford
Cases

TBC

7:30 pm OWN ARRANGEMENTS FOR DINNER
Tuesday 26 January 2010
8:30 am PROCTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY

Chairs:
TBC

Debate: Ventral Mesh Rectopexy - the solution for all pelvic floor problems Andre d'Hoore, Leuven
Debate: Ventral Mesh Rectopexy - only part of the answer Karen Nugent, Southhampton
VAAF - Video-assisted anal fistula treatment Piercarlo Meinero, Chiavarese
Pathology Update Bryan Warren, Oxford
Cases TBC
11:00 am COFFEE
3:30 pm TEA
4:00 pm INTESTINAL FAILURE AND ENTEROCTANEOUS FISTULAE Chairs:
TBC

Mesenteric Infarction: open or close Bruce George, Oxford
Intestinal Failure: snakes and ladders Iain Anderson, Manchester
High output stomas and enterocutaneous. Fistulae: the stairway to heaven Simon Travis, Oxford
Intestinal transplantation : is it the beginning of the end road ? Thierry Berney, Geneva
Cases

TBC

6:15 pm Return to Hotels
7:15 pm INTERNATIIONAL GUEST LECTURE Chair:
TBC

Mountains, Marines and Medics
Pat Parsons, Derbyshire  Director of the Middle Mountains Company and Ex Commander of the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre
8:15 pm DRINKS
Le Cinéma
9:00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER Le Vieux Verbier