Scientific Programme
| Sunday 24 January 2010 | ||
| 3:30 pm | REGISTRATION | |
| 4:00 pm | INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME | Jean-Claude Givel, Lausanne Neil Mortensen, Oxford |
| 4:10 pm | 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 - TOO MANY NUMBERS? |
Chairs: Paul Finan, Leeds Dieter Hahnloser, Zürich |
| 5:15 pm | Use and Abuse of Large National and Society Databases | Jason Smith, London |
| 5:30 pm | Outcomes from Emergency Colorectal Surgery in Denmark | Lene Iversen, Aarhus |
| 5:45 pm | Outcomes from Elective Colorectal Surgery in England | Omar Faiz, London |
| 6:00 pm | Translating Outcomes into Changes in Clinical Practice | Paris Tekkis, London |
| 6:30 pm | Cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 8:00 p.m. | Drinks Reception | Kings’ Lounge & Café |
| Monday 25 January 2010 | ||
| 8:00 am | RECTAL CANCER AFTER NEOADJUVANT THERAPY (NAT) - STILL MANY UNSANSWERED QUESTIONS |
Chairs: Adam Dziki, Lodz Vincent Bettschart, Sion |
| 8:00 am | Setting the Scene. Interim Analysis of the Lithuanian Short Course and Delay vs Chemoradiation Trial (NCT 005997311) |
Dainius Pavalkis, Kaunas |
| 8:10 am | Can MRI Imaging after NAT be Trusted? | Fergus Gleeson, Oxford |
| 8:25 am | Complete Clinical Response still Needs Surgery | David Sebag-Montefiore, Leeds |
| 8:40 am | Complete Clinical Response – Watch and Wait is fine | Rachel Midgley, Oxford |
| 8:55 am | Local Excision Big Biopsy by TEM | Nicolas Demartines, Lausanne |
| 9:30 am | Cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 11:00 am | COFFEE | |
| 1:00 pm | MEET THE PROFESSORS SESSION | |
| 4:00 pm | TEA | |
| 4:30 pm | NOTES IN COLORECTAL SURGERY. IS SURGERY WITHOUT SCARS THE SAME AS SKIING WITHOUT SNOW? |
Chairs: Oliver Jones, Oxford Willem Bemelman, Amsterdam |
| 4:30 pm | NOTES, the Snowball that Turned into an Avalanche | Marc van Berge Henegouwen, Amsterdam |
| 4:45pm | Monoskiing in Laparoscopic Surgery: Single Port Surgery | Philippe Morel, Geneva |
| 5:00pm | Technological Advances in NOTES: the Downhill Slalom between Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Endoscopy and Robotics |
Antonello Forgione, Milan |
| 5:15pm | Skiing Uphill or Downhill to Scarless Surgery, Oncological Issues |
Ronan Cahill, Oxford |
| 6:00pm | Cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 7:30 pm | OWN ARRANGEMENTS FOR DINNER | |
| Tuesday 26 January 2010 | ||
| 8:00 am | PROCTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY - ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW |
Chairs: Dimitri Christoforidis, Lausanne Mike Parker, Dartford |
| 8:00 am | Cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 8:30 am | STARR with Contour Transtaar. A European Feasibility Multicenter Study With 1 Year Functional Results |
Guillaume Meurette, France |
| 8:45 am | Debate: Ventral Mesh Rectopexy – The Solution for all Pelvic Floor Problems? |
André d’Hoore, Leuven |
| 9:00 am | Debate: Ventral Mesh Rectopexy – Only Part of the Solution? | Karen Nugent, Southampton |
| 9:15 am | Discussion and Vote! | |
| 9:30 am | VAAF – Video-Assisted Anal Fistula Treatment | Piercarlo Meinero, Chiavarese |
| 9:45 am | Pathology Update – What is the Latest In TNM and Why? | Phil Quirke, Leeds |
| 10:00 am | More cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 11:00 am | COFFEE | |
| 1:00 pm | MEET THE PROFESSORS SESSION | |
| 3:30 pm | TEA | |
| 4:00 pm | INTESTINAL FAILURE AND ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULAE – TOUGH LOVE |
Chairs: Andrew Shorthouse, Sheffield Cédric Vallet, Morges |
| 4:00 pm | Mesenteric Infarction: Open or Close? | Bruce George, Oxford |
| 4:15 pm | Intestinal Failure: Snakes and Ladders | Iain Anderson, Manchester |
| 4:30 pm | High Output Stomas and Enterocutaneous Fistulae: the Stairway to Heaven |
Simon Travis, Oxford |
| 4:45 pm | Intestinal Transplantation: Is it the Beginning or the End of the Road ? |
Thierry Berney, Geneva |
| 5:15 pm | Cases | Iain Anderson, Manchester Fergus Gleeson, Oxford Daniel Royston, Oxford |
| 6:15 pm | Return to Hotels | |
| 7:15 pm | INTERNATIONAL GUEST LECTURE | Chair: Neil Mortensen, Oxford |
| Mountains, Marines and Medics | Pat Parsons, Matlock, Director of the Middle Mountains Company and Former Officer Commanding the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre | |
| 8:15 pm | DRINKS | Le Cinéma |
| 9:00 pm | CONFERENCE DINNER | Le Vieux Verbier |