Scientific Formats

Topic Blocks

Parallel sessions with a specific disease focus providing input from both surgical and medical endoscopic experts. The Topic Block sessions will either be structured to begin with accepted abstract submission presentations on the specific topic, followed by invited speakers comparing and contrasting medical and surgical options, and concluded by a State-of-the-Art presentation given by a keynote speaker summarizing the components of that specific topic; Or the session will be a GI/ Surgery debate with lectures from medical and surgical experts.

Live Demonstration Sessions

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures will be performed at outstanding medical and surgical endoscopic centers with transmission directly to the main auditorium. Emerging technological advances will be demonstrated with emphasis on new and advanced therapeutic techniques. Endoscopic experts using the latest in advanced endoscopes, laparoscopes and accessory equipment, will perform these cases assisted by medical and surgical endoscopic nurses. Through direct two way voice communication, the attendees will have the opportunity of discussing the cases with the faculty that perform the procedures. The sessions will be moderated by medical and surgical interventionalists at the convention center. The goals of this session will be to present not only the techniques of performing the procedures but also the preoperative workup, postprocedural care, and the scope of surgical and endoscopic alternatives for management of varied gastrointestinal diseases.

Experts
Todd Baron // Michael Bourke // David Carr-Locke // Christopher Gostout // Gregory Haber //
Robert Hawes // Haru Inoue // Richard Kozarek // Simon Lo // Claudio Navarette //
Horst Neuhaus // Edward Phillips // Naohisa Yahagi

Hospital
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · 8700 Beverly Blvd. · Los Angeles, CA 90048 · USA

Poster Sessions

Authors present new research findings or the latest in their ongoing research as posters during these 90 minute sessions. These sessions offer an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programs. Posters are grouped by topics for the convenience of those attending the sessions.

Learning Center

The Congress will provide a large, well-equipped Learning Center to emphasize the fundamental changes in the practice of flexible and rigid endoscopy.
The Learning Center will include self-controlled video stations. These will include the ASGE video and SAGES video enduring materials, as well as selected submitted videos.
The interactive or “hands-on” stations of the learning center showing the latest advances along with all available accessory equipment. These stations will be disease and technique based for both rigid and flexible endoscopy. Experts in various medical and surgical procedures will have scheduled sessions to provide pointers to attendees.

Video Forum

Medical / Surgical Video Forums will be constructed by selecting outstanding video abstracts that are topic related. It is expected that the broad fields of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and laparoscopy will be reviewed with high quality video projections submitted by the registered participants and supplemented by Faculty prepared video materials. Emphasis will be given to “how to” and the ancillary needs to perform common and advanced endoscopic procedures. A wide range of indications encompassing screening, diagnosis, cancer staging and therapy will be covered. Time will be allotted for audience questions and comments with the faculty participants. Select sessions will have a direct focus on different facets of endoscopic surgery including management/avoidance of complications, emerging technologies, and innovative uses of existing technologies.

Meet-the-Professor Sessions

Meet-the-Professor breakfast sessions, based on a specific topic of focused interest, will take place in a small group format with an opportunity for direct interaction with both medical endoscopic and surgical endoscopic experts. These sessions, which require an additional attendance fee, will take place each morning prior to the actual meeting and will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.