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SAGES 2008 Program Outline

(as of Nov. 2007)

SAGES Program Chair: Adrian Park, MD

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

• Half Day Postgraduate Course: Pearls & Pitfalls of Solid Organ MIS
• Half Day Session: Equipping the Surgeon/Training the Jedi
• Half Day Postgraduate Course: Challenging Hernias
• Half Day Postgraduate Course: MIS and Cancer
• Half Day Hands-On Course: Surgeon in the Digital Age
• Half Day Hands-On Course: Solid Organ
• Half Day Panel: Pediatric

Thursday, April 10, 2008

• Full Day Hands-On Course: FLS
• Half Day Session: Best of NOTES™
• Half Day Postgraduate Course: MIS Rectal Disease
• Half Day Session: Device Development – From Concept to Cash
• Half Day Postgraduate Course: Allied Health: The Evolution of Minimally Invasive Therapies: Impact on Today’s OR
• Foundation Awards Luncheon
• Half Day Session: Motility Misery: A Growing Problem - Diagnosis and Management from Oropharynx to Anus
• Half Day Postgraduate Course: Bariatric – Management of Complex Patients
• Half Day Hands-On Course: Endolumenal
• Half Day Hands-On Course: Colorectal
• Panel: OR/Hospital of the Future
• Panel: Rural Surgeon
• Exhibits/Posters/Learning Center Opening Welcome Reception 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
• Industry Education Evening Symposia

Friday, April 11, 2008

Scientific Sessions

• SAGES/AHS Panel: Hernia Consensus Panel on Bio Materials
• SAGES/ASMBS Panel: Diabetes Mellitus: A Surgical Disease?
• SAGES/ASCRS Panel: Colon
• Presidential Address: Steve Eubanks, MD
• Marks Lecture: James Butch Rosser, MD
• Educators Lunch: Maintenance of Certification/Practice Based Learning
• Exhibits – Posters – Learning Center OPEN 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
• Panel: The Changing Face of Robots and MIS
• Presidential Debates
• Panel: Fellowship and MIS Program Coordinators Forum
• SAGES/ASGE Panel: Complications & Management of Flexible Endoscopy
• Panel: Planning/Building/Operating a Simulation Center
• SAGES/JSES Panel: The Difference of Endoscopic Surgery Between US & Japan
• Residents & Fellows Scientific Session
• Meet the Leadership Reception
• Main Event & Sing-Off

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Scientific Sessions

• Panel: Leading in America Relevant to the World
• Pharmaceutical Panels: Fast Track MIS; The Unique Pharmacological & Nutritional
• Needs of the Bariatric Surgical Patient
• Storz Lecture: Thomas Krummell, MD
• Health Policy Lecture: Sir Ara Darzi, MD
• Surgeons in Service Lunch
• Exhibits – Posters – Learning Center
• OPEN 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
• Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (free to all attendees)
• Emerging Technologies Session
• Panel: GERD/LERD – ARS is not Dead!
• Panel: Business/Legislative
• Panel: “Now What Do I Do?” Intraoperative and Reoperative MIS Dilemmas
• Debate: The Great Hernia Debate