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23rd International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)

Incorporating the annual RAES congress

Breaking the frontiers of minimal invasive surgery

Scientific program 4-5-6 June 2015 Thursday, 4th June 2015 07.30 - 08.15 Free paper video session S01 Early morning videos 1 Chairs: Calin Tiu (Romania), Svend Schulze (Denmark) 08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S02 Hot topics in bariatric surgery; joint with RAES Chairs: Catalin Copaescu (Romania), Davide Lomanto (Singapore) 08.30 - 08.45 How much sleeve is enough for effective weight loss - Ciprian Duta (Romania) 08.45 - 09.00 Bypass or BPD-DS to rescue a failed sleeve? - Antonio Iannelli (France) 09.00 - 09.15 Which bypass is better: Omega or Roux en Y? - Ramon Vilallonga (Spain) 09.15 - 09.30 How to avoid and manage complications in bariatric surgery? - Marius Nedelcu (Romania) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S03 Controversies in minimally invasive groin hernia repair; joint with RAES Chairs: Marek Solts (Slovak Republic), Adrian Miron (Romania) 08.30 - 08.45 TAPP vs TEP; are we working in the same place? - Mihai Matei (Romania) 08.45 - 09.00 Time to decide for TAPP - Isaias Alarcn (Spain) 09.00 - 09.15 Endoscopic re-do for recurrences - Sorin Vartolomei (Romania/France) 09.15 - 09.30 Late follow up of MIS hernia repair. Do we need a registry? - Adrian Park (USA) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER

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08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S04 Management of dysplastic and early cancer of the oesophagus; joint with ESDE Chairs: George Hanna (UK), Manuel Pera (Spain) 08.30 - 08.45 Surveillance program and chemoprevention in BE patients - Janusz Jankowski (UK) 08.45 - 09.00 Endoscopic resective therapies (Mucosectomy, Emr) - Alessandro Repici (Italy) 09.00 - 09.15 Endoscopic ablative therapies (Rfa, Cryotherapy) - Bas Weusten (The Netherlands) 09.15 - 09.30 MI esophagectomy for early cancer - Richard van Hillegersberg (The Netherlands) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S05 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S06 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper video session S07 10.30 - 12.00 Scientific session S08 Face to Face 1: WEST meets EAST (online voting system) 10.30 - 11.15 a) Moderator: George Hanna (UK)

MIS robotic gastric surgery - Young Woo Kim ( Korea) vs MIS gastric surgery - Donald van der Peet (The Netherlands)

11.15 - 12.00 b) Moderator: Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway)

Intersphincteric rectal resection for low rectal cancer: A valuable option or a useless technique? Gyu Seog Choi (Korea) vs Timothy Rockall (UK)

10.30 - 12.00 Scientific session S09 Metabolic response after BS Chairs: Rudolf Weiner (Germany), Gunnar Ahlberg (Sweden) 10.30 - 10.45 The effect of sleeve gastrectomy on weight and diabetes type 2 - David Goitein (Israel) 10.45 - 11.00 Mechanism of malabsorbitive procedures - TBA

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11.00 - 11.15 Malabsorption consequences - Yunus Yavuz (Turkey) 11.15 - 11.30 Which surgery for adolescents? A need for guidelines! - Luigi Angrisani (Italy) 11.30 - 11.45 FREE PAPER 10.30 - 12.00 Scientific session S10 Laparoscopic biliary tract surgery: no rose without a thorn Chairs: Alessandro Paganini (Italy), Traian Patrascu (Romania) 10.30 - 10.45 Fluorescence cholangiography during lap chole - Rutger Schols (The Netherlands) 10.45 - 11.00 Which strategy for patients with suspected bile duct stones? - Florin Turcu (Romania) 11.00 - 11.15 Laparoscopic bile duct stones exploration - Michael Rhodes (UK) 11.15 - 11.30 BD injuries post cholecystectomy. Analysis of a nationwide database - Linda Bardram (Denmark) 11.30 - 11.45 FREE PAPER 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper oral session S11 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper oral session S12 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper video session S13 12.00 - 12.20 Lecture S14 Jacques Prissat lecture: Two decades of laparoscopic bariatric surgery Speaker: Michel Gagner (Canada) 12.30 - 13.30 Luncheon Meet the professor 1. Bariatrics - Michel Gagner (Canada) 2. Colorectal - Mario Morino (Italy) 3. Technology - Amir Szold (Israel) 4. Emergency - Selman Urans (Austria) 5. Esophageal surgery - Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany) (only for participants who have registered for this event)

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13.45 - 15.15 Free paper poster presentation S15 Poster session 1 Chairs: Amir Szold (Israel) 13.45 - 15.15 Free paper poster presentation S16 Poster session 2 Chairs: Giovanni Zaninotto (UK) 13.45 - 15.15 Free paper poster presentation S17 Poster session 3 Chairs: Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway) 13.45 - 15.15 Free paper poster presentation S18 Poster session 4 Chairs: Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands) 15.45 - 17.15 Scientific session S19 Bariatrics unedited videos Chairs: Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy), Michel Gagner (Canada) 15.45 - 16.30 Sleeve after Band: one stage vs two stages; David Nocca (France)

vs. Gianfranco Silecchia (Italy) 16.30 - 17.15 Gastric Bypass: Classic Roux-en-Y vs. Double loop; TBA vs. Rudolf Weiner (Germany) 15.45 - 17.15 Scientific session S20 Surgical Endoscopy festival Chairs: Alfred Cuschieri (UK), Mark Talamini (USA), Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands) 15.45 - 17.15 Scientific session S21 Difficult situations and controversies in upper GI surgery Chairs: Catalin Vasilescu (Romania), Minhua Zheng (China) 15.45 - 16.00 Management of large oesophageal diverticula - Riccardo Rosati (Italy) 16.00 - 16.15 Management of incarcerated intrathoracic stomach Stavros Antoniou (Greece) 16.15 - 16.30 Sentinel node identification in early gastric cancer - Jeroen Meijerink (The Netherlands) 16.30 - 16.45 MIS in advanced gastric carcinoma - Seigo Kitano (Japan)

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16.45 - 17.00 FREE PAPER 15.45 - 17.15 Free paper oral session S22 15.45 - 17.15 Free paper oral session S23 15.45 - 17.15 Free paper video session S24 17.15 - 18.30 Free paper oral session S25 EAES Video Award session Chairs: Roberto Bergamaschi (Norway), Giovanni Zaninotto (UK), Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands) 17.15 - 18.30 Scientific session S26 EURONOTES Chairs: Mario Morino (Italy), Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany) 17.15 - 17.30 The EURONOTES Registry - Alberto Arezzo (Italy) 17.30 - 17.45 Trans-vaginal procedures: are they accepted? - Francesco Corcione (Italy) 17.45 - 18.00 Trans-anal colon resection for benign colon disease - Antonio Lacy (Spain) 18.00 - 18.15 Trans-esophageal and transgastric procedures - Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany) 18.15 - 18.30 FREE PAPER 17.15 - 18.30 Scientific session S27 MIS for liver metastasis Chairs: Svend Schulze (Denmark), Irinel Popescu (Romania) 17.15 - 17.30 Combined hybrid approach: Interventional radiologist and MI surgeon - Franco Orsi (Italy) 17.30 - 17.45 Major liver laparoscopic resections - Takeo Nomi (France) 17.45 - 18.00 Laparoscopic ALPS - Long Jiao (UK) 18.00 - 18.15 Robotic approach - Mikhail Efanov (Russia) 18.15 - 18.30 FREE PAPER

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17.15 - 18.30 Free paper oral session S28 17.15 - 18.30 Free paper oral session S29 17.15 - 18.30 Free paper video session S30

Friday, 5th June 2015 07.30 - 08.15 Free paper video session S31 Early morning videos 2 Chairs: Magnus Kjellman (Sweden), Baki Topal (Belgium) 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper video session S32 Controversies in the management of early rectal cancer; joint with ESCP Chairs: Yves Panis (France), Yuri Shelygin (Russia) 08.30 - 08.45 Indications: how far can we go? Giovanni Romano (Italy) 08.45 - 09.00 ESD - Alessandro Repici (Italy) 09.00 - 09.15 TEM, TEO or TAMIS? - Victor Tomulescu (Romania) 09.15 - 09.30 EPMR (endoscopic partial mesorectal excision) - Mario Morino (Italy) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S33 D30 Gerhard Buess Technology award session Chairs: Amir Szold (Israel), Gunnar Ahlberg (Sweden), Wolfgang Wayand (Austria) 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper video session S34 Alternative technical options for MIS adrenalectomy and splenectomy Chairs: Selman Urans (Austria), Fulger Lazar (Romania) 08.30 - 08.45 Partial laparoscopic splenectomy - Catalin Vasilescu (Romania) 08.45 - 09.00 Single port splenectomy: any advantage? - EduardoTargarona (Spain) 09.00 - 09.15 Transperitoneal submesocolic left adrenalectomy- Alessandro Paganini (Italy)

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09.15 - 09.30 Single port retroperitoneal adrenalectomy - Pier Francesco Alesina (Germany) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S35 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S36 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper video session S37 10.30 - 12.00 Scientific session S38 Face to Face 2: WEST meets EAST (online voting system) Moderator: Giovanni Zaninotto (UK) 10.30 - 11.15 MIE Esophagectomy three field - Chang Hyuan Kang (Korea) vs.

MIE Ivor Lewis - Richard van Hillegersberg (The Netherlands) Moderator: Bjorn Edwin (Norway) 11.15 - 12.00 Open hepatic resection - Guido Torzilli (Italy) vs.

Laparoscopic hepatic resection - Go Wakabayashi (Japan) 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper oral session S39 D29 Karl Storz Award session Chairs: Mario Morino (Italy), Catalin Copaescu (Romania), Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy),

George Hanna (UK) 10.30 - 12.00 Scientific session S40 What we can learn from other surgical specialties Chairs: Antonello Forgione (Italy), Thomas Lang (Norway) 10.30 - 10.45 Overview: What can we learn - Andreas Melzer (UK) 10.45 - 11.00 Neurosurgery; MRI, navigation endoscopy ultrasound pacing - Uve Spetzger (Germany) 11.00 - 11.15 Cardiovascular fluoroscopy, electrophysiology endoscopy - Daniel Wendt (Germany) 11.15 - 11.30 Vascular surgery, endoscopy, radiology - Dan Deleanu (Romania) 11.30 - 11.45 New technologies in ophthalmology - Florin Balta (Romania)

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10.30 - 12.00 Free paper oral session S41 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper oral session S42 10.30 - 12.00 Free paper video session S43 12.00 - 12.20 Lecture S44 Key note lecture

Regenerative medicine: the new frontier of surgery Speaker: Paolo de Coppi (UK) 13.40 - 14.00 Lecture S45 Sir Alfred Cuschieri Technology lecture

GI pathologies: will surgeons still be there in 2040? Speaker: Lee Swanstrom (USA / France) 14.00 - 15.15 Scientific session S46 3D Video - colorectal surgery Chairs: Antonia Wells (UK), Petr Tsarkov (Russia) 14.00 - 14.15 Recognizing and repairing ureteral and vescical perforations during lap. colorectal surgery - Lubomir Martinek (Czech Republic) 14.15 - 14.30 Robotic strictureplasty in Crohns - Simona Giuratrabocchetta (Italy) 14.30 - 14.45 Rectovaginal endometriosis - Bogdan Smeu (Romania) 14.45 - 15.00 Robotic pelvic exenteration - Seon-Hahn Kim (Korea) 14.00 - 15.15 Free paper oral session S47 European Cup for national societies Chairs: President: Mario Morino (Italy), President-elect: Eduardo Targarona (Spain), past president: Karl-Hermann Fuchs (Germany)

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14.00 - 14.15 Israel: Effects of pneumoperitoneum on renal function in rats with experimental DM as compared with normal rats - Wisam Abboud (Israel) 14.15 - 14.30 Spain: Clinical, anatomical and pathological grading score to predict technical difficulty in laparoscopic splenectomy for non-traumatic diseases -Carlos Rodriguez-Otero Luppi (Spain) 14.30 - 14.45 UK: Factors predicting 30 days re-admission after laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery within enhanced recovery - Jennifer Mason (UK) 14.45 - 15.00 Lithuania: Laparoscopic rectum resection: natural orifice specimen extraction technique - Rokas Rakauskas (Lithuania) 15.00 - 15.15 TBA 14.00 - 15.15 Scientific session S48 Controversies in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair Chairs: Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands), Alexandru Nicolau (Romania) 14.00 - 14.15 Laparoscopic approach: a new gold standard - Salvador Morales Conde (Spain) 14.15 - 14.30 Which mesh is better - Maciej Smietanski (Poland) 14.30 - 14.45 Absorbable or permanent fixation - Davide Lomanto (Singapore) 14.45 - 15.00 Abdominal border defect: extreme surgery - Filip Muysoms (Belgium) 15.00 - 15.15 FREE PAPER 14.00 - 15.15 Free paper oral session S49 14.00 - 15.15 Free paper oral session S50 14.00 - 15.15 Free paper video session S51 15.15 - 16.45 Scientific session S52 Consensus conference: Appendicitis Chair: Jaap Bonjer (The Netherlands) Expert panel: Andras Vereczkei (Hungary), Michael Rhodes (UK), Luigi Boni (Italy), Ramon Vilallonga (Spain), Filip Muysoms (Belgium), Stavros Antoniou (Greece), Florin Iordache (Romania), Mahir zmen (Turkey), Peter Go (The Netherlands), Marijn Poelman (The Netherlands)

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16.45 - 18.00 Scientific session S53 Laparoscopy in emergency surgery; joint with RAES Chairs: Mircea Beuran (Romania), Wolfgang Wayand (Austria) 16.45 - 17.00 Management of cholecystitis - Razvan Popescu (Romania) 17.00 - 17.15 Laparoscopy in trauma surgery - Selman Urans (Austria) 17.15 - 17.30 Treatment of perforations; MIS treatment - Sorin Lunca (Romania) 17.30 - 17.45 Obstructed left colon cancer: options (incl. stenting) - Elsa Valsdttir (Iceland) 17.45 - 18.00 FREE PAPER 16.45 - 18.00 Scientific session S54 Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision Chairs: Seon-Hahn Kim (Korea), Gabriel Dimofte (Romania) 16.45 - 17.00 Indication and technique One size fits all? - Pierpaolo Sileri (Italy) 17.00 - 17.15 Another option up our sleeves? - Florin Iordache (Romania) 17.15 - 17.30 Totally transanal or combined? - Antonio Lacy (Spain) 17.30 - 17.45 Any role for the robot? - Paolo Bianchi (italy) 17.45 - 18.00 FREE PAPER 16.45 - 18.00 Free paper oral session S55 EAES Research grants session Chairs: Giovanni Zaninotto (UK), George Hanna (UK) 16.45 - 16.57 Serious gaming; bridging the gap between skills centre and operating theatre - Magdalena Chmarra (The Netherlands) 16.57 - 17.09 INCH trial - Charlotte Deijen (The Netherlands) 17.09 - 17.21 Mechanisms underlying the cure of T2DM by bariatric surgery - Yoav Mintz (Israel) 17.21 - 17.33 The ORANGE II PLUS - Trial: An international multicentre randomised controlled trial of open versus laparoscopic hemihepatectomy - Edgar Wong-Lun-Hing (The Netherlands) 17.33 - 17.45 The effect of extreme Trendelenburg positioning on cognitive function using magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging and the n-back test - Austin Acheson (UK) 17.45 - 17.57 Optimizing working space in thoracoscopy: CT measurement of the effect of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in a porcine model - John Vlot (The Netherlands) 16.45 - 18.00 Free paper oral session

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S56 16.45 - 18.00 Free paper oral session S57 16.45 - 18.00 Free paper video session S58

Saturday, 6th June 2015 07.30 - 08.15 Free paper video session S59 Early morning videos 3 Chairs: Mahir zmen (Turkey) 08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S60 New devices for the bariatric patient Chairs: Natan Zundel (USA) 08.30 -08.45 Balloons- Best fit for low BMIs? - Gontrand Lopez-Nava Breviere (Spain) 08.45 - 09.00 Endoscopic sleeve devices - Nicole Bouvy (The Netherlands) 09.00 - 09.15 Endoluminal suturing devices - Roman Turro (Spain) 09.15 - 09.30 Long term efficacy of the available endoluminal bariatric solutions - Jerome Dargent (France) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S61 Reduced port laparoscopy Chairs: Francisco Snchez-Margallo (Spain), Barry Salky (USA) 08.30 - 08.45 Single incision colon resection - Luigi Boni (Italy) 08.45 - 09.00 Single incision liver resection - Ibrahim Dagher (France) 09.00 - 09.15 Single incision bariatric surgery - TBA 09.15 - 09.30 Single incision laparoscopic surgery in pediatric patients - Maud van Herwaarden (The Netherlands)

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09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Scientific session S62 Evaluation of surgical quality Chairs: Edmund Neugebauer (Germany), Adrian Park (USA) 08.30 - 08.45 Objective evaluation of surgical competency -Teodor Grantcharov (Denmark) 08.45 - 09.00 Objective assessment of laparoscopic upper GI surgery - George Hanna (UK) 09.00 - 09.15 Objective assessment of bariatric surgery - Nicola Di Lorenzo (Italy) 09.15 - 09.30 Objective assessment of laparoscopic rectal surgery - Nader Francis (UK) 09.30 - 09.45 FREE PAPER 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S63 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper oral session S64 08.30 - 10.00 Free paper video session S65 10.00 - 11.30 Scientific session S66 Colorectal unedited videos Chairs: Abe Fingerhut (France), Gyrgy Lzr (Hungary) 10.00 - 10.45 Single-incision vs. multiport ileorectal anastomosis Ronan Cahill (Ireland) vs Inna Tulina (Russia) 10.45 - 11.30 Laparoscopic vs. robotic low anterior resection for rectal cancer

Dursun Bugra (Turkey) vs. Irinel Popescu (Romania) 10.00 - 11.30 Scientific session S67 Whats new in robotic surgery Chairs: Amir Szold (Israel), Alberto Arezzo (Italy) 10.00 - 10.15 Update in Robotic SILS Konstantinos Konstantinidis (Greece) 10.15 - 10.30 Bio-inspired robots - Arianna Menciassi (Italy) 10.30 - 10.45 New kids on the block - Yoav Mintz (Israel)

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10.45 - 11.00 MRC/EME ROLARR trial; the first results - David Jayne (UK) 11.00 - 11.15 A proposal to standardize robotic rectal surgery: the European Academy - Amjad Parvaiz (UK) 10.00 - 11.30 Scientific session S68 Endoluminal surgery tools Chairs: Joris Jaspers (The Netherlands), Adrian Saftoiu (Romania) 10.00 - 10.15 Robotic platforms - Adrian Lobontiu (Romania/France) 10.15 - 10.30 Surgical endoscopes - Silvana Perretta (France) 10.30 - 10.45 Articulating instruments - Jenny Dankelman (The Netherlands) 10.45 - 11.00 Suturing - Lee Swanstrom (France/ USA) 11.00 - 11.15 FREE PAPER 10.00 - 11.30 Free paper oral session S69 10.00 - 11.30 Free paper oral session S70 10.00 - 11.30 Free paper video session S71 11.30 - 13.00 Scientific session S72 Colorectal surgery bandwagon; joint with RAES Chairs: Paolo Bianchi (Italy), Dan Ulmeanu (Romania) 11.30 - 11.45 Is there a role for hand assisted surgery today ? - Bodgan Martian (Romania) 11.45 - 12.00 Is intra-corporeal ileocolic anastomosis worth the effort ? - Samson Tou (UK) 12.00 - 12.15 Single incision: Boutique for whom? - Vasile Bintintan (Romania) 12.15 - 12.30 Intraoperative evaluation of blood supply prior to anastomosis - Cristan Anderson (Norway) 12.30 - 12.45 FREE PAPER 11.30 - 13.00 Scientific session S73 New solutions for UGI benign disease Chairs: Yoav Mintz (Israel), Adrian Lobontiu (Romania)

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11.30 - 11.45 Esophageal pacing in GERD - Stephen Attwood (UK) 11.45 - 12.00 Esophageal magnetic ring - Luigi Bonavina (ITALY) 12.00 - 12.15 Gastric pacing - Mario Costantini (ITALY) 12.15 - 12.30 POEM - Lee Swanstrom (USA/France) 12.30 - 12.45 FREE PAPER 11.30 - 13.00 Scientific session S74 Minimally invasive pancreatic surgery Chairs: Victor Tomulescu (Romania), Eugenia Yiannakopoulou (Greece) 11.30 - 11.45 Laparoscopic vs robotic pancreatectomy - Igor Khatkov (Russia) 11.45 - 12.00 Controversies in distal pancreatic resection - Fernando Rotellar (Spain) 12.00 - 12.15 Role of MIS in neuroendocrine tumors of pancreas - Sven-Petter Haugvik (Norway) 12.15 - 12.30 Cystic tumor of pancreas: any role for MIS? - Airazat Kazaryan (Norway) 12.30 - 12.45 FREE PAPER 11.30 - 13.00 Free paper oral session S75 11.30 - 13.00 Free paper oral session S76 11.30 - 13.00 Free paper video session S77 13.00 - 13.30 Closing ceremony