The Dukes' Club: Trainee Q&A 'No question is stupid'

Panel: Victoria Pegna, Philippa Orchard, Fadlo Shaban

Symposium: Colonoscopy

Chairs: Sarah Mills (London), Katie Cross (Devon)

• The future of surgical endoscopy - Neil Cripps (Chichester)
• Endoscopy academies and immersion fellowships: an update - Geeta Menon (London)
• The future is green: green endoscopy - Bu Hayee (London)
• How to get trained in advanced interventional colonoscopy - Amyn Haji (London)
• Artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: how can it help in decision-making - Yuichi Mori (Oslo, Norway)
• ACPGBI and GIEQs collaboration on colonoscopy - David Tate

Symposium: Abdominal Wall

Chairs: Toby Hammond (Chelmsford), Rhiannon Harries (Swansea), David Messenger (Bristol)

• Managing the open abdomen - Ian Botterill (Leeds)
• Abdominal component separation technique - Duncan Scrimgeour (Aberdeen)
• Parastomal hernia (surely they don’t recur) - Ian Daniels (Exeter)
• Preventing incisional hernias - Jared Torkington (Cardiff)
• Phone call to transfer the sick post operative septic patient - Neena Randhawa (Newcastle)

ACPGBI Patient Liaison Group

• Welcome - Robert Arnott, Chair of ACPGBI Patient Liaison Group (Gloucestershire)
• Setting the scene - Ian Jackson, ACPGBI Patient Liaison Group (East Midlands)
• Pre-surgery - Susan Moug (Glasgow)
• Post-surgery and enhanced recovery - James Park (Glasgow)
• Going home - Cathie King (Highland)
• The ACPGBI Patient Liaison Group: here to offer advice to professionals and help to fellow patients

Association of Coloproctology Nurses: AGM and Short Paper Session

Selected Short Papers:

• Addressing sexual well-being in people living with a permanent stoma, a rapid review of evidence - S Fourie, University of Oxford, King’s College London
• Important elements of a bowel dysfunction service after rectal cancer surgery: semi-structured patient interviews - J Burch, C Taylor, A Wilson, St Mark’s Hospital London, C Norton, King’s College London
• Regional differences in CCG referral practice for sacral neuromodulation in patients with faecal incontinence - CL Hides, RL Jones, KS Chapple, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
• A qualitative questionnaire-based study to investigate patient preference and barriers for the timing of bowel preparation prior to morning colonoscopy - J Dash, K Siggens, M Baker-Moffatt, L Bombeo, H Downe, S Aslam, H Htet, P Bhandari, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

ACPN Workshop on Stratified follow-up
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Debate: This House Believes that Diagnostic Colonoscopy is Dying

Chair: Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand)

• For: Baljit Singh (Leicester)
• Against: Claire McNaught (Harrogate)

ESCP Lecture

• The evolution of pouch surgery - Antonino Spinelli (Milan, Italy)

Symposium: Anal Cancer

Chairs: Tamzin Cuming (London), Andrew Renehan (Manchester)

• Better understanding of the risk factors and prevention of anal cancer - Gary Clifford (Lyon, France)
• Treatment of HSIL: the evidence for benefit from intervention - Tamzin Cuming (London)
• Personalising treatment for anal cancer: the PLATO trial and the Norwegian stratified approach - Marianne G. Guren (Oslo, Norway)
• Improving outcomes after treatment of anal cancer and AIN: the mACARA database - Danielle Brogden (London)
• Measuring standardised outcomes: CORMAC and CORMAC 2 - Rebecca Fish (Manchester)
• Pre-treatment colostomy and peri-anal fistula in patients with anal cancer - Nooreen Alam

Symposium: Surgery 4.0

Chair: David Jayne (Leeds)

• In silico trials - Alex Frangi, Diamond Jubilee Chair of Computational Medicine, University of Leeds
• Virtual and mixed realities - Mark Mon-Williams, Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Leeds
• Digital health and digital twins - David King, Head of Digital Design, Advanced Manufacturing and Research Centre, Sheffield
• Robotics - Moshen Khadem

Colorectal Techno Dragon's Den

Panel: Dion Morton (Birmingham), Sue Clark (London), Charles Evans (Coventry), Doug Speake (Edinburgh)

Symposium: Liver Mets - what can be achieved

Chairs: Raj Prasad (Leeds), Anya Adair (Edinburgh)

• Current status of liver resection for colorectal mets - Raaj Praseedom (Cambridge)
• Transplantation and liver mets - Krish Menon (London)

Industry lunchtime session

Symposium: Intraoperative Challenges and Disasters

Chair: Sharmila Gupta (Colchester), Julian Hance (Leeds)

• Penetrating and blunt abdominal trauma - Stella Smith (Manchester)
• Tips and tricks to control massive bleeding - Kate Hancorn (London)
• Laparoscopic errors and stapling failures - Tom Cecil (Basingstoke)
• The call to the gynaecology theatre - Des Barton (Dartford)
• The call to the obstetric theatre - Julie Cornish (Cardiff)
• Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) - Mark Cheetham (Shrewsbury)

Symposium: Robotics

Chairs: Nuha Yassin (Wolverhampton), Josh Burke (Leeds), Ken Campbell (Dundee)

• MAS and rectal cancer - Henry Tilney (Frimley Park)
• Intracorporeal anastomosis - Irshad Shaikh (Norwich)
• Robot is key to low anterior resection - Jim Khan (Portsmouth)
• Getting trained and setting up a service/introducing a new department - Deena Harji (Manchester)
• Multivisceral resection + RPLN/PSW dissection - Paris Tekkis (London)

BJS Lecture

• Diverticular disease: who gets recurrence and why: the role of microbiome - Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Symposium: Today’s Proctocology Clinic

Chairs: Phil Tozer (London), Lillian Reza (London)

• The evidence is piling up - Ciaran Walsh (The Wirral)
• What I want for my ‘roids - Jamshed Shabbir (Bristol)
• Troublesome pilonidal disease - Steve Brown (Sheffield)
• All you need to know about sex (ually transmitted disease) - Ruth Taylor (Nottingham)
• I’m itching to talk about this… - Jennie Grainger (Chester)

Symposium: Publish or Perish

Chairs: Neil Smart (Exeter), Gabrielle van Ramshorst (Ghent, Belgium)

• An editor's view - Martyn Evans (Swansea)
• Peer reviewing: top tips and tricks of the trade - Yasuko Maeda (Glasgow)
• Writing English - Frank McDermott (Exeter)
• The faking research wars - John Carlisle (Torbay)
• Research fraud - Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Consultants' Corner

Chairs: Jared Torkington (Cardiff), Laura Hancock (Manchester)

Panel: Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand), Gill Tierney (Derby), Dorin Ziyaie (Dundee), Dale Vimalachandran (Chester)