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Session |
08:00-09:00 |
The Dukes' Club: Trainee Q&A 'No question is stupid'
Panel: Victoria Pegna, Philippa Orchard, Fadlo Shaban
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08:00-09:30 |
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

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09:00-10:30 |
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)
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09:00-10:00 |
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
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09:00-11:30 |
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
Pre-registration required
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09:30-10:00 |
Debate: This House Believes that Diagnostic Colonoscopy is Dying
Chair: Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- For: Baljit Singh (Leicester)
- Against: Claire McNaught (Harrogate)
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10:00-10:30 |
ESCP Lecture
- The evolution of pouch surgery - Antonino Spinelli (Milan, Italy)
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11:00-12:30 |
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
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11:00-12:00 |
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
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12:00-12:30 |
Colorectal Techno Dragon's Den
Panel: Dion Morton (Birmingham), Sue Clark (London), Charles Evans (Coventry), Doug Speake (Edinburgh)
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12:30-13:00 |
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)
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch break |
TBC |
Industry lunchtime session
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14:00-15:30 |
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)
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14:00-15:30 |
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)
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16:00-16:30 |
BJS Lecture
- Diverticular disease: who gets recurrence and why: the role of microbiome - Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand)
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16:00-17:30 |
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)
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16:00-17:30 |
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)
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17:30-18:30 |
Consultants' Corner
Chairs: Jared Torkington (Cardiff), Laura Hancock (Manchester)
Panel: Frank Frizelle (Christchurch, New Zealand), Gill Tierney (Derby), Dorin Ziyaie (Dundee), Dale Vimalachandran (Chester)
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