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Wednesday Programme

Wednesday 6 July 2022

Members of the ACPGBI Executive are available to talk to you at the ACPGBI stand in the Exhibition Hall during lunch and coffee breaks

Time/Venue Session
All day
Strathblane Atrium

Posters available to view

08:30-10:00
Sidlaw

Research Session

Chair: Jim Tiernan (Leeds)

An update of ongoing studies and choices of future studies

  • Introduction - Jim Tiernan (Leeds)
  • BRUK Update - Nicola Fearnhead (Cambridge)
  • Breaking trials:
    • SUNRRISE - Richard Wilkin (Birmingham)
    • PPAC2 - Jennifer Law (Liverpool)
    • FOxTROT 1 & 2 - Jenny Seligmann (Leeds)
    • ROSSINI 2 Interim Results - Thomas Pinkney (Birmingham)
  • The future of PROMS in clinical trials - Tom Pinkney (Birmingham)
  • Live Audience Trial Design: Come and design the next ACPGBI research study
  • Wrap up - Jim Tiernan (Leeds)
09:00-10:30
Pentland

Symposium: Emergency General Surgery

Chairs: Gill Tierney (Derby), Osman Chaudhary (Southend), James Wheeler (Cambridge), 

  • Delivery of EGS - Constantinos Simillis (Cambridge)
  • Challenges of the old frail patient - Susan Moug (Glasgow)
  • Damage limitation - David Bailey (US Air Force)
  • The laparoscope and emergency colorectal surgery: LaCES2 - Deena Harji (Manchester)

Debate: This house believes that a dedicated EGS service is an unnecessary distraction

Chair: Sonia Lockwood (Bradford)

  • For: Tim Cook (Gloucester)
  • Against: Giles Toogood (Leeds)
09:00-10:30
Lomond/Tinto

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Creating an Inclusive Environment

Chairs: Gabrielle Van Ramshorst (Ghent, Belgium), Kiran Altaf (Liverpool)

  • International medical graduates and SAS doctors in colorectal surgery: what do we (not) know - Evripidis Tokidis (Sheffield)
  • The hidden cost of mental health on the NHS - Pawan Mathur (London)
  • Diversity and inclusion: perspective from RAF - Wing Commander D Bhasin MBE
  • "There is light at the end of the tunnel" video vignette - Peter Kyle (London)
  • Impact of EDI on patient care and outcomes: a patient’s perspective - Azmina Verjee, PLG Representative (London)
  • Uncomfortable truths which must be spoken: a Q&A session with national EDI experts - Nuha Yassin (Wolverhampton) and Tamzin Cuming (London)
10:30-11:00
Lennox

Coffee break

10:35-10:55
Lammermuir

CMR Sponsored SymposiumCMR Surgical

  • Welcome to Verius Virtual Reality!’ - Justin Collins, Associate Medical Director, CMR Surgical
11:00-12:30
Pentland

The Pelvic Floor SocietySymposium: Pelvic Floor for the Coloproctologist

Chairs: Karen Telford (Manchester) Lillian Reza (London) and Kim Gorissen (Oxford)

  • The acutely constipated patient presenting on the emergency take - Tom Dudding (Southampton)
  • The chronic constipated patient - Emma Carrington (London)
  • State of the art update on IBS: the new BSG guidelines - Dipesh Vasant (Manchester)
  • Tricky cases with interactive voting
11:00-12:30
Sidlaw

EYCN: Early Years Consultant Network (logo)Early Years Consultant Network Session

Chairs: Jared Torkington (Cardiff), Katie Adams (London)

  • EYCN Introductions - Katie Adams (London)
  • What I wish I had known when starting as a consultant - Bob Steele (Dundee), introduced by Aaron Quyn (Leeds)
  • Videos of 'What I wished I had known' and 'What I hope it to be' - Catherine Boereboom (Nottingham)
  • Mentorship corner - Ash Bhalla (Derby), Catherine Boereboom (Nottingham), Charles Maxwell Armstrong (Nottingham), Justin Davies (Cambridge), Baljit Singh (Leicester), Kirsten Boyle (Leicester)
  • Mentorship: Choose your own adventure - Ahsan Javed (Blackburn), Katie Adams (London)
  • 2023 Trailer with new EYCN Chair, Ash Bhalla (Derby)
11:10-12:00
Lammermuir

Intuitive Sponsored Symposium

  • Expanding da Vinci indications within our robotics programme - Nuha Yassin (Wolverhampton)
12:30-13:00
Pentland

Colorectal Disease Lecture

Chair: Neil Smart, Editor in Chief Colorectal Disease (Exeter)

  • Incontinence: looking back to look forward - Charles Knowles (London)
13:00-13:45
Lennox
Lunch break
13:45-14:00
Pentland

Awards, Prize-giving and Presidential Handover

14:00-15:30
Pentland

Symposium: The Troubles I’ve Seen

Chairs: Nicola Eardley, Shahab Siddiqi

  • What gets folk into trouble - Karen Nugent (Southampton)
  • What gets folk out of trouble - Charles Maxwell-Armstrong, (Nottingham)
  • Keeping sane - Peter McDonald (Northwick Park)
  • And when it really goes badly wrong - Ian Jenkins (London)
  • What you should know about lawyers - Carolynne Vaizey (London)
15:30-16:00
Pentland

The Dukes’ Club Lecture

Chair: Panchali Sarmah (Leicester)The Dukes' Club

  • Burnout - Judith Johnson (Leeds)
16:00 Meeting close