Right Colon Cancer

Chairs Jim Tiernan (Leeds), Shakil Ahmed (Liverpool)

• Pathology - Jocelyn Aldridge (Leeds)
• Surgery - Aidan Armstrong (Belfast)
• Surgery - Patricia Tejedor (Madrid)
• Radiology - Donal Bradley (Bradford)

Pelvic Floor Session - The Neurogenic Bowel

Chairs: Kim Gorissen, Carmen Hoh (Leicester)

• Traumatic: Spinal cord and cauda injuries. - Arnold Goede (Oxford)
• Neurodegenerative: Parkinsons, the bowel and the microbiome - Robin Fackrell (Bath)
• Medical treatments for neurogenic bowel and colonic failure - Natalia Zarate-Lopez (London)
• SNM for neurogenic bowel conditions: indications and outcomes. - Tom Dudding (Southampton)

08:00 - 09:00
Parallel Session
Meeting Room 1B

Short paper session 5: Digital Surgery & AI | Imaging & Radiology | Minimal Access Surgery | Surgical Training & Simulation

Chairs: Lisa Massey (Nottingham), Jon Evans (Nottingham)

• The role of virtual reality and three-dimensional printed surgical models in colorectal surgical practice - Hugh Brookes
• First-In-Human AI-Assisted AR-Guided Robotic Right Hemicolectomy With Real-Time Instrument De-Occlusion: A Technical Feasibility Report - Thalia Petropoulou
• Prognostic significance of post-neoadjuvant MRI-detected extramural venous invasion and tumour deposits in rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis -  Nikhil Lal

• Functional outcomes after robotic TME (RTME): Systematic review and meta-analysis of published literature -Thalia Petropoulou
• A Multicentre Comparative Trial of Laparoscopic, Robotic, and Transanal Approaches in Rectal Cancer Surgery: Perioperative and Oncologic Outcomes -  Subham Roy
• The “Robotic Midline Trap”: Specimen extraction site negates the abdominal wall benefits of robotic colorectal surgery, a retrospective cohort study - Anna Sayers
• Higher Standards, Delivered Locally: A Comparative Study of Outcomes following implementation of Robotic Colorectal Cancer Surgery at an established Laparoscopic Unit in a District General Hospital -  Saurabh Shukla

• Does trainee involvement improve adenoma and polyp detection at colonoscopy? Systematic review and meta-analysis - Shuya Chen

Short paper session 6: Sustainability in Surgery | Quality Improvement, Miscellaneous, Proctology and PROMs (Patient-reported outcome measures)| PREMs (Patient-Reported Experience Measures) & qualitative studies

Chairs:  Anthony McBrearty (Belfast), Panchali Sarmah (Sheffield)

• Sustainable Consent: QR-Enabled Digital Patient Information in Colorectal Surgery -  Kapil Agrawal

• Acute Diverticulitis Virtual Wards: A Two-Pathway Model - Sue Blackwell
• Development of a patient information aid for parastomal hernia treatment -  Sue Blackwell
• Assessment of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk Evaluation and compliance With Guidelines in Surgical Patients: A Clinical Audit at the Prince Osman Digna Referral Hospital - Mohey Aldien Elnour
• Clinical Outcomes of Fistula Tract Laser Closure (FiLAC) in Patients with Fistula-in-ano (FIA): A Six-Year Experience from a Single UK Tertiary Centre  - Navid Mohamadzade
• Availability of botulinum toxin injections for facilitating anal intercourse in Scotland - Nikola Henderson

• Patient-Reported Short-Term Functional Outcomes Following Robotic Rectal Resection for Malignancy: A Retrospective Single-Centre Study - Tasnuva Iqbal

Intuitive Basic Skills Course

09:00 - 10:00
Auditorium

Colonoscopy in 2026

Chairs: Katie Yeadon (Barnstaple) & Robin Johnson (PLG)

• How to get trained in Colonoscopy - Bala Piramanayagam (Nuneaton)
• A year in the press, in 10 minutes - Katie Yeadon (Barnstaple)
• Greener endoscopy; Penthrox v Entanox - George Davies (Inverness)
• Endoscopic closure techniques - clips, tacks, sutures? - Amyn Haji (London)
• Optimising management of post polypectomy syndrome - Ciaran Judge (Dublin)

09:00-09:30
Poster Session 5
Poster Cabin
 

Poster Session 5:  Emergency general surgery | Proctology

• Outcomes and timing of stoma reversal following emergency laparotomy - Dr Fajar Rana
• Identifying peak CRP threshold to predict treatment failure in early left-sided diverticulitis - Dr Karunya Venkada Subramaniyan
• Outcomes of leaving the macroscopically normal appendix in situ during diagnostic laparoscopy - Mr Abhishek Viswanath

• First-in-human feasibility and safety evaluation of TIPS Microspheres for the treatment of cryptoglandular perianal fistula - Mr William English
• Comparative Efficacy of Transanal Opening of Intersphincteric Space (TROPIS) versus Ligation of the Intersphincteric Fistula Tract (LIFT) for Transsphincteric Anal Fistulas: A Prospective Cohort Study - Mr. Dong Liao
• Laser Ablation of Pilonidal Sinus Disease - Dr Níamh Smyth

Colorectal Peer Review Course

Faculty: Steve Brown (Yorkshire), Mohamed Elshawy (USA), Debby Keller (USA), Adele Sayers (Yorkshrie), Samson Tou , Dale Vimalanchandran

10:30
Auditorium

Presidential Welcome: Athur Harikrishnan (President, ACPGBI)

10:45 -11:15
Auditorium

Colorectal Disease Lecture

Chair: Laura Hancock (Manchester)

• Morbidity in IBD Surgery - what are we doing about it? - Paulo Kotze (Brazil)

11:00-11:30
Poster Session 6
Poster Cabin

Poster Session 6: Inflammatory bowel disease, pouch surgery & stomas

• Evaluating the Association Between MRI Fistula Volume and Patient-Reported Quality of Life in Perianal Fistulising Crohn’s Disease: A Prospective Single-Centre Study - Easan Anand
• Demographics and surgical outcomes of adolescents undergoing ileal resection for Crohn’s disease in a tertiary centre - Rosalyn Hawkins
• Colectomies for Ulcerative Colitis (UC) - use of the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) to inform practice in England - Alyssa Ramlakhan
• Colectomies for Crohn’s Disease: Use of the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) to Inform Practice in England - Alyssa Ramlakhan
• Pilot Study of a Novel Targeted Probiotic to Improve Ileal Pouch Health - Mark Thompson-Fawcett

100% chance of complications

Chairs Susan Moug (Glasgow), Carly Bisset (Glasgow) & Nicola Dames (PLG)

• What is a high-risk patient in elective surgery - moving away from mortality. Anne-Marie Tiah (Glasgow)
• Offsetting complications - who do you think you are? - Carly Bisset (Glasgow)
• Second Victim Syndrome in surgeons: the impact of complications - Jenna Morgan (Sheffield)
• It happens to everyone - James Bryan (Doncaster)

Dukes' Club Session - Skills beyond the scalpel: Innovation, Managing imposter syndrome and influence

Chair: Ioanna Drami, Dukes' Club President (London), Taner Shakir (London)

• Innovation in practice - Jordan Fletcher (Doncaster)
• Managing imposter syndrome. Will Perry (USA)
• Building influence and leadership. Rachael Coates (Tyneside/Robohive)

Medical Students & Proctology

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Chairs: Maisey Baker (Leeds) & Guy Worley (London)

• Introduction to the Dukes' Club  - Charlotte El-Sayed

• Introduction to the ACPGBI and the Student Committee – Maisey Baker (Leeds) and Dwiti Ponda (Nottingham)
• Building a Competitive Surgical Portfolio (Core Training and ST3 General Surgery) – Andrew Yiu (London)

• Q & A
• CANOPY QI project Introduction - Chiara Dell’Oro (London)
• Operation videos and explanation of colorectal nomenclature – Guy Worley (London)
• Practical Bowel Anastomosis workshop

Short paper session 7: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy | Colorectal cancer - screening, diagnosis & endoscopy | Colorectal cancer – tumour biology, biomarkers & genetics & Surveillance, survivorship & late effects of treatment

Chairs: Peter Coyne (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Kirsten Boyle (Leicester )

• Major Variation in Neoadjuvant Therapy Recommendations Across Colorectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Teams in UK and Ireland: Need for Robust Evidence to Standardise Treatment and Optimise Rectal Cancer Outcomes -  Michal Woyton

• Serial Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in Confirmed Colorectal Cancer – A Clinical Study Evaluating Single vs Multiple Sample Methodology - James Bailey
• The diagnostic accuracy of faecal immunohistochemical testing within the increasing incidence of early onset colorectal cancer - Julian Camilleri-Brennan
• Evaluating COLOFIT as a Tool for Cancer Screening in a Major UK Sector - Mahmoud El-khatib

• Circulating tumour DNA for predicting clinical complete response in rectal cancer: a systematic review - Nikhil Lal
• Defining the metastatic niche for colorectal cancer dissemination - Mahsa Mohammadi
• Expression of phosphorylated Smad2 in colorectal cancer and its relationship with clinicopathological features and survival - John Ugorji
• Age related differences in colorectal cancer biology - a real world cohort study - Disha Yadav

• “Watch and Wait” follow-up for rectal cancer in a single institution: a real-world NHS experience -  Carly Bisset
• Early outcomes of the PLATO ACT5 randomised trial - Personalizing Anal Cancer Radiotherapy dose - 

Short paper session 8: Colorectal cancer - surgery & endoscopic interventions

Chairs: Bala Piramanayagam (Sutton Coldfield), Francesco Di Fabio (Basingstoke)

• Endoscopic Electroporation Versus Standard Non-Curative Management in Colorectal Cancer: A Comparative Cohort Study - Ademola Adeyeye
• Indocyanine Green Guided Lymphatic Mapping Improves Lymph Node Harvest in Colon Cancer Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis -  Abdulrahman Ghoneim
• The impact of anastomotic technique on postoperative ileus in colorectal cancer surgery: A single-centre analysis - Muhammad Hadi Khan
• Advantages of Skeletonizing the Left Colic Artery in Low Anterior Resection Cases Related to Vascularity with ICG: A Systematic Review - Almaz Rehman Koolikad
• Comparative Outcomes of Laparoscopic and Robotic Colorectal Cancer Surgery in the NHS: Real-World Evidence from Sequential Adoption of Versius and da Vinci Xi -  Vanash Patel
• Combining Pelvic Exenteration with Cytoreductive Surgery and Heated Intra-Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC): A new paradigm in Pelvic Surgery? - Waqqas Patel
• Impact of High-Complexity Pelvic Exenteration on Postoperative Morbidity: A Network Meta-Analysis -  Naoyuki Toyota
• Global Use and Outcomes of Endoscopic Stenting in Acute Malignant Left-Sided Colonic Obstruction: A Secondary Analysis of  APOLLO, An International, Prospective Cohort Study - William Xu

11:30 - 12:00
Poster Session 7
Poster Cabin 

Poster Session 7: Minimal access surgery – laparoscopic, robotic & transanal approaches | Miscellaneous

• Beyond Extractions: Incisional Hernia following Minimally Invasive Right Hemicolectomy -  Faid Khopekar
• Evolving practice in minimally invasive right hemicolectomy: short-term outcomes after adoption of robotic intracorporeal anastomosis – a propensity-weighted analysis - Nayana Prakash

• Diverticulitis@Home pathways are safe but are they really cost effective? - Mona Elnour
• Development of a cross-disciplinary surgical complexity scoring system using a Delphi consensus - Kate McCarthy
• Outcomes after local excision for anal superficially invasive squamous-cell carcinoma (SISCCA): implications for surveillance - Andrew Renehan
• Salvage surgery for relapsed anal squamous cell carcinoma: with focus on resection margin positivity -  Andrew Renehan

12:15 – 13:00
Auditorium

ACPGBI Annual General Meeting  

Lunch

Intuitive Surgical symposium

• Platform to Programme: Digitally Enabled da Vinci Surgery, dV5, and the Future Surgical Workforce

ACPGBI Bill Heald Keynote Lecture

Chair: Clare McNaught (Harrogate) Jim Khan (Portsmouth)

• Mastering the art of Surgery - Nicola Fearnhead (Cambridge)

Medtronic AWR workshop

Dukes' Club Fellowship Village

Research  & Audit

Chairs:  Dale Vimalachandran (Chester), Julie Cornish (Cardiff) & Jim Tiernan (Leeds)

• SMART hub? - Julie Cornish (Cardiff), Jim Tiernan (Leeds), SSL leads

Breaking trial results:

• AFAR - Matthew Lee (Birmingham)
• CIPHER - Jane Blazeby (Bristol)
• ACT 4 - Richard Adams (Cardiff)
• CLARITY - Fatima Mansour (Wolverhampton)

New Studies:

• PITSTOP 2 - Steve Brown (Sheffield)
• REVERSE - Julie Cornish (Cardiff)
• EmROCC-UK -  Daniel Baker (Birmingham)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Timing of Surgery - Too Early, too late or just about right

Chairs Katie Adams (London) and Abi Patel (Coventry)

• Valerio Celentano (London)
• Orestis Argyriou (London)
• Jamshed Shabbir (Bristol)
• Paulo Kotz (Brazil)
• Katherine Baker (Oxford)
• Oliver Brain (Oxford)
• Paula Harrison (Manchester)
• Caroline Bramwell (PLG)

International Session

India -  Chairs: Sharad Karandikar (Birmingham), Ramya Kalaiselvan ( St Helens)

• Decreasing recurrence rates in sphincter sparing surgery - Kushal Mital (India)
• (VAAFT, LASER, FIXcision, excision of central disease)
• Which patient? Which procedure? A rational approach to pilonidal sinus - Pradeep Sharma (India)
• Advances lap in complex colorectal surgery ( diverticulitis, RVF, TPC, IBD, Advanced Colorectal CA, and Anorectal Trauma) Subbiah Rajapandian  (India)
• Young onset colorectal cancer- demographics and outcomes from a tertiary care hospital - Rohin Mittal (India)
• Managing high intersphincteric fistula in Ano - Atef Bakza (India)
• Fluorescence guided surgery in Colorectal surgery - Anil Heroor (India)

14:30 - 15:00
Poster Session 8
Poster Cabin 

Poster Session 8: Pathology | Pelvic floor & functional bowel disorders

• Appendiceal mucinous neoplasms: A referral centre’s experience of the value of combined surgical and pathologic specialty assessment - Panikos Stelios Michaelides
• Sacral nerve stimulator (SNS) for faecal incontinence – 8 years of outcome data from the National Consultant Information Programme (NCIP) -  William Riley
• PROMs (Patient-reported outcome measures) & PREMs (Patient-Reported Experience Measures)  & qualitative studies
• “I don’t like parastomal hernias” A qualitative study exploring clinician experience of treating patients with a parastomal hernia - Sue Blackwell
• LARS ICAT Validation: Insights from Cognitive Interviews - Emily Farrow
• Measuring sex and intimacy after benign pelvic and perineal colorectal surgery: Content validation of a Sexual Function Patient Reported Outcome Measure (Sex-PROM) -  Shivani Joshi
• Navigating Choice and Uncertainty: Patient Decision Making in Early Rectal Cancer -  Abhilasha Patel

ACPN Annual General Meeting

ACPN plenary and short papers 

Chairs: Emma Jenkins, 

• Role of the Professional Nurse advocate - Rebecca Heal (Devon), Liz Coni,  (Chichester)
• The evolving role of the Physician Associate within general surgery - Rachael Jones (Bradford)

• The role and pathway of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner in General Surgery.  -  Chelsea Moffatt, (Sheffield),  Cheryl Hides (Sheffield)

• The role of the Stoma Nurse in Colorectal Surgery - Rebecca Wootton (Sheffield)

ACPN Short Papers

• Prehabilitation to rehabilitation and optimisation of Pelvic Exenteration Surgery (The PROPS project) - Laura Borthwick (Southampton)
• Perception of the quality of nursing care in colorectal surgery under the ERAS protocol -  Jessica Capre-Pereira
• Colorectal Nurse Specialist (CNS) led colorectal cancer triage assessment - Muhammed Gok (East Cheshire)

Networking Session

Coffee

15:45 - 16:15

John Goligher Lecture

Chairs: Athur Harikrishnan (Sheffield), Jim Khan (Portsmouth)

• Embodied Intelligence in Robotic Surgery-  Simon Ng (Hong Kong)  

Robotics: from adoption to excellence: RAS training, proctorship and the new wave

Chairs: Charles Evans (Coventry), Cat Boereboom (Nottingham)

• Versius robot 1000 cases performed: Miton Keynes University Hospital - Barrie Keeler (Milton Keynes)
• Experiences with Hugo robot - Rebekka Troller (Medway)
• Single Port robotic colorectal surgery: UK experience - Shakil Ahmed (Liverpool)
• Panel discussion: Navigating robotic colorectal training; from resident to experienced consultant - Oroog Ali (Newcastle)
• Nuha Yassin (Birmingham)
• Fellows
• Telesurgery-are we ready?: Democratisation, Governance and Challenges - Venky Munikrishnan (Chennai, India)

16:30 – 17:45
Parallel Session
Hall 2A

Setting up a LARS service for Patients

Chairs: Julie Cornish (Cardiff), Aaron Quyn (Leeds)

• MANUEL project - what’s the evidence for LARS management - Nicola Fearnhead (Cambridge)
• When do we need to discuss LARS with our patients 
• My experience of LARS -  Chris Hattrick (Patient)
• Educating the patient - self management strategies 
• Nurse Servce talk - James Hollingshead (Hertfordshire)
• Q & A

International Session

Lithuania - Chairs TBA

• Timing of preventive ileostomy closure after surgery for rectal cancer - Narimantas Evaldas Samalavicus (Lithuania)
• Predictors of 1, 3, 5 and 10-year survival in early-stage colorectal cancer patients - Toma Poskus (Lithuania)

16:30 - 17:00
Poster Session 9
Poster Cabin

Quality Improvement

• Utilisation of a Community Diagnostic Centre to Improve Colorectal Urgent Suspected Cancer Pathway Performance - Jack Carter
• Death Literacy Index: evaluating perceptions towards death and dying in a tertiary centre general surgery department -  India Daniels
• Streamlining Patient Transitions: A Surgical Discharge Card Initiative at Almanagil Teaching Hospital -Mohey Aldien Elnour
• Peri-operative Antibiotic Use in Elective Inguinal Hernia Repairs: Compliance with British Hernia Society Guidelines - Karim Fahss
• Audit on documentation of chaperone presence during intimate examinations in the surgical clinic - Muhammad Hadi Khan

Sustainability in Surgery

• Physiological Stress During Robotic Right Hemicolectomy: A Real-Time Heart Rate Variability Analysis Across Key Operative Phases (Results from Real-time operator stress detection during robotic-assisted colorectal surgery – Real OP study) - Zeeshan Raza

Short paper session 9

Short paper session 10

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