Right Colon Cancer
 

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 papers 5

Short papers 6

Intuitive Basic Skills Course

09:00 - 10:00
Auditorium

Colonoscopy in 2026

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

• 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)

Colorectal Peer Review Course

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

10:30 - 11:00
Auditorium

Colorectal Disease Lecture

Chair: Laura Hancock (Manchester)

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

100% chance of complications

Chairs Susan Moug (Glasgow), Carly Bisset (Glasgow) & PLG Rep 

• What is a high-risk patient in elective surgery: moving away from mortality. Anne-Marie Tiah (Glasgow)
• Offsetting complications: from prehab to personality: Carly Bisset (Glasgow)
• Early detection and treatment strategies post-operative  tbc
• The outcomes of complications for the trainee and the consultant: Jenna Morgan (Sheffield), James Bryan (Doncaster)

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

• Managing imposter syndrome. Will Perry (USA)
• Building influence and leadership. Rachael Coates (Tyneside/Robohive)

Medical Students & Proctology

Medical Students & Proctology

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

• Introduction to the Dukes' Club - TBC
• 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
• Operation videos and explanation of colorectal nomenclature – Guy Worley (London)
• Practical Bowel Anastomosis workshop

Short paper session 7

Short paper session 8

1200 - 1245 
Auditorium

ACPGBI Annual General Meeting  

Intuitive Surgical symposium

Lunch

ACPGBI Bill Heald Keynote Lecture

Chair: Clare McNaught (Harrogate)

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

Medtronic AWR workshop

Dukes' Club Fellowship Village

Research  & Audit

Chairs:  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:

• LAP Prime - 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)

ACPN Annual General Meeting

ACPN plenary and short papers 

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

Coffee

15:45-16:15

Goliger Lecture

Chair: Athur Harikrishnan (Sheffield)

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

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

• 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

16:15 - 17:30
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

Short paper session 9

Short paper session 10

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