Notes

Thursday, December 1
7:00 am	Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibits
8:00	Welcome and Overview Santiago Horgan, MD and Mark Talamini, MD, FACS
OVERVIEW - Moderator: Santiago Horgan, MD
8:15	The Past, Present and Future of Minimally Invasive Surgery Mark Talamini, MD, FACS
8:30	Ethics of Implementing New Surgical Techniques David Easter, MD
8:45	Trocars Update Yoav Mintz, MD
9:00	New Platforms David Rattner, MD
9:15	Magnets on Cameras Daniel Scott, MD
9:30	Who Should be Performing Endoluminal & NOTES Surgery? – A Perspective From the GI Community Robert Hawes, MD
9:50	The Art of Recruiting Patients for Minimally Invasive Surgery Trials Mary Kirk, CNP
10:05	Panel Session, Q & A
10:20	Break and Exhibits
SINGLE SITE CHOLECYSTECTOMY – Moderator: Yoav Mintz, MD
10:50	Single Site Cholecystectomy Paul Curcillo II, MD, FACS
11:05	How to Avoid Catastrophies Namir Katkhouda, MD
11:20	Single Site Common Bile Duct Exploration Paul Curcillo II, MD, FACS
11:35	NOTES Cholecystectomy Garth Jacobsen, MD
11:45	Military Experience with NOTES Cholecystectomy Gordon Wisbach, MD, FACS, CDR, MC, USN
11:50	Panel Session, Q & A
12:00 pm	Lunch and Exhibits
BARIATRICS: SINGLE SITE – Moderator: Julio Teixiera, MD
1:00	Sleeve Gastrectomy Manoel Galvão Neto, MD
1:15	Gastric Band Julio Teixeira, MD
1:30	Gastric Bypass Pablo Omelanczuk, MD
1:45	Single Site Bariatrics Controversy Panel PRO Natan Zundel, MD vs. CON Camilo Boza, MD
2:15	Panel Session, Q & A
2:30 – 3:00	Break and Exhibits
BARIATRICS: ENDOLUMINAL - Moderator: Bryan Sandler, MD
3:00	Endoluminal Duodenal Sleeve Camilo Boza, MD
3:15	Endoluminal Gastric Bypass Bryan Sandler, MD
3:30	Endoluminal Treatment of Complications Manoel Galvão Neto, MD
3:45	Endoluminal Re-Do Gastric Bypass Garth Jacobsen, MD
4:00	NOTES Bariatric Surgery Bryan Sandler, MD
4:15	Panel Session, Q & A
4:30	Adjourn for the Day
6:00 pm	Welcome Reception
Friday, December 2
7:00 am	Continental Breakfast and Exhibits
HERNIA – Moderator: Garth Jacobsen, MD
7:30	Single Site Hernia Controversy Panel PRO Garth Jacobsen, MD vs. CON Natan Zundel, MD
8:00	Dealing with Difficult Patients: Large Hernia Paul Curcillo II, MD
8:15	Panel Session, Q & A
FOREGUT – Moderator: Edward Phillips, MD
8:30	KEYNOTE LECTURE: Lower Esophageal Sphincter: Discovery to Augmentation Tom DeMeester, MD
9:00	Robotic Foregut Surgery Santiago Horgan, MD
9:15	Endoluminal Fundoplication W. Scott Melvin, MD
9:30	Break and Exhibits
10:00	Single Site Nissen Fundoplication Paul Curcillo, MD
10:15	Magnets & GERD Santiago Horgan, MD
10:30	Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) Haruhiro Inoue, MD, PhD
10:45	Panel Session, Q & A
11:00	Lunch and Exhibits
COLON – Moderator: Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD
12:00 pm	Single Site Colectomy: Why Would Anyone Do That? Elisabeth McLemore, MD
12:15	The Anal Orifice: Extraction, Subtraction or Distraction? Patricia Sylla, MD
12:30	NOTES in Colorectal Surgery: Where Are We Going, What Do We Need, and How Will We Get There? Antonio Lacy, MD, PhD
12:45	Robotic Simulation: Validation of the Simulator in a Cohort of Colorectal Trainees Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD
1:00	Panel Session, Q & A
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY – Moderator: Jason Sicklick, MD
1:15	Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR) for Early Stage Gastric and Esophageal Carcinoma Thomas Savides, MD
1:30	Diagnostic Transgastric Endoscopic Peritoneoscopy for Staging of Pancreatic and Esophageal Cancer Jeffrey Hazey, MD
1:45	Laparo-Endoscopic Cancer Surgery: Novel Approaches to Hepatic and Gastric Tumor Resections Jason Sicklick, MD
2:00	Laparoscopic Whipple Procedure Horacio Asbun, MD
2:15	Panel Session, Q & A
2:30	Break and Exhibits
SOLID ORGANS – Single Site vs. Laparoscopy – Moderator: Namir Katkhouda, MD
2:45	Spleen Edward Phillips, MD
3:00	Adrenal Glands Namir Katkhouda, MD
3:15	Pancreas Horacio Asbun, MD
3:45	Kidney Ithaar Derweesh, MD
TRANSVAGINAL ACCESS
4:00	Transvaginal Access: What is Safe and Feasible? Emily Lukacz, MD
4:15 pm	Adjourn