SAGES Joint Symposium at ACS

SAGES & SSAT & AHPBA invite you to join us for our 2006 Symposium during the ACS Clinical Congress: “Evidence-Based Approaches to Colorectal Cancer”

 

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
5:15-7:20 PM, followed by cocktail reception
Hyatt Regency
Regency CD Ballroom
Chicago, Illinois
During the ACS Clinical Congress

 

Symposium Organizers:

Mark P. Callery, MD, SAGES
David M. Mahvi, MD, SSAT
William R. Jarnagin, MD, AHPBA

Intended Audience:

The intended audience is General Surgeons from around the world who attend the ACS Clinical Congress, and who deal with all aspects of Colorectal Cancer, both early and late, localized and metastatic in their practice.

Description:

The attendees will be presented an evidence-based analysis of contemporary care of colorectal cancer. Topics will include both clinical and basic science updates for inflammatory bowel disease and colonic polyposis with emphasis as to how each may predispose to colon cancer. The oncologic efficacy of laparoscopic colectomy will be evaluated. Several technical aspects for open and minimally invasive colectomy will be illustrated. The multimodality treatment of hepatic colorectal cancer metastases will be evaluated to include neoadjuvant therapy, radiofrequency ablation and resection.

Objectives:

Attendees will obtain:

1. Evidence-based updates on how to approach patients with polyposis and inflammatory bowel disease syndromes who may be at risk of developing colorectal cancer.
2. Today's best technical details and evidence to support mesorectal excision, and transanal resection of low rectal disease.
3. Video instruction as to the technical secrets to an effective and proper laparoscopic colectomy for colorectal cancer.
4. Evidence-based rationale for the oncologic efficacy of MIS approaches to colorectal cancer.
5. A challenge to consider what the future may hold for MIS colorectal cancer surgery.
6. A detailed, evidence-based rationale for the treatment of colorectal cancer metastases to the liver.

Program:

5:15 PM Welcome and Introduction - L. William Traverso, MD

“What really is an Evidence-Based Analysis? How can it help you?”

5:20 PM SSAT Session - “Contemporary Concepts in Colorectal Cancer” - Moderator: John C. Bowen, III, MD, SSAT President-Elect

Polyposis- Epidemiology, Surveillance and Treatment (10 min)
Robin S. McLeod, MD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario CA

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Cancer (10 min)
Fabrizio Michelassi, MD
Cornell University
New York, New York

New Techniques for Old Problems: Mesorectal Excision, Transanal Resection (10 min)
James W. Fleshman, MD
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri

Panel Question & Answers (10 min)

6:00 PM SAGES Session- “Minimally-Invasive Surgery for Colorectal Cancer” - Moderator: W. Stephen Eubanks, MD, SAGES President-Elect

Video- Technical Considerations of Laparoscopic Colectomy (12 min)
Peter Marcello, MD
Lahey Clinic
Burlington, Massachusetts

Evidence-Based Analysis of Oncologic Efficacy (12 min)
Richard L. Whelan, MD
Columbia University
New York, New York

Going Forward: New Answers, New Questions (6 min)
Mark P. Callery, MD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Panel Question & Answers (10 min)

6:40 PM AHPBA Session - “Today’s Approaches to Hepatic Colorectal Cancer Metastases” - Moderator: Bruce D. Schirmer, MD, AHPBA President-Elect

Selection for Resection: Prognostic Indicators (10 min)
Michael A. Choti, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Optimizing Resectability: Downstaging and Timing (10 min)
Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, MD,
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Avoiding Resection: Ablation Instead? (10 min)
Anton J. Bilchik, MD
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Santa Monica, California

Panel Question & Answers (10 min)

7:20 PM Adjourn to Reception

 

ACCREDITATION

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor Continuing Medical Education for physicians. The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons designates these Continuing Medical Education Activitiy for:

2.0 credit hours for the SAGES/SSAT/AHPBA Symposium

in Category 1 of the physicians Recognition Awards for the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that (s)he actually spent in the educational activities.