Programme

GI Lesions Diagnosis , Characterization and Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy –Practice like the Experts 

The Royal College of Physicians has approved this event for 6 CPD credits.

Event Programme

Friday 8th December
 08:30 Registration and Refreshments
 09:00 Welcome
Marietta Iacucci
 Session 1:  Advanced endoscopic diagnosis and therapeutic management in Barrett’s Oesophagus (15 min talk, 5 min discussion)
 Chairs: Pradeep Bhandari, Krish Ragunath, Toshio Uraoka
 09:10 Advanced  endoscopic technologies in Barrett’s oesophagus diagnosis
Krish Ragunath, University of Nottingham, UK
 09:30 Is “molecular endoscopy “ the future on the horizon
Massimiliano Di Pietro, University of  Cambridge, UK
 09:50 When is EMR and when is ESD better for endoscopic treatment of early oesophageal neoplasia
Rehan Haidry, University College Hospital, London, UK
Pradeep Bhandari, Portsmouth, UK
 10:20 Clinical cases and panel discussion
Moderator: Roser Vega, University College Hospital, London, UK
 11:00 Refreshments
 Session 2: Advanced endoscopic technologies and therapeutic management in  Colorectal polyps and dysplasia. (15 min talk + 5 min discussion)
 Chairs: John Saltzman, Brian McKaig, Takauki Matsumoto 
 11:30 Optical diagnosis for polyp detection and characterization ‘Are we ready for “Resect and discard”
John Anderson, Gloucestershire, UK
 11:50 How SIMPLE is enough?
John Saltzman, Harvard University, Boston, USA
 12:10 Laterally spreading tumour : when EMR and when ESD
The EAST meets  WEST………….
Toshio Uraoka, Keio University, Japan
Pradeep Bhandari, Portsmouth, UK
 12:40 Future directions in the Optical diagnosis techniques in colorectal polyps?
Timo Rath, University of Erlangen, Germany 
 13:00 Lunch
 Session 3: Training modules now and the future of diagnosis (15 minutes talk and 5 minute discussion)
Chairs: Marietta Iacucci, John Anderson, John Saltzman 
14:00 How to teach optical diagnosis across the country.  Do we need standardized and validated training modules?
Brian McKaig, The Royal Wolverhampton Hospital, UK
 14:20 Artificial intelligence diagnosis is the future at the Horizon
David Greenwald, Mount Sinai New York, USA
 14:40 Clinical cases and panel discussion
Moderator: Roser Vega, University College Hospital, London, UK
15:00 Refreshments
 Session 4: Novel endoscopic technologies to assess  mucosal healing  and dysplasia in IBD
Chairs: Mark Neurath, Ralf Kiesslich, Subrata Ghosh 
 15:30 Future frontiers “ Is molecular endoscopy the future in IBD”
Neurath Markus, University of Erlangen, Germany
 15:50 The New Endoscopic Virtual Chromoendoscopy score: The PICaSSO score (The Paddington International Virtual ChromoendoScopy ScOre) in UC to assess MH
Marietta Iacucci, University of Birmingham, UK
 16:10 How surveillance should be performed ? SCENIC Guidelines Is  dye Chromoendoscopy enough to characterize colonic lesions in IBD?
Ralf Kiesslich, University of Mainz, Germany
 16:30 Can we resect these lesions and save the colon?  
The East meets the West 
Sunil Dolwani, UK & Matsumoto University of Iwate, Japan 
 17:00 Panel Question and Answer session  
 17:15 Closing remarks 

Programme subject to change.