2015 Program

Thursday, April 23, 2015

0715 Breakfast and Registration
0750 Welcome Remarks
Carol Swallow

SESSION I: ENDOSCOPY
Moderator: Nancy Baxter

(each talk includes a 5 minutes Q&A with the audience)
0800 Optimizing Patient Preparation for Endoscopy in Your Practice
David Urbach
0820 The Big Flat Polyp: How to Remove, Where to Refer, When to Resect
Paul Kortan
0840 Key Maneuvers to Manage the Difficult Colon
Stan Feinberg
0900 Beyond Time: Increasing your Colon Adenoma Detection Rate
Gabor Kandel

SESSION II: ACUTE CARE SURGERY I
Moderator: Shiva Jayaraman

(this session includes a 25 minutes Q&A with the audience)
0920 Appendectomy- Now, Later or Never?
Ori Rotstein
0935 The Ugly Gallbladder
Shiva Jayaraman
0950 Developing your own Acute Care Surgery Program
Nancy Down
1005 Q&A with Audience
1030 Break with Exhibitors

SESSION III: COLORECTAL
Moderator: Stan Feinberg

(this session includes a 30 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1100 IBD Surgery for the Generalist
Helen MacRae
1115 Treatment of Colorectal Metastases to the Liver – What’s New?
Paul Karanicolas
1130 Sphincter Sparing 2015
Marcus Burnstein
1200 Fissure and Fistula Management
Paul Bernick
1215 Q&A with Audience
1245 Lunch, Dessert served with Exhibitors

SESSION IV: MIS
Moderator: John Hagen

(this session includes a 20 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1400 Right Hemicolectomy Technical Tips (Video)
Shady Ashamalla
1415 Left Hemicolectomy Technical Tips (Video)
John Hagen
1430 Optimizing Skills Acquisition in the Adult Learner
Teodor Grantcharov
1445 Laparaoscopic Approach to Small Bowel Obstruction
Mary Anne Aarts
1500 Q&A with Audience
1520 Break with Exhibitors

SESSION V: HERNIAS
Moderator: Fred Brenneman

(this session includes a 30 minutes Q&A with the audience)
15:50 Paediatric Inguinal Hernia Management
Priscilla Chiu
16:05 Watchful Waiting for Inguinal Hernias
Jensen Tan
16:20 Update on New Meshes
Dennis Klassen
16:45 Mesh in the Retrorectus Position
Fred Brenneman
17:00 Q&A with Audience
17:30 Reception with Exhibitors

Friday, April 24, 2015

0715 Breakfast and Registration

SESSION VI: BREAST
Moderator: Nancy Down

(this session includes a 30 minutes Q&A with the audience)
0800 Approach to the Positive Axilla
Ralph George
0815 Oncoloplastics for the General Surgeon
Adena Scheer
0830 Nipple Abnormalities
Tulin Cil
0845 Surgery of the Primary in the Patient with Metastatic Disease
David McCready
0900 A Primer on Endocrine Treatment
Ellen Warner
0920 Q&A with Audience
0950 Break with Exhibitors

SESSION VII: QUALITY & BEST PRACTICES
Moderator: Tim Jackson

(this session includes a 30 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1020 Improving Care with NSQIP – Where are we at?
Tim Jackson
1035 Best Practice in Discussing DNR
Karen Devon
1050 Blood Transfusions 2015
Jeannie Callum
1110 Periop NSAIDs – Good for Pain but Bad for the Anastomosis?
Anand Govindarajan
1130 Surgeons Can Do Quality Colonoscopy
Stan Feinberg
1145 Q&A with Audience
1215 Lunch with Exhibitors

SESSION VIII: ACUTE CARE SURGERY II
Moderator: Ori Rotstein

(this session includes a 25 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1330 What’s New in Diverticulitis Management?
Nancy Baxter
1345 Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy
Sav Brar
1400 Small Bowel Obstruction – Imaging and New Approaches to Management
Eran Shlomovitz
1415 Q&A with Audience

SESSION IX: COMPLICATIONS, PART I
Moderator: Carol Swallow

(this session includes a 15 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1445 Early Management of Leak from LAR
Peter Stotland
1500 G Tube Complications
Tom Gilas
1515 Q&A with Audience
1530 Break with Exhibitors

SESSION IX: COMPLICATIONS, PART II
Moderator: Carol Swallow

(this session includes a 20 minutes Q&A with the audience)
1600 Should I Convert? A Laparoscopic Approach to Intraoperative Bleeding
Fayez Quereshy
1615 I Just Can’t Get Over My Mistake
Carol-Anne Moulton
1630 Supreme Court Carter Decision on Assisted Suicide: Implications for Surgeons
Hartley Stern
1700 Q&A with Audience
1725 Closing Remarks

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Small Group Sessions
0800-0930 hours & 1000-1130 hours

  1. Workshop for Community Surgical Leaders:
    What do I need to do to become a community surgical leader?
    Hartley Stern
    How do I make a business case?
    Fayez Quereshy
    Location: Tom Thomson
  2. Construction of Stomas & Management of Complications
    Zane Cohen & Paulo Da Rosa
    Location: Jackson
  3. Breast Ultrasound
    Ralph George
    Location: Johnston
  4. Billing Corner
    Allan Lozon
    Location: Carson
  5. FLS Testing and Certification*
    Andras Fecso, Tim Jackson* Saturday at Surgical Skills Centre Mount Sinai Hospital FLS testing. Additional to conference fee, separate registration required, please visit: http://www.flsprogram.org/