2016 Program

Thursday, April 7, 2016

0715 Breakfast and Registration
0800 Welcome Remarks
Carol Swallow

Session I: Endoscopy
Moderator: Nancy Baxter

0815 Sessile, serrated… Say what? Recognition, resection and recommendations for serrated lesions in 2016
Gabor Kandel
0830 When colonoscopy goes awry: Avoiding, recognizing and treating complications
Stan Feinberg
0845 The FIT positive patient: Not your average screening colonoscopy
Nancy Baxter
0900 Polypectomy tips, tricks, tools and techniques
Paul Kortan
0915 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Gabor Kandel, Stan Feinberg, Nancy Baxter and Paul Kortan

Session II: Acute Care Surgery I – The Elderly Patient
Moderator: Shiva Jayaraman

0930 Acute presentation of paraesophageal hernia
Najib Safieddine
0945 Laparoscopy for acute conditions in the elderly – Is there an issue?
Tyler Chesney
1000 Break with exhibitors
1030 Consent for emergency surgery in the acutely ill elderly patient – Is everyone on the same page?
Gretchen Schwarze
1045 Management of biliary emergencies in the elderly
Shiva Jayaraman
1100 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Shiva Jayaraman, Gretchen Schwarze, Antonio Lacy and Tyler Chesney

Session III: Perioperative Issues
Moderator: Julie Hallet

1130 Asleep at the wheel? Operating post-call
Anand Govindarajan
1145 Reversing hemostatic derangements: when and how
Katerina Pavenski
1200 Prehabilitation – what is it and does it help?
Liane Feldman
1215 Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Anand Govindarajan, Katerina Pavenski and Liane Feldman
1230 Lunch with exhibitors

Session IV: Surgical Oncology I – Rectal Cancer
Moderators: Erin Kennedy and John Hagen

1330 Current management of rectal cancer
Erin Kennedy
1345 New techniques for rectal cancer resection – How I innovate
Antonio Lacy
1440 New techniques – responsible adoption and dissemination
Carl Brown
1500 Lap vs. Open – NOT noninferior?
Nancy Baxter
1515 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Erin Kennedy, Antonio Lacy, Carl Brown, Nancy Baxter and Patrick Tawadros
1545 Break with exhibitors

Session V: Current Controversies
Moderator: Tim Jackson

1615 Bowel prep – what’s old is new
Liane Feldman
1630 Laparoscopic washout for complicated diverticulitis
Stan Feinberg
1645 QBP for colorectal cancer – what’s here, what’s coming
Robin McLeod
1700 Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Liane Feldman, Stan Feinberg and Robin McLeod
1730 Adjourn

Friday, April 8, 2016

0715 Breakfast and Registration

Session VI: Breast
Moderator: Nancy Down

0800 Who needs an axillary dissection in 2016?
Ralph George
0815 Update in management of DCIS
Eileen Rakovitch
0830 Oncoloplastics for the general surgeon
Fahima Osman
0845 Technical tips and tricks for nipple sparing and skin sparing mastectomy
Tiffany Berry
0900 Benign inflammatory conditions of the breast
Jory Simpson
0915 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Ralph George, Eileen Rakovitch, Fahima Osman, Tiffany Berry and Jory Simpson

Session VII: Acute Care Surgery II
Moderator: Ori Rotstein

0930 Trauma management for the general surgeon- what’s new?
Homer Tien
0945 Interval appendectomy – indications and challenges
Ori Rotstein
1000 Incarcerated and strangulated inguinal hernias – clinical pearls, tips and tricks
Lloyd Smith
1015 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Homer Tien, Ori Rotstein and Lloyd Smith
1030 Break with exhibitors

Session VIII: Surgical Oncology II
Moderator: Carol Swallow

1100 Melanoma management 2016
Frances Wright
1115 New approaches to thyroid cancer
Lorne Rotstein
1130 What to do with peritoneal carcinomatosis
Andrea McCart
1145 High volume surgery – A social, ethical and professional dilemma
David Urbach
1200 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Frances Wright, Lorne Rotstein, Andrea McCart and David Urbach
1215 Lunch with exhibitors

Session IX: Multidisciplinary Tumour Board
Moderators: Fayez Quereshy and Paul Karanicolas

1315 Challenging GI, breast, soft tissue, endocrine tumours
MD Panel: Sean Cleary, Frances Wright, Nancy Down, Lorne Rotstein, Shady Ashamalla, Rebecca Gladdy, James Brierley, Yoo-Joung Ko, Philippe Bedard
Case Presenters: Brian Pinchuk, Hany Sawires, Danielle Bischof, Patrick Tawadros, Jesse Pasternak
1430 Break with exhibitors

Session X: Technical Tips and Tricks
Moderator: Stan Feinberg

1515 Reversal of Hartmann’s
Marcus Burnstein
1530 Getting into the hostile abdomen
Steven MacLellan
1545 Lumps and bumps
Rebecca Gladdy
1600 Mobilization of the splenic flexure
Peter Stotland
1615 Audience Case presentations, Panel Discussion, Q&A with audience
Panel: Marcus Burnstein, Steven MacLellan, Rebecca Gladdy and Peter Stotland
1650 Adjourn

Saturday, April 9, 2016

0730 Breakfast and Registration
0800-0930 Small Group Sessions

  • Construction of Stomas & Management of Complications
    Zane Cohen & Paulo Da Rosa
    Room: Carmichael Jackson
  • Breast Tumour Board – Tough Cases
    Ralph George
    Room: Johnston
  • “Always the right surgeon, never the right tools.” How to build a business case for surgical instruments in the OR
    Fayez Quereshy
    Room: Tom Thomson
1000-1130 Small Group Sessions repeated