Friday, April 21

730-800 Breakfast & Registration
0800-805 Welcome & Introduction

Breast
Chair: Nancy Down
8:05-8:17 Management on proliferative lesions of the breast
Brian Pinchuk
8:17-8:42 Debate – YES vs NO: pre-op localization of the positive sentinel node
Fahima Osman vs Ralph George
8:42-8:54 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy – are we failing our patients?
Amanda Roberts
8:54-9:06 The aesthetic mastectomy
Adena Scheer
9:06-9:15 Q&A and Discussion
915-945 Tumour Board

  • Hanbo Chen
  • Ralph George
  • Marianna Kapala
  • Jeff Myers
  • Fahima Osmann
  • Amanda Roberts
  • Adena Scheer

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    945-1000 Break

    Acute Care Surgery
    Chair: Ashlie Nadler
    1000-1020 Appendicitis – to cut or not to cut
    Heather Evans

    Management of the challenging acute care patient:
    1020-1035 The pregnant patient
    Erin Sadler
    1035-1050 The elderly patient
    Tyler Chesney
    1050-1105 The immunosuppressed patient
    Stephanie Mason
    1105-1120 The Cirrhotic patient
    Eisar Al-Sukhni
    1120-1150 Remote monitoring – adopting technology in your practice
    Heather Evans
    1150-1215 Panel Discussion
    All Speakers
    1215-1315 Lunch

    Incidentalomas
    Chair: Shiva Jayaraman
    1315-1330 The mass in the appendix
    Usmaan Hameed
    1330-1345 The mass in the pancreas
    Calvin Law
    1345-1400 Mesenteric incidentalomas
    Rebecca Gladdy
    1400-1415 A lump in the thyroid
    Jesse Pasternak
    1415-1430 Gallbladder polyps – new guidelines
    Shiva Jayaraman
    1430-1530

    Breakout Sessions – Outside the Operating Room
    Choose 2 of 4

    1. The Late career surgeon- should I stay or should I go?
      Stan Feinberg, John Hagen
    2. Striving for balance – focus on wellness
      Giuseppe Papia
    3. The surgeon as leader and administrator
      Mary-Anne Aarts, Carmine Simone, Sara Temple
    4. Removing the veil – how to be your authentic self in surgery
      Fahima Dossa, Carol-Anne Moulton
    1430-1500 Breakout Session 1
    1500-1530 Breakout Session 2
    1530-1550 Break

    A coagulation situation
    Chair: Stan Feinberg
    1550-1605 An approach to the ischemic gut
    Varun Kapila
    1605-1620 The anastomotic bleed – how to prevent/how to manage-
    Stan Feinberg
    1620-1640 Liver bed bleeding at cholecystectomy
    Shiva Jayaraman
    1640-1650 Pelvic bleeding
    Anthony De Buck
    1650-1700 The post polypectomy bleed
    Andras Fecso
    1700-1715 Q&A