Dr George Webster

Course Director

09:10 - 10:25 - Cancer Detection and Resection

Featuring:

• Barrett's ablative therapies
• ESD
• CAG surveillance
• Demonstration of a novel virtual reality endoscopy training platform

10:25 - 10:50 - Subepithelial Lesions

Featuring:

• EUS assessment and FNB
• Duodenal ESD and defect closure
• STER/Third space endoscopy

10:50 - 11:25 - Motility and Reflux

Featuring:

• Endoflip
• POEM

11:25 - 12:30 - Perforations and Strictures

Featuring:

• Suturing
• VAC stent
• UGI stenting and antimigration techniques

 Dr Vinay Sehgal

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, University College Hospital, London

This is an AstraZeneca sponsored promotional symposium at which AstraZeneca products will be discussed. This meeting is intended for UK healthcare professionals only.

AstraZeneca has provided sponsorship towards this independent Programme. AstraZeneca has had no editorial input into or control over the agenda, content development or choice of speakers, nor opportunity to influence, except for the AstraZeneca sponsored symposium presentation.

12:45 - 13:15 Variceal and non Variceal bleeding

Featuring

• Bleeding quality care bundles 
• Prophylaxis and management of variceal bleeding
• Medical and endoscopic therapies

13:15 - 14:15 - Transpapillary biliary access “Getting it right first time!”

Featuring:

• Selective biliary cannulation at ERCP + sphincterotomy techniques
• Precut/KNS
• EUS Rendez-vous/CDS
• Management of biliary disease in altered anatomy

14:15 - 15:15 - Stricture Management

Featuring:

• Management of hepatic duct strictures
• EUS- hepatico-gastrostomy (HGS).
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy
• Cholangioscopic assessment of indeterminate strictures
• Stenting malignant obstruction
• ERCP in the transplant patient

15:15 - 16:00 - Biliary stone disease

Featuring:

• Sphincteroplasty + stone extraction
• Approach to difficult stones 
• Management of stones in altered anatomy

16:00 - 16:30 - Pancreatic assessment + intervention

Featuring:

• Pancreatic ductal stones
• EUS-cyst gastrostomy
• Endoscopic necrosectomy

Dr George Webster

Course Director

09:00 - 10:30 - Polyp Detection

Featuring:

• Colonoscopy withdrawal – tricks + tips
• “Are we there yet?” Lessons from National Endoscopy Database
• Post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC) 
• The role of colonic/panenteric capsule in different pathways
• IBD colonic surveillance

10:30 - 12:15 - Polyp assessment and management

Featuring:

• Small polyps – characterisation and resection techniques
• Large polyps – assessment, characterisation, resection choices
• Underwater EMR
• Colonic ESD – case selection + technique
• Understanding electrocautery and safe polypectomy

12:15 - 13:00 - Colonic ESD: Service delivery and training

13:00 - 13:45 - Colonoscopy challenges

Featuring:

• Post polypectomy bleeding
• Polyp recurrence
• Defect closure

13:15 - 14:15 - “Bariatric medicine – scalpels, scopes, needles or tablets?”

• Medical therapies
• Endoscopic approaches

15:30 - 16:15 - "Stuck on you" - Foreign body removal

“Therapeutic EUS – limitations or limitless?”

Featuring:

• Past, present + future of therapeutic EUS - Prof Ken Binmoeller (inventor of the Hot Axios LAMS)
• EUS gastrojejunostomy
• EUS CDS for malignant bile duct obstruction
• HGS