The 18th EDS Postgraduate Course
Scientific Program

Thursday, April 16

14.00-18.00

Pre-course workshop: Evidence-Based Medicine
Chairs: Daniel Hartmann, Giovanni Marchegiani, Benedikt Kaufmann, Povilas Ignatavicius, Zilvinas Dambrauskas, Rita Gudaityte, Nuha Yassin

Welcome and Introduction to EBM and levels of evidence.

Formulating a clinically relevant question: PICO/FINER

PICO/FINER Practice in groups

Setup and Planning of clinical studies

Why and how should we critically appraise the evidence?

Journal club – Appraisal of RCT/SR – small working groups

How to give a presentation

How to search for the best evidence: engines, databases, search strategy

How to write a scientific abstract

Writing a scientific abstract – in small working groups

20:00

WELCOME RECEPTION & OPENING CEREMONY

Friday, April 17

9:00 – 10:15

UPPER GI & BARIATRICS
Chairs: Theodoros Liakakos (Athens), Predrag Sabljak (Belgrade), Nikola Jankulovski (Skopje)

9:00 - 9:15

TREATMENT STANDARDS FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
Mark van Berge Henegouwen (Amsterdami)

9:15 - 9:30

CLASSIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF ANASTOMOTIC LEAK AND OESOPHAGOTRACHEAL FISTULA FOLLOWING ESOPHAGECTOMY
Richard van Hillegersberg (Utrecht)

9:30 - 9:45

GASTRIC CANCER TREATMENT STRATEGY IN M1 DISEASE,
Beat Gloor (Berne)

9:45 - 10:00

Contemporary management of Achalasia
Alexandar Simic (Belgrade)

10:00 - 10:15

HIATAL HERNIA MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Aristotelis Kechagias (Athens)

10:15– 10:45

COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 12:00

LIVER & BILIARY TREE
Chairs: Mustafa Kerem (Ankara), Dimitrios Zacharulis (Larisa), Daniel Galun (Belgrade)

10:45 - 11:00

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF KLATSKIN TUMORS
William Jarnagin, (USA)

11:00 - 11:15

MANAGEMENT OF POSTCHOLECYSTECTOMY BILE DUCT INJURIES,
Ahmet Coker (Izmir)

11:15 – 11:30

MANAGEMENT OF CONGENITAL BILIARY CYSTS,
Kevin Conlon (Dublin)

11:30 – 11:45

ROBOTIC LIVER RESECTIONS: (TRANSITION) FROM MINOR RESECTIONS TO ROBOTIC ALPPS
Christoph Michalski (Heidelberg)

11:45 – 12:00

CURRENT STATUS OF SURGICAL TREATEMNT IN HCC PATIENT
Alejandro Serrablo (Zaragoza)

12:00 – 13:15

LUNCH

13:15 – 14:30

PANCREAS
Chairs: Helmut Friess (Munich), Ahmet Coker (Izmir), Dragan Basaric (Belgrade)

13:15 – 13:30

ACUTE AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS: THE ROLE OF SURGERY,
Isabella Frigerio (Verona)

13:30-13:45

CYSTIC PANCREATIC TUMORS: WHO NEEDS SURGERY AND WHO DOES NOT?
Roberto Salvia (Verona)

13:45-14:00

PANCREATIC SURGERY: HOW TO PERFORM A SAFE PANCREATIC ANASTOMOSIS,
Giovanni Marchegiani (Padua)

14:00-14:15

ROLE OF TRIANGLE OPERATION IN MODERN PANCREATIC SURGERY
Dejan Radenkovic (Belgrade)

14:15-14:30

AMPULLARY TUMORS: CURRENT SURGICAL MANAGEMENT
Jorg Kleeff (Halle)

14.30-15:15

COFFEE BREAK

15:15-15:45

Chair: Helmut Friess (Munich), Christos Dervenis (Athens), Dejan Radenkovic (Belgrade)
STATE OF THE ART
PANCREATIC SURGERY – BEYOND THE BORDERS
Markus Büchler (Lisbon)

15:45– 17:00

TRANSPLANTATION
Chairs: Svetozar Antovic (Skopje), Koray Acarli (Istanbul), Emad Asham (USA)

15:45 – 16:00

LIVE DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION: TECHNICAL ASPECTS,
Koray Acarli ( Istanbul )

16:00 – 16:15

LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN ONCOLOGY: PATIENT SELECTION AND OUTCOMES
Povilas Ignatavicius (Kaunas)

16:15 – 16:30

Liver transplant program in Macedonia – moving forward
Svetozar Antovic (Skopje)

16:30 – 16:45

ROLE OF AI IN MODERN HPB SURGERY
Andrew Gumbs (Paris)

16:45 - 17:00

IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH HCC TRANSPLANTED USING EXPANDED SELECTION CRITERIA,
Emad Asham ( USA )

19:00

PRESIDENTIAL DINNER

Saturday, April 18

9:00 – 10:00

COLON & RECTUM
Chairs: Yusif Alirov (Bacu), Christos Dervenis (Athens), Hussein Abdallah (Paris)

9:00 - 9:15

SURGERY FOR COMPLEX BENIGN COLORECTAL DISEASE,
Nuha Yassin (Wolverhampton)

9:15 - 9:30

ANASTOMOTIC LEAK IN COLORECTAL SURGERY
Dimitrios Zacharulis (Larisa)

9:30 - 9:45

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY PROGRAM
Miljan Ceranic (Belgrade)

9:45 - 10:00

WAIT AND WATCH STRATEGY IN THE TREATMENT OF RECTAL CANCER
Goran Barisic (Belgrade)

10:00 – 10:30

COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:45

PANCREAS
Chairs: Thilo Hacket (Hamburg), Djordje Knezevic (Belgrade), TBA

10:30 – 10:45

Personal learning curve in laparoscopic pancreatic surgery
Igor Khatkov, Moscow

10:45 - 11:00

Distal pancreatectomy with coeliac axis resection
Thilo Hacket (Hamburg)

11:00 - 11:15

Artery first approach – is something changed after introduction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
Christopher Wolfgang, New York

11:15 – 11:30

IPMN – what we learned from guidelines?
Meri Trajkovska ( Skopje )

11:30-11:45

ERCP for pancreatic cancer
Georgi Deriban ( Skopje )

11:45 – 13:00

LUNCH

13:00 – 14:15

GENERAL SURGERY
Chairs: Giedrius Barauskas (Kaunas), Theodoros Liakakos (Athen), Dejan Velickovic (Belgrade)

13:00 – 13:15

EMERGENCY ULTRASOUND FOR ABDOMINAL TRAUMA: REVIEW OF FAST U PROTOCOL AND ITS POSSIBILITIES FOR CIVILIAN AND MILITARY MEDICINE
Oksana Popova (Dnipro)

13:15 – 13:30

BARIATRIC SURGERY: WHAT TYPE OF SURGERY FOR WHICH PATIENT
Ognjen Kostovski (Skopje)

13:30 – 13:45

MANAGEMENT OF INGUINAL HERNIAS
Andrija Antic (Belgrade)

13:45 – 14:00

MANAGEMENT OF INCISIONAL HERNIA – COMPLEX APPROACH
Antanas Gulbinas (Kaunas)

14:00 – 14:15

INVITATION for 19th EDS POSTGRADUATE COURSE
President Baku – Yusif Aliyarov

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