Program Schedules
(Tentative as of August 2007)
The following is an outline of the SAGES meeting. Detailed information will be available in the Advance Program in November.
Program Chair: Adrian E. Park, MD
| Wednesday, April 9, 2008 |
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| Half Day Postgraduate Course: Pearls & Pitfalls of Solid Organ MIS |
| Half Day Session: Equipping the Surgeon/Training the Jedi |
| Half Day Postgraduate Course: Challenging Hernias |
| Half Day Postgraduate Course: MIS and Cancer |
| Half Day Hands-On Course: Surgeon in the Digital Age |
| Half Day Hands-On Course: Solid Organ |
| Half-Day Panel: Pediatric |
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| Half Day Session: Best of NOTES |
| Half Day Postgraduate Course: MIS Rectal Disease |
| Half Day Session: Device Development – From Concept to Cash |
| Half Day Posgraduate Course: Allied Health |
| Half Day Session: Motility Misery: A Growing Problem – Diagnosis and Management from Oropharynx to Anus |
| Half Day Postgraduate Course: Bariatric – Management of Complex Patients |
| Half Day Hands-On Course: Endolumenal |
| Half Day Hands-On Course: Colon |
| Half Day Symposium: OR/Hospital of the Future |
| Exhibits/Posters/Learning Center Opening Welcome Reception 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
| Industry Education Evening Symposia |
| Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| Scientific Sessions |
| SAGES/AHS Panel: Hernia Consensus Panel on Bio Materials |
| Panel: Diabetes Mellitus: A Surgical Disease? |
| Panel: The Changing Face of Robots and MIS |
| Educators Lunch |
| Exhibits – Posters – Learning Center OPEN 9:00 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presidental Debates |
| Panel: GERD/LERD – ARS is not Dead! |
| Panel: Fellowship and MIS Program Coordinators Forum |
| SAGES/ASGE Panel: Complications and Management of Flexible Endoscopy |
| Panel: Planning/Building/Operating a Simulation Center |
| Panel: Business/Legislative |
| Residents and Fellows Scientific Session |
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 |
| Scientific Sessions |
| Panel: Leading in America Relevant to the World |
| Pharmaceutical Panels: Fast Track MIS; The Unique and Nutritional Needs of the Bariatric Surgical Patient |
| Health Policy Lecture |
| Surgeons in Service Lunch |
| Lunch in Exhibit Hall Exhibits – Posters – Learning Center OPEN 9:00 am - 2:00 pm |
| Presidential Debates |
| Emerging Technologies Session |
| SAGES/JSES Panel |
| Panel: “Now What Do I Do?” Intraoperative and Reoperative MIS Dilemmas |
| Panel: Rural Surgeon |
| Debate: The Great Hernia Debate |