Program Schedules

The following is an outline of the meeting. Detailed information will be available in the Advance Program in November, 2010.

Program Chair: Brian J. Dunkin, MD

  • Wednesday, 3-30-2011
  • Thursday, 3-31-2011
  • Friday, 3-1-2011
  • Saturday, 3-2-2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Postgraduate Course: Fundamentals for the Use of Safe Energy (FUSE)
Postgraduate Course: Foregut
Postgraduate Course: Minimizing MIS
Postgraduate Course: MIS Colon Surgery
Half Day Hands-on Course: Fundamentals for the Use of Safe Energy (FUSE)
Symposium: Getting Paid for What You Do – EMR, Coding, Reimbursement
Video Session: Unexpected Intraoperative Findings
Symposium: Ideas to Product-How to Commercialize your Great Ideas
Panel: Incorporating FLS and FES Into Your Residence Training Program
Half Day Hands-on Course: Minimizing MIS
Half Day Hands-on Course: MIS Colorectal Surgery
Session: SAGES Pearls
Thursday, March 31, 2011
SAGES Scientific Sessions
Postgraduate Course: Endoscopy for Surgeons
Postgraduate Course: Bariatric Sleeve and Band
Panel: Safety for Surgeons
SAGES/JSES Joint Symposium: What’s New in Lower GI Surgery
SAGES/SSAT Joint Symposium: MIS HPB – The Next Frontier
Panel: Getting New Technology Into Your Hospital
Session: Learning Center Rounds
Session: Poster Rounds
SAGES/ACS Joint Symposium: Health Care Reform Update


Half Day Hands-on Course: Endoscopy for Surgeons
Half Day Hands-on Course: Bariatric Sleeve and Band
Debate: Inguinal Hernia – Laparoscopic or Open?
Panel: When Bad Things Happen to Good Surgeons
Session: Managing Bariatric Surgery Emergencies for Non-Bariatric Surgeons
Friday, April 1, 2011
SAGES Scientific and Sessions
SAGES Presidential Address
Gerald Marks Keynote Lecture
Session: Lessons Learned from Private Practice on Efficiency and Cost Savings
Panel: Controversies about Hernia Mesh
Session: Robotics for General Surgeons – It’s Coming Your Way

Emerging Technology Session
Video Symposium: Complications and Reoperations
SAGES/ALACE Joint Symposium
SAGES/ASCRS Joint Symposium: Laparoscopic Colon Surgery – Why Not More?
Session: Advanced Ventral Hernia
Session: Difficult Problems in Reasonable Patients
Residents/Fellows Scientific Session
Saturday, April 2, 2011
SAGES Scientific Sessions
Karl Storz Keynote Lecture
Session: General Surgery in Obese Patients – Tips and Tricks
Panel: Patient Safety
Session: GERD and PEH


Panel: Patient Centered Outcomes
Session: Lessons Learned from Military Surgery
Session: Adolescent Surgery
Session: Advancing Beyond Optical Imaging