Register Online | Download Advance Program | Letter from the SAGES Program Chair | General Information about the Meeting | Travel Discounts | Registration Information | Exhibits and Exhibit Only Registration | Schedule at a Glance | SAGES Meeting Leaders | SAGES 2004 Hands-on Courses | SAGES 2004 Postgraduate Courses | Primer on Establishing and Running a MIS/GI Fellowship Program | SAGES Evening Video Session | SAGES Allied Health Professionals Course | Resident and Fellow Scientific Session | Industry Education Events | Industry Breakfast | SAGES 2004 Scientific Session | Karl Storz Lecture | SAGES Presidential Address | Gerald Marks Lecture | SAGES 2004 Learning Center | SAGES Lunches | SAGES Faculty | SAGES Social Programs and Special Events | Tours - For Accompanying Guests | Registration and Housing instructions | Meeting Poster | Advance Program Home |

Register Online Now | Download Advance Program PDF

SAGES 2004 Meeting Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Morning 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Postgraduate Course I: Complications in Bariatric Surgery
Afternoon
1:00 - 5:30 PM Hands-On Course Lab: Advanced Laparoscopic Techniques
  3:00 - 5:00 PM Primer on Establishing & Running a MIS/GI Fellowship Program
Evening
5:00 - 7:00 PM Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
  7:00 - 9:00 PM SAGES Evening Video Session
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Morning
7:30 - 11:30 AM Surgeon in the Digital Age Hands-On Course:
PDA Workshop for Surgeons
  7:30 - 11:30 AM SAGES Allied Health Professionals Course
  7:30 - 11:30 AM Postgraduate Course II: Top to Bottom GERD
  8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Tour 1: Art Castings in Loveland & Tastes of Boulder
Afternoon
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM Exhibit Hall, Posters, Learning Center
  2:00 - 5:30 PM Postgraduate Course III: Top to Bottom GERD
  2:00 - 5:00 PM Postgraduate Course IV: Minimally Invasive Surgery in HPB Tumors
  2:00 - 5:00 PM Resident and Fellow Scientific Session
Evening 5:00 - 9:00 PM Industry Education Events
Friday, April 2, 2004
Morning 6:30 - 8:00 AM Industry Breakfast
  8:00 - 9:00 AM Scientific Sessions: Plenary Session I
  9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Tour 2: Cherokee Ranch & Castle: Garden of the Gods & Lunch
  9:00 - 9:30 AM Karl Storz Lecture: Surgical Education and Training
into the New Millenium – Ara Darzi, MD
  9:30 - 10:00 AM
Break: Exhibits, Posters, Learning Center
  10:00 - 10:30 AM Presidential Address: Lee Swanstrom, MD
  10:30 - 11:30 AM Panel 1: Clinical Trials 101
Afternoon
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM Break: Exhibit Hall, Posters, Learning Center
  2:00 - 6:00 PM Paper and Video Sessions; Panels
  2:00 - 3:00 PM Panel 2: Gut Motility
  4:30 - 6:00 PM Panel 3: Minimally Invasive Endocrine Surgery
Evening 6:00 - 7:00 PM Meet the Leadership Reception for New Members, Residents and Fellows
  7:30 PM SAGES Gala Main Event & Sing-off at Jillian’s
Saturday, April 3, 2004

Morning
7:30 - 9:00 AM Scientific Sessions: Plenary Session II
  9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Tour 3: Mile High City Highlights
  9:00 - 9:30 AM
SAGES Awards Ceremony
  9:30 - 10:00 AM
Marks Lecture: Paradigm Shifts and Loss of Domain:
Implications for Surgical Education – Jeffrey Ponsky, MD
  10:00 - 11:00 AM
Panel 4: Patient Safety
  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Paper and Video Sessions
Afternoon 12:00 - 12:30 AM
SAGES Business Meeting—All Members Should Attend!
  12:30 - 2:00 PM
Educator’s Lunch: SAGES FLS: Conception, Validation and Distribution
  12:30 - 2:00 PM
Technology Lunch: Robots: After the Honeymoon is Over
  12:30 - 2:00 PM
Pediatric Lunch: Ileo-Colic Disease in Young Adults
  2:00 - 5:00 PM
Paper and Video Sessions; Panels
  2:00 - 3:00 PM
Panel 5: MIS From the Far Side
  3:00 - 4:00 PM Panel 6: PROS and CONS: Issues in General Surgery

For more information, please contact SAGES
Phone (310) 437-0544, ext. 108
Fax (310) 437-0585
Email: registration@sages.org

Register Online Now | Download Advance Program PDF