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SAGES 2007 Program Outline

(Tentative, as of Oct. 2006)

SAGES Program Chair: Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Half Day Hands-On Course: Endolumenal & Transgastric

Panel: Reoperative MIS Surgery

SAGES/SLS Panel: Approaches to Solid Organ Resection – The Debates

Rural Surgery Panel

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Full Day Postgraduate Course: MIS and Cancer

Full Day Hands-On Course: CBD

Full Day Hands-On Course: Colon

Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open

SAGES Foundation Awards Lunch

SAGES/IPEG Pediatric Panels

Exhibit Opening Welcome Reception

SAGES Satellite Symposia

Friday, April 20, 2007

Half-Day Postgraduate Course: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Half-Day Postgraduate Course: Surgeon in the Digital Age Voice Recognition

Panel: Reoperative Bariatric Surgery

SAGES/AHPBA Joint Session: Ablative Therapies

Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) Lunch

SAGES Scientific Session

Frontiers of Medicine Lecture

Panel: Safety in Bariatric Surgery

SAGES/ASGE Panel: NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery)

SAGES/AHS Panel: Hernia Debates

Career Development Seminar

SAGES Panel: Endolumenal

Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open

Exhibits Open

Evening Video Session: “Rocky Horror” Complications

Saturday, April 21, 2007

SAGES Scientific Session

SAGES Presidential Address

Karl Storz Lecture in New Technology

Health Policy Lecture

Panel: Bariatric Emergencies for Non-Bariatric Surgeons

AHPBA/SAGES Joint Session: Evaluation of Pancreatic Neoplasms

Allied Health Course

SAGES/ASCRS Panel: Colon & Rectal Surgery

Panel: Payment for Innovative Therapies - Debate

Panel: Innovative Therapies You Will Use in the Future

Residents and Fellows Scientific Session

SAGES/Fellowship Council Lunch

Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open

Exhibits Open

Meet the Leadership Reception

Main Event & Sing-Off

Sunday, April 22, 2007

SAGES Scientific Session

Panel: Evidence-Based Medicine – What’s Behind SAGES Guidelines?

SAGES/MIRA Session: Report of Robotics Consensus Conference

Panel: Real Cases from SAGES Members

Panel: Legislative Issues

Gerald Marks Lecture

Emerging Technology Session

Educators’ Lunch

Full Day Hands-On Course: Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)

SAGES/ACS Half-Day Joint Symposium: Foregut

SAGES/ACS Half-Day Joint Simulation/Education Course