Mission statement:
To promote global collaboration and exchange of knowledge to optimize patient care.
Goals:
- Interact, foster, and collaborate with national, regional societies.
- Branding SAGES internationally
- Encourage global collaboration in research, education, and innovation
Accomplishments:
Since its founding in 2006, SAGES Go Global has:
- Held over 21 International Proctoring Courses (IPCs).
- Collectively these sites have performed over 4,000 basic laparoscopic cases making the majority of the sites not only self-sustainable but a model for duplicating training efforts that expand across each country.
- Conducted an annual webcast from the SAGES Congress and broadcast content to over 35 countries internationally in areas such as Peru, the Philippines, and Tanzania.
- Partnered with the U.S. Armed Forces and Royal Armed Forces to broadcast meeting content into remote locations in Iraq and Afghanistan that has engaged over 8,000 surgeons worldwide.
- Added telementoring to the IPC curriculum in 2009 as a means of expanding educational efforts and to enhance sustainability. The Haiti Telementoring Lecture Series pilot launch was conducted in March of 2014.
- Provided “Best International Paper Awards” which are travel grants that allow for international presenters to participate in SAGES at the annual congress, in hands-on courses, and as a member.
- Piloted a Train the Trainers course in Mongolia in 2013, led by Drs.Raymond Price and Mike Marohn, to assist local faculty with developing training techniques. In partnership with the Swanson Foundation, the Ministry of Health, and the Mongolia Surgical Society, this program has now reached over 4,000 laparoscopic cases performed A Train the Trainers Course was also officially launched in June of 2014 in Argentina.
- Launched the Academic Exchange program fall 2014, an observership exchange program with the Chinese Medical Association (CMA).
- In 2015, to further the Global mission, will introduce an IPC – Flexible Endoscopy curriculum.
For more information or to get involved, please contact Jacqueline@sages.org.
Supporters:
SAGES gratefully acknowledges the following companies for their unrestricted support towards the SAGES International Proctoring Courses (IPC), a SAGES Global Affairs Initiative:
SAGES Research & Education Foundation
SAGES gratefully acknowledges the following companies and individuals for their unrestricted contribution in kind:
CareFusion
Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Karl Storz Endoscopy
Swanson Family Foundation
2017 SAGES Best International Paper Winners
SAGES Board of Governors and the SAGES Global Affairs Committee would like to acknowledge the following Top International Abstract Presenters:
| NAME | Pierre Allemann |
| INSTITUTION | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, CH and Vrie University Medical Center (VUMC), Amsterdam, NL |
| ABSTRACT | Completely minimally invasive esophagectomy for cancer with intrathoracic anastomosis: A simple and reproducible technique in prone position |
| COUNTRY | Switzerland |
| NAME | Akinari Nomura |
| INSTITUTION | Saga University |
| ABSTRACT | A novel evacuation system enables surgeons to perform laparoscopic total mesorectal excision with high precision using an electric scalpel alone |
| COUNTRY | Japan |
| NAME | Arslan Pannu |
| INSTITUTION | The Central Manchester University Hospitals, The Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK, and The Royal Oldham Hospital, Manchester, UK |
| ABSTRACT | LAPAROSCOPIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE VERSUS SIGMOIDECTOMY FOR MANAGEMENT OF PERFORATED DIVERTICULITIS: META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS |
| COUNTRY | United Kingdom |
| NAME | Eham L Arora |
| INSTITUTION | Grant government medical college & Sir J.J. group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India, and Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, India |
| ABSTRACT | Laparoscopic lateral Pancreaticojejunostomy stapled and sutured techniques. |
| COUNTRY | India |
| NAME | Pablo Achurra |
| INSTITUTION | Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Hospital Sotero del Río, Santiago, Chile |
| ABSTRACT | Laparoscopic four-duct hepatojejunal anastomosis in severe Mirizzi syndrome |
| COUNTRY | Chile |
SAGES Global Affairs Committee Chairs:
Jeffrey W. Hazey, MD (Chair)
Ohio State University Medical Center
Raymond R. Price, MD (Co-Chair)
Intermountain Medical Center
Brant K. Oelschlager (Co-Chair)
University of Washington
