2018 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 | Teodora C Dumitra, MD |
| INSTITUTION | McGill University |
| ABSTRACT | IS THERE A GENDER BIAS IN THE ADVANCEMENT TO SAGES LEADERSHIP? |
| COUNTRY | Canada |
| NAME | Ji Hoon Kim |
| INSTITUTION | Department of Surgery, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. |
| ABSTRACT | Pure laparoscopic transhepatic enucleation for mucinous cystic neoplasm abutting major hepatic veins at caval confluence |
| COUNTRY | South Korea |
| NAME | Hironari Shiwaku |
| INSTITUTION | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine, |
| ABSTRACT | Multicenter collaborative retrospective review of peroral endoscopic myotomy for esophageal achalasia; examination of more than 1,300 cases at 8 facilities in Japan |
| COUNTRY | Japan |
| NAME | Aqeel J Ashraf, BMBCh |
| INSTITUTION | Mubarak AlKabeer Hospital, Kuwait, |
| ABSTRACT | LAPAROSCOPIC CONVERSION OF ENDOLUMINAL SLEEVE GASTROPLASTY TO SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY |
| COUNTRY | Kuwait |
| NAME | Gagandeep Talwar |
| INSTITUTION | Grant Government Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India |
| ABSTRACT | Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy – Why? When? Which? |
| COUNTRY | India |