Program

April 10, 2025 | ||
09:00-09:30 | Registration | |
CLASSROOM | ||
09:30-11:15 | Hands-On Training Session in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery | Instructor: Gianluca Pellino, Victor Tomulescu |
11:15-11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45-13:00 | Hands-On Training Session in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery | Instructor: Gianluca Pellino, Victor Tomulescu |
MAIN AUDITORIUM | ||
09:30-11:15 | Workshop-Evidence-Based Medicine: From searching for the evidence to writing a paper! |
Will be announced later. |
11:15-11:45 | Coffee Break | |
11:45-13:00 | Workshop-Evidence-Based Medicine: From searching for the evidence to writing a paper! |
Will be announced later. |
13:00-14:15 | Lunch & Satellite Symposium | |
14:15-16:00 | Pancreas-Cystic Tumors | Chairperson: Mustafa Kerem, Thilo Hackert |
14:15-14:30 | Evolution of the Approach to Cystic Tumors: From the Sendai Guidelines to the Present | Will be announced later |
14:30-14:35 | Case presentation: Side-branch intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm | Zeynep Dal |
14:35-15:00 | To operate or not | Shailesh Shrikhande & Isabella Frigerio |
15:00-15:05 | Case presentation: Mucinous cystic neoplasm | Nur Ramoğlu |
15:05-15:30 | To operate or not | Jörg Kleeff & Guiseppe Malleo |
15:30-15:35 | Case presentation: Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm | Dana Sochorova |
15:35-16:00 | To operate or not | Robert Grützmann & Giovanni Marchegianni |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |
16:30-17:45 | Update-Oncological Surgery | Chairperson: Merab Kiladze, Yusif Aliyarov |
16:30-16:45 | Anatomical carcinogenesis theory for hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers | Volkan Adsay |
16:45-17:00 | Esophageal cancer UPDATE | Mark van Berge Henegouwen |
17:00-17:15 | Colon cancer UPDATE | Gianluca Pellino |
17:15-17:30 | Will be announced later. | Oksana Popova |
17:30-17:45 | Turkish hepato-pancreato-biliary-school a novel educational platform | Mustafa Kerem |
19:00 | Welcome Reception |
April 11, 2025 | ||
09:00-09:20 | Registration | |
09:20-11:30 | Pancreatic Cancer | Chairperson: Güralp Ceyhan, Helmut Friess, Jörg Kleeff |
09:20-09:35 | Welcome adresses | Isabella Frigerio, Helmut Friess, Mert Erkan |
09:35-10:00 | State of the art-technical tricks in pancreatic surgery | Helmut Friess |
10:00-10:15 | Neoadjuvant therapy-Acibadem sandwich protocol: Multidisciplinary management of locally advanced pancreatic cancer | Güralp Ceyhan |
10:15-10:30 | Endoscopic ultrasound/endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography diagnosis & pretreatment | Gürhan Şişman |
10:30-10:45 | Neoadjuvant therapy-chemotherapy UPDATE | Hana Algül |
10:45-11:00 | Neoadjuvant therapy-radiotherapy UPDATE | Stephanie Combs |
11:00-11:15 | Neoadjuvant therapy-pathology | Sibel Erdamar |
11:15-11:30 | When surgery is not an option-impact of local ablative therapies evidence and outlook | Koray Güven |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break | |
12:00-13:35 | Pancreatic Surgery & Education | Chairperson: Kevin Conlon, Yaman Tekant, Christos Dervenis |
12:00-12:15 | Pushing the borders in pancreatic surgery | Christoph Michalski |
12:15-12:30 | Tailored surgery for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors | Mert Erkan |
12:30-13:00 | State of the art-from triangle operation to a mentorship pyramid of surgery, education and research | Markus Büchler |
13:00-13:15 | Professional Identity Formation in Surgical Education | Pascal Berberat |
13:15-13:35 | Panel-from triangle operation to a mentorship pyramid of surgery, education and research | Markus Büchler & SCHOOL HD (Helmut Friess, Shailesh Shrikhande, Thilo Hackert, Jörg Kleeff, Christoph Michalski, Güralp Ceyhan, Mert Erkan) |
13:35-15:00 | Lunch – Council Meeting & Satellite Symposium | |
15:00-16:45 | Liver & Biliary Cancer | Chairperson: Daniel Hartmann, Koray Güven, Ahmet Coker, Deniz Balcı |
15:00-15:15 | Peripheral cholangiocellular carcinoma | Kevin Conlon |
15:15-15:30 | Central cholangiocellular carcinoma | Thilo Hackert |
15:30-15:45 | Colorectal liver metastases | Ender Dulundu |
15:45-16:00 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Ekin Demir |
16:00-16:15 | Ablation/transarterial radioembolization | Ali Harman |
16:15-16:30 | Gallbladder cancer | Ahmet Coker |
16:30-16:45 | Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy after 12 years – critical evaluation | Hauke Lang |
16:45-17:00 | Coffee Break | |
17:00-18:30 | Update in General Surgery | Chairperson: Oksana Popova, Ivane Abiatari, Dejan Radenkovic |
17:00-17:15 | Advances in bariatric surgery – UPDATE | Mehmet Ali Yerdel |
17:15-17:30 | Robotic hernia surgery – UPDATE | Omar Yusef Kudsi |
17:30-17:45 | Thyroid cancer surgery – UPDATE | Mete Düren |
17:45-18:00 | Breast cancer surgery – UPDATE | Cihan Uras |
18:00-18:15 | Management of peritoneal cancer – UPDATE | Beat Gloor |
18:15-18:30 | Minimal invasive adrenal surgery – UPDATE | Aristotelis Kechagias |
20:00 | Faculty Dinner |
April 12, 2025 | ||
09:00-10:45 | Technological Advances | Chairperson: Erman Aytaç, Christoph Michalski, Kevin Conlon |
09:00-09:15 | How do I teach robotic gastrointestinal surgery? | Andre Mihaljevic |
09:15-09:30 | Implementation of robotic gastrointestinal surgery | Laurents Stassen |
09:30-09:45 | How do I teach minimal invasive hepatopancreatobiliary surgery? | Moh Abu Hilal |
09:45-10:00 | Implementation of minimal invasive hepatopancreatobiliary surgery | Ekin Demir |
10:00-10:15 | Quantifiable assessment of learning using novel technologies | M. Emin Aksoy |
10:15-10:30 | Medical artificial intelligence-the pearl on the crown inside AI | Liu Bin |
10:30-10:45 | AI and endosonography | Zhen Ding |
10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
11:15-12:45 | Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery – Panel – Multidisciplinary Tailoring of Neoadjuvant Treatment for Gastric Cancer | Chairperson: Hana Algül, Mark van Berge Henegouwen, Beat Gloor |
11:15-11:30 | To radiate | Mert Saynak |
11:30-11:45 | Not to radiate-chemotherapy alone is enough | Özlem Er |
11:45-12:00 | Surgery | Erman Aytaç |
12:00-12:15 | Is hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy still an option in gastric cancer? | Richard van Hillegersberg |
12:15-12:30 | Endoscopic management of early gastric cancer | Erkin Öztaş |
12:30-12:45 | Perioperative management of signet ring cell gastric carcinoma | Rümeysa Atabey |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch & Satellite Symposium | |
14:00-15:30 | Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery – Panel – Multidisciplinary Sequencing of Total Neoadjuvant Treatment for Rectal Cancer | Chairperson: Laurents Stassen, Yusif Aliyarov, İlknur Erenler Bayraktar |
14:00-14:15 | Role of chemotherapy | Sara De Dosso |
14:15-14:30 | Role of radiation therapy | Stephanie Combs |
14:30-14:45 | Role of surgery | Cihangir Akyol |
14:45-15:00 | THE GOOD: Optimising the watch and wait strategy following neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer | İlknur Erenler Bayraktar |
15:00-15:15 | THE BAD: Multivisceral resection for rectal cancer | Nuha Yassin |
15:15-15:30 | THE UGLY: Management of metastatic rectal cancer patients undergoing non-operative management | Leyla Özer |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00-16:30 | Transplantation | Chairperson: Selim Keçeoğlu, Daniel Hartmann, Hauke Lang |
16:00-16:15 | Cadaveric liver transplantation-Living donor liver transplantation: Beyond the current criteria-Where do we stop? | Yaman Tokat |
16:15-16:30 | Living related liver transplantation: Advantages and risks over cadaveric liver transplantation | Utku Yılmaz |
16:30-18:00 | Transplant in Oncology | Chairperson: Selim Keçeoğlu, Daniel Hartmann, Hauke Lang |
16:30-16:45 | Novel approaches in liver transplantation: Functional liver imaging and perfusion; resection and partial liver transplantation with delayed total hepatectomy | Deniz Balcı |
16:45-17:15 | Hepatocellular carcinoma: Living donor liver transplantation vs. sequential liver resection | Hamdi Karakayalı vs Hauke Lang |
17:15-17:45 | Colorectal liver metastases: Resection or liver transplantation? | Guido Torzilli vs Will be announced later. |
17:45-17:55 | Presidential adress | Mert Erkan |
17:55-18:00 | Outlook EDS 2026 | President 2026 |