Have you published in the Surgical Endoscopy Journal in the past 12 months? Then we ask you to submit your application to present your manuscript in the SEJ award session during the EAES congress in Athens which takes place from 23 – 26 June 2026.
The six selected applicants will receive a travel grant of €500 and waived registration fee for the congress. Publisher Springer will provide free temporary access to the 6 selected manuscripts for 2 months.
The session will be chaired by the editors in chief of the journal. You will have 10 minutes to present, plus 5 minutes discussion time.
The winner of the SEJ award will be announced during the congress social event on Thursday, 25th June 2026.
The applications for 2026 are closed. The selected presenters and their manuscripts can be found below.
Presenters 2026
- Flexible suction–coagulation probe restores dexterity in robot‑assisted surgery: bench‑to‑bedside evaluation – Yuki Ushimaru (Japan)
- Surgical outcomes of conventional versus indocyanine green fluorescence-guided laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis: a propensity score-matched analysis – Antonio Pesce (Italy)
- Minimally invasive Distal Pancreatectomy eRgonOMic analysis – the DP-ROM trial: An explorative, prospective, observational, cohort study trial – Matteo De Pastena (Italy)
- Update on esophageal function, acid and non‑acid reflux after one‑anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB): high‑resolution manometry, impedance‑24‑h pH‑metry, and gastroscopy in a prospective mid‑term study – Moritz Felsenreich (Austria)
- SAGES 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis for fluorescence image-guided gastrointestinal surgery using indocyanine green (SAGES/EAES official publication) – Panagiotis Kapsampelis (UK)
- Effects of training in pairs versus training alone on reaching proficiency in minimally invasive Roux-en-Y-gastric bypass on a virtual reality trainer in medical students: a randomized-controlled trial – Amila Čizmić (Germany)
Presenters 2025
- Winner Be prepared! Impact of structured video-assisted coaching on performance in a simulated bleeding exercise during laparoscopic surgery – Dimitrios Chatziisaak (Switzerland)
- An international Delphi consensus for surgical quality assessment of lymphadenectomy and anastomosis in minimally invasive total gastrectomy for gastric cancer – Amila Čizmić (Germany)
- Implementing recycling in the operating room: a single-center experience – Manuela Mastronardi (Italy)
- Deep learning‑based pelvimetry in pelvic MRI volumes for pre‑operative difficulty assessment of total mesorectal excision – Simon Baltus (The Netherlands)
- The development of tissue handling skills is sufficient and comparable after training in virtual reality or on a robotic system: a prospective randomized trial – Felix von Bechtolsheim (Germany)
- Surgical management of complicated diverticulitis: SR and individual patient data NMA – An EAES/ESCP collaborative project – Bright Huo (Canada)
