Masterclasses

Wednesday, 24^th November 2021

MC1. EAES Research Talent Academy

Chairs: Sheraz Markar (UK)

10.00 – 12.00     Session 1: Creating Diversity in Academic Surgery
10.00 – 10.30      Creating gender diversity – Delia Cortes Guiral (Spain)
10.30 – 11.00      Introducing BAME – Patricia Sylla (USA)
11.00 – 11.30      Balancing work-life balance as an academic surgical couple- Mark van Berge Henegouwen & Suzanne Gisbertz (Netherlands)

11.30 – 12.00      Panel Discussion

14.00 – 16.00     Session 2: Future surgical research
14.00 – 14.30      Artificial intelligence – Felix Nickel (Germany)
14.30 – 15.00      Imaged-guided surgery – Manish Chand (UK)
15.00 – 15.30      Non-invasive diagnostics – George B. Hanna (UK)
15.30 – 16.00      Robotic surgery – Richard van Hillegersberg (Netherlands)

MC3. Ta-TME: Transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer

Course director: Michel Adamina (Switzerland)

Whole day

09:30 – 10:00      Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:05      Course outline & objectives – Michel Adamina (Switzerland)
10:05 – 10:20      An overview of rectal cancer surgery; current evidence – Nicolas Buchs (Switzerland)
10:20 – 10:40      Rationale, indications, and benefits of ta-TME – Michel Adamina (Switzerland)
10:40 – 11:00      The perfect operation: operative room setup, devices, and instruments – Frederic Ris                                    (Switzerland)
11:00 – 11:20     The perfect operation: surgical technique step by step – Nicolò de Manzini (Italy)
11:20 – 11:40     The less than perfect operation: pitfalls and complications – Juriaan Tuynman
(The Netherlands)
11:40 – 12:00     Discussion – all faculty

12:00 – 13:00      Lunch break

13:00 – 13:20      Pelvic anatomy revisited / pelvic nerve preservation – Isacco Montroni (Italy)
13:20 – 13:40      Beyond cancer: other indications for the transanal approach – Antonino Spinelli (Italy)
13:40 – 14:25      Unedited videos – all faculty
14:25 – 14:45      Introducing ta-TME at home: advice and tricks of the trade – Patricia Sylla (USA)
14:45 – 15:00      Discussion – all faculty

15:00 – 15:30      Coffee break15:30 – 15:45

Practical course and post course mentoring programme – Michel Adamina (Switzerland)
15:45 – 16:10      Discussion – all faculty
16:10 – 16:20      Course evaluation16:20 – 16:30      Closure

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the surgical indications and limits of performing a transanal total mesorectal excision
• for rectal cancer
• Recall the operative room set up and patient positioning, the recommended instruments and
• surgical devices
• Recognise the anatomical landmarks of pelvic surgery and describe the key surgical steps of a
• transanal total mesorectal excision for cancer
• Know the most common technical pitfalls and how to troubleshoot them
• Know the common surgical complications, how to avoid them and how to deal with them
• Describe the requirements to start a transanal total mesorectal excision programme at their institution
• Be optimally prepared to participate to a practical ta-TME cadaver course and attend a mentoring
• programme

MC4. Fluorescence – Let’s see the invisible and improve outcomes in surgery

Course directors: Michele Diana (France), Luigi Boni (Italy), Alberto Arezzo (Italy), Raul Rosenthal (USA)

Afternoon, half day, sponsored by Diagnostic Green

14.00 – 14.20      The International Society for Fluorescence Guided Surgery – Fernando Dip (Argentina)
14.20 – 14.40      FIGS in general surgery clinical applications – Salvador Morales Conde (Spain)
14.40 – 15.00      Improving outcomes with FIGS developments and advancements? – Manish Chand (UK)
15.00 – 15.20      Improving assessment of intestinal perfusion? – Ronan Cahill (Ireland)

15.20 – 15.40      Coffee break

15.40 – 16.00      NIR urinary tract enhanced visualisation – Mahdi Al-Taher (The Netherlands)
16.10 – 16.30      How to increase adoption – Luigi Boni (Italy)
16.30 – 16.50      IRCAD-EAES Surgery registry – Andrea Spota (Italy)
16.50 – 17.10      EAES consensus conference on Fluorescence – Elisa Cassinotti (Italy)
17.10 – 17.30      The future of fluorescence is bright – Michele Diana (France)
17.30 – 17.50      Panel discussion question and answer session – All