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1 08:00-09:00 Opening Ceremony WEDNESDAY MORNING 08:45-09:00 Conference Training programs and simulators in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery 12 Julian Varas Cohen (Chile) PANCREAS AND BILIARY TRACT 09:00-09:30 Round Table Indications and technical aspects in Pancreas and Biliary tract Surgery Moderator: Adhemar Monteiro Pacheco Junior (Brasil/SP) Role of the Surgeon in treatment of coledocolithiasis Mariano Palermo (Argentina) 10 Iatrogenic Injury of the Biliary Tract Telesforo Bacchella (Brasil/SP) 10 Discussion 09:30-10:10 Conferences 10:10-10:40 Break President: José Eduardo Monteiro Da Cunha (Brasil/SP) Severe acute pancreatitis: surgical management: when and how? Markus Volfgang Büchler (Alemanha) 20 IPMN (Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Pancreas): current management Markus Volfgang Büchler (Alemanha) 20 10:40-11:30 Round Table Surgery of the pancreas: Indications and technical aspects Moderador: Telesforo Bacchella (Brasil/SP) Chronic pancreatitis 12 José Eduardo Monteiro Da Cunha (Brasil/SP)

2 Complications after Lap pancreatectomy 12 Juan Pablo Pantoja Milan (México) Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors 12 Paulo Roberto Savassi Rocha (Brasil/MG) Discussion 11:30-12:00 Conference Quo vadis pancreatic surgery? President: Telesforo Bacchella (Brasil/SP) Markus Volfgang Büchler (Alemanha) 30 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium COVIDIEN New wireless ultrassonic scalpel 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium - ABBOTT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ESOPHAGEAL SURGERY 14:00-16:00 Round Table Recent advances in Esophageal and esofagogastric junction cancer surgery

3 Coordenador: Rubens Antonio Aissar Sallum (Brasil/SP) From transhiatal esophagectomy to minimamlly invasive procedures Ivan Cecconello (Brasil/SP) 20 Stage-oriented treatment strategy for patients with esophageal cancer in Japan Nobutoshi Ando (Japão) 20 Approaches to esophageal cancer surgery Jan Van Lanschot (Holanda) 20 Complications of esophagectomy International Consensus Survey Donald Low (EUA) 20 Neoadjuvant chemo vs chemoradiation in esophageal and juctional cancer Jan Van Lanschot (Holanda) 20 Discussion 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-17:00 Conference Evolution in outcomes, process and quality measures in the treatment of esophageal cancer Donald Low (EUA) 20 16:50-18:15 Painel Quiz and films about GERD and achalasia Coordenador: Osvaldo Malafaia (Brasil/PR) Debater: Nicolau Gregori Czeczko (Brasil/PR) Debater: Valter Nilton Felix (Brasil/SP) Debater: Francisco Carlos Bernal Da Costa Seguro (Brasil/SP) Alternative Treatment in GERD Joaquim Prado Moraes-Filho (Brasil/SP) Discussion Films How to dissect the hiatal pillar? Júlio Rafael Mariano da Rocha (Brasil/SP) 5 Posterior dissection of gastric fundus. Is it necessary? Sérgio Szachnowicz (Brasil/SP) 5 How to divide the short gastric vessels? Cleber Dario Pinto Kruel (Brasil/RS) 5

4 Discussion How to do the hiatoplasty? Maria Aparecida Henry (Brasil/SP) 5 How to do a fundoplication? Delta Madureira Filho (Brasil/RJ) 5 Discussion 08:00-08:40 Round Table Liver nodules THURSDAY MORNING LIVER SURGERY Moderator: William Abraão Saad (Brasil/SP) Surgical treatment of Benign tumors of the liver. When? Luiz Pereira Lima (Brasil/Rs) 15 A nodule in a patient with liver cirrhosis. How to deal? Júlio Cezar Uili Coelho (Brasil/PR) 15 Discussion 10 08:40-09:40 Round Table Liver Tumors Moderator: Luiz Arnaldo Szutan (Brasil/SP) How to evaluate a patient with colorectal hepatic metastasis Fábio Ferrari Makdissi (Brasil/SP) 15 Is there a place for hepatocellular carcinoma resection in the era of transplantation? Fabricio Ferreira Coelho (Brasil/SP) 15 Laparoscopic liver nodule resection in difficult situations Jaime A P Kruger (Brasil/SP) 15 Discussion 15

5 09:40-10:00 Conference 10:00-10:30 Break Laparoscopic hepatectomy University of Sao Paulo experience President: Luis Augusto Carneiro d Albuquerque (SP) Paulo Herman (Brasil/SP) 10:30-11:00 Conference Role of laparoscopy in major hepatectomies President: Paulo Herman (Brasil/SP) Go Wakabayashi (Japão) 11:00-12:00 Round Table Liver transplantation Moderator: Wellington Andraus (Brasil/SP) Laparoscopic Live donor hepatectomy for transplantation Go Wakabayashi Japão 20 Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and liver transplantation Luiz Augusto Carneiro D Albuquerque (Brasil/SP) 20 Discussion 20 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium - Johnson & Johnson Challenges of Bariatric Surgery - Cases for Discussion: 1) How to deal with the regained weight? 2) reflux and Bariatric Surgery 3) Metabolic Surgery: BMI as the sole criterion? Moderador: Marco Aurelio Santo (Brasil/SP) Apresentador: Henrique Dametto Giroud Joaquim (Brasil/SP) Debatedor: Marcelo z. Salém (Brasil) Debatedor: Daniel Riccioppo Cerqueira Ferreira de Oliveira (Brasil/SP) Debatedor: Pedro l. Bertevello (Brasil) Debatedor: Denis Pajecki (Brasil/SP) Debatedor: Irineu Rasera Jr (Brasil) 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium - RECKITT 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium

6 THURSDAY AFTERNOON STOMACH AND SMALL BOWEL 14:00-15:30 Round Table Minimally Invasive Surgery Step By Step Moderator: Fábio Pinatel Lopasso (Brasil/SP) Moderator: Nelson Adami Andreollo (Brasil/SP) Wedge and intra-gastric resection Cláudio José Caldas Bresciani (Brasil/SP) 15 Laparoscopic Gastrectomy step by step Carlos Eduardo Jacob (Brasil/SP) 15 Types of reconstruction after Lap Gastrectomy Bruno Zilberstein (Brasil/SP) 15 Results of Lap Gastrectomy Ricardo Funke (Chile) 15 Discussion 15 15:30-15:45 Conference 16:45-16:00 Conference 16:00-16:30 Break GIST a recurrent problem President: Ulysses Ribeiro Juniort (Brasil/SP) Laercio Gomes Lourenço (Brasil/SP) Upper Gi non varicosa hemorrhagae. Is there a place for surgical treatment? President: Bruno Zilberstein (Brasil/SP) Fábio Pinatel Lopasso (Brasil/SP) 16:30-18:00 Talk Show Per operative management in Digestive Surger: nutritional preparation / fasting abbreviation / anesthesia / hydration

7 Early feeding Jose Eduardo de Aguilar Nascimento (Brasil/MT) 15 Nutricional therapy Dan Waitzberg (Brasil/SP) 15 New trends in fluids therapy Alexandre Teruya (Brasil) 15 Diagnosis and treatment in Coagulation disturbances Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar (Brasil/SP) 15 Minimally Invasive Hemodinamic monitorization José Otávio Costa Auler Jr. (Brasil/SP) FRIDAY MORNING BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY 08:00-10:00 Round Table: Technical aspects of surgical treatment Relevant questions and short answers (7 min) Moderator: Marco Aurelio Santo (Brasil/SP) Moderator: Heládio Feitosa de Castro Filho (Brasil/CE) Moderator: Edmundo Machado Ferraz (Brasil/PE) Pre-operative Loss of weight. When? How? Why? Alvaro Antônio Bandeira Ferraz (Brasil/PE) 7 Hepatic chronic disease Roberto de Cleva (Brasil/SP) 7 Patients older than 65 years should be operated? Elinton Adami Chaim (Brasil/SP) 7 Roux-en-Y Gastric by-pass: is theren an ideal size for the Gastric pouch? Daniel Riccioppo Cerqueira Ferreira de Oliveira (Brasil/SP) 7 Bariatric and metabolic surgery: Endoscopic devices Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura (Brasil/SP) 7 Predictor factors in diabetes improvement and influence in surgical treatment options Flávio Masato Kawamoto (Brasil/SP) 7 Proteic malnutrition and diarrhea after late Roux-en-Y Gastric by-pass Marco Túlio Costa Diniz (Brasil/MG) 7 Most importante emergencies in patient submitted to bariatric surgery

8 Carlos Alberto Malheiros (Brasil/SP) 7 Weight regain Roux-en-Y Gastric by-pass Marco Aurelio Santo (Brasil/SP) 7 Reflux after sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y Gastric by-pass Paulo Afonso Nunes Nassif (Brasil/PR) 7 Life Quality after bariatric surgery Paulo Engler Pinto Jr. (Brasil/SP) 7 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:10 Round Table Perspectives in Bariatric and metabolic surgery Moderator: Marco Aurelio Santo (Brasil/SP) Vertical gastrectomy - State of Art Rami Lutfi (Estados Unidos) 10 Vertical Robotic Gastrectomy - video Marco Aurelio Santo (Brasil/SP) 10 Robotic Gastroplastic of Roux s Y - video Denis Pajecki (Brasil/SP) 10 Revisional bariatric surgery Rami Lutfi (Estados Unidos) 10 11:10-12:00 Conferences ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS President: Gaspar de Jesus Lopes Filho (Brasil/SP) Lap inguinal hérnias TAPP and TEP Ricardo Zugaib Abdalla (Brasil/SP) 20 Abdominal wall complex hernias Eduardo Parra-Davila (Estados Unidos) 30

9 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium FRIDAY AFTERNOON COLOPROCTOLOGY 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium 12:30-13:45 Satellite Symposium STRATTNER The futuro of robotic surgery 14:00-15:50 Conferences Colorectal cancer Surgical treatment 15:50-16:20 Break President: Sergio Carlos Nahas (Brasil/SP) Total resection of the mesorectum by videolaparoscopy. Joel Leroy (França) 30 Surgical treatment of colon cancer by videolaparoscopy State of the art Joel Leroy (França) 30 Robot-assisted right and left colectomy Eduardo Parra-Davila (Estados Unidos) 30 Multivisceral resection in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer Sergio Carlos Nahas (Brasil/SP) 20 16:20-17:00 Round Table Update in colorectal diseases

10 Moderator: Carlos Frederico Sparapan Marques (Brasil/SP) Clinical and surgical treatment of the Inflamatory bowel diseases: an update Magaly Gemio Teixeira (Brasil/SP) 15 Treatment of Acute diverticulitis Fábio Guilherme Campos (Brasil/SP)15 Discussion 10 17:00-18:00 Round Table Surgical treatment of hemorrhoids (vídeo based lectures) Moderator: José Marcio Neves Jorge (Brasil/SP) Milligan-Morgan. Is there an indication? Victor Edmond Seid (Brasil/SP) 15 PPH Indications and results after 15 years Sérgio Eduardo Alonso Araújo (Brasil/SP) 15 THD Results and complications Carlos Walter Sobrado Jr. (Brasil/SP) 15 Discussion 15

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