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Monday 30 June 2025

Monday 30 June 2025

Time/Venue Session

08:00 - 9.20
Main Auditorium

 

 

 

Colorectal Focus

Chairs: Nicola Eardley (Chester) and Athur Harikrishnan (Sheffield)

  • Anal Fistula - Greg Thomas (London)
  • Advanced Malignancy - Kirsten Boyle (Leicester)
  • Intestinal Failure - Derek McWhirter (Manchester)
  • Perioperative Care - James Hernon (Norwich)
  • Large Bowel Obstruction - Jim Khan (Portsmouth)
08:00-09:20
Parallel 1

NBOCA QI Workshop

Chair: Nicola Fearnhead (Cambridge)

All day

ACPGBI Endoscopy Village

09:45
 

Coffee break

10:15
Main Auditorium

Welcome

Justin Davies, ACPGBI President

10:20-11:15
Main Auditorium

BJS Prize Session

Chairs: Susan Moug (Glasgow) and Tom Pinkney (Birmingham)

6 best papersBJS logo

10:20-11:15
Main Auditorium

Short Papers

11:15-11.45
Main Auditorium

BJS LectureBJS logo

Chair: Martyn Evans (South Wales)

  • Evolution in the tailored management of rectal cancer - Quentin Denost (Bordeaux, France)
11:45-12:25
Main Auditorium

Proctology

Chairs: Greg Thomas (East Anglia) and Jennie Grainger (Mersey)

  • Management of non-obstetric perineal trauma - Kate Hancorn (London)
  • Incontinence, pain and stenosis- how not to leave your patient in a worse position after proctological surgery - Ciaran Walsh (Wirral)
  • Tips and Tricks for managing the unhealed perineum - Janindra Warasuvitarne (London)
11:45-12:25
Parallel Session

ACPN: Frailty and Optimisation for SurgeryACPN: The Association of Coloproctology Nurses

Chairs: TBA

  • Edward Salts Lecture: Overview of Frailty and Assessing Surgery – Susan Moug (Scotland)
  • Frailty in Cancer Care with a Focus on Community Services/Support – Mary Edwards, (Wessex)
  • Let’s Talk About Sex: Open Conversations Post-Surgery – Tracey Privett (Oxford)
12:45

Lunch

13:45 - 15:00
Main Auditorium

Abdominal Wall

Chairs Dominic Slade (Manchester) and Toby Hammond (Chelmsford)

  • Mesh terminology - a primer - Akash Mehta (London) 
  • Mesh conundrums and clinical cases (interactive session) - Dominic Slade (Salford), Toby Hammond (Chelmsford), Arifa Siddika (London), David Layfield (Southampton), David Messenger (Bristol)
  •  “Just because you do robotic colorectal surgery it doesn’t mean you can repair abdominal walls” -
     Oroog Ali (Gateshead)

13:45 - 15:00
Parallel Sesion

Dukes' ClubThe Dukes' Club

Chair Charlotte El Sayed (Coventry)

  • Advanced colorectal cancer- training challenges and service delivery 
    Chairs- Ian Jenkins (London) and Ioanna Drami (London)
    Panellist speakers TBC
  • Emergency surgery in IBD-From Decision to Incision
    Chairs Valerio Celentano (London) and Orestis Argyriou (London)
    Panellist speakers - TBC

13:45 - 15:00
Parallel Sesion

Short Papers

15:00 - 15:30
Main Auditorium

BRUK Lecture

Chair Asha Senapati (Portsmouth)

Emergency laparotomy- state of the art - Susan Moug (Glasgow)

15:00 - 15:30
Parallel Session

Short Papers

15:30
 

Coffee Break

16:00,- 17:30
Main Auditorium

Robotics/Surgery 4.0

Chairs: Charles Evans (Coventry and Warwickshire) and TBC

17:30 - 18:10
Main Auditorium

Quality Improvement in Colorectal Cancer

Chairs: Martyn Evans (Swansea) and Ian Jackson (PLG)

  • The UK and Ireland Perspective - Nicola Fearnhead, NBOCA Clinical Co-Lead, QI in CRC (Cambridge)
  • QI for CRC- the North American perspective - Lesly Dosset (Michigan, USA)
  • QI for CRC- a national perspective from The Netherlands - Freek Daams (Amsterdam)
17:30 - 18:10
Main Auditorium

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chairs: Valerio Celentano (London) and Farhat Din (Edinburgh) 

  • Listening to patients voices: the IBD Standards -  Jess Turner, Crohn's and Colitis UK
  • Ulcerative colitis and PSC -  Steve Brown (Sheffield)
  •  Q&A

IBD Consultants Corner

  • Abi Patel (Coventry) and Kat Baker (Oxford)
  • Q&A
18:30
Main Auditorium

Dukes' Club Lecture  

Chair: Charlotte El-Sayed (Coventry)The Dukes' Club

  • Training the future generation of robotic surgeons -Eloy Espin Besany (Barcelona, Past President ESCP)
19:00

End of Day 1

 

 

19:00 Exhibition Hall drinks reception

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