Complete-AHC20 Surgery Agenda

Together for a healthier world
19th Surgery Conference

27-30 January 2020
Dubai World Trade Centre
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ahcongress.com/surgery
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Theme: -based approach to surgery
• New topics: Endocrine surgery, breast, reconstructive and oncoplastic surgery, proctology, GI and abdominal wall
surgery
• Arab Health meets the Association of Surgeons of India
• More international speakers from the USA (Boston, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois), Germany, Belgium, Sweden, South
Africa, Lebanon, the UK, Malta, Iraq and Iran
• More keynote lectures on every day
• 15-minute lecture format with more than 50 guest speakers!
• Active audience participation with dedicated Q&A sessions with the guest surgeon
Key topics: Who should attend:

• Bariatric and metabolic surgery • General/Consultant Surgeons
• Oncoplastic, reconstructive and breast surgery • General Surgeons
• Gastrointestinal surgery • Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons
• Interdisciplinary oncology case review • Heads of Department/Surgery
• Gastrointestinal diseases for the general surgeon • Chiefs General Surgery Services
• Chiefs of Minimally Invasive General Surgery
• Allied Healthcare Professionals
Benefits of attending:
• Identify the best obesity treatment options for different demographics and co-morbidities to minimise surgical
risks
• Rationalise patient management and treatment options for patients with breast disease, soft tissue and
endocrine tumors
• Apply a cost-effective diagnostic approach for patients with complex general surgery cases
• Refine skills for advanced surgical oncology procedures with an interdisciplinary approach
• Review the best current models of treatment for anorectal disorders
• Identify how to prevent complications and injuries in various GI and HPB cases to preserve bodily function
Programme highlights:
Keynote address: assessment of surgical competence and proficiency by OC-HRA
Prof Sir Alfred Cuschieri, Pioneer, Minimal Access Surgery, Senior Scientific Advisor & PI Surgical Technology and
Robotics Group, Institute for Medical Science & Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Algorithm in acute and chronic sleeve leak and when to stent or use pig-tail drain approach
Dr John Morton, Vice Chair of Quality, Division Chief of Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery, Yale School of
Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System, Past President, American Society of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery,
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Surgical education of the future

Prof O James Garden, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Dean International, Global Community, University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Day one | Monday, 27 January 2020
08:35 Welcome coffee
09:05 Opening remarks

Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Dr Matthew Walsh, Professor of Surgery, Rich Family Distinguished Chair of Digestive Diseases,
Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Chairman, Academic
Department of Surgery, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Session 1: Updates in emergency general surgery

Moderator: Prof Dr Yousif Hussein Eltayeb, Consultant Surgeon, Rashid Hospital; Associate Professor, Dubai
Medical College; Dubai Surgical Residency Program Director, Dubai Healthcare Authority, Dubai, UAE
09:10 Venous thromboembolism in cancer

Dr Ibrahim AlSheneber, Consultant General Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, General Coordinator, Gulf
Society of Oncology, Dhahran, KSA
09:30 Surgery in critically ill patients

Prof Dr Yousif Hussein Eltayeb, Consultant Surgeon, Rashid Hospital; Associate Professor, Dubai
Medical College; Dubai Surgical Residency Program Director, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE
09:50 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 2: Peri-operative best practices

Moderator: Prof Dr Yousif Hussein Eltayeb, Consultant Surgeon, Rashid Hospital; Associate Professor, Dubai
Medical College; Dubai Surgical Residency Program Director, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE
10:00 Vascular trauma and emergencies: Case review highlights and recommendations
Dr Mutaz Fakhry Al-Khateeb, Professor in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Senior Consultant
Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgeon, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
10:20 Optimising safety, communication, and teamwork in and around the operating room
Prof Dr Paul Barach, Clinical Professor, Children's Hospital, Wayne State University School of
Medicine Lecturer and Senior Advisor, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA
10:50 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 3: Special addresses

Moderator: Dr Bijendra Patel, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical

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Lead for General Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science, Queen
Mary University of London, London, UK
11:00 Value of pre-thinking in decision making when trouble lies ahead

Dr Bijendra Patel, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical Lead
for General Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science,
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
11:30 Keynote address: assessment of surgical competence and proficiency by OC-HRA

Prof Sir Alfred Cuschieri, Pioneer, Minimal Access Surgery, Senior Scientific Advisor & PI Surgical
Technology and Robotics Group, Institute for Medical Science & Technology (IMSaT), University of
Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
12:00 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
12:10 Lunch break and visit exhibition
Session 4: The Association of Surgeons of India Symposium

Moderator: Dr Bijendra Patel, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical
Lead for General Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science, Queen
Mary University of London, London, UK
14:10 Breast cancer advocacy and screening in India - implementing Indian solutions
Dr Raghu Ram, Padma Shri Awardee and Dr. B.C Roy National Awardee, President, The Association of
Surgeons of India, Director, KIMS- Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases, Hyderabad, India,
Founder, CEO & Director, Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, Hyderabad, India
14:40 The impact of laparoscopy on current surgical practice

Prof Arvind Kumar, Immediate Past President, The Association of Surgeons of India, Chairman, Center
for Chest Surgery and Director, Institute of Robotic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) New
Delhi, Founder & Managing Trustee, Lung Care Foundation, New Delhi, India
15:10 Riding the time machine of surgery

Dr Probal Neogi, Council Member, The Association of Surgeons of India, Professor of Surgery, MLN
Medical College, Allahabad, India
15:40 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
15:45 Coffee break
Session 5: Updates in oncoplastic, reconstructive and breast surgery

Moderator: Dr Frank Conroy, Chief of Surgery and Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Consultant Plastic,
Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

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16:30 Breast reconstruction following cancer surgery

Dr Frank Conroy, Chief of Surgery and Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Consultant Plastic,
16:50 Flaps for the general surgeon

Dr Frank Conroy, Chief of Surgery and Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Consultant Plastic,
17:10 Reconstructive surgery for oral cavity and mandibular cancer patients
Dr Ammar Al Dhamin, Consultant, Plastic Surgeon, Mediclinic Park View Hospital, Dubai, UAE
17:30 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
18:00 End of Day

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Day two | Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Theme: Evidence-based bariatric surgery

Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Department, General Surgery Clinic - Medical Affairs, Tawam Hospital –
SEHA, Al Ain, UAE
Session 6: Bariatrics in special patient groups

Moderators: Dr Bruno Dillemans, Director, The Center of Obesity Surgery, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges,
Belgium
Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Department, General Surgery Clinic - Medical Affairs, Tawam Hospital – SEHA, Al
Ain, UAE
09:00 Success of bariatric treatment and children and adolescents

Dr Hmouda Al Afari, Bariatric Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
09:20 Bariatrics for super super obese: one or two procedures

Dr Mohammed Hadad, Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon,
Consultant General Surgeon, Healthpoint clinics, Abu Dhabi, UAE
09:40 When to get pregnant after bariatrics?

Dr Mohammed Hadad, Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon,
Consultant General Surgeon, Healthpoint clinics, Abu Dhabi, UAE
10:00 Success of bariatrics in elderly, till what age

Dr Shaw Somers, President, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society; Consultant Upper GI and
Bariatric Surgeon, BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital London, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust,
Portsmouth, UK
10:20 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 7: Updates in revision bariatrics

Moderators: Dr Safwan Taha, Chief of Surgery, Mediclinic - Airport Road, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr Shaw Somers, President, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society; Consultant Upper GI and Bariatric
Surgeon, BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital London, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
10:30 What length of RYGB bowel limbs as revision for post-sleeve GERD?
Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, Bariatric Surgeon, Atrium Health, Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, MIS & Bariatric
Surgery Faculty, Atrium Health Weight Management, Associate Program Director, Carolinas Bariatric
Fellowship Program, Carolinas Healthcare System, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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10:50 Revision after weight loss failure of sleeve: re-sleeve, LRYGB, SADI, OMLB, SASI
Prof Dr Scott Shikora, Director of the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11:10 Revision of weight loss failed gastric bypass: what to do

Dr Bruno Dillemans, Director, The Center of Obesity Surgery, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium
11:30 Revision of gastric bypass to normal anatomy or to sleeve: when it’s needed and what are the issues
11:50 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 8: Complications in bariatric surgery

Moderators: Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Department, General Surgery Clinic - Medical Affairs, Tawam
Hospital – SEHA, Al Ain, UAE, Prof Dr Scott Shikora, Director of the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14:00 Algorithm in acute and chronic sleeve leak and when to stent or use pig-tail drain approach
Prof Dr Tarek Mahdy, Professor of Bariatric and Endocrine Surgery, Mansoura University Faculty of
Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt, Senior Consultant of Surgery, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
14:20 How to handle chronic pain after gastric bypass

Portsmouth, UK
14:40 Gastric sleeve rotation or stenosis: How to prevent, diagnose and treat
Dr Bruno Dillemans, Director, The Center of Obesity Surgery, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium
15:00 Should we stop doing sleeves because of GERD and Barrett issues?
Portsmouth, UK
15:20 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
15:30 Coffee break
Session 9: Updates in general bariatrics

Moderators: Dr Faruq Badiuddin, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Consultant General Surgeon: Laparoscopic,
Gastrointestinal Surgery & Obesity, Valiant Clinic, Dubai, UAE

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Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Department, General Surgery Clinic - Medical Affairs, Tawam Hospital – SEHA, Al
Ain, UAE
16:15 GERD due to hiatal hernia in an obese patient: Fundoplication or gastric bypass with possible crus
repair, evidence on when to do what
Portsmouth, UK
16:30 Bariatrics and asymptomatic gallbladder stones: When to combine procedures and how to do it
safely?
16:45 How to set up an ERABS programme

SEHA. Al Ain, UAE
17:00 Update on new endoscopic bariatric techniques: what’s working?

Dr Javed Razza, Consultant General, Upper Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeon,
Director, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
17:15 Vitamin deficiencies after bariatrics: which vitamins are needed after sleeve and bypass
Prof Dr Tarek Mahdy, Professor of Bariatric and Endocrine Surgery, Mansoura University Faculty of
17:30 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
17:45 End of Day

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Day three | Wednesday, 29 January 2020

07:30 Morning coffee

Session 10: Updates in GI oncology

Moderator: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
08:10 Endoscopic mucosal resection for stomach lesions

Dr Abdulrahman Saadeddin, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Advanced Therapeutic Upper GI
endoscopy and Colonoscopy, Gastroenterologist, Emirates Specialty Hospital, Dubai, UAE
08:30 Surgery first or after chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for pancreatic cancer?

Dr Mitchell C. Posner, Chief of General Surgery, Chief of Surgical Oncology and Physician-in-Chief,
Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, USA
08:50 Tailoring treatment for patients with esophageal cancer

Dr Mitchell C. Posner, Chief of General Surgery, Chief of Surgical Oncology and Physician-in-Chief,
Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, USA
09:15 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 11: Special address

Moderators: Dr Matthew Kroh, Chief of the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr Matthew Walsh, Professor of Surgery, Rich Family Distinguished Chair of Digestive Diseases, Chairman,
Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Chairman, Academic Department of Surgery,
Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
09:30 Keynote: Surgical education of the future

Prof O James Garden, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Dean International, Global Community,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
10:00 Keynote: Future of endoscopy for surgeons

Dr Jeffrey Marks, Director, Surgical Endoscopy, Program Director, Case Western/University Hospitals
Cleveland Medical Center, Jeffrey L. Ponsky Professor of Surgical Education, Immediate Past
President, SAGES, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10:30 Coffee break

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Session 12: Updates in foregut surgery: Achalasia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Moderators: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai,
UAE
Dr Matthew Kroh, Chief of the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
11:15 Complications in endoscopy

11:30 What are the latest advances in surgery for hiatal hernia?
11:45 Peroral endoscopy myotomy

12:00 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 12: Updates in liver surgery

Moderator: Dr Salem Nasser Al Harthi, Consultant and Chair of Surgery, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi,
UAE
12:15 Management options for intrahepatic stones

Dr Salem Nasser Al Harthi, Consultant and Chair of Surgery, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu
Dhabi, UAE
12:30 The multidisciplinary management of colorectal cancer liver metastases

Prof Dr Eduard Jonas, Professor and Head: Surgical Gastroenterology, University of Cape Town and
Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
12:45 Retransplantation of the liver

Dr Fady Kaldas, Associate Director, Multi-Organ Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship
Program, Director, Liver Transplantation Service, UCLA Health, California. Los Angeles, USA
13:00 Case study: Transplantation for liver tumours in childhood

Prof Dr Carlos O. Esquivel, Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor in Pediatric Transplantation,
Stanford School of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Abdominal Transplantation and of Pediatrics,
Gastroenterology, The Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford Children’s Health, Lucile Packard
Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA
13:15 Panel Q&A

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Session 13: Updates in pancreatic and biliary surgery

Moderator: Dr Salem Nasser Al Harthi, Consultant and Chair of Surgery, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi,
UAE
15:30 Towards evidence-based guidelines for multimodality treatment of non-metastatic pancreatic

adenocarcinoma
Prof Dr Eduard Jonas, Professor and Head: Surgical Gastroenterology, University of Cape Town and
15:45 Managing bile duct injuries

Prof O James Garden, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Dean International, Global Community,
16:00 Perioperative metabolic management in pancreatic surgery

16:15 Q&A
Session speakers
Session 14: Abdominal wall surgery

Moderator: Dr Matthew Walsh, Professor of Surgery, Rich Family Distinguished Chair of Digestive Diseases,
Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Chairman, Academic Department of
Surgery, Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16:30 Complex hernia repair with posterior component separation: Tips & pitfalls
Dr Rafael Villalobos Mori, Head of the Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery
and Digestive Diseases, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Institute of Biomedical Research of
Lleida, Lleida, Spain
16:45 The pregnant patient and abdominal surgery

17:00 Laparoscopic retroperitoneal epidermal cyst resection

Dr Paul Sayad, Consultant General Surgeon, Health Bay Polyclinic, Dubai, UAE
17:15 Laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernia repair: Current evidence

Dr Rafael Villalobos Mori, Head of the Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery
and Digestive Diseases, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Institut of Biomedical Research of
Lleida, Lleida, Spain

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17:30 Can fibrin glue mesh fixation replace other fixation techniques for hernia mesh repair?
Dr Basim Alkhafaji, Consultant Surgeon, Head of Surgery Department, Canadian Specialist Hospital,
Dubai, UAE
17:45 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
18:00 End of Day

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Day four | Thursday, 30 January 2020


Session 15: Updates in GI oncology

Moderator: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
08:30 Panel discussion: Upper GI cancers multi-disciplinary case review

Moderator: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai,
Dubai, UAE
Panelists:
• Dr Aaron Han, Consultant Pathologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Faraz Khan, Consultant Oncologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Tarek Dufan, Director of Radiation Oncology and Medical Imaging, Senior Consultant Radiation
Oncologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Maroun Khoury, Consultant Oncologist and Hematologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Session 16: Updates in colorectal oncology

Moderator: Prof Maher Abbas, Consultant – Colorectal Surgery, Dubai Colorectal Surgery and Endoscopy,
Dubai, UAE
09:10 Advances in the treatment of abdominal colorectal carcinomatosis

Dr Yasir Akmal, Surgical Oncologist, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
09:35 The ongoing dilemma of the ‘watch and wait’ approach for rectal cancer
Prof Dr Antonio Privitera, Lead Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
10:00 The emerging role of transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) for rectal cancer
Prof Dr Emre Gorgun, Staff Surgeon, Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10:30 Panel Q&A

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Session 17: Special address

Moderator: Dr Bijendra Patel, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical Lead for
General Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science, Queen Mary University
of London, London, UK

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10:40 Combined heart-liver transplant

Dr Fady Kaldas, Associate Director, Multi-Organ Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship
Session 18: Updates in proctology

Moderator: Prof Maher Abbas, Consultant – Colorectal Surgery, Dubai Colorectal Surgery and Endoscopy,
Dubai, UAE
11:10 Minimally invasive proctologic surgery: the quest for painless surgery
Prof Maher Abbas, Consultant – Colorectal Surgery, Dubai Colorectal Surgery and Endoscopy, Dubai,
UAE
11:30 Treatment options for rectocele

Dr Labib Riachi, Consultant, Female Pelvic Medicine, Lebanese University Faculty of Medicine, Beirut,
Lebanon
11:50 Robotic rectal cancer surgery

Prof Dr Emre Gorgun, Staff Surgeon, Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
12:10 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
Session 19: Updates in head and neck surgery

Moderator: Dr Mohamed Felasi, Head of ENT Department, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
14:20 Plastic reconstruction following H&N tumour excision

Dr Mohamed Felasi, Head of ENT Department, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
14:40 Incidentally diagnosed papillary carcinoma in a thyroglossal duct cyst. What are the next steps?
Dr Nashwan Mahgoob, Professor and Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Director
Advanced Laparoscopy and Obesity Unit, Medical College, University of Mosul, Head of Mosul
Training Center for Medical Specialization (FICMS) in General Surgery, Mosul, Iraq
15:00 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
15:10 Coffee break
Session 20: Updates in endocrine oncology

Moderator: Prof Dr Iyad Hassan, Consultant - General and Endocrine Surgeon/ Head of General, Endocrine
and Cancer Surgery, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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15:50 Pragmatic approach to neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas

Prof Dr Detlef Bartsch, Editor, Endocrine Oncology Journal, Chair of Surgery, Neuroendocrine Center
of Excellence, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany
16:10 Preoperative diagnostic accuracy of thyroid cancer in patients with thyroid nodules
Prof Dr Anders Bergenfelz, Professor, Consultant Surgeon in Endocrine and Sarcoma Surgery,
Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
16:30 Minimally invasive surgery for parathyroid tumours

Prof Dr Anders Bergenfelz, Professor, Consultant Surgeon in Endocrine and Sarcoma Surgery,
16:50 Does adrenal tumour size really affect the indication for surgery? Update of latest guidelines
Dr Mohammed Al-Khatib, Consultant in Internal Medicine and Consultant in Endocrinology &
Diabetology, Healthplus Diabetes and Endocrinology Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE
17:10 Alternative approaches in thyroid and parathyroid surgery: Transoral and robotic surgery
Prof Dr Detlef Bartsch, Editor, Endocrine Oncology Journal, Chair of Surgery, Neuroendocrine Center
of Excellence, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany
17:30 Laparoscopic and retroperitoneal adrenalectomy approaches

SEHA, Al Ain, UAE
17:50 Panel Q&A

Session speakers
17:55 Closing remarks

18:00 End of conference

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Speaker faculty
Activity director:
Dr Matthew Walsh, Professor of Surgery, Rich Family Distinguished Chair of Digestive Diseases, Chairman,
Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Chairman, Academic Department of Surgery,
Education Institute, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Chair:
Scientific committee:
• Dr Bijendra Patel, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical Lead for General
Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science, Queen Mary University of
London, London, UK
• Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Department, General Surgery Clinic - Medical Affairs, Tawam Hospital – SEHA, Al
Ain, UAE
• Dr Matthew Kroh, Chief of the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Shaw Somers, President, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society; Consultant Upper GI and Bariatric
Surgeon, BMI Clementine Churchill Hospital London, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
• Prof Dr Yousif Hussein Eltayeb, Consultant Surgeon, Rashid Hospital; Associate Professor, Dubai Medical College;
Dubai Surgical Residency Program Director, Dubai Healthcare Authority, Dubai, UAE
Speakers:
• Dr Aaron Han, Consultant Pathologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, Bariatric Surgeon, Atrium Health, Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, MIS & Bariatric
Surgery Faculty, Atrium Health Weight Management, Associate Program Director, Carolinas Bariatric
Fellowship Program, Carolinas Healthcare System, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
• Dr Abdulrahman Saadeddin, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Advanced Therapeutic Upper GI endoscopy
and Colonoscopy, Gastroenterologist, Emirates Specialty Hospital, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Sir Alfred Cuschieri, Pioneer, Minimal Access Surgery, Senior Scientific Advisor & PI Surgical Technology and
Robotics Group, Institute for Medical Science & Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
• Dr Ali Khammas, General Surgery Consultant, Head of the General Surgery Department, Rashid Hospital, Dubai,
UAE
• Dr Ammar Al Dhamin, Consultant, Plastic Surgeon, Mediclinic Park View Hospital, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Dr Anders Bergenfelz, Professor, Consultant Surgeon in Endocrine and Sarcoma Surgery,
• Prof Dr Antonio Privitera, Lead Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
• Prof Arvind Kumar, Immediate Past President, The Association of Surgeons of India, Chairman, Center for
Chest Surgery and Director, Institute of Robotic Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), New Delhi,
Founder & Managing Trustee, Lung Care Foundvaleioation, New Delhi, India
• Dr Basim Alkhafaji, Consultant Surgeon, Head of Surgery Department, Canadian Specialist Hospital,
Dubai, UAE
• Dr Bruno Dillemans, Director, The Center of Obesity Surgery, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium
• Prof Dr Carlos O. Esquivel, Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor in Pediatric Transplantation, Stanford
School of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Abdominal Transplantation and of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology,

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The Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford Children’s Health, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital,
Palo Alto, California, USA
• Prof Dr Detlef Bartsch, Editor, Endocrine Oncology Journal, Chair of Surgery, Neuroendocrine Center of
Excellence, Marburg University, Marburg, Germany
• Prof Dr Eduard Jonas, Professor and Head: Surgical Gastroenterology, University of Cape Town and
• Prof Dr Emre Gorgun, Staff Surgeon, Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Dr Fady Kaldas, Associate Director, Multi-Organ Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship
• Dr Faraz Khan, Consultant Oncologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Faruq Badiuddin, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Consultant General Surgeon: Laparoscopic,
Gastrointestinal Surgery & Obesity, Valiant Clinic, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Frank Conroy, Chief of Surgery and Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and
Cosmetic Surgeon, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Hmouda Al Afari, Bariatric Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
• Dr Humaid Al-Shamsi, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Tawam Hospital, Al-Ain, UAE
• Dr Ibrahim F. AlSheneber, Consultant General Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, General Coordinator, Gulf Society of
Oncology, Dhahran, KSA
• Prof Dr Iyad Hassan, Consultant - General and Endocrine Surgeon/ Head of General, Endocrine and Cancer
Surgery, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Javed Razza, Consultant General, Upper Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeon, Director,
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Jeffrey Marks, Director, Surgical Endoscopy, Program Director, Case Western/University Hospitals
Cleveland Medical Center, Jeffrey L. Ponsky Professor of Surgical Education, Immediate Past President,
SAGES, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Dr Labib Riachi, Consultant, Female Pelvic Medicine, Lebanese University Faculty of Medicine, Beirut,
Lebanon
• Prof Maher Abbas, Consultant – Colorectal Surgery, Dubai Colorectal Surgery and Endoscopy, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Maroun Khoury, Consultant Oncologist and Hematologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Mitchell C. Posner, Chief of General Surgery, Chief of Surgical Oncology and Physician-in-Chief, Comprehensive
Cancer Center, UC Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Dr Mohamed Felasi, Head of ENT Department, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
• Dr Mohammed Al-Khatib, Consultant in Internal Medicine and Consultant in Endocrinology &
Diabetology, Healthplus Diabetes and Endocrinology Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Mohammed Hadad, Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Consultant
General Surgeon, Healthpoint Clinics, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Mutaz Fakhry Al-Khateeb, Professor in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic
and Vascular surgeon, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
• Dr Nashwan Mahgoob, Professor and Consultant General and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Director, Advanced
Laparoscopy and Obesity Unit, Medical College, University of Mosul, Head, Mosul Training Center for
Medical Specialization (FICMS) in General Surgery, Mosul, Iraq
• Prof O James Garden, Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Dean International, Global Community,

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• Prof Dr Paul Barach, Clinical Professor, Children's Hospital, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Lecturer
and Senior Advisor, Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Dr Paul Sayad, Consultant General Surgeon, Health Bay Polyclinic, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Probal Neogi, Council Member, The Association of Surgeons of India, Professor of Surgery, MLN Medical
College, Allahabad, India
• Dr Rafael Villalobos Mori, Head of the Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery and
Digestive Diseases, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Institut of Biomedical Research of Lleida,
Lleida, Spain
• Dr Raghu Ram, Padma Shri Awardee and Dr. B.C Roy National Awardee, President, The Association of
Surgeons of India, Director, KIMS- Ushalakshmi Centre for Breast Diseases, Hyderabad, India, Founder,
CEO & Director, Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, Hyderabad, India
• Dr Safwan Taha, Chief of Surgery, Mediclinic - Airport Road, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Salem Nasser Al Harthi, Consultant and Chair of Surgery, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi,
UAE
• Prof Dr Scott Shikora, Director of the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Dr Tarek Dufan, Director of Radiation Oncology and Medical Imaging, Senior Consultant
• Radiation Oncologist, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Dr Tarek Mahdy, Professor of Bariatric and Endocrine Surgery, Mansoura University Faculty of
• Dr Yasir Akmal, Surgical Oncologist, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

26.75 CME credits
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participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic
Association for Category 2 credit.
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19th Surgery Conference

26.75 CME credits

Theme: -based approach to surgery

Key topics: Who should attend:

Surgical education of the future

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Day one | Monday, 27 January 2020

08:35 Welcome coffee

09:05 Opening remarks

Session 1: Updates in emergency general surgery

09:10 Venous thromboembolism in cancer

09:30 Surgery in critically ill patients

09:50 Panel Q&A

Session 2: Peri-operative best practices

10:50 Panel Q&A

Session 3: Special addresses

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11:00 Value of pre-thinking in decision making when trouble lies ahead

11:30 Keynote address: assessment of surgical competence and proficiency by OC-HRA

12:00 Panel Q&A

12:10 Lunch break and visit exhibition

Session 4: The Association of Surgeons of India Symposium

14:40 The impact of laparoscopy on current surgical practice

15:10 Riding the time machine of surgery

15:40 Panel Q&A

15:45 Coffee break

Session 5: Updates in oncoplastic, reconstructive and breast surgery

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16:30 Breast reconstruction following cancer surgery

16:50 Flaps for the general surgeon

17:30 Panel Q&A

18:00 End of Day

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Day two | Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Theme: Evidence-based bariatric surgery

08:15 Welcome coffee

08:45 Opening remarks

Session 6: Bariatrics in special patient groups

09:00 Success of bariatric treatment and children and adolescents

09:20 Bariatrics for super super obese: one or two procedures

09:40 When to get pregnant after bariatrics?

10:00 Success of bariatrics in elderly, till what age

10:20 Panel Q&A

Session 7: Updates in revision bariatrics

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11:10 Revision of weight loss failed gastric bypass: what to do

11:50 Panel Q&A

12:00 Lunch break and visit exhibition

Session 8: Complications in bariatric surgery

14:20 How to handle chronic pain after gastric bypass

15:20 Panel Q&A

15:30 Coffee break

Session 9: Updates in general bariatrics

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16:45 How to set up an ERABS programme

17:00 Update on new endoscopic bariatric techniques: what’s working?

17:30 Panel Q&A

17:45 End of Day

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Day three | Wednesday, 29 January 2020

08:00 Opening remarks

Session 10: Updates in GI oncology

08:10 Endoscopic mucosal resection for stomach lesions