Course Co-Directors: Drs. Ganesh Gunasekaran and Federico Aucejo
Thursday, October 17, 2019
| Opening Remarks | 8:00 AM | 8:10 AM | Opening remarks, welcome, and a description of the program | Dr. Federico Aucejo & Dr. Ganesh Gunasekaran |
| Liver Transplantation | 8:10 AM | 8:30 AM | Liver transplantation for HCC: Halt-HCC score | Dr. Kazunari Sasaki |
| 8:30 AM | 8:50 AM | When to split the liver for cadaveric transportation? | Dr. Tamoaki Kato | |
| 8:50 AM | 9:10 AM | The future of liver transplantation for HCC | Dr. Myron Schwartz | |
| 9:10 AM | 9:30 AM | Liver transplantation for metastatic neuro endocrine tumors | Dr. Benjamin Samstein | |
| 9:30 AM | 9:50 AM | Living donor liver transplantation in United States, where are we and where are we heading? | Dr. Lewis Teperman | |
| 9:50 AM | 10:00 AM | Panel Discussion | ||
| 10:00 AM | 10:20 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| Liver Surgery | 10:20 AM | 10:40 AM | Laparoscopic resection. Technical tips and recommendations to expand it in the USA | Dr. David Kwon |
| 10:40 AM | 11:00 AM | Robotic resection: Surgeon preference or real advantage? | Dr. Karim Halazun | |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Associating liver partitition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) | Dr. Federico Aucejo | |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Surgical management of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma | Dr. Ganesh Gunasekaran | |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer MD Anderson Cancer Center perspective | Dr. Jean-Nicholas Vauthey | |
| 12:00 PM | 12:10 PM | Panel discussion | ||
| Break | 12:10 PM | 1:20 PM | Lunch | |
| Pancreas | 1:20 PM | 1:40 PM | Surgical approach for Chronic pancreatitis | Dr. Beth Schrope |
| 1:40 PM | 2:00 PM | Resection for pancreatic IPMN | Dr. Sarah Bellemare | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:20 PM | Role of minimally invasive surgery in pancreatic malignancy. When and why? | Dr. Kevin El-Hayek | |
| 2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | SBRT in locally advanced pancreatic cancer – Where do we stand? | Dr. Michael Buckstein | |
| 2:40 PM | 3:00 PM | Neoadjuvant therapy in resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Always, never, sometimes? | Dr. Celina Ang | |
| 3:00 PM | 3:10 PM | Panel Discussion | ||
| 3:10 PM | 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| Gall Bladder / Biliary Tract | 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | Surgical approach for locally advanced gallbladder cancer | Dr. Michael D'Angelica |
| 3:50 PM | 4:10 PM | Management of bile duct injuries | Dr. Roberto Hernandez | |
| 4:10 PM | 4:30 PM | Endoscopic management of biliary strictures | Dr. Satish Nagula | |
| 4:30 PM | 4:50 PM | Surgical management for biliary cystadenoma | Dr. Peter Kingham | |
| 4:50 PM | 5:10 PM | Applications of ICG and ablation in HPB surgery | Dr. Eren Berber | |
| 5:10 PM | Adjournment | |||
| Break | 6:30 PM | Faculty Dinner |
