ISW 2026 Program

Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Time	Session

07:00 08:00	DESAYUNO CON EL EXPERTO AMCE 371 Chapultepec B																																																																DESAYUNO CON EL EXPERTO AMCE 3111 Mathias																																																																DESAYUNO CON EL EXPERTO AMCE 381 Terrazza Room B																																																																BREAKFAST SESSION BSI 321 Molino Rey B																																																																EARLY CAREER WRITERS' WORKSHOP WJS 3101 AdamGyedu Facilitator Ghana Dileep Lobo Facilitator United Kingdom GeorgeRakovich Facilitator Canada RowanParks Facilitator United Kingdom SamanthaDavies Facilitator United States Savio George Alberto da PiedadeBarreto Facilitator Australia Sherry M.Wren Facilitator United States Victor Michael Zaydfudim Facilitator United States EDITORIAL BOARD-REASONS FOR REJECTION 3101-1 INTEGRITY IN PUBLISHING-AVOIDING ISSUES 3101-2 MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION 3101-3 PEER REVIEW 3101-4 REVISIONS 3101-5 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION 3101-6 Monterrey B-C
07:15 08:15	FREE PAPER SESSION - DIGESTIVE SURGERY ISDS 351 EMPHYSEMATOUS CHOLECYSTITIS: A DO-IT-YOURSELF CHOLECYSTECTOMY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EARLY SURGICAL TREATMENT 351-01 BeatrizCordeiro Speaker Portugal PRE-OPERATIVE ENDOSCOPIC PANCREATIC STENT INSERTION CANNOT REDUCE POST-OPERATIVE PANCREATIC LEAK AFTER DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY: RESULT OF A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL 351-02 Kit-faiLee Speaker Hong Kong, China PORTAL HYPERTENSION AND SECONDARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS IN POST CHOLECYSTECTOMY BENIGN BILIARY STRICTURES: CAUSE, MANAGEMENT & LONG-TERM OUTCOMES. 351-03 SaurabhGalodha Speaker India PILOTING A PREHABILITATION PROGRAM TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE STATUS AMONG PATIENTS WITH LIVER CANCER IN TANZANIA 351-04 JeanineJustiniano Speaker United States PREDICTING DIFFICULT LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY USING THE PARKLAND GRADING: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY IN A TERTIARY CENTER IN EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA. 351-05 MukulSingh Speaker India LONG TERM SEX REALTED QUALITY OF LIFE AND HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENT UNDERGOING TEP AND OPEN HERNIA REPAIR 351-06 SaurabhMaurya Speaker India SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF NON-HEPATIC MALIGNANCY IN CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS: PERSPECTIVE BEYOND NIHILISM!! 351-07 SaurabhGalodha Speaker India MIRIZZI SYNDROME: A CHALLENGING DIAGNOSIS. CASE REPORT 351-08 Francois Adrien MorelBokalli Speaker Kenya Arco Iris																																																																PERIOPERATIVE SKILLS SUPPORT IN LMICS ISS/SIC / SELF 361 NobohjitRoy Moderator Rwanda TRANSLATING GLOBAL & NATIONAL SURGICAL POLICY INTO TRAINING AND SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS IN ZAMBIA 361-1 EmmanuelMakasa Speaker Zambia STRENGTHENING PERIOPERATIVE NURSING EDUCATION FOR SAFE SURGICAL SYSTEMS AND ENHANCED PATIENT OUTCOMES 361-2 LillianMwape Speaker Zambia TRAINING ANAESTHESIA PROVIDERS FOR PAEDIATRIC AND COMPLEX SURGICAL CARE: CLOSING GAPS FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS 361-3 HazelSonkwe Speaker Zambia PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A 361-4 Camelias																																																																FREE PAPER SESSION - DIGESTIVE SURGERY ISDS 311 HirotoshiKikuchi Moderator Japan Suzanne S.Gisbertz Moderator Netherlands OUTCOMES AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN OLIGOMETASTATIC ESOPHAGEAL CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING CURATIVE-INTENT TREATMENT 311-01 HeidiPaine Speaker Canada A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY TO DETERMINE THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF MODIFIED ALVARADO SCORE TO DIAGNOSE APPENDICITIS AND SEVERITY OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS 311-02 AvinashSapre Speaker India THELDENIYA TECHNIQUE OF ENDOSCOPIC THERMO-ABLATION (TETA) FOR ESOPHAGEAL CANCER 311-03 KosalaSomaratne Speaker Sri Lanka BARIATRIC SURGERY: HEMORRHAGIC VS THROMBOEMBOLIC COMPLICATIONS — TOWARDS A BALANCED STRATEGY 311-04 AlekseiOrekhov Speaker Russia LAPAROSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF PERFORATED ULCERS AFTER ONE ANASTOMOSIS GASTRIC BYPASS 311-05 AymanKamal Mohamed Abdelkhalek Speaker Egypt BILIARY OBSTRUCTION DUE TO CLOTS, A NEW POST-ERCP COMPLICATION 311-06 BarbaraCarreño Manrquez Speaker Chile IS TUMOR ULCERATION AN INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR IN GASTROINTESTINAL STROMA TUMORS 311-07 MichaelThalhammer Speaker Austria INCIDENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF INTRA-THORACIC SLEEVE MIGRATION 311-08 AymanKamal Mohamed Abdelkhalek Speaker Egypt Terrazza Room C																																																																GENERAL ASSEMBLY ISDS 341 Jardin
08:30 10:00	WHEN THINGS GO AWRY – HOW TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE IN DIGESTIVE SURGERY ISDS 312 ItaloBraghetto Moderator Chile V. LianaTsikitis Moderator United States AIRWAY INJURY DURING ESOPHAGECTOMY 312-1 Juan CarlosMolina Speaker Chile CBD INJURY DURING CHOLECYSTECTOMY 312-2 Miguel Mercado Speaker Mexico INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS OF BARIATRIC SURGERY 312-3 JamesMadura Speaker United States MAJOR VASCULAR INJURY DURING HPB SURGERY 312-4 Marcelo A.F.Ribeiro Junior Speaker United States URETERIC INJURY DURING COLOIC SURGERY NOVEL WAYS TO IDENTIFY THE URETER 312-5 ChetanBhan Speaker United Kingdom VASCULAR INJURIES IN THE PELVIS LAR 312-6 JamieMurphy Speaker United Kingdom Terrazza Room C																																				PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS UMBERTO VERONESI LECTURE BSI 322 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BSI 322-1 Ines Buccimazza Speaker South Africa Sharon Wing Wai Chan Introducer Hong Kong, China UMBERTO VERONESI LECTURE: BREAST CANCER BIOLOGY: A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE BSI 332-2 Ines Buccimazza Introducer South Africa Rajendra A.Badwe Lecturer India Molino Rey B																																				UPDATE ON MILITARY AND CONFLICT TRAUMA EDUCATION IATSIC / APIMSF 332 KosalaSomaratne Moderator Sri Lanka Mark Bowyer Moderator United States BATLS, IS IT STILL RELEVANT? HOW TO CONSTRUCT A RELEVANT TRAINING PROGRAM FOR CONFLICT 332-1 Mark Bowyer Speaker United States ASSESSMENT OF INTERPROFESSIONAL TRAUMA TEAM PERFORMANCE AND COHESION DURING A CIVIL-MILITARY LARGE-SCALE LIVE SIMULATION EXERCISE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY 332-2 LindaSonesson Speaker United Arab Emirates WALKING BLOOD BANKS–TRANSLATION TO CIVILIAN PRACTICE? HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR A CONFLICT?t? 332-3 Jennifer M.Gurney Speaker United States UAV-ASSISTED MASSIVE TRANSFUSION ON COMBAT FIELD: A CASE REPORT 332-4 BakiTurkoglu Speaker Turkey LIMB TRAUMA IN CONFLICT – MANAGEMENT IN THE MODERN ERA 332-5 Edward C.T.H.Tan Speaker Netherlands Girasoles																																				FREE PAPERS - SURGICAL METABOLISM AND NUTRITION/ NUTRITION IN CRITICAL CARE IASMEN 342 Ho-Seong Han Moderator South Korea NaomiNakayama Moderator Japan REVISITING DIET AND APPENDICITIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS 342-3 RenatoPitesa Speaker New Zealand PRE AND POSTOPERATIVE MAINTENANCE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH COMPLICATED PORTAL HYPERTENSION (ESOPHAGOGASTRIC VARICEAL BLEEDING) IN LIVER CIRRHOSIS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY 342-4 AndriiDinets Speaker Ukraine A RANDOMIZED CONTROL CLINICAL TRIAL TO STUDY THE ROLE OF PRE- OPERATIVE CARBOHYDRATE LOADING IN MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERIES 342-5 SejalGrover Speaker India STRICTURES, STOMAS, AND STARVATION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN SURGICAL CROHN'S CARE 342-6 Jane Wai YeeChuah Speaker Malaysia Jardin																																				TREATING BURN SCARS ISBI 352 DavidGreenhalgh Moderator United States MarioVelez-Palafox Moderator Mexico MASSAGE FOR HYPERTROPHIC SCARS 352-1 AndreaMc Kittrick Speaker Australia OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF SCAR CONTRACTURES 352-2 MarioVelez-Palafox Speaker Mexico USE OF KINESIO TAPE FOR BURN SCARS 352-3 Arco Iris																																				LLOYD M. NYHUS PRIZE SESSION ISS/SIC 362 AlessandroFichera Moderator United States Ari K. Leppäniemi Moderator Finland Kenneth D. Boffard Moderator South Africa COMPARISON OF OUTCOME OF BIOLOGICAL DRESSING VS 5% POVIDONE IODINE + H2O2 SOLUTION ON WOUNDS 362-01 DivyataVasa Speaker India PERSPECTIVES ON CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN AFRICAN PEDIATRIC SURGERY- A QUALITATIVE STUDY 362-02 SangeunLee Speaker South Africa ROUTINE OR SELECTIVE INTRAOPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 1500 LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMIES 362-03 SofiaBertona Speaker Argentina OPTIMAL DOSING AND INJECTION LOCATION OF BOTULINUM TOXIN FOR SUSTAINED HEALING OF CHRONIC ANAL FISSURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS 362-04 MelanieSpiekermann Speaker United States PRECISION TRAINING IN ENDOCRINE SURGERY: A PREOPERATIVE NOMOGRAM TO GUIDE CASE ALLOCATION AND PREDICT THYROIDECTOMY DIFFICULTY 362-05 BharathShivalingaiah Speaker India FUTURE OF CARDIAC SURGERY IN AFRICA - ASSESSING ASSESSING MEDICAL STUDENTS' CAREER CHOICES AND INTENTIONS. 362-06 Samuel Ghislain JuniorFodop Speaker Cameroon Camelias																																				CIRUGÍA DE HERNIAS COMPLEJAS AMCE 372 Chapultepec B																																				CIRUGÍA ROBÓTICA 1 AMCE 382 Terrazza Room B																																				FROM BASICS TO DIGITAL: WHAT EVERY JUNIOR DOCTOR SHOULD KNOW IN SURGERY IASSS 392 Michael EffahNtiamoah Moderator Ghana Yuki JuliusNg Moderator Malaysia Rocio GuadalupeGonzalez Gonzalez Chair Mexico BASICS IN SURGERY: WHAT EVERY JUNIOR DOCTOR SHOULD KNOW 392-1 DIGITAL SURGERY: WHAT EVERY JUNIOR DOCTOR SHOULD KNOW (SIMULATION LEARNING) 392-2 Big Data, -Omics & Surgery 392-3 DiegoAguilar Ramirez Speaker Mexico Oaxaca A																																				FLUROESCENCIA INTRAOPERATORIA AMCE 3112 Mathias
10:00 10:30	Coffee / Tea Break Exhibition 5th and 7th Floor
10:30 12:00	MEETING SESION DE NEGOCIOS AMCE 383 Terrazza Room B																																								UPDATES IN UPPER GI SURGERY ISDS / ISDE 313 Lorenzo E.Ferri Moderator Canada Markvan Berge Henegouwen Moderator Netherlands SachiyoNomura Moderator Japan CURRENT PARADIGM IN MANAGEMENT OF LOCALLY ADVANCED ESOPHAGEAL CANCER 313-1 Lorenzo E.Ferri Speaker Canada T4B ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA: PRACTICAL APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF BORDERLINE RESECTABLE CANCERS 313-2 HirotoshiKikuchi Speaker Japan MODERN MANAGEMENT OF GASTRO-ESOPHAGEAL JUNCTIONAL CANCERS: MULTIMODAL THERAPY AND SURGICAL APPROACH 313-3 Suzanne S.Gisbertz Speaker Netherlands LIMITED METASTASES FROM GASTRO ESOPHAGEAL CANCER: A SURGICAL DISEASE? 313-4 SherazMarkar Speaker United Kingdom OPTIMIZING PERI-OPERATIVE OUTCOMES FOR THE ESOPHAGEAL CANCER PATIENT 313-5 Wayne Hofstetter Speaker United States Terrazza Room C																																								ISS/SIC US CHAPTER LECTURE OF THE ACS ISS/SIC / US CHAPTER 323 Annabel E. Barber Introducer United States NO SYSTEM, NO SAFETY: TRAUMA SURGERY, PREPAREDNESS AND GLOBAL GAPS 323-1 Christine Gaarder Lecturer Norway Molino Rey B																																								POLYTRAUMA – THE DISEASE IATSIC 333 AdamGyedu Moderator Ghana Zsolt Janos Balogh Moderator Australia DEFINITION, DIESEASE STATUS, PREVALENCE AND GLOBAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INCLUDING 333-1 Zsolt Janos Balogh Speaker Australia WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT POLYTRAUMA AS A DISEASE IN LMICS 333-2 AlbertoGarcia Marin Speaker Colombia OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR ADVOCACY 333-3 Krista L. Kaups Speaker United States NOTHING BEATS PREVENTION – THE YELLOW MAY MOVEMENT 333-4 Henrique Alexandrino Speaker Portugal Girasoles																																								NUTRITION IN CRITICAL ILLNESS IASMEN / FELAC 343 Ho-Seong Han Moderator South Korea NUTRITIONAL THERAPY FOR THE CRITICALLY-ILL POST-BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENT 343-1 NUTRITION IN MORBID OBESITY 343-2 HOW TO DETERMINE PROTEIN DOSE FOR CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS? 343-3 KensukeNakamura Speaker Japan ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE 343-4 Dileep Lobo Speaker United Kingdom Jardin																																								FREE PAPER SESSION VASCULAR SURGERY ISS/SIC 353 KojiYamashita Moderator Japan IMPROVING WALKING AFTER BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION THROUGH BETTER SURGERY 353-01 LukeBrewster Speaker United States LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER ENDARTERECTOMY OF THE COMMON FEMORAL ARTERY USING DIFFERENT PATCH MATERIALS 353-02 TinaCohnert Speaker Austria A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA 353-03 MeisJawad Speaker Sweden WALAPONE TECHNIQUE OF ENDO-VENOUS THERMO-ABLATION (WEVTA) DELIVERS SIMILAR ENDO-VENOUS LINEAR ENERGY DENSITY (LEED) AND GIVE EQUAL RESULTS TO ENDO-VENOUS LASER ABLATION (EVLA) 353-04 KosalaSomaratne Speaker Sri Lanka INTEGRATED VASCULAR AND SURGICAL APPROACH TO LIMB SALVAGE: MIDFOOT AMPUTATION PREVENTS BELOW-KNEE LOSS IN CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA (4-YEAR FOLLOW-UP) 353-05 AnupKumar Speaker India ONE YEAR OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS SURGICALLY TREATED FOR ACUTE LOWER LIMB ISCHEMIA BEFORE AND DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY IN A CHILEAN VASCULAR CENTER 353-06 EmilKaronen Speaker Sweden IS THE 3% (6%) QUALITY THRESHOLDS FOR PERIOPERATIVE DEATH AND/OR STROKE RATE IN INTERNAL CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY REALISTIC AND ATTAINABLE IN REAL WORLD DATA? 353-07 GregorSiegl Speaker Austria MAC INDEX AS A PREDICTIVE FACTOR OF MAJOR AMPUTATION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING MINOR AMPUTATION SECONDARY TO DIABETIC FOOT 353-08 Fernando ElíOlvera Camacho Speaker Mexico Arco Iris																																								HOW AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION COULD BE STRUCTURED ISS/SIC / ICOSET 363 April Camilla Roslani Moderator Malaysia DaraO'Keeffe Moderator Ireland STRUCTURES AND GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 363-1 AmitJoshi Speaker United States HISTORY OF ICOSET— MISSION AND VISION 363-2 AdrianAnthony Speaker Australia INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL EDUCATION ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT SPECTRUM 363-3 Rondi Kauffmann Speaker United States PANEL DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE FLOOR 363-4 Camelias																																								THE DIGITAL ERA OF SURGERY IASSS 393 Daniel Esanju Moderator Nigeria Yan BinFong Moderator Malaysia Diego EmilianoMeraz-Brenes Chair Mexico SELF: SCALING PROCEDURAL SILLS TRAINING TO THE POINT OF CARE 393-1 Catherine Mohr Speaker United States AI & MACHINE LEARNING, CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PRIVACY IN SURGICAL CARE 393-2 JamesPope Speaker United Kingdom Russell L.Gruen Speaker Australia Yuki JuliusNg Speaker Malaysia Oaxaca A																																								FREE PAPER SESSION - BREAST SURGERY BSI 3103 CarlosRobles Vidal Moderator Mexico Christoph Johannes Tausch Moderator Switzerland INTEGRATING PERSONAL, HEREDITARY, AND POLYGENIC PROFILES VIA DEEP LEARNING-BASED RISK ESTIMATION FOR PRECLINICAL BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS 3103-01 SaturninoDomínguez Speaker Panama “THE TRIPLE TROUBLE” -VIRAL MARKER POSITIVITY, TUMOR AGGRESSIVENESS, AND OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS IN BREAST CANCER 3103-02 BharathShivalingaiah Speaker India THE ASSOCIATION OF BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) AND HEIGHT WITH ONCOTYPE DX SCORES IN WOMEN WITH HORMONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE HER 2 NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER IN THE NYC METROPOLITAN AREA 3103-03 GeorgiaSyrnioti Speaker United States THE IMPACT OF METABOLIC SYNDROME ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF SECOND PRIMARY TUMORS IN WOMEN TREATED FOR BREAST CANCER: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS 3103-04 Ambrogio P Londero Speaker Italy INFLUENCE OF GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT ON TREATMENT DECISIONS IN ELDERLY BREAST CANCER PATIENTS 3103-05 Ambrogio P Londero Speaker Italy THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF TUMOR BED BIOPSY IN PREDICTING PATHOLOGICAL COMPLETE RESPONSE IN BREAST CANCER AFTER NEO ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY: A META-ANALYSIS RUNNING TITLE: TUMOR BED BIOPSY FOR PCR ASSESSMENT 3103-06 Garvit Garg Speaker India EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF THE MSKCC NOMOGRAM FOR PREDICTING SENTINEL NODE STATUS IN EARLY BREAST CANCER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS 3103-07 JustinJames Speaker Australia MINIMALLY INVASIVE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION (RFA) THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER 3103-08 UhiToh Speaker Japan CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HER2-LOW BREAST CANCER COMPARED TO HER2-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER 3103-09 Cheng-Har Yip Speaker Malaysia MICROWAVE ABLATION FOR INOPERABLE EARLY BREAST CANCER: A MINIMALLY INVASIVE OPTION FOR HIGH-RISK PATIENTS 3103-10 Garvit Garg Speaker India ENDOSCOPIC BREAST SURGERY FOR PERSONALIZATION OF BREAST CANCER TREATMENT 3103-11 KojiYamashita Speaker Japan RE-SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY IN PATIENTS WITH IPSILATERAL BREAST CANCER RECURRENCE AFTER BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY 3103-12 RieSugihara Speaker Japan Monterrey A-C
12:15 13:15	GENERAL ASSEMBLY ISS/SIC MEMBERS ONLY 314 Ari K. Leppäniemi Speaker Finland Gerard M. Doherty Speaker United States Kenneth D. Boffard Speaker South Africa Eduardo E. Montalvo Jave Guest Mexico Michael G. Sarr Guest United States Yoshihiro Kakeji Guest Japan Terrazza Room C
12:30 13:30	TRABAJOS LIBRES AMCE 374 Chapultepec B																																																																TRABAJOS LIBRES AMCE 384 Terrazza Room B																																																																TRABAJOS LIBRES AMCE 3114 Mathias
13:30 15:00	SPONSORED SESSION: STRYKER STRYKER 375 Chapultepec B																																				SPONSORED SESSION: OLYMPUS 3115 Mathias																																				SIMULATION IN SURGERY ISS/SIC / ICOSET 395 AlbertoFerreres Moderator Argentina AmitJoshi Moderator United States OVERVIEW OF THE USE OF SIMULATION IN EDUCATION 395-1 DavidO'Regan Speaker Malaysia HOW CAN WE LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULATION TO TEACH BETTER? 395-2 DaraO'Keeffe Speaker Ireland DEBATE ON SURGEONS OF THE FUTURE WILL BE EITHER ROBOTIC OR OPEN SURGEONS – FOR: APRIL ROSLANI, AGAINST: DAVID O’REGAN 395-3 April Camilla Roslani Speaker Malaysia DavidO'Regan Speaker Malaysia PANEL DISCUSSION WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE FLOOR 395-4 Oaxaca A																																				ALL YOU WANTED TO KNOW IN UPPER GI SURGERY 3105 Sergio O.Aparicio Moderator Bolivia, Plurinational State of GERD, HIATAL HERNIA AND BARRETT: WHEN SURGERY CLEARLY OUTPERFORM MODERN MEDICAL MANAGEMENT? 3105-1 OBESITY + GERD: FUNDOPLICATION VS. GASTRIC BYPASS ROUX-EN-Y VS. GASTRIC SLEEVE? 3105-2 FelipeCantú Speaker United States TRICKS AND PEARLS IN HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR: HOW TO AVOID RECURRENCE. IS IT USEFUL TO REINFORCE THE CRURA WITH BIOLOGICAL MESH? 3105-3 JoséRodriguez Villarreal Speaker Mexico COMPLICATIONS AFTER GASTRIC SURGERY 3105-4 Sergio O.Aparicio Speaker Bolivia, Plurinational State of Monterrey A-C																																				GRASSI - KITAJIMA PRIZE ISDS 315 Go Wakabayashi Moderator Japan JamieMurphy Moderator United Kingdom Lorenzo E.Ferri Moderator Canada ASSESSING TRENDS IN PANCREATIC SURGERY OPERATIVE EXPOSURE IN GENERAL SURGERY RESIDENCY IN THE UNITED STATES: A REVIEW OF ACGME CASE LOGS (2006-2024) ISDS 315-01 BrianLongbottom Speaker United States PERIOPERATIVE OUTCOMES AMONG PATIENTS UNDERGOING OPEN BILIARY BYPASS SURGERY FOR MALIGNANT BILIARY OBSTRUCTION IN A LOW RESOURCE SETTING: A MULTI-CENTER PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY ISDS 315-02 Yoseph SolomonBezabih Speaker Ethiopia NEW SAFETY MARKERS IN SAFE LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY ISDS 315-03 RaviGupta Speaker India ASSOCIATION OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI AND ITS VIRULENCE GENES WITH GASTRIC CANCER IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION – A CASE CONTROL STUDY ISDS 315-04 ShuvarajPokharel Speaker Nepal STATIN USE IMPROVES OVERALL SURVIVAL IN ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA PATIENTS UNDERGOING CURATIVE-INTENT THERAPY. ISDS 315-05 LuísSantos Castro Speaker Canada CA19-9 PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION OF PANCREATIC CYSTIC LESIONS: A META-ANALYSIS ISDS 315-06 MenggeShang Speaker Australia Terrazza Room C																																				SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREAST SURGEON: MEET THE EXPERTS / COUNCIL MEETING BSI 325 SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREAST SURGEON: MEET THE EXPERTS BSI 325-1 Ines Buccimazza Panelist South Africa Jacqueline Sara Jeruss Panelist United States KavithaDaester Panelist Switzerland MichaelDouek Panelist United Kingdom Owen Allan Ung Panelist Australia Pooja Ramakant Panelist India SandraKrishnan Panelist Australia Susanna Minna CeciliaKauhanen Panelist Finland Tadahiko Shien Panelist Japan WHY BECOME A BREAST SURGEON? BSI 325-2 KavithaDaester Speaker Switzerland PANEL DISCUSSION 325-3 COUNCIL MEETING BSI 325-4 Molino Rey B																																				PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DONALD TRUNKEY LECTURE IATSIC 335 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS IATSIC 335-1 DavidZonies Speaker United States DONALD TRUNKEY LECTURE: STRENGTHENING CARE FOR THE INJURED GLOBALLY: SUCCESSES, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES IATSIC 335-2 Charles N. Mock Lecturer United States Girasoles																																				PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS IASMEN 345 Joji Kotani Moderator Japan OPTIMAL WAYS TO IMPROVE MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY 345-1 Ho-Seong Han Speaker South Korea Jardin																																				LET'S TALK ABOUT BLENDING IN OR STANDING OUT: A SURGEON'S LIFE AWS / ISS/SIC 355 Gabriela AlejandraBuerba Moderator Mexico HOW TO BECOME A SURGEON IN AN LMIC (TRAINING PATHWAYS, COSTS OF CERTIFICATIONS) 355-1 AgnetaOdera Speaker Kenya SUPPORTING LACTATING WOMEN SURGEONS / TRAINEES (TIME TO PUMP, LACTATION ROOMS, REFRIGERATORS) 355-2 DevonFreudenberger Speaker United States MANAGING CHILDREN AS A PHYSICIAN PARENT 355-3 ZipporahGathuya Speaker Kenya TEAM SPORT: CRITICAL ROLE OF ANESTHESIA IN THE PERIOPERATIVE WORKFOCE 355-4 HazelSonkwe Speaker Zambia GLOBAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR COMMUNICATING, CONNECTING AND BUILDING EACH OTHER UP 355-5 PaulaFerrada Speaker United States Arco Iris																																				GLOBAL SURGERY 2026: UPDATE ON NATIONAL SURGERY, OBSTETRIC AND ANESTHESIA PLANS ISS/SIC 365 Cheng-Har Yip Moderator Malaysia THE PASHeF INITIATIVE: ITS IMPACT ON NSOAP'S IN AFRICA 365-1 AbebeBekele Speaker Rwanda HOSPITAL PADRINO MODEL AND FUTURE EXPANSION 365-2 Maria FernandaEscobar Vidarte Speaker Colombia REIMAGINING GLOBAL SURGERY: ADVANCING INCLUSIVE, LOCALLY LED PATHWAYS FOR EQUITABLE SURGICAL SYSTEMS IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS 365-3 EmmanuelMakasa Speaker Zambia NEPAL'S INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL SURGICAL, OBSTETRIC AND ANAESTHESIA PLAN (NSOAP) 365-4 SarojSharma Speaker Nepal Camelias
15:00 15:30	Coffee / Tea Break Exhibition 5th and 7th Floor																																																																CIRUGIA ROBOTICA II AMCE 376 Chapultepec B																																																																OBESIDAD II AMCE 386 FelipeCantú Coordinador Adjunto United States Terrazza Room B																																																																ALACE CIRUGIA ENDOSCOPICA COLORRECTAL Y CIRUGIA EN SEPSIS ABDOMINAL AMCE 3116 Mathias
15:30 17:00	YOUNG SURGEONS (TRAVEL SCHOLARS / FSP) 3106 CassandraMbanje Facilitator United Kingdom Michael G. Sarr Facilitator United States SuléBurger Facilitator South Africa Monterrey A-C																																													EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES IN SURGERY ISDS 316 James Oh Park Moderator United States Juan CarlosMolina Moderator Chile SherazMarkar Moderator United Kingdom NOVEL ROBOTIC PLATFORMS 316-1 James Oh Park Speaker United States AI IN SURGERY 316-2 JesusTapia Speaker Mexico AI AND EXTENDED REALITY: TRANSFORMING SURGICAL EDUCATION 316-3 GeraldFried Speaker Canada METAVERSE IN SURGERY 316-4 MicheleAmmendola Speaker Italy MAGNETIC SURGERY 316-5 MichelGagner Speaker Canada FLUORESCENCE GUIDED UPPER GI SURGERY LYMPHADENECTOMY 316-6 Suzanne S.Gisbertz Speaker Netherlands Terrazza Room C																																													RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY PLASTIC SURGEONS AND BREASTSURGEONS BSI 326 DanielaTellez Palacios Moderator Mexico Gaurav Agarwal Moderator India BREAST SCAFFOLDS 326-1 Owen Allan Ung Speaker Australia POST-LUMPECTOMY DEFECTS 326-2 SandraKrishnan Speaker Australia BREAST IMPLANT-ASSOCIATED ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELLL LYMPHOMA 326-3 Ashutosh Kothari Speaker United Kingdom SALVAGE FOLLOWING BREAST RECONSTRUCTION 326-4 IsabellaKarat Speaker United Kingdom Molino Rey B																																													THE MOST RECENT TRAUMA GUIDELINES – DO WE NEED TO BE UPDATED? IATSIC 336 Henrique Alexandrino Moderator Portugal Katherine Martin Moderator Australia VASCULAR TRAUMA – SEVERAL GUIDELINES AND DO THEY AGREE? 336-1 Jørgen JoakimJørgensen Speaker Norway BLAST TRAUMA GUIDELINES – WHERE ARE WE? 336-2 HannahWild Speaker United States REBOA - WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE REALLY SAY? 336-3 Maeyane Stephens Moeng Speaker South Africa SURGICAL RIB FIXATION – WHEN IS IT REALLY INDICATED? 336-4 Katherine Martin Speaker Australia HOW DO WE SECURE VALIDITY IN DIFFERENT RESOURCE SETTINGS? 336-5 LaceyLaGrone Speaker United States Girasoles																																													THE FUTURE OF SURGICAL METABOLISM AND NUTRITION IASMEN 346 Dileep Lobo Moderator United Kingdom Jorge Chirino Romo Moderator Mexico CANCER METABOLISM 346-1 NaomiNakayama Speaker Japan OPTIMAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN AI ERA 346-2 Kwang-YeongHow Speaker Singapore FUTURE OF NST FOR SURGICAL PATIENTS 346-3 RyojiFukushima Speaker Japan FUTURE OF ERAS 346-4 Do Joong Park Speaker South Korea INFLAMMATION, NUTRITION AND SURGERY 346-5 Jorge Chirino Romo Speaker Mexico Jardin																																													DIFFICULT DISCUSSIONS IN SURGERY AWS 356 Cheng-Har Yip Moderator Malaysia SimoneBetchen Moderator United States WHEN PATIENTS PERCEIVE TOXICITY OF TREATMENT OUTWEIGHS BENEFIT OF TREATMENT 356-1 Susan Pories Speaker United States DISCUSS WHEN LIMITED RESOURCES AND PATIENT FACTORS (CO-MORBIDITIES, SMOKING, OBESITY, SUPPORT) IMPACT OUR ABILITY TO PERFORM SURGERY AS DESIRED 356-2 FernandaLAGE LIMA DANTAS Speaker Brazil HOW TO DISCUSS PATIENT GOALS TO TAILOR TREATMENT AT END OF LIFE OR PALLIATIVE CARE 356-3 April Camilla Roslani Speaker Malaysia ETHICS - MANAGING A PATIENT WHO IS VULNERABLE (NOT COMPETENT, DOESN'T HAVE CAPACITY, NOT TRAINED SUCH AS CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL DEFECTS IN LMIC 356-4 AgnetaOdera Speaker Kenya THE SURGEON'S VOICE: LEVERAGING NARRATIVE MEDICINE FOR POWERFUL ADVOCACY AND DEEPER PATIENT UNDERSTANDING 356-5 CorneliaGriggs Speaker United States Arco Iris																																													FREE PAPER SESSION SURGICAL EDUCATION / AI / ROBOTIC ISS/SIC 366 Russell L.Gruen Moderator Australia Yuki JuliusNg Moderator Malaysia OSTOMATES AND PLANNED ESSENTIAL SURGERY: LEVERAGING TIKTOK TO MITIGATE STOMA-RELATED MORBIDITY 366-01 AbbasKarim Speaker United States EVALUATION OF A LOW-COST SIMULATION MODEL FOR TEACHING VASCULAR HEMOSTASIS AND ANASTOMOSIS ACROSS SURGICAL SPECIALTIES 366-02 SwechhaBhatt Speaker Nepal SAFE PAEDIATRIC MALE CIRCUMCISION SIMULATOR FOR NON-SPECIALIST PROVIDERS IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES 366-03 Chisom RachelUdeigwe-Okeke Speaker Nigeria INTEGRATING RADIOLOGY INTO SURGICAL EDUCATION: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE 366-04 Kirtana Ponnuswamy Speaker United Kingdom AI‑ASSISTED SCORE FOR OPTIMAL PORT INSERTION AND CLOSURE IN LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY 366-05 AmerAl Ani Speaker United Arab Emirates GOING BANANAS – A RELIABLE LOW FIDELITY MODEL FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING OF SUTURING SKILLS 366-06 DavidO'Regan Speaker Malaysia DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ACCURACY OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN EMERGENCY DIGESTIVE SURGERY: A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION USING THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENT (AIPI) SCORING SYSTEM 366-07 MarieDesonniaux Speaker Belgium FROM PAGES TO PIXELS: A GLOBAL CALL TO REDESIGN SURGICAL EDUCATION FOR THE MODERN ERA 366-08 Hema SiriKottu Speaker India Camelias																																													FREE PAPER SESSION ENDOCRINE SURGERY ISS/SIC Endocrine Surgery 396 Gerard M. Doherty Moderator United States LEFT NON-RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE ASSOCIATED WITH IPSILATERAL THYROID LOBE HYPOTROPHY: RARE CASE PRESENTATION 396-01 AdolfoFuentes Sánchez Speaker Mexico NECK SURGERIES IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE 396-02 Konstantinos AZorbas Speaker United States MAGNITUDE AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DELAYED DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER IN HAWASSA UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ONCOLOGY CENTER, 2024 396-03 BereketAkako Speaker Ethiopia NEAR-INFRARED MAPPING OF RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE BY FLUORENSCENCE-GUIDED SURGERY USING INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY 396-04 AndriiDinets Speaker Ukraine INCIDENCE, PROGNOSTIC AND PREDICTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF PROGRAMMED DEATH LIGAND-1 (PD-L1) IN THYROID CARCINOMA OF FOLLICULAR CELL ORIGIN 396-05 AnjaliMishra Speaker India ASSESSING MANAGEMENT AND OUTCOMES IN TOXIC GOITER: A MULTICENTRE RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY FROM SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA 396-06 Alazar BerheAregawi Speaker Ethiopia PARATHYROIDECTOMIES USING INTRAOPERATIVE SESTAMIBI RADIONUCLIDE LOCALIZATION IN NON- LOCALIZING PARATHYROID ADENOMA BY SESTAMIBI IMAGING 396-07 CarolineLiu Speaker United States DELAYS IN SURGICAL REFERRAL AND TREATMENT OF ENDOCRINE DISEASES: A MIXED-METHODS ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION AND SYSTEM-LEVEL BARRIERS 396-08 StellaKim Speaker United States Oaxaca A
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17:15 18:15	VIDEO SESSION DIGESTIVE SURGERY ISDS 357 BILATERAL SPIGELIAN HERNIA: RARE HERNIA, EVEN RARER PRESENTATION. 357-01 AdolfoFuentes Sánchez Speaker Mexico THE HIDDEN APPENDIX; COLONOSCOPIC RESECTION WITH LAPAROSCOPIC ASSISTANCE IN INTRACECAL APPENDICITIS – A CASE REPORT 357-02 Alberto Ruiz Speaker Mexico MINIMALLY INVASIVE LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR OF ACQUIRED DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA WITH COLONIC OCCLUSION IN A PATIENT WITH PRIOR THORACIC SURGERY: A CASE REPORT 357-03 JORGE ANDRESORTEGA MORAL Speaker México SAFETY AND FEASIBILITY OF VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC/THORACO-LAPAROSCOPIC ESOPHAGECTOMY FOR CORROSIVE ESOPHAGEAL STRICTURES 357-04 HariPillai Speaker India GASTRIC GIST TUMORS: DIFFERENT LAPARO-ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE SAME DISEASE 357-05 SofiaAramburu Speaker Argentina Arco Iris																																																																BUSINESS MEETING IATSIC MEMBERS ONLY 337 DavidZonies Facilitator United States Girasoles																																																																VIDEO SESSION DIGESTIVE SURGERY ISDS 317 ROBOTIC EXTENDED LEFT HEPATECTOMY AND ROUX-EN-Y HEPATICOJEJUNOSTOMY FOR PRIMARY INTRAPSNCREATIC LITHIASIS 317-01 MarinaEpstein Speaker Brazil MINOR HEPATOPANCREATICODUODENECTOMY FOR PANCREATIC NET WITH GALL BLADDER MASS 317-02 SaurabhGalodha Speaker India LARGE RETROPERITONEAL CYST CAUSING EXTRINSIC COMPRESSION OF THE COLON AND CHRONIC CONSTIPATION 317-03 AnaSandoval-Mussi Speaker Mexico DOUBLE GALLBLADER. COMMON DISEASE, NOT SO COMMON PRESENTATION 317-04 Enrique Ricardo Jean Silver Speaker Mexico Terrazza Room C