July 8

Robotic Hand On Course (24 spots)

Chair: Miljana Vladimirov

Co-Chair: Jordi Tarascó

9:00 – 9:15 Centre Hospitallier de Luxembourg (CHL) Welcome

9:15 – 9:30 TROGSS Welcome

9:30 – 11:30 HANDS ON  –  Group 1 – 2

11:30 – 13:30 HANDS ON  –  Group 3 – 4

13:30 – 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 HANDS ON  –  Group 5 – 6

16:30 – 18:30 HANDS ON  –  Group 7 – 8

Before and after each hands on session attendees can go to auditorium to join the live surgery course.

Robotic Surgery for Beginners, Practicing Surgeons, and Experts (50 spots)

Chair: Alexander Ayzengart

Co-Chair: Antonio Albuquerque

9:00 – 9:15 Centre Hospitallier de Luxembourg (CHL) Welcome

Martine Goergen

9:15 – 9:30 TROGSS Welcome

Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abou-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

9:30 – 11:30  Live Robotic Surgery: Robotic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Surgeon: Beniamino Pascotto

Moderators: Matias Sosa, Rodolfo J Oviedo, Abhirami Babu

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 13:00  How to Train as a Robotic Surgeon

Moderators: Edmundo Inga Zapata, Alexander Ayzengart, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Speakers: 

Adolfo Perez Bonet

Omar Gaytan

Andres Ayala

Lourdes Hubert Cyril

13:00 – 14:00  LUNCH Symposium

14:00 – 16:00  Live Robotic Surgery: Robotic Hiatal Hernia Repair and Fundoplication

Surgeon: Beniamino Pascotto

Moderators: Pablo Castellaro, Adel Abou-Mrad, Ala Wafa

16:00 – 16:30   COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

16:30 – 18:00  How to Start and Maintain a Successful Robotic Program

Moderators: Elena Ruiz Ucar, Daniel Gero, Adel Abu-Mrad

Speakers: 

Vikas Jain

Frederiek Nuytens

Enrique Fernando Elli

Omar Rivera

20:00 Dinner

Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (15 spots – 5 stations, 3 persons per stations)

Chair: Silvana Perretta

Co-Chair: Christine Stier

13:00 – 15:30  Hands-On: Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty (ESG)

Faculty: Pietro Riva, Thibaut Coste, Sonja Chiappetta, Maria Vannucci

15:30 – 16:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

16:00 – 17:00  Hands-On: Endoscopic Stenting, Pigtail Catheters, Dilation

Faculty: Pietro Riva, Thibaut Coste, Sonja Chiappetta, Maria Vannucci

17:00 – 18:00  Presentations

Moderator: Luis Suarez Carreon, Yurong Jiao, Bhavneet Singh Bhalla

Speakers: 

Silvana Perretta

Pietro Riva

Alexander Ramirez

Maria Vannucci

Program – DAY 1 (July 9)

Auditorium

9:00 CHL & TROGSS Welcome

Martine Goergen, Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abou-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

9:30 – 11:30  Upper GI &Thoracic

Chair: Peter Grimminger

Moderators: Simone Giacopuzzi, Giusto Pignata, Sharona Ross

Speakers:

Sharona Ross

Peter Grimminger

Simone Giacopuzzi

Delia Cortés Guiral

Giusto Pignata

Maria Bencivenga

Beniamino Pascotto

Luigi Marano

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30 Honorary Lecture: Where is TROGSS Going? By Our President & Founder, Dr. Adel Abou-Mrad

Speaker: Adel Abou-Mrad

Moderator: Rodolfo J. Oviedo

12:30 – 13:30  Metabolic & Bariatric Evolution in MBS

Chair: André Teixeira

Moderators: Marie Cecile Blanchet, Enrique Fernando Elli, Bojan Jovanovic

Speakers:

David Nocca

Robert Caiazzo

Pierre Blanc 

Adel Abou-Mrad

13:30 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  Magnetic Surgery

Chair: Michel Gagner

Moderators: Manoel Galvao-Neto, Stefano Olmi, Ivo Boskoski 

Speakers:

Michel Gagner

Manoel Galvao-Neto

Sonja Chiappetta

16:00 – 17:00  Robotics in Lower GI

Chair: Quentin Denost

Moderators: Laila Rashidi, Deena Harji, Daniel Leonard

Speakers:

Deena Harji

Quentin Denost

Francesco Stanzione

Laila Rashidi

17:00 – 17:30  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

17:30 – 18:30  Robotic HBP

Chair: Abou-Abbass

Moderators: Riccardo Memeo, Ruben Ciria, Valerio Lucidi

Speakers:

Valerio Lucidi

Jose Manuel Ramia

Juan Santiago Azagra

Ahmad Abou Abbass

Room A

9:30 – 10:30  Best videos: HBP

Chair: Vito de Blasi

Moderators: Alessia Fassari, Mohammed Ghallab, Bert Van den Bossche

Speakers: 

Sergio Estevez

Fabrizio Panaro

Mario Serradilla

Stylianos Tzedakis

10:30 – 11:30  Best Videos: Colorectal Lower GI

Chairs: Deena Harji

Moderators:, Xishan Wang, Yurong Jiao, Silviu-Tiberiu Makkai-Popa

Speakers: 

Federico Maria Mongardini

Luca Ferraro

Francesco Prete

Giampaolo Formisano

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30 Honorary Lecture in the Auditorium

12:30 – 13:30  Young Surgeons & Robotic Surgery: A Perfect Match

Chair: Moritz Felsenreich

Moderators: Eider Talavera Urquijo, Daniel Gero, Benjamin Cadiere

Speakers:

Sonja Chiappetta

Giampaolo Formisano

Mario Rui Goncalves

Fernando Pardo

13:30 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  Robotic Surgery & Obesity: A Path to Global Research Collaboration 

Chairs: Safwan Taha

Moderators: Sjaak Pouwels, Adebusola Owokole, Panagiotis Lainas

Speakers: 

Wah Yang

Haris Khwaja

Adebusola Owokole

Abhirami Babu & Aman Goyal

16: 00 – 17:00  Best Videos: Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy

Chair: Christine Stier

Moderators: Silvana Perretta, Sonja Chiappetta, Thibaut Coste

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

17:00 – 17:30  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

17:30 – 18:30 Best Videos: Endocrine Surgery

Chair: Marco Raffaelli

Moderators: Debora Acin, Hubert Cyril Lourdes Rozario, Seiichi Kitahama

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

Room B

9:30 – 10:30  Best Videos: Metabolic & Bariatric

Chairs: Marco Raffaelli

Moderators: Jordi Tarascò, Giovanni Fantola, Pierre Blanc

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

10:30 – 11:30  Best Videos: Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Chairs: Mário Rui Gonçalves

Moderators: Giampaolo Formisano, Aman Goyal, Luca Gordini

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30 Honorary Lecture in the Auditorium

12:30 – 13:30  Best Videos: Upper GI

Chair: Luigi Marano

Moderators: Alexander Ramirez, Michail Koutentakis, Francesco Prete

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

13:30 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  Best Videos: Lower GI

Chair: Laila Rashidi

Moderator: Federico Maria Mongardini, Luca Ferraro, Aman Goyal

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

16:00 – 17:00  Best Videos: HBP

Chairs: Yogesh Vashist

Moderators: Fernando Pardo, Mario Serradilla, Stylianos Tzedakis

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

17:00 – 17:30  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

17:30 – 18:30  Out of the Ordinary

Chairs: Arif Ahmad

Moderators: Andres Ayala, Adriana Torcivia, Omar Rivera

Speakers: 

Raquel Sanchez

Haris Khwaja

Omar Ramirez Serrano

José Maria Balibrea

Program – DAY 2 (July 10)

Auditorium

8:30 – 9:30  Controversies in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Upper GI

Chair: Sharona Ross

Moderators: Maria Bencivenga, Damien Bouriez, Alexander Ayzengart

Speakers: 

Chetan Parmar

Salomone di Saverio

Miguel Toledano

Arnaud Lemmers

9:30 – 10:30  Evolution of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Colorectal Surgery

Chair: Francesco Corcione

Moderators: Francesco Stanzione, Daniel Leonard, Omar Gaytan

Speakers: 

Francesco Corcione

Daniel Leonard

Deena Harji

Xishan Wang

10:30 – 11:30  Robotics & AI: The Present, Not the Future

Chair: Pietro Mascagni

Moderators: Francesco Prete, Alejandro Rossano Garcia, Alexander Ramirez

Speakers: 

Pietro Mascagni

Luigi Marano

Andre Teixeira

Alexander Ramirez

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30  Honorary Lecture

Speaker: Juan Santiago Azagra

Moderator: Beniamino Pascotto

12:30 – 13:30 Expanding Indications of Robotic Surgery

Chair: Fabrizio Panaro

Moderators: Hugo Marquez Pinto, Esteban Cugat, Abhirami Babu

Speakers:

Ruben Ciria

Hugo Marquez Pinto

Yogesh Vashist

Marco Raffaelli

13:30 – 14:00 Honorary Member Surprise Induction and Distinguished Surgeon Award

14:00 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  Controversies in MBS

Chairs: Raquel Sanchez

Moderators: Matias Sosa, Mario Musella, Alexander Ayzengart

Speakers: 

Omar Gaytan

Chetan Parmar

Paolo Gentileschi

Ala Wafa

16:00 – 17:00  MIS Journal Extraordinary Video Championship

Chair: Juan Santiago Azagra

Moderators: Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abu-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

17:00 – 17:30  Awards and Closing Remarks

Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abu-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

 Room A

8:30 – 9:30  Best Abstracts and Future Manuscripts – Scientific Plenary Session

Chairs: Yogesh Vashist

Moderators: Alejandro Rossano Garcia, Omar Rivera, Michail Koutentakis

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

9:30 – 10:30  Robotics & Endoscopy, Single Port and Beyond

Chair: Bhavneet Singh Bhalla

Moderators: Thibaut Coste, Pietro Riva, Sonja Chiappetta

Speakers: 

Stefano Olmi

Mahir Ozmen

Sharique Nazir

Ivo Boskoski

10:30 – 11:30  MBS Session 

Chair: Christian Omar Ramírez Serrano Torres

Moderators: Antonio Braun, Ugo Bardi, Donald Van den Fraenen

Speakers: 

Frederiek Nuytens

Frederik Lecot

Vincenzo Simonelli

Nicolas Reibel

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30  Honorary Lecture in the Auditorium

12:30 – 13:30  Let Us Debate: Open versus Immersive Robotic Console

Chair: Edmundo Inga Zapata

Moderators: Adolfo Perez Bonet, Jordi Tarascó, Alexander Ayzengart

Debaters: 

Carlos Ferrigni

Alexander Ayzengart

Marco Raffaelli

Salvatore Tolone

13:30 – 14:00 Honorary Member Induction

14:00 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  MBS 

Chair: Vikas Jain

Moderators: Yurong Jiao, Seiichi Kitahama, Omar Rivera 

Speakers: 

Nick De Wever

Claudio Lazzara

Antonio Vitiello

Claire Louis Blanchard

16:00 – 17:00  Best Videos: The Resident Chronicles

Chair: Luis Osvaldo Suárez Carreón

Moderators: Elena Ruiz Ucar, Aman Goyal, Adolfo Pérez Bonet

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

17:00 – 17:30  Awards and Closing Remarks in the Auditorium

Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abu-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Room B

8:30 – 9:30  TROGSS Robotic Surgery Accreditation: for Our Patients, by Our Surgeons

Chairs: Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Moderators: Antonio Albuquerque, Vikas Jain, Hubert Cyril Lourdes

Speakers: 

Abhirami Babu

Omar Gaytan

Elena Ruiz Ucar

Wah Yang

9:30 – 10:30  The TROGSS CARS Curriculum, Metrics & Mentorship in Robotic Surgery

Chairs: Adolfo Pérez Bonet

Moderators: Aman Goyal, Abhirami Babu, Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Speakers: 

Miljana Vladimirov

Seiichi Kitahama

Yurong Jiao

Luis Suarez Carreon

10:30 – 11:30 The TROGSS ITP: Annual Update from Our Program Directors

Chairs: Seiichi Kitahama

Moderators: Andres Ayala, Omar Rivera, Vikas Jain

Speakers: 

Beniamino Pascotto

Adel Abou-Mrad

Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Adolfo Perez Bonet

11:30 – 12:00  COFFEE BREAK AND VISIT TO STANDS

12:00 – 12:30  Honorary Lecture in the Auditorium

12:30 – 13:30  One Global Family Business Meeting: Updates from Our CEO, Executive Council, and Ambassadors’ Club

Chairs: Adebusola Owokole

Moderators: Giovanni Fantola, Luca Gordini, Antonio Albuquerque

Speakers: 

Arif Ahmad

Mario Rui Goncalves

Aman Goyal

Rodolfo J. Oviedo

13:30 – 14:00 Honorary Membership Nomination

14:00 – 15:00  LUNCH Symposium

15:00 – 16:00  VisionMed Award: Best AI Abstracts & Videos

Chair: Luigi Marano

Moderators: Francesco Prete, Riccardo Memeo, Yogesh Vashist

Speakers: Video Abstract Winners

16:00 – 17:00  Robotic Surgical Education & Simulation

Chair: José Maria Balibrea

Moderator: Miljana Vladimirov, Chetan Parmar, Mahir Ozmen

Speakers: 

Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Seiichi Kitahama

Jordi Tarasco

Beniamino Pascotto

17:00 – 17:30  Awards and Closing Remarks in the Auditorium

Beniamino Pascotto, Adel Abu-Mrad, Rodolfo J. Oviedo