Program Saturday, October 5
08:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
08:50 Welcome
Jaber AL-ALI (Jabriya, Kuwait)
Mahmoud OMAR (Salmiya, Kuwait)
09:00-11:00 Live Transmission from AIG, Hyderabad, India
Chairpersons: Jaber AL-ALI (Jabriya, Kuwait), Jacques DEVIÈRE (Brussels, Belgium), Marc GIOVANNINI (Marseille, France), Kulwinder DUA (Milwaukee, USA)
Experts: Nageshwar REDDY and AIG Team
11:00-11:30 Coffee break and visit to the exhibition
11:30-13:30 Live Transmission from Gemelli Hospital, Rome, Italy
Chairpersons: Lars AABAKKEN (Oslo, Norway), Pradeep BAHANDARI (Portsmouth, UK), Purnima BHAT (Melbourne, Australia), Abed AL-LEHIBI (Riyadh, KSA)
Experts: Cristiano SPADA and Gemelli Team
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Mini Symposium I: Functional Endoscopy
Chairpersons: Pradeep BAHANDARI (Portsmouth, UK), Jacques DEVIÈRE (Brussels, Belgium), Jenan GHAITH, (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Muneera AL-MOHANNADI (Doha, Qatar)
14:30-14:50 Inconclusive GERD
Prakash GYAWALI (St. Louis, USA)
14:50-1510 Endoscopic Antireflux Procedures in Kuwait
Jaber AL-ALI (Jabriya, Kuwait)
15:10-15:30 Hypercontractile Esophagus
Prakash GYAWALI (St. Louis, USA)
15:30-15:50 Endoscopic Therapy for Hypercontractile Esophagus in Kuwait
Asmaa AL-KANDARI (Al-Jahra, Kuwait)
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break and visit to the exhibition
16:30-18:00 Session I: Management of Subepithelial lesions
Chairpersons: Majidah BUKHARI (Dubai, UAE), Prakash GYAWALI (St. louis, MO, USA), Mahmoud OMAR (Salmiya, Kuwaiti), Honggang YU (Wuhan, China)
16:30-16:50 How to Deal with Subepithelial Lesions Encountered during Routine Endoscopy?
Alessandro REPICI (Milan, Italy)
16:50-17:10 Endoscopic Resection Techniques: ESMR – ESD
Asmaa AL-KANDARI (Al-Jahra, Kuwait)
17:10-17:30 Endoscopic Resection Techniques: STER –FTR
Pradeep BAHANDARI (Portsmouth, UK)
17:30-17:50 GIST Management
Marc GIOVANNINI (Marseille, France)
17:50-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:15 Take-home Messages from Day 1
Quiz of Day 1
Program Sunday, October 6
09:00-11:00 Session II: How to Achieve Safe and Effective Biliary Access?
Chairpersons: Maheeba ABDULLA (Manama, Bahrain), Ali AL-ALI (Kuwait City, Kuwait), Sara AL-GHAMDI (Jeddah, KSA), Cristiano SPADA (Milan, Italy)
09:00-09:15 Basic Biliary Cannulation
Jacques DEVIÈRE (Brussels, Belgium)
09:15-09:30 Advanced Biliary Cannulation
Madácsy LÁSZLÓ (Budapest, Hungary)
09:30-09:45 Deep Cannulation in Post-Surgical Anatomy
Lars AABAKKEN (Oslo, Norway)
09:45-10:00 Failed Cannulation: What to do?
Marc GIOVANNINI (Marseille, France)
10:00-10:15 Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis
Mahmoud OMAR (Salmiya, Kuwait)
10:15-10:30 Assessment of Competency in ERCP
Kulwinder DUA (Milwaukee, USA)
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break and visit to the exhibition
11:30-13:30 Session III: Innovations in Endoscopy
Chairpersons: Lars AABAKKEN (Oslo, Norway), Abed AL-LEHIBI (Riyadh, KSA), Ozlem OZER ÇAKIR (Istanbul,Turkiye), Mahmoud OMAR (Salmiya, Kuwaiti)
11:30 “Active Magnets” for Treatment of Candy Cane and Esophageal Diverticula
Jacques DEVIÈRE (Brussels, Belgium)
11:50 Magnet-Controlled Capsule Endoscopy
Madácsy LÁSZLÓ (Budapest, Hungary)
12:10 Side Intelligent Medical Mobile Capsule Gastroscopy
Xiaobei LUO (Guangzhou, China)
12:30 Panenteric Capsule Endoscopy
Cristiano SPADA (Rome, Italy)
12:50 AI for Quality Improvement of Endoscopy
Honggang YU (Wuhan, China)
13:10 Future Directions in Metabolic Endoscopy
Rakash KALAPALA (Hyderabad, India)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Mini Symposium II: Post-Colonoscopy Colo-Rectal Cancer
Chairpersons: Kulwinder DUA (Milwaukee, USA), Ahmad ALFADHLY (Jabriya, Kuwait), Marc GIOAVANNINI (Marseille, France), Asmaa AL-KANDARI (Al-Jahra, Kuwait)
14:30-14:50 Epidemiology of PCCRC
Mahmoud OMAR (Salmiya, Kuwait)
14:50-15:10 Improving Adenoma Detection Rate: Caps, Tools and Techniques
Alessandro REPICI (Milan, Italy)
15:10-15:30 Important Quality Metrics besides ADR
Pradeep BAHANDARI (Portsmouth, UK)
15:30-15:50 Reducing PCCR: Is AI the answer?
Honggang YU (Wuhan, China)
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break and visit to the exhibition
16:30-18:00 Session IV: “What Every Endoscopist Needs to Know about” Series
Chairpersons: Jaber AL-ALI (Jabriya, Kuwait), Purnima BHAT (Melbourne, Australia), Maimouna AL-MANDHARI (Muscat, Oman), Alessandro REPICI (Milan, Italy)
16:30-16:45 Barrett’s Esophagus: Screening and Surveillance
Prateek SHARMA (Kansas City, USA)
16:45-17:00 Endoscopic Management of Refractory Benign Esophageal Stricture: What is new?
Kulwinder DUA (Milwaukee, USA)
17:00-17:15 Small Bowel Ultrasound
Heba AL-FARHAN (Kuwait City, Kuwait)
17:15-17:30 Polyp Size Estimation during Colonoscopy
Honggang YU (Wuhan, China)
17:30-17:45 Management of IBD-related Anal Fistula
Rupa BANERJEE (Hyderabad, India)
17:45-18:00 Pancreatic Lesions in the Gulf Countries: EUS Multi-Central Study
Jenan GHAITH (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
18:00-18:15 Take-home Messages from Day 2
Quiz of Day 2