It is my pleasure to invite you to the Third Digestive Endoscopy Symposium. The Symposium is a two-full day postgraduate course on the recent advances of digestive endoscopy and its utility in the management of related digestive diseases. This year a new format was developed. The symposium will include lectures, mini symposia, small group/breakout sessions and interactive endoscopic procedures presentations. The objective is to have a great interactive forum, where new ideas will be floated and some renowned methods will be challenged.
At the end of each day, time will be allocated to present the main take-home messages. This will be followed by related-quizzes. The winners will receive full sponsorship to attend the 31th GEEW in Brussels, Belgium and the 21st UEGW in Berlin, Germany during 2013.
The Symposium is designed for gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists, oncologists, pediatricians, GPs and family practioners, radiologists, pathologists, nurses and biomedicals.
The learning objectives of the Symposium include:
1. Discussing indications, utility, safety and local applicability of the latest endoscopic techniques,
2. Comparing and contrasting methods for effective endoscopic management of digestive diseases and
3. Participating in interactive discussion to evaluate multidisciplinary plans of digestive
diseases management.
To encourage young physicians, two emerging gastroenterologists who are interested in digestive endoscopy will be selected to participate in different activities of the Symposium. Awardees will receive Rising Star status according to their track record of digestive endoscopy practice and research.
I believe that not a single meeting would succeed without active, enthusiastic participants. We count on your interaction to achieve our objectives.
I would like to thank all my colleagues who are involved in organizing and sponsoring the Symposium for their enthusiasm and hard work to make this occasion another successful one. Also my sincere thanks to Kuwait Medical Association (KMA), Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) for their patronage and endorsement.
Wish you all a beneficial and enjoyable meeting.
TOPICS AND PROCEDURES
- Therapeutic ERCP
- Diagnostic and therapeutic EUS (FNA, pseudocyst drainage, anastomosis)
- Contrast enhanced and elastography EUS
- Mucosal resection and submucosal dissection
- Endoscopic management of Barrett’s esophagus
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in IBD
- Bariatric endoscopy
- Management of gut strictures
- Portal hypertension-related gut bleeding
- Hemostasis of GI bleeding
- Enteroscopy: Balloon-assisted and capsule
- Endoscopy and parasitic/infectious diseases
- Management of endoscopic complications (perforation, bleeding)
- Colon capsule endoscopy
- Image-enhanced endoscopy
- Confocal endomicroscopy