It is my pleasure to invite you to the Fourth Digestive Endoscopy Symposium. The Fourth Digestive Endoscopy Symposium is a two full-day postgraduate course focusing on the recent advances of digestive endoscopy and its utility in the management of related gastrointestinal diseases. The Symposium will include both lectures and interactive video case presentations.
This combination of state-of-the-art lectures, mini symposia, unedited videos and breakout sessions will provide an excellent opportunity for discussion and interaction between participants and outstanding experts.
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 32nd GEEW in Brussels, Belgium and the 22nd UEGW in Berlin, Germany during 2014.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
The Symposium is designed for gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists, oncologists, pediatricians, GPs and family practioners, radiologists, pathologists, nurses and biomedicals.
OBJECTIVES
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.
CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
The Symposium is offering the opportunity to showcase your remarkable cases of therapeutic digestive endoscopy with other colleagues. Deadline for submitting video case presentations is August 31, 2013.
For more information, please contact the Symposium Director at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
TOPICS AND PROCEDURES
- Therapeutic ERCP
- Diagnostic and therapeutic EUS (FNA, pseudocyst drainage, anastomosis)
- Mucosal resection and submucosal dissection
- Zenker’s diverticulotomy
- Capsule endoscopy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in IBD
- Bariatric endoscopy
- Portal hypertension-related gut bleeding
- Non-variceal upper GI bleeding
- Management of gut strictures (dilatation and stenting)
- Management of endoscopic complications (perforation, bleeding)
- Image-enhanced endoscopy
- Confocal endomicroscopy
- High Resolution Manometery