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General Thoracic Surgery Skills:
Respecting the Past, Looking to the Future
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Course Chair: *Stephen C. Yang, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Course Co-Chair: **Daniela Molena, Memorial Solan Kettering Cancer Center
8:00 AM - 8:10 AM | Welcome and Introduction |
Session 1: Benign Esophagus: Choose Your Own Adventure
Moderator: *Andrew C. Chang, University of Michigan
8:10 AM - 8:25 AM | Poetic Justice? Trading Achalasia for GERD with POEM *Virginia R. Litle, Boston University Medical Center |
8:25 AM - 8:40 AM | Leaving the Wrap Behind: LINX and Stretta for GERD **Matthew Hartwig, Duke University |
8:40 AM - 9:00 AM | How I Teach It: Laparoscopic PEH *Blair M. Marshall, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Clash of the Titans I: Giant PEH debate: Open Belsey vs. Laparoscopic *Mark S. Allen, Mayo Clinic *James D. Luketich, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Panel Discussion |
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Coffee Break |
Session 2: Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: The Devil is in the Details
Moderator: *Mark Onaitis, University of California San Diego
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Reconstruction 101: The Conduit, The Hiatus, The J-tube Inderpal S. Sarkaria, UPMC Shadyside |
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | How I do it: Lymph Node Dissection *Steven R. DeMeester, Oregon Clinic |
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Making the Most of the Mosis: Anastomotic Techniques *Gail E. Darling,Toronto General Hospital |
11:00 AM- 11:30 AM | How I Teach it: Laparoscopic / VATS and Robotic Esophagectomy **Daniela Molena, Memorial Solan Kettering Cancer Center **Rishindra M. Reddy, University of Michigan Health System |
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Discussion |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Combined Luncheon Speaker *Bruce A. Reitz, Stanford University |
Session 3: Pulmonary Resecton: One port, two ports, three ports and more…
Moderator: *Kazuhiro Yasufuku, University of Toronto
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM | Uniport Surgery: Lobectomy, Segmentectomy *Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Coruna University Hospital |
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Needlescopic/ 2-Port VATS Lobectomy Alan Sihoe, The University of Hong Kong |
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Getting Fancy With Mediastinal Staging: Indication and Tools *Todd L. Demmy, Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | It's Not All About Technique: Teaching Judgement in the OR *Shari Meyerson, Northwestern University |
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | How I Teach It: Robotic Lobectomy *Robert J. Cerfolio, New York University |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Discussion |
3:00 PM- 3:15 PM | Coffee Break |
Session 4: New Tech… New Toys
Moderator: *Scott G. Swan, Brigham & Women's Hospital
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | PA Branch Sealing With High Energy Devices: Dream or Nightmare? *Moishe Liberman, Centre Hosp De l'Universite de Montreal Division of Thoracic Surgery |
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Aisle 5 Trachea & Esophagus: Update in Tissue Engineering *Rafael S. Andrade, University of Minnesota |
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Where is That Small Nodule? Intraoperative Localization Techniques *Sunil Singhal, University of Pennsylvania |
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Looking into the future: Applications of Virtual Reality into Surgical Planning Rene Petersen, Dept. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet |
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | The Coming Attractions of Robotic Technology *Bernard J. Park, Memorial Solan Kettering Cancer Center |
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Discussion |