Dear Colleagues,

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It is with great pleasure that we inform you that our famous Dilemmas & Debates in Colorectal Surgery conference in London, UK will now take place biannually starting in January 2025. During the interim periods, we will host masterclasses.

Our first FREE masterclass 'Inflammatory Bowel Disease ‘Where The Gastroenterologist & Surgeons Gather Together’ which will take place on the 27th April 2024, is aimed at bringing general practitioners, gastroenterologists, surgeons and trainees up to speed in 2024 on the management of inflammatory bowel disease.

The masterclass will be in collaboration with the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ISUCRS), South East Thames Chapter Of The Association Of Coloproctology Of Great Britain & Ireland (ACPGBI) and King’s College London and will be held at Bush House, King's College London, WC2R 2LS, UK.

We look forward to seeing you in 2024 for an educational and networking event in the heart of London.

Yours sincerely,

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Mr Joseph W Nunoo-Mensah, Professor Narimantas E. Samalavicius, Mr Pasquale Giordano, Mr Piero Nastro, Dr Alex Kent

10th DDCRS Co-Programme Directors 

INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

‘WHERE THE GASTROENTEROLOGIST & SURGEONS GATHER TOGETHER’

Saturday 27th April 2024

Bush House

King's College London

London, WC2R 2LS, UK

The OBJECTIVES of the meeting include

• A live, interactive masterclass to enhance learning.

• A masterclass covering practical issues faced by physicians and surgeons managing patients with IBD.

• Discuss current new IBD treatments and management strategies.

• Consider the current successful medical and surgical treatment of perianal manifestations in patients with IBD.

• Discuss the development and delivery of consistent care models for monitoring patients, diets, and inflammatory bowel disease

• Cover all practical aspects of pouch surgery.

• Explore current and future treatments for pouchitis and pouch-related disorders

• Examine new approaches to the management of dysplasia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Gastroenterologist (Consultants & Trainees)

• Surgeons (Consultants & Trainees)

• General practitioners

• Specialist health care workers

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ACCREDITATION

CPD/CME points for attendance will be requested from the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland (ASGBI).

07:45 - 08:20 Registration & Coffee

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08:20 - 08:30 Welcome address

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08:30 - 09:40 Weighing the new approaches to treating IBD

• NICE approval of positioning biologics and appropriate use of medical therapy. Prof Naila Arebi, IBD Clinical Lead, St Mark’s National Bowel Hospital, London, UK

• Disease monitoring & treatment targets in inflammatory bowel disease: Evolving principles and possibilities. Dr Lucy Hicks, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

• Advances in imaging modalities for decision-making in IBD. Dr Gauraang Bhatnagar, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

• When is it time to call a surgeon? Balancing medical and surgical treatment in inflammatory bowel disease.

• Artificial intelligence for disease management in inflammatory bowel disease: How will it change our practice?

• Panel discussion.
   

09:40 - 10:30 Perianal Crohn’s disease: Is less more in complex perianal Crohn’s fistula?

• Is there a future for successful medical management of perianal Crohn’s fistula? Prof Seb Sebastian, Chair : Research Committee - British Society of Gastroenterology, Hull University Teaching Hospitals, Hull, UK

• Surgical repair to close Crohn’s perianal fistulas! Is this achievable? Dr David Zimmerman, ETZ (Elisabeth - TweeSteden) Hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands

• Everything we need to know about stem cells for perianal Crohn’s fistula. Mr Phil Tozer, St Mark's Hospital, London, UK

• When is it time to call it a day. A proctectomy & stoma is all we have left? Dr Stefan Holubar, IBD Surgery Section Chief, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, Cleveland, OH, USA

• Panel discussion.

10:30 - 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:40 Debate ‘The right therapy for the right patient at the right time’

Treatment of ileal caecal Crohn’s disease. Bottom-up medical therapy or top-down surgical approach? Dr Gareth Parks, Barts Health NHS Trust (For Medical Treatment) vrs Mr Kapil Sahnan, St Marks Hospital, (For Surgical Treatment)

11:40 - 13:00 Intestinal Crohn’s disease

• The Mesentery - Deciphering the role of mesenteric fat in inflammatory bowel disease or is there something else to consider? Ms Tara Connelly FRCS, PhD University Hospital Limerick,  Limerick, Ireland

• Preoperative nutritional and medical conditioning for optimal patient outcomes. Dr Rachel Cooney, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

• How I do it - Management of Crohn’s disease strictures from an endoscopic perspective. Dr Adam Humphries, St Mark's Hospital, London, UK

• Preventing postoperative Crohn's disease recurrence through medical strategies. Dr Kamal Patel, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK

• Surgical management of Crohn's disease strictures. Mr Amir Darakhshan, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK

• The Kono-S anastomosis. Is it a viable approach to preventing recurrence of Crohn's disease postoperatively? Prof Steven Brown, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK. Past President of ASCPGBI 2020-2021, Chief investigator - MEErKAT MEsenteric Excision and Kono-s Anastomosis Trial

• Panel discussion.

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13:00 - 14:15 Lunch

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14:00 - 14:15 Guest Lecture

Indeterminate Colitis. Is it Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis? I know what it is. Prof Amosy E. M'Koma, Surgical Sciences, Pathology and Cancer BiologyDivision of Biomedical Sciences, Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

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14:15 - 15:45 All Things Pouch - Outcomes and Management of Pouchitis and Pouch-related Disorders

• Pre-pouch considerations and who to avoid? Mr Niroo Rajendran, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Romford, London

• Early IPAA operative complications. Prof Paris Tekkis, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

• Management of pouchitis - The gastroenterologist and surgeons working together,

• The dysfunctional pouch - identifying and managing it. Mr Valerio Celentano, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London UK

• Redo ileoanal pouch - How to avoid and in which patients? Prof Feza Remzi, Center for Advanced IBD Care Northwell Healt, New York, USA

• Is there still a place for the continent ileostomy? Prof. Gabriela Möslein, Chair EHTG - European Hereditary Tumor Group, Bethesda Lutheran Hospital, Duisburg, Germany

• Panel discussion.

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 16:30 Guest Lecture

When the going gets short... when inflammatory bowel disease turns to intestinal failure. Medical and surgical options.

16:30 - 17:45 IBD Dysplasia in Clinical Practice

• How I to do a good surveillance colonoscopy. Dr Misha Kabir University College London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

• Help, I’ve found dysplasia – What next? Mr Andy Williams, London Bridge Hospital, London

• EMR & ESD for IBD dysplasia – How to do it? Prof Bu Hayee, King's College Hospital, London, UK

• When to give up and surgery is needed. Segmental or proctocolectomy? - Prof Amy Lightner, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA, USA

• Panel discussion.

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17:45 - 18:00 Closing statement

NOTE

• Registration fees include refreshments and lunch

• All active ISUCRS members are welcome to physically attend for free. To become a member of ISUCRS, please visit www.isucrs.org

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OFFER
Free registration for the first 50 applicants, The payment will be refund after attendance on 26th April.

CANCELLATION POLICY 
Up to 6th April 2024 - 100% refunds will be available. Thereafter there will be no refunds except for exceptional circumstances