FSIE gears up for the annual SAGES Spring 2017 meeting

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) www.sages.org is a national organization of surgeons committed to improving quality patient care through education, research, innovation and leadership, principally in gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery. FSIE founder, Dr. Lee Swanstrom, was past president of the organization.   FSIE members hold SAGES in high regard and participation in the annual meeting is one of our favorite activities to collaborate with colleagues from around the world and present our research. This year’s SAGES Meeting will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center from March 22-25, 2017 in Houston, Texas. We hope to see you there!
 
Preliminary FSIE Activities at SAGES

Wednesday March 22, 2017

• Post graduate course: Primary Endoscopic Management of the Bariatric Patient: Aspirational therapies and Novel Endolumenal Interventions for Obesity Treatment, Speaker: Kevin Reavis
• Hands On Course: Endolumenal Bariatrics-Endo to the Rescue- Kevin Reavis Session Chair
• Hands On Course: Endolumenal Bariatrics-Endo to the Rescue-Leak Management Tubular Stents and Pigtail Drains, Speaker: Valerie Halpin
• SAGES University Masters Series: The SAGES Masters take you to Foregut School-Surgical and Endoscopic Options for the Management for Achalasia, Speaker:Lee Swanstrom
• SAGES University Masters Series: Colorectal The Road to Success: MIS Approaches to the Sigmoid Colon and Upper Rectum. Co-Chair: MarkWhiteford
• Foregut 1: Laparoscopic repair of a giant paraesophageal hernia with crural relaxing incision and Collis gastroplasty, Speaker: Ezra N Teitelbaum
• Foregut 1: Perforated Recurrent Paraesophageal Hernia (Video), Speaker: Ahmed Sharata

 
Thursday Mar 23, 2017

• Video Face-Off panel: Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication Lee Swanstrom panel member
• Controversies in the Management of Foregut Disease, POEM or HELLER what’s the difference? Speaker: Lee Swanstrom
• Endoscopic Resection of Giant Fibrovascular Esophageal Polyps, Speaker Marc Ward

 
Friday March 24, 2017

• Video Face Off Panel- Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy, Speaker: Paul Hansen
• Foregut 2 Session: Impedance-pH Monitoring on Medications Does Not Reliably Confirm the Presence of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Patients Referred for Antireflux Surgery, Speaker: Marc Ward
• Plenary 1: Clinical Outcomes Five Years after POEM for Treatment of Esophageal Motility Disorders, Speaker: Ezra N Teitelbaum
• Endoscopy Video Session: Endoscopic Sub-mucosal Dissection for Difficult Sigmoid Lesion: An Endoscopic Traction Technique (video), Speaker: Ahmed Sharata
• Endoscopy Video Session: A Flexible Endoscopic Revision for Anastomotic Stenosis Complicating Esophagectomy (Video), Speaker: Ahmed Sharata
• Endoscopy Video Session: The Treatment Dilemma of the Small Zenker's: An Endoscopic Solution (Video), Speaker: Rachel Alt

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