Friday 30 September

Time	Event
08:00 - 09:00	Symposium: New Methods in Low Rectal Cancer Chairs: Eric Rullier (France), Michel Adamina (Switzerland) Transanal TME - technique step-wise approach - Antonio Lacy (Spain) Transanal TME - what can go wrong? - Antonino Spinelli (Italy) Individualised APE - Petr Tsarkov (Russia)
08:00 - 08:45	Oral Posters (Neoplasia) Chairs: Marc Duinsleager (Belgium), Goran Barisic (Serbia) OP49: Ano(neo-)rectal functional outcome following TaTME - Werner Kneist (Germany) OP50: Incidental colorectal FDG-uptake on PET/CT scan: what does subsequent colonoscopy show? - Sabrina Just Kousgaard (Denmark) OP51: Analysis of anatomic variants of superior mesenteric artery and vein using multidetector computed tomography - Ayhan Kuzu (Turkey) OP52: Postoperative use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the risk for anastomotic leakage after anterior resection for rectal cancer - Daniel Kverneng Hultberg (Sweden) OP53: Does synchronous polypectomy in the presence of malignancy confer an increased risk of local recurrence? - a retrospective analysis - Zhi Peng Nick Ng (Singapore) OP54: Should we 'eat' the cost of doughnuts? No clinical benefit from routine histologic examination of doughnuts at low anterior resection for rectal cancer - Johan Nordenstam (USA) OP55: Improved specimen quality with laparoscopic versus open colonic resection for cancer: a nationwide propensity score matched study - Rasmus Peuliche Vogelsang (Denmark) OP56: Accuracy of preoperative T and N staging in colon cancer - a national population-based study - Annika Sjövall (Sweden) OP57: Risk of pelvic and hip fracture after anal cancer: a Danish nationwide cohort study - Kåre Gotschalck Sunesen (Denmark)
09:00 - 09:30	Keynote Lecture: Neuropelveology: New Ground-breaking Discipline in Medicine Chair: Donato Altomare (Italy) Speaker: Marc Possover (Switzerland)
09:30 - 09:45	ESCP Honorary Member Awards Chair: Stefan Post (Germany) This year, ESCP is delighted to award honorary memberships to: Adam Dziki (Poland) - with an introduction by Alexander Herold (Germany) Angelita Habr-Gama (Brazil) - with an introduction by Geerard Beets (The Netherlands) Werner Hohenberger (Germany) - with an introduction by Søren Laurberg (Denmark)
09:45 - 09:50	ESCP Best Paper and Best New Trial Presentation Awards The ESCP Best Paper prize is donated by the BJS Society
09:50 - 10:05	ESCP Fellowship Update Chairs: Stefan Post (Germany), Filippo La Torre (Italy) Presenters: Gabriele Böhm (Germany) visited University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark Gianluca Pellino (Italy) visited The Royal Marsden, London, United Kingdom 2015-2016 ESCP Fellowships are supported by educational partners Ethicon and Medtronic
10:05 - 11:05	Symposium: Anastomatic Leak in Rectal Surgery Chairs: Feza Remzi (USA), Ronan P. O'Connell (Ireland) Prevention - Frederic Ris (Switzerland) How to handle the acute leak? - Gordon Carlson (UK) How to handle the chronic leak? - Pieter Tanis (The Netherlands)
11:05 - 11:30	Coffee Break/Exhibition/Posters
11:15 - 12:15	Frankenman Satellite Symposium: Transanal TME - from innovation to widespread adoption
11:15 - 12:15	Educational: Information on the EBSQ Examination Chair: Janindra Warusavitarne (UK) UEMS and EBSQ: what is it all about? - Klaus Matzel (Germany) Mock exam - Dieter Hahnloser (Switzerland) Mock exam - John Nicholls (UK)
11:30 - 12:15	Oral Posters (IBD) Chairs: Karen Nugent (UK), Alexandre Duarte (Portugal) OP58: Cell therapy in patients with fistulous Crohn's disease is safe and effective: a phase I-II clinical trial - Jorge Baixauli-Fons (Spain) OP59: Anti-TNF therapy is associated with increased risk of postoperative morbidity after surgery for ileocolonic Crohn's disease: outcome analysis in a prospective nationwide cohort of 592 patients conducted by the GETAID chirurgie group - Antoine Brouquet (France) OP60: Risk for anastomotic leakage after ileorectal anastomosis – a cohort study - Christian Buchli (Sweden) OP61: Close rectal dissection versus total mesorectal excision in patients with inflammatory bowel disease - Joline de Groof (The Netherlands) OP62: Are angiogenic mechanisms in mesenteric adipose tissue of Crohn's disease patients dysregulated? - Mohammad Eddama (UK) OP63: Factors affecting outcome after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) with and without defunctioning ileostomy - Sarah Goodbrand (UK) OP64: Adipose-derived stem cell treatment for complex Crohn’s perianal abscess/fistula when conventional operations have failed - Eon Chul Han (Republic of Korea) OP65: Usefulness of endoscopic balloon dilation for colorectal strictures in patients with Crohn’s disease who underwent administration of TNF-alfa inhibitor - Fumihito Hirai (Japan) OP66: Campylobacter concisus in chronic pouchitis - Karina Frahm Kirk (Denmark)
12:15 - 12:45	Keynote Lecture: Clincial Importance of Somatic Mutations and Subgroups in Colorectal Cancer Chair: Alexander Engel (Australia) Speaker: Jan Paul Medema (The Netherlands)
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch/Exhibition/Posters/Lunchtime Posters
12:45 - 13:45
12:45 - 13:45	Educational: Controversies in New Technology: Robotics in Colorectal Surgery Chairs: Adam Dziki (Poland), Mike Parker (UK) Pro robotic in colorectal surgery - Paolo Pietro Bianchi (Italy) Contra robotic in colorectal surgery - Steven Wexner (USA)
13:45 - 14:45	Symposium: Treatment for Colon Cancer - Time for a Change? Chairs: Werner Hohenberger (Germany), Ismail Gogenur (Denmark) Management of locally advanced colonic cancers - Dion Morton (UK) What is CME? - Ahyan Kuzu (Turkey) Critical appraisal of CME: surgery for locally advanced colonic cancers - Des Winter (Ireland)
14:45	ESCP Lunchtime Poster Award Presented by: Anna Martling (Sweden), Kaspars Snippe (Latvia), Emmanuel Tiret (France)
14:45 - 16:15	Consultants’ Corner Facilitators: Evangelos Xynos (Greece), Sebastiano Biondo (Spain) Panel: Willem Bemelman (The Netherlands), Lene Iversen (Denmark), Feza Remzi (USA), Patricia Roberts (USA), Giovanni Romano (Italy), Marek Szczepkowski (Poland), Steven Wexner (USA)
16:15 - 16:20	Closing ceremony