Saturday 26 September

Time	Event
08:00 - 09:00	Symposium: IBD Update Venue: Forum Hall Chairs: Giovanni Milito (Italy), John Nicholls (UK) Bacteriology of the iIeal pouch - Ailsa Hart (UK) The interface between medical and surgical treatment - Tom Oresland (Norway) The adolescent patient - Anders Pæérregaard (Denmark)
09:00 - 09:30	Oral Posters Venue: Forum Hall Chairs: Michael Gerhards (The Netherlands), Kaspars Snipe (Latvia) Long term efficacy of the anal plug for complex cryptoglandular fistulas - Leonardo Lenisa (Italy) Complication Of Anorectal Trauma - Lindita Mano (Albania) Surgical treatment of complete rectal prolapse in patients over 80 years old - Osamu Tsutsumi (Japan) MRI imaging of anal fistula: Indications and the contribution to surgical management - Russell Mullen (UK) Laparoscopic anterior rectopexy for external rectal prolapse in the elderly renders perineal procedures obsolete - Niels Wijffels (Netherlands) A comparison of initial outcome after Doppler-Guided Haemorrhoidal Artery Ligation and Rubber Band Ligation for 2nd/3rd degree haemorrhoids - James Arthur (UK)
09:00 - 09:30	Oral Posters Venue: Meeting Hall V Chairs: Xavier Delgadillo (Switzerland), Sergii Podpriatov (Ukraine) Rectum-sparing surgery may be appropriate for biallelic MYH-associated polyposis - Riccardo Nascimbeni (Italy) Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialization (THD) In The Treatment Of Hemorrhoids - Carlo Ratto (Italy) Long-term Outcomes After Different Variants of Sclerotherapy of Hemorrhoids - Ivan Kostarev (Russia) Laparoscopic colposacropexy in combination with stapled transanal rectal resektion as treatment for pelvic organ prolapse - Bastian Reepschläger (Switzerland)
09:30 - 10:30	Free Papers Venue: Forum Hall Chairs: Sergey Achkasov (Russia), Barthold Vonen (Norway) Effect of multi-slice spiral computer tomography combined with serum amyloid A protein in preoperative rectal cancer staging - Donghao Lv (China) Tumour budding correlates with local recurrence of rectal cancer - Erik Syk (Sweden) Gender differences in treatment of rectal cancer and outcome in patients operated with abdominoperineal resection in Norway A national cohort study - Marit Helene Hansen (Norway) Efficacy Of Single-State Intraoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy In Patients With Locan Advanced Colon Cancer - Mergen Rinchinov (Russia) Women quality of sexual life after abdominoperineal amputation for squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal - Jeremie Lefevre (France) Short-term outcomes after robotic-assisted total mesorectal excision: first institutional’s experience with 100 unselected primary rectal cancer cases - Carlos Pastor (USA)
09:30 - 10:30	Free Papers Venue: Meeting Hall V Chairs: Constant Jehaes (Belgium), João Pimentel (Portugal) Ischemic colitis: worse prognosis factors - Enrique Casal (Spain) Differentiation of adipose-derived stem cell into smooth muscle cell: pilot study - Yasuko Maeda (Denmark) Risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) for rectal cancer. Results of an audited teaching program in Spain - Hector Ortiz (Spain) Comparative study of one stage left colectomy in emergency and elective surgery without mechanical preparation - Miguel Ángel Ciga Lozano (Spain) Laparoscopy for Small Bowel Obstruction – Don’t convert too late - Daniel Dindo (Switzerland) Bowel Resection for Gastrointestinal Endometriosis Has High Symptomatic Recurrence Rates - J.E.F. Fitzgerald (UK)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Keynote Lecture: Is Laparoscopy Delivering? - Roberto Bergamaschi (USA) Venue: Forum Hall Chair: Alexander Engel (The Netherlands) Supported by a grant from Colorectal Disease
11:30 - 12:30	Symposium: Functional Pelvic Floor Disorders Venue: Forum Hall Chairs: Hector Ortiz (Spain), Mario Pescatori (Italy) Assessment - Johann Pfeifer (Austria) Total pelvic floor repair - Jan Paul Roovers (The Netherlands) Neuromodulation of the pelvic floor - Donato Altomare (Italy)
12:30 - 13:30	ESCP Annual General Meeting Venue: Forum Hall
13:30	Official Closing Venue: Forum Hall Tomas Skricka (outgoing President) Giovanni Romano (incoming President) Ronan O’Connell (Secretary) Mike Parker (Treasurer)