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Outline Programme

TOPICS INCLUDE
  • Advanced HBP endoscopic procedures
  • Artificial intelligence in HPB disease
  • Clinical trials
  • Colorectal liver metastases
  • Extended resections for PDAC
  • Hilar cholangiocarcinoma
  • Global HBP collaborations
  • Immunotherapy
  • Interventional radiology
  • Liver debulking
  • Living related transplantation
  • Neuroendocrine disease
  • SBRT
  • Shared decision making
  • Transplant for HCC

Wednesday, 29th January

TimeAgenda
1900

Arrival Drinks

2000

Welcome Dinner in the hotel and programme introduction

Thursday, 30th January

New Technologies
TimeAgendaSpeaker
0800 – 0820

Stereotactic radiotherapy as a bridge to transplant in HCC and cholangiocarcinoma

Maria Hawkins, London
0820 – 0840

The surgeon as an interventionalist

John Devar, Johannesburg
0840 – 0900
Liver Regeneration Strategies – How IR can help?
Sachin Modi, Southampton
0900 – 0920
From data to scalpel: How AI in HPB surgery is changing the game
Inez Verpaele, Amsterdam
0920 – 0940
What is a complete ablation and why it is so difficult?
Amilcar Alzaga, Germany
0940 – 1000
Free Papers 1
1615 – 1700
Coffee & Mini Oral Presentations (Screen 1 AB01 – AB04 / Screen 2 AB05 – AB08)
Clinical Trials
TimeAgendaSpeaker
1700 – 1715
DIPLOMA 2
Marc Besselink, Amsterdam
1715 – 1730
Discussant
Chris Wolfgang, New York
1730 – 1745
COLLISION
Joris Erdmann, Amsterdam
1745 – 1800
Discussant
Peter Naredi, Gothenburg
1800 – 1815
ORCHESTRA
Elske Gootjes, Nijmagen
1815 – 1830
Discussant
Nic Vauthey, Houston
1830 – 1845
ROC’N’ROLL trial
Nuh Rabhari, Ulm
1845 – 1900
Discussant
Hop Tran Chao, Houston

Friday, 31st January

HPB Update
TimeAgendaSpeaker
0800 – 0820
“How I do it” Surgery for PNET
Richard Schulik, Denver
0820 – 0840
Doctor: Is surgery going to ruin my life?
Julie Hallett, Toronto
0840 – 0900
Benefit from systemic therapy in advanced colorectal cancer: Less is more?
Henk Verheul, Rotterdam
0900 – 0920
Prehabilitation before pancreas cancer surgery: Does it work?
Marcel den Dulk, Maastricht
0920 – 0940
Free Papers 2
1615 – 1700

Coffee & Mini Oral Presentations 
Radical HPB Surgery
TimeAgendaSpeaker
1700 – 1720

Treatment of borderline and locally advanced pancreatic cancer

Marco del Chiaro, Denver
1720 – 1740

Prognostic impact of growth pattern and resection margins in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

Francesca Ratti, Milan
1740 – 1800

The “Japanese” approach to perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

Noji Takehiro, Hokkaido
1800 – 1820

Systematic dissection and arterial divestment in PDAC surgery

Yosuke Inoue, Tokyo
1820 – 1845

Free Papers 3

Saturday, 1st Feburary

Transplantation
TimeAgendaSpeaker
0800 – 0820

Neoadjuvant therapy and transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma

Flavio Rocha, Portland
0820 – 0840

MIS living donor – is the Western world ready for it?

David Kwon, Cleveland
0840 – 0900

Outcomes in a decade of all comers with HCC in a large Western tertiary referral transplant center

Roeland DeWilde, Rotterdam
0920 – 0945
Free Papers 4
1645 – 1700
Coffee
Eclectic Mix
TimeAgendaSpeaker
1700 – 1725
Growing HPB surgery globally
Peter Kingham, New York
1725 – 1750
Impact of biology in defining resectability in colorectal liver metastases?
Nik Vauthey, Houston
1750 – 1815
Rapid Listening, Effective Response: Opportunities to increase patient trust without increasing time
Rachel Hewitt, New York
1815 – 1835
Wrap Up & Prize Giving