SAGES was founded in 1981 to foster, promote, support, and encourage academic clinical and research achievement in gastrointestinal endoscopic surgery. That group of 50 surgeons known as SAGES held their first meeting in Williamsburg in 1986 with 110 attendees and 11 exhibitors. SAGES now boasts a membership roster of more than 5,400 surgeons and surgeons-in-training from every state and many foreign countries.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWeb) March 24, 2007 -- The 2007 SAGES meeting will include a three-day Scientific Session, six hands-on (lab) courses, three Postgraduate Courses, more than 155 scientific podium presentations, 540 posters, a massive learning center, two named lectureships, multiple expert panels and a state-of-the-art exhibit hall with more than 100 companies showing state-of-the-art equipment and technology.
Fact Sheet:
WHO: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
WHAT: 2007 Annual Meeting ( A Part of 2007 Surgical Spring Week)
WHEN: April 18-22, 2007
WHERE: Paris Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
2007 SAGES MEETING HIGHLIGHTS BY DAY
Program Chair: Steve Schwaitzberg, MD
Wednesday, April 18
SAGES Half-Day Laboratory Course: Endolumenal & Transgastric
SAGES Panel: Reoperative MIS Surgery
SAGES/SLS Panel: Approaches to Solid Organ Resection - The Debates
SAGES Rural Surgery Panel
Thursday, April 19
SAGES Full Day Postgraduate Course: MIS and Cancer
SAGES Full Day Laboratory Course: Masters Course: Common Bile Duct
SAGES Full Day Laboratory Course: Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
SAGES Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open
SAGES Foundation Awards Lunch:
Desmond Birkett, MD; John Abele, Founder of Boston Scientific
SAGES Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery Symposia
Exhibit Opening
Friday, April 20
SAGES Half Day Postgraduate Course: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
SAGES Half Day Postgraduate Lab Course: Surgeon in the Digital Age Video Editing
SAGES Panel: Reoperative Bariatric Surgery
SAGES/AHPBA Joint Session: Ablative Therapies
SAGES TEM (Trans-anal Endoscopic Microsurgery) Lunch Symposium
SAGES Scientific Session
SAGES Frontiers of Medicine Lecture
SAGES Panel: Safety in Bariatric Surgery
SAGES/ASGE Panel: NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery)
SAGES/AHS Panel: Hernia Debates
SAGES Panel: Endolumenal
SAGES Career Development Seminars
SAGES Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open
Exhibits Open
SAGES Evening Video Session: "Rocky Horror" Video Complications
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
SAGES Scientific Session
SAGES Presidential Address - Steven D. Wexner, MD
SAGES Karl Storz Lecture in New Technology - Surgeon Responsibility in the Age of Advanced Technology - Richard Heald, MD
SAGES Health Policy Lecture
SAGES Panel: Bariatric Emergencies for non Bariatric Surgeons
SAGES/AHPBA Joint Session: Evaluation of Pancreatic Neoplasms
SAGES Allied Health Course
SAGES/ASCRS Panel: Colon & Rectal Surgery
SAGES Panel: Payment for Innovative Therapies - Debate
SAGES Panel: Innovative Therapies You Will Use in the Future
SAGES Residents and Fellows Scientific Sessions
SAGES/Fellowship Council Lunch
SAGES Poster Sessions and Learning Center Open
Exhibits Open
SUNDAY, APRIL 22
SAGES Scientific Session
SAGES Panel: Evidence Based Medicine - What's Behind SAGES Guidelines?
SAGES/MIRA Session: Report of Robotics Consensus Conference
SAGES Panel: Real Cases from SAGES Members
SAGES Panel: Legislative Issues
SAGES Gerald Marks Lecture: "Safety in Surgery: Water Can Float or Sink the Boat"
Lester Rosen, MD
SAGES Emerging Technology Session
SAGES Educators' Lunch
SAGES Full Day Postgraduate Course: FLS - Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery
SAGES/ACS Half Day Joint Symposium: Foregut (Esophageal and Gastric Disease)
SAGES/ACS Half Day Joint Symposium: Simulation/Education
Press Contact: Barbara Berci
Company Name: SAGES
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Phone: 310-437-0544
Website: www.sages.org
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