Full Program

The timezone used below is Eastern European (i.e. EEST on Thursday-Saturday and EET on Sunday)

Thursday, 22nd Friday, 23rd Saturday, 24th Sunday, 25th

Conferences

16:30 - 17:30 Geert De Naeyer, MD, PhD - "Robotics in Urologic surgery: from the kidneys towards the pelvis and even microsurgery: state of the art of robotic partial nephrectomy, psoas-hitch repair and robot vaso-vasostomy" (Urology)
18:00 - 19:00 Eugene Kim, MD, FACS, FAAP - "Finding Success in Academic Surgery" (Paediatric Surgery)
19:30 - 20:30 Olivia Sgarbura, MD, PhD - “Innovation and research in surgical oncology: the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” (Oncologic Surgery)

Live surgeries & Live in a box

12:00 - 13:00 Live Surgery: Vitrectomy (Florian Balta, MD)
15:00 - 16:00 Live in a box: Rhino-neurosurgery (Monza Hospital)
15:00 - 16:30 Live Surgery: Hiatal hernia (Catalin Copaescu, MD, PhD)

Scientific Competition

All day - long Poster Presentations

Conferences

9:00 - 10:00 Brigita Drnovsek-Olup, MD, PhD - "Modern surgical approaches in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery" (Ophtalmology)
14:30 - 15:30 David Hackam, MD, PhD - "A pediatric surgical journey of discovery: new insights into the management and treatment of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis" (Pediatric Surgery)
17:30 - 18:30 Jean-Pierre Becquemin MD,PhD - "Aortic Aneurysms: State of the art in 2020" (Vascular Surgery)
19:00 - 20:00 Carla Pugh, MD, PhD - “The Future of Surgery is Haptic and Digital” (General Surgery)
20:30 - 21:30 Bart Van der Zwan, MD, PhD - "Cerebral Bypass Surgery: The Past, Now and the Future" (Neurosurgery)

Live surgeries & Live in a box

08:30 - 09:00 Brain IT – Brain revealed: Innovative technologies in neurosurgery study (Vicentiu Saceleanu, MD, PhD)
09:00 - 12:00 Live Surgery: Cervical and ovarian cancer resection (Voicu Caius Simedrea, MD)
09:00 - 12:00 Live Surgery: Posterior Fossa Hematoma Removal - Brain IT – Brain revealed: Innovative technologies in neurosurgery study - (Vicentiu Saceleanu, MD, PhD; Vladimir Rosca, MD, Liliana Boca, MD)
10:30 - 11:30 Live Surgery: Cataract (Lukan Mishev, MD)
16:00 - 17:00 Live in a box: "The holistic approach of endometriosis" (Monza Hospital)

Scientific Competition

All day - long Poster Presentations

Conferences

16:00 - 17:00 Nuria Novoa, MD, PhD - “Learning to say no: I won’t operate on you” (Thoracic Surgery)
17:30 - 18:30 Ramesh Batra, MBBS, MA, FRCS, FACS - “Ethical Triage in Liver Allocation” (Transplant Surgery)
19:00 - 20:00 Tina Gaarder, MD, PhD - "What the critically injured patient needs" (Trauma Surgery)
20:30 - 21:30 Kathleen Cassey, MD - “Tomorrow’s Global Surgeons” (Global Surgery)

Live surgeries & Live in a box

14:00 - 15:00 Live in a box: "Minimally invazive hepatic surgery" (Monza Hospital)

Scientific Competition

All day - long Poster Presentations
9:30 - 11:30 Oral Presentations
12:00 - 13:00 Debate Competition: Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele: Prenatal versus Postnatal Surgical Treatment (Moderators: Hadi Rahmian, MD, PhD, Denise Borali, MD - Regina Maria Hospital)

Conferences

9:00 - 10:00 Andrew Hill, MBChB, MD, EdD - "A Miracle and a Privilege - on being a surgeon" (General Surgery)
16:00 - 17:00 David Chang, MD, PhD - “Update on Surgical Treatment of Lymphedema” (Plastics & Reconstructive Microsurgery)
17:30 - 18:30 Alexandre Mottrie, MD, PhD - "How robotics changed my life" (Urology)
19:00 - 20:00 Kunj Desai, MD, PhD - "Wide awake surgery" (Plastics & Reconstructive Microsurgery)
20:30 - 21:30 Gordon K. Lee, MD, FACS - “Breast Reconstruction: The Stanford Experience” (Plastics & Reconstructive Microsurgery)

Live surgeries & Live in a box

10:30 - 12:30 Live in a box: "Degenerative mitral insufficiency: From the anatomy to the operating room" (Monza Hospital Bucharest, San Donato Hospital Milan)

Scientific Competition

All day - long Poster Presentations
14:00 - 15:00 Debate Competition: Non-Life Saving Organ Transplantation in Young Patients - Hand Transplantation: PROs & CONs (Moderators: Radu Zamfir, MD, PhD, Silviu Badoiu, MD, PhD)