SPAZIO COMO

Teatro Sociale Como

03:45 05:00 pm The OESO Research Award competition
Chair: S.J. Sontag

Sept. 1

08:00 am 12:00 pm POST GRADUATE COURSES

Secrets on how to... Tatum Costamagna

02:00 03:30 pm Multidisciplinary discussion of a clinical case Case presenter: M. Hfner

06:30 pm OPENING CEREMONY

Piazza Verdi Como

SPAZIO COMO 08:00 am 09:45 10:15 12:00 pm

PLENARY SESSION 1 DeVault Miller (D: McMahon) PLENARY SESSION 2 Mittal Sifrim (D: Rieder)

VILLA MONASTERO
The esophageal mucosa & submucosa
Riddell Upton SYMPOSIUM 1

VILLA CARLOTTA
Braghetto Del Genio (D: Loviscek) TOPIC FORUM 2

VILLA BALBIANELLO
Esophageal tissue resistance
Buttar Orlando (D: Dvorak) SPECIAL SESSION 2 Drewes Nardone (D: Kollarik) SPECIAL SESSION 1

VILLA PLINIANA

Physiology UES-Body-LES

The LES following surgery

TOPIC FORUM 1

UES Dysfunction Diverticula Globus

GRAND FORUM 1 DeVault Miller

Immuno-Histology in GERD & BE

Fiocca Vieth (D: Buttar)

SYMPOSIUM 2

Outcomes in esophageal surgery

Gayet Tatum (D: M. Allen)

GI sensitivity

Nycomed-Takeda Long-term acid suppression with PPIs

Hunt C. Scarpignato

ROUND TABLE 1

Sept. 2

01:15 02:15 02:30 04:15 04:30 06:15 07:00 am 08:00 * 07:45 08:15 10:00

Defining esophageal landmarks

PLENARY SESSION 3 Dantas-Pellegrini (D: Penagini) PLENARY SESSION 4 Castell Cuomo (D: Tutuian) GRAND FORUM 2

Achalasia

Leaks Perforations Stents

Dua Siersema (D: Wijnhoven)

SYMPOSIUM 3

TOPIC FORUM 3 Levine Pokieser (D: Canon)

Imaging

SPECIAL SESSION 3

Animal models
Gibson Marks

DES-NutcrackerIntermediate forms Defining GERD The burning issue

McCallum Pace

New tools for dilation Costamagna Swanstrm (D: Siersema)

Esophageal stenoses

SYMPOSIUM 4

Hamdy V. Hillegersberg (D: Bitar)

Innovative technologies

TOPIC FORUM 4

SPECIAL SESSION 4 Chen Das (D: Fitzgerald)

Cancer biology

PLENARY SESSION 5 Bechi Richter (D: Wang) PLENARY SESSION 6 Gyawali Penagini (D: McMahon) GRAND FORUM 3

LES Dysfunction

SYMPOSIUM 5* Jadcherla Nurko (D: Chehade)

Pediatrics

Inoue Swanstrm (D: Reddy)

Natural orifice surgery

TOPIC FORUM 6 McCallum - Upton

TOPIC FORUM 5

Pharyngeal reflux ENT & GERD

Belafsky Shaker (D: Bor) SPECIAL SESSION 6 Hobson Aziz (D: Drewes)

SPECIAL SESSION 5

Sept. 3

10:15 12:00 pm 01:15 pm 02:15 02:30 04:15 04:30 06:15 * 07:45 08:00 am 09:45 10:00 11:45 12:00 01:30 pm

Functional testing Defining Barretts esophagus

Sampliner Upton

Rothenberg Spechler (D: Achem)

Eosinophilic esophagitis

SYMPOSIUM 6

Oral presentation Posters

Neurophysiology

Alfa Wassermann Esophageal mucosal defence in GERD

Scarpignato J. Sarosiek

ROUND TABLE 2

PLENARY SESSION 7 Endoscopic Surgical treatments Hfner Ponchon (D: Abrams)

Barretts esophagus

TOPIC FORUM 7 SYMPOSIUM 7 Nocca Putambekar TOPIC FORUM 8 Krishnadath Nardone (D: Souza)

Video Session

Respiratory manifestations of GERD

Harding Sifrim (D: Belafsky)

SPECIAL SESSION 7

Bonavina Spechler (D: Fitzgerald)

Barretts esophagus & cancer New therapeutic strategies for SCC and AC
Ilson Kandioler (D: Krasna) PLENARY SESSION 10 Collard Schneider (D: Law) PLENARY SESSION 9*

PLENARY SESSION 8

Gyawali Tutuian (D: Clarke)

HRM in clinical practice

SYMPOSIUM 9

SYMPOSIUM 8

Molecular biology

Rothstein Siersema (D: Ponchon)

Endotherapy for GERD

SPECIAL SESSION 9

SPECIAL SESSION 8

Non specific motility disorders

The irritable esophagus McCallum Vega (D: Rothstein) SYMPOSIUM 10

Drugs for esophageal disease

Hunt Scarpignato (D: Di Mario)

TOPIC FORUM 9

Tailored therapeutic approach to the GERD patient

Armstrong Gayet (D: Katz) SPECIAL SESSION 10 Savarino Wong (D: Hongo)

Sept. 4

Esophageal cancer

Chest pain & motility disorders

Achem Sontag (D: Castell)

Functional swallowing therapy Clave Martin-Harris (D: Belafsky)

Neurogenic dysphagia

TOPIC FORUM 10

The refractory GERD

The OESO specific format Defining

a true inter-disciplinary approach Brasseur Ke Pokieser

GRAND FORUM 4