ASM Day 3 – CSSANZ
Concurrent Colorectal Program
- Saturday 24 October
- 09:00 – 15:00
- Cairns Convention Centre
BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM – presented by New Medtek Devices
7:30 Pudendal nerve infusion post hemorrhoidectomy
SESSION ONE: CONTROVERSIES, DIFFICULT QUESTIONS
9:00 Sexual dysfunction after rectal surgery – Prof Eva Angenete
9:15 Polyp calculator updates, management of large colonic polyps and malignant polyps – Dr Andrew Zammit
9:30 Preoperative management of obese patient with colorectal cancer – Dr Eshwarshanker Jeyarajan
9:45 Presacral tumours – A review – Dr Greg Turner
10:00 The loop ileostomy debate: To defunction or not – Dr Vasant Rajan
10:15 Panel discussion and Q+A
10:30 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION TWO: PELVIC FLOOR
11:00 Surgery and non-operative therapy in pelvic floor dysfunction – thresholds to operate – Dr Michelle Thomas
11:15 Ventral rectopexy in 2026: gold standard, overused, or overdue for a rethink – Dr Chris Gillespie
11:30 Management of OASIS and the sphincter defect – Dr Elizabeth Murphy
11:45 Reading the scans: Obstructive defaecation syndrome, intusssuception, rectal prolapse, rectocoele, enterocoele – Dr Venus Hedayati
12:00 Sacral neuromodulation beyond faecal incontinence: where does it fit in colorectal pelvic floor practice? – Dr Rowan Collison
12:15 Panel discussion and Q+A
SESSION THREE: DIFFICULT COLORECTAL CASES DISCUSSION
13:30 Consultant’s Corner: Roundtable of experts – Difficult case scenarios
Panel of Experts:
Prof Eva Angenete, Prof Steven Brown, Dr Scott Steele, Prof David Clark, Dr Elizabeth Murphy, A/Prof Tarik Sammour
14:30 Final discussions, research awards, program conclusion and farewell
15:00 PROGRAM CLOSE & ASM CONCLUSION
