ASM Day 1 – GSA
Concurrent General Surgery Program
- Thursday 22 October
- 08:10 – 17:30
- Cairns Convention Centre
SESSION ONE – NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE SURGEON
08:10 Combined Welcome to Country
08:30 Keynote: Beyond the knife: Technology and Social Media for the 21st Century Surgeon
09:00 Podcasts
09:20 Social Media: Starting out with YouTube (Instagram, TikTok)
09:40 AI in surgery
10:00 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION TWO – Perianal
10:30 Haemorroids – traditional and new surgical management
10:55 Endovascular treatment of haemorroids
11:15 Pilonidal disease
11:30 Pilonidal disease and perianal fistula – minimally invasive techniques
11:55 Hidroadenitis supperativa in 2026
12:15 Panel discussion
12:30 LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION THREE – ROBOTICS IN SURGERY
13:30 Robotic colorectal surgery and the general surgeon
13:50 Robotic surgery – hernia ?
14:10 Colonoscopy – surveillance guidelines and management of the complex polyps
14:30 Genetics in colorectal cancer
14:50 Free papers
15:15 AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION FOUR
15:45 Ideal anastomosis and early leak detection
16:05Surveillance of colorectal cancer
16:20 Adjuvant neoadjuvant/adjuvant/immunotherapy – advances and current status
16:40TBC
17:00 Keynote address
17:30 Combined Welcome Reception
