Full Schedule

6:45 AM – 7:45 AM PT

Meet the Professor: MTP-S1 Fecal Incontinence and SNS

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Weill Cornell Medical Center

Pelvic Floor

6:45 AM – 7:45 AM PT

Meet the Professor: MTP-S2 Watch and Wait

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Hospital alemão Oswaldo Cruz

Rectal CancerMalignancy

6:45 AM – 7:45 AM PT

Meet the Professor: MTP-S3 Rectal Cancer Surgery

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Advent Health

Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: – Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Rectal CancerMalignancy

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PT

Advanced Practice Provider Breakfast

Breakfast Session Moderator: – Boston Medical Center

Breakfast Session Moderator: – UCSF

APP Track

8:00 AM – 8:50 AM PT

Super Session Pelvic Floor: The Future of Pelvic Floor Surgery

Super Session Moderator: – Stanford University

Super Session Moderator: – University of Minnesota

Pelvic FloorAPP Track

8:00 AM – 8:02 AM PT

Introduction

Super Session Speaker: – Stanford University

Super Session Speaker: – University of Minnesota

8:02 AM – 8:12 AM PT

Please Protect my Ileocecal Valve! Modern Management of STC

Super Session Speaker:

8:12 AM – 8:22 AM PT

Recognizing and Managing Hypermobility Disorders in Patients with PFD

Super Session Speaker: – Mayo Clinic

8:22 AM – 8:32 AM PT

Beyond Neuromodulation: Artificial Bowel Sphincters and Regenerative Medicine in the Treatment of FI

Super Session Speaker: – Brown University

8:32 AM – 8:42 AM PT

Managing PFD is a Team Sport: Become your Team’s Quarterback

Faculty: – Cleveland Clinic

8:42 AM – 8:50 AM PT

Question and Answer

Super Session Speaker: – Stanford University

Super Session Speaker: – University of Minnesota

8:42 AM – 8:50 AM PT

Question and Answer

Super Session Speaker: – Stanford University

Super Session Speaker: – University of Minnesota

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT

General Surgery Residents’ Workshop: Making the Most of Your Residency and Preparing for Colorectal Residency

Co-Moderator: – Ochsner Medical Center

Co-Moderator: – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Case Western Reserve University

Resident TrackProfessionalism

8:00 AM – 8:05 AM PT

Introduction

Faculty: – Ochsner Medical Center

Faculty: – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Case Western Reserve University

8:05 AM – 8:15 AM PT

Playing the "Long Game" - Preparing During General Surgery Residency to Make Yourself a Competitive Applicant for Colon & Rectal Surgery Residency

Faculty: – Tripler Army Medical Center

8:15 AM – 8:25 AM PT

Understanding the Application Process for the Colon & Rectal Surgery Residency Match

Faculty: – Orlando Health

8:25 AM – 8:35 AM PT

Choosing the Right Training Program for You

Faculty: – Lahey Clinic

8:35 AM – 8:45 AM PT

Transitioning to Colon & Rectal Surgery Training: Set yourself up for Success!

Faculty: – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PT

Panel Discussion

Faculty: – Orlando Health

Faculty: – Lahey Clinic

Faculty: – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Faculty: – Tripler Army Medical Center

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM PT

Roundtable Discussions:
-Finding mentors/sponsors and being a good mentee
-Research: Opportunities and considerations during clinical years and dedicated research years
-How to get involved in ASCRS
-Transitioning to fellowship: Concerns and Pitfalls
-Getting the most out of colon & rectal surgery residency
-Looking to the Future: Considerations after Fellowship, Job search, Timelines, etc
-Picking a Fellowship Program

Faculty: – Ochsner Medical Center

Faculty: – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Case Western Reserve University

Faculty: – Orlando Health

Faculty: – Lahey Clinic

Faculty: – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Faculty: – Stanford University Medical Center

Faculty: – Staten Island University Hospital

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Faculty: – University of Michigan

Faculty: – Tripler Army Medical Center

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Wrap-up

Faculty: – Ochsner Medical Center

Faculty: – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center / Case Western Reserve University

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Speed Mentoring

Professionalism

8:00 AM – 10:00 PM PT

Core Subjects Update

Moderator: – University of Kentucky

AnorectalPelvic FloorMalignancyResident Track

8:00 AM – 8:05 AM PT

Introduction

Faculty: – University of Kentucky

8:05 AM – 8:20 AM PT

Fecal Incontinence

Faculty: – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

8:20 AM – 8:25 AM PT

Discussion

8:25 AM – 8:40 AM PT

Colonic Volvulus

Faculty: – University of Louisville

8:40 AM – 8:45 AM PT

Discussion

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PT

Anal Cancer

Faculty:

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM PT

Discussion

9:05 AM – 9:20 AM PT

Anal Dermatology

Faculty: – Corewell Health/Ferguson Clinic

9:20 AM – 9:25 AM PT

Discussion

9:25 AM – 9:40 AM PT

Colon Cancer Screening

Faculty: – Mercy Surgical Affiliates

9:40 AM – 9:45 AM PT

Discussion

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Wrap-Up/Question and Answer

Faculty: – University of Kentucky

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Critical Review of Manuscripts

Moderator: – University of Louisville

Resident TrackMiscellaneous

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM PT

Introduction

Faculty: – University of Louisville

8:35 AM – 8:44 AM PT

Observational Studies

Faculty: – Rutgers University

8:44 AM – 8:52 AM PT

Table Group Discussions -Observational Studies

8:52 AM – 9:01 AM PT

Administrative Database Studies

Faculty: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:01 AM – 9:09 AM PT

Table Group Discussion - Administrative Database Studies

9:09 AM – 9:18 AM PT

Qualitative Research

Faculty: – University of Texas at Austin

9:18 AM – 9:26 AM PT

Table Group Discussions - Qualitative Research

9:26 AM – 9:35 AM PT

Randomized Controlled Trials

Faculty: – Dr Marylise Boutros - Colorectal Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic Florida Professor of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

9:35 AM – 9:43 AM PT

Table Group Discussions - Randomized Controlled Trials

9:43 AM – 9:52 AM PT

Systematic Reviews & Meta-analyses

Faculty: – Medical College of Wisconsin

9:52 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Table Group Discussion - Systematic Reviews & Meta-analyses

8:55 AM – 9:05 AM PT

Super Session Pelvic Floor: Abstracts

Abstract Session Moderator: – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

Abstract Session Moderator: – Texas A&M Medical School, Baylor Scott and White

Pelvic Floor

9:10 AM – 9:15 AM PT

Introduction

Super Session Speaker: – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

Super Session Speaker: – Texas A&M Medical School, Baylor Scott and White

9:15 AM – 9:21 AM PT

Case Presentation: Recurrent Rectal Prolapse

Panelist: – Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic

9:21 AM – 9:27 AM PT

Case Presentation: Combined Vaginal and Rectal Prolapse

Panelist: – Mayo Clinic

9:27 AM – 9:37 AM PT

Audience Questions for Prolapse Case Presentations

Panelist: – Texas A&M Medical School, Baylor Scott and White

Panelist: – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

9:37 AM – 9:43 AM PT

Case Presentation: Constipation with Internal Rectal Prolapse

Panelist: – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

9:43 AM – 9:49 AM PT

Case Presentation: Pelvic Pain with Internal Rectal Prolapse

Panelist: – university of colorado anschutz medical center

9:49 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Audience Questions for Internal Rectal Prolapse Cases

Panelist: – Texas A&M Medical School, Baylor Scott and White

Panelist: – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT

Break

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PT

ASCRS DEI Student Pathway Program

DEI

10:20 AM – 11:10 AM PT

Ernestine Hambrick, MD Lectureship

Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall C

Special Lecturer Introducer: – OHSU

Special Lecturer: – Drexel University College of Medicine

ProfessionalismResident TrackDEI Track

10:20 AM – 10:30 AM PT

Introduction of Dr. Nancy Spector

Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall C

Special Lecturer Introducer: – OHSU

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM PT

Building a New Framework for Equity, Gender Initiatives and Engaging Men in Catalyzing Change: Call to Action

Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall C

Special Lecturer: – Drexel University College of Medicine

11:15 AM – 12:25 PM PT

Celebratory Brunch

DEI TrackResident Track

11:15 AM – 12:25 PM PT

Lunch in the Innovation Center

Location: San Diego Convention Center, Hall B1-2

11:15 AM – 12:25 PM PT

Mother's Day Brunch

12:30 PM – 1:20 PM PT

OR Delay Bingo. How to Improve the Unavoidable, Unpreventable, and Unsustainable Frustrations of Inefficiency in Daily Practice

Co-Moderator: – MedStar Health

Co-Moderator: – Baptist Hospital

PerioperativeAPP Track

12:30 PM – 12:33 PM PT

Introduction

Faculty: – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Faculty: – Baptist Hospital

12:33 PM – 12:45 PM PT

Anticipating and Avoiding Frustrations and Inefficiencies in Daily Surgical Practice - What's Best for the Patient and Surgeon?

Faculty: – Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

12:45 PM – 12:57 PM PT

Perioperative Management of Chronic Medications - The Latest Recommendations for GLP-1 Inhibitors, Anticoagulants, and Other Medications that May Need to be Stopped Preoperatively

Faculty: – Advent Health

12:57 PM – 1:10 PM PT

Surgery is a Team Sport - Preoperative Communication Strategies for Elective and Emergency Surgery

Faculty: – University of California, San Diego

1:10 PM – 1:20 PM PT

Question and Answer

Faculty: – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

Faculty: – Advent Health

Faculty: – Lahey Hospital & Medical Center

Faculty: – University of California, San Diego

12:30 PM – 1:20 PM PT

Perioperative Optimization of the IBD Patient: How Many Biologics is too Many?

Co-Moderator: – Virginia Commonwealth University

Co-Moderator: – UChicago Medicine

IBDPerioperativeGeriatric TrackAPP TrackDEI Track

12:30 PM – 12:35 PM PT

Introduction

Co-Moderator: – Virginia Commonwealth University

Co-Moderator: – UChicago Medicine

12:35 PM – 12:43 PM PT

IBD Management in Unique Patient Populations

Faculty: – Indiana University School of Medicine

12:43 PM – 12:51 PM PT

New IBD Medications and their Use in the Perioperative Setting

Faculty: – University of Chicago Medicine

12:51 PM – 12:59 PM PT

Management of IBD Medications in the Perioperative Setting

Faculty: – University of Rochester Medical Center

12:59 PM – 1:07 PM PT

How Medication Effects Interoperative Decisions

Faculty:

1:08 PM – 1:20 PM PT

Question and Answer with Polling

1:30 PM – 2:20 PM PT

Masters in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship Honoring Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar

Awardee: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Special Lecturer: – University of California, San Francisco

ProfessionalismResident Track

1:30 PM – 1:40 PM PT

Masters in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship Presentation

Special Lecturer Introducer: – UCSD

ProfessionalismResident Track

1:40 PM – 2:20 PM PT

Masters in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship Presentation

Special Lecturer: – University of California, San Francisco

ProfessionalismResident Track

2:25 PM – 3:10 PM PT

Best of the Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (DC&R) Journal is Supported by the Education Fund

Moderator: – University of Louisville

Rectal Cancer

2:25 PM – 2:27 PM PT

Introduction

Faculty: – University of Louisville

2:27 PM – 2:35 PM PT

Checkpoint Inhibition Improves Organ Preservation in T4bM0 Colorectal Cancer With Mismatch Repair Deficiency: A Retrospective Observational Study. (2024 Robert Beart Award recipient)

Faculty:

2:35 PM – 2:37 PM PT

Discussion

2:37 PM – 2:45 PM PT

A Phase IB/IIA Study of Ex Vivo Expanded Allogeneic Bone Marrow–Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Perianal Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease.

Faculty: – Scripps Clinic and Scrips Research Institute

2:45 PM – 2:47 PM PT

Discussion

2:47 PM – 2:55 PM PT

Comparison of Robotic, Laparoscopic, and Open Resections of Nonmetastatic Colon Cancer.

Faculty: – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:55 PM – 2:57 PM PT

Discussion

2:57 PM – 3:05 PM PT

Local Regrowth and the Risk of Distant Metastases Among Patients Undergoing Watch-and-Wait for Rectal Cancer: What Is the Best Control Group? Multicenter Retrospective Study. (2024 Altmetric Award recipient)

Faculty: – Hospital alemão Oswaldo Cruz

3:05 PM – 3:07 PM PT

Discussion

3:07 PM – 3:10 PM PT

Closing Remarks

Faculty: – University of Louisville

2:25 PM – 3:25 PM PT

Super Session Anorectal: The Future of Anorectal Surgery

Super Session Moderator: – university of colorado anschutz medical center

Super Session Moderator:

AnorectalAPP Track

2:25 PM – 2:27 PM PT

Introduction

Super Session Speaker: – university of colorado anschutz medical center

Super Session Speaker:

Anorectal

2:27 PM – 2:37 PM PT

Minimally Invasive Techniques for the Management of Rectal Polyps

Super Session Speaker: – Swedish Medical Center

2:38 PM – 2:48 PM PT

Alternative Ways of Managing Low Anastomotic Leaks

Super Session Speaker: – Multicare Health System

2:49 PM – 2:59 PM PT

Management of Hemorrhoids in the AntiCoagulated Patient

Super Session Speaker: – University of Colorado

2:59 PM – 3:09 PM PT

Alternative Management Strategies for Anal Fistulas

Super Session Speaker: – University of Pennsylvania

3:10 PM – 3:25 PM PT

Question and Answer

Super Session Speaker: – university of colorado anschutz medical center

Super Session Speaker:

3:30 PM – 3:50 PM PT

Super Session Anorectal: Abstract Session

Abstract Session Moderator: – University of Illinois Chicago

Abstract Session Moderator: – Lahey Hospital

Anorectal

3:50 PM – 4:50 PM PT

Image Guided and Fluorescent Surgery: More than Just ICG?

Co-Moderator: – Johns Hopkins University

Co-Moderator:

Miscellaneous

3:50 PM – 3:55 PM PT

Symposium Overview and Review of Objectives