Warsaw Live Endoscopy 2017 (WLE 17’)

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Warsaw Live Endoscopy 2017 (WLE 17’)
Date: Sept 29-30, 2017
Venue: Conference Center, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of
Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
Organizers: the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Polish
Foundation of Gastroenterology
Endorsement: the Polish Society of Gastroenterology (the Endoscopy Section and the Quality
Section), the European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (pending), the European Society of
Digestive Oncology (pending)
Overall design: Live endoscopy workshop combined with oncological multidisciplinary session
 Five live endoscopy sessions preceded by short lectures on clinical updates
 One oncological multidisciplinary session combined with live histopathology demonstration
 One international session (English) & Five national sessions (Polish)
Expected number of participants: 250 physicians + 20-30 endoscopy nurses
Course Directors:
 Michal F. Kaminski (Warsaw, Poland)
 Andrzej Bialek (Szczecin, Poland)
 Tomasz Marek (Katowice, Poland)
 Maciej Rupinski (Warsaw, Poland)
 Jaroslaw Regula (Warsaw, Poland)
International Faculty (preliminary):
 Pradeep Bhandari (Portsmouth, UK/pending)
 Raf Bisschops (Leuven, Belgium/pending)
 Michael Bretthauer (Oslo, Norway/confirmed)
 Alessandro Repici (Milan, Italy/confirmed)
 Pinghong Zhou (Shanghai, China/confirmed)
National Faculty (preliminary):
 Andrzej Baniukiewicz
 Hubert Bołdys

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 Eugeniusz Butruk
 Andrzej Dabrowski
 Malgorzata Degowska
 Wladyslaw Januszewicz
 Roman Kaczor
 Dariusz Kakol
 Slawomir Koziel
 Ewa Malecka-Panas
 Andrzej Mroz
 Andrzej Nowak
 Tomasz Olesinski
 Jacek Pachlewski
 Jan Pertkiewicz
 Marcin Polkowski
 Tomasz Romanczyk
 Grazyna Rydzewska
 Marian Smoczynski
 Michal Spychalski
 Robert Staron
 Teresa Starzynska
 Miroslaw Szura
 Jan Walewski
 Anna Wiechowska-Kozłowska
 Jaroslaw Wierzbicki
 Lucjan Wyrwicz

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Warsaw Live Endoscopy 2017 Preliminary Programme
Friday, Sept 29, 2017
8.15 Welcome
Session 1
8.30-8.40 Lecture: ESGE guideline: Nonvariceal bleeding in the GI tract
8.40-8.50 Lecture: Advanced imaging in the upper GI tract (when and how?)
8.50-9.00 Discussion
9.00-10.30 Live Endoscopy from the Center of Oncology Institute
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 2
11.00-11.10 Lecture: ESGE guideline: papillary cannulation and sphincterothomy at ERCP
11.10-11.20 Lecture: ESGE guideline: esophageal stenting
11.20-11.30 Discussion
11.30-13.00 Live Endoscopy from the Center of Oncology Institute
13.00-14.00 Lunch & exhibition
Session 3
14.00-14.10 Lecture: Colorectal cancer screening / ESDO lecture
14.10-14.20 Lecture: Surveillance and management of dysplasia in Barrett esophagus
14.20-14.30 Discussion
14.30-16.00 Live Endoscopy from the Center of Oncology Institute
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
Session 4
16.30-16.40 Lecture: ESGE guideline: management of iatrogenic endoscopic perforations
16.40-16.50 Lecture: ESGE guideline: Indications, results and impact of EUS-FNA
16.50-17.00 Discussion
17.00-18.00 Live Endoscopy from the Center of Oncology Institute
18.00-19.00 Cocktail
[19.30-22.00 Faculty Dinner]

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Saturday, Sept 30, 2017
Session 5
8.30-8.40 Lecture: ESGE guideline: endoscopic submucosal dissection in the upper GI tract
8.40-8.50 Lecture: Endoscopic management of LSTs in the colorectum (EMR, ESD, surgery)
8.50-9.00 Discussion
9.00-10.00 Histopathology demonstrations + MDT discussions (endoscopist, surgeon, oncologist)
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
Session 6
10.30-10.40 Lecture: ESGE guideline: endoscopy & antiplatelet & anticoagulant therapy
10.40-10.50 Lecture: Cholangioscopy: diagnosis and treatment
10.50-11.00 Discussion
11.00-12.30 Live Endoscopy from the Center of Oncology Institute
12.30 WLE 2017 closure