ASCRS Annual Meeting

Plan to attend the 2012 ASCRS Annual Meeting

June 2-6, 2012

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt Hotel

San Antonio, Texas

Over 1,200 surgeons are expected to attend the 2012 ASCRS Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.  The meeting will include oral and poster presentations, expert panels, symposia, meet the professor breakfasts and many other sessions encouraging audience participation.   Click here to view the Save the Date brochure.  A sampling of some of the offerings for this meeting include:

Courses  –

·         Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

·         Sacral Nerve Stimulation

·         Transanal Endoscopic Surgery (TEM/TEO/TAMIS)

·         Pelvic Floor Ultrasound and Physiology

·         Robotic Rectal Dissection

Workshops –

·         Research Foundation Workshop

·         Question Writing Workshop

Symposia –

·         Advanced Endoscopic Techniques

·         Advances and Challenges in the Management of Rectal Cancer

·         Allied Health Program

·         Optimizing Anastomotic Techniques

·         Complications of Intestinal Stomas

·         Core Subject Update

·         Debates in Minimal Access Abdominal Surgery

·         Debates in Minimal Access Rectal Surgery

·         Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery

·         New Options for the Treatment of Fecal Incontinence

·         Trials and Tribulations in the Treatment of Fistulas and Fissures

·         Genetics and the Surgical Management of Familial Cancer Syndromes

·         Inflammatory Bowel Disease

·         International Conundrums 

·         Maintenance of Certification - What you NEED to know

·         Maintaining Quality in the Era of Cost Containment

·         The Many Uses of Mesh

·         Measuring Quality

·         Night(mare) at the Movies - Getting into and out of Trouble in the OR

·         Nuts and Bolts of Laparoscopy

·         Nuts and Bolts of Rectal Cancer Treatment

·         Optimizing Perioperative Outcomes

·         Recognition and Management of Pelvic Floor Disorders

·         Professionalism and Communication

·         Rectal Prolapse – Evaluating the Many Choices

·         Surgical Education ­– Training a new generation

·         Surgical Site Infection

·         Worst Cases - Past Presidents’ Perspectives

·         Young Surgeon’s Program

Scientific Sessions -

·         Neoplasia

·         Outcomes

·         IBD

·         Pelvic Floor

·         Benign Conditions

·         Video Session

18 Meet the Professor Sessions

Invited Lectureships and Orations including –

·         David G. Jagelman, MD, Lectureship

·         Ernestine Hambrick, MD, Lectureship

·         Harry E. Bacon, MD, Lectureship

·         Joseph M. Mathews, MD, Oration

·         Masters in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship

·         Norman Nigro, MD, Research Lectureship

·         Parviz Kamangar Humanities in Surgery Lectureship