25 May
Hospital Lecture theatre Weston House, Great Ormond Street
London, UK, 25th May 2018
This is the 8th meeting of the UK Colorectal group. Joe Curry is hosting this meeting and speakers are to be confirmed.
Theme – Hirschsprung’s disease
Faculty dinner
Thursday evening 24th May
9.30 Update on research on enteric ganglia with options for future therapy – Nikhil Thapar
09.50 Utilising the zebra fish to identify genes whose defects result in Hirschsprung’s Disease – Tiffany Heanue, Crick Institute, London.
10.15 GI motility investigations pre and post reconstruction in HD – Stewart Cleeve
10.45 break
11.05 Hirschsprung’s disease in the UK and Ireland: incidence and anomalies – Tim Bradnock
11.30 Hirschsprung’s Disease – consideration and planning for transition. Stefano Giuliani
11.50 Difficult cases in HD (free session with 5 mins for presentation and 5-10 for discussion)
Max 6 submissions
12.50 Lunch
Controversy
Who has the best operation for HD (defend your procedure!)
14.00 Duhamel Simon Blackburn
14.20 Lap assisted Trans-anal Soave TBC
14.40 Entire Trans-anal (De La Torre) Bruce Okoye
15.00 Swenson Bala Eradi
15.20 Floor discussion
15.45 Summary and close meeting
16.00 end