FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 2025           
Level 3, Building 8 Canberra Hospital

1000 - 1030

Welcome and Introduction of Faculty and Delegates 
Vipul Aggarwal 

1030 - 1130

Basic principles of ESD 
-Indications 
-Equipment 
-Diathermy settings 
-Marking 
-Lift 
-Basic resection techniques- pocket creation, tunnelling etc 
-Traction principles 

1130 - 1200

BRUNCH 

1200 - 1600

Hands on tissue resection (6 stations, 2 delegates to a station) 

1400 - 1600

(Parallel Session)

Meet the experts – HPB - case based small group discussion on ERCP tips and tricks, difficult cannulation, management of complications  
Nageshwar Reddy 
Phillip Craig 

1600 - 1630

Wrap up and close 

SATURDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2025          Hyatt Hotel Canberra

0800 - 0805 

Welcome and Introduction   

0805 - 0820 

Basic principles of colonoscopy and polypectomy- what does the evidence show? Cold vs hot, en bloc vs piecemeal   

0820 - 0835

Barretts surveillance and guidelines  

0835 - 0905

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital 

0905 - 0920

Practical approach to polyps in the UGI tract – management - guidelines vs evidence  

0915 - 0930 

Early gastric cancer - detection, surveillance and management  

0930 - 1000

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital 

1000 - 1015 

What’s new in the endoscopic treatment of dysmotility? 

1015 - 1030 

IBD surveillance - how to optimise lesion detection + management  

1030 - 1100 

MORNING TEA  

1100 - 1130

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital  

1130 - 1145 

Approach to the indeterminant biliary stricture 

1145 - 1200 

Post POEM - surveillance and sequelae - does technique matter? 

1200 - 1230

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital

1230 - 1315

LUNCH

1315 - 1330 

Chronic Pancreatitis - management, risks, sequelae  

1330 - 1345 

Pancreatic cancer screening and surveillance - what does the evidence show? 

1345 - 1425

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital

1425 - 1440

Pancreatic cysts - diagnosis, surveillance, sequelae

1440 - 1455

Endohepatology- how can the interventional endoscopist help the hepatologist?  

1455 - 1545

Live Cases, Canberra Hospital
 

1545 - 1615

AFTERNOON TEA

1615 - 1635

State of the Art: Endoscopic approaches to early Barretts neoplasia- what does the evidence show? 
Michael Bourke 

1635 - 1655

State of the Art: Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy - beyond polyp detection 
Pradeep Bhandari 

1655 - 1700

Meeting Close 

1900 - Late

Conference Dinner
Old Parliament House  

SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2025                 Hyatt Hotel Canberra

0900 - 0915 

Opening remarks and pathology of all resections and updates on patient
 

0915 - 0930

Endoscopic management of obesity - how does it stack up against medications and surgery
 

0930 - 1030

Complex HPB MDT

1030 - 1050

Keynote Lecture - Pancreatic endotherapy - what can the endoscopist offer 
Nageshwar Reddy  

1050 - 1105

Future advances on endoscopic management of cholangiocarcinoma, pNETs, high risk pancreatic cysts  

1105 – 1145

LUNCH

1145 - 1200

The Refractory oesophageal stricture  

1200 - 1215

UGI bleeding - practical approaches 

1215 - 1230

Post polypectomy bleeding - management and prevention 

1230 - 1245

Managing endoscopy complications (beyond bleeding) 

1245 - 1345

Luminal MDT- UGI and colorectal

1345 - 1415

Video Cases: A practical approach to early gastrointestinal neoplasia
Michael Bourke
Pradeep Bhandari

1415 - 1430

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