Program
Friday 31st October 2025
1000 -1630 ACES Tissue Resection Workshop/Meet the Experts
Location Level 3, Building 8, Canberra Hospital
| 1000-1030 | Registration, Welcome and Introduction of Faculty and Delegates |
| 1030-1130 | Basic principles of ESD (Pradeep Bhandari) -Indications -Equipment -Diathermy settings -Marking -Lift -Basic resection techniques- pocket creation, tunnelling -Traction principles |
| 1130-1200 LUNCH | |
| 1200-1600 | Hands on tissue resection 6 stations, 2 delegates to a station Pradeep Bhandari Rajvinder Singh Nicholas Burgess Saurabh Gupta Peter Wu Perveen Aslam
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| 1400-1600 (Parallel Session) | Meet the experts HPB- case based discussion on ERCP tips and tricks, difficult cannulation, management of complications. Nageshwar Reddy Philip Craig Vipul Aggarwal |
| 1600-1630 | Wrap up and close |
Saturday 1st November 2025
0800-1715
Location Hyatt Hotel Canberra + Building 5 Theatres Canberra Hospital
| 0700 - 0800 | Registration – Hyatt Hotel
Tea, Coffee & Pastries
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| 0800-0815 | Welcome and Introduction
| Vipul Aggarwal |
| 0815-1030 | Session 1 | Moderator: Wilson Siu
Panel: Andrew Thomson; Rajvinder Singh; Nicholas Burgess, Linda Zhang
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0815-0830 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 0830-0845 | TALK 1: Principles of colonic polypectomy in 2025: Cold is hot and hot is cold
Speaker: Nicholas Burgess |
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0845-0930 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 0930-0945 | TALK 2: The gastric landscape: Assessment and management of Early gastric Neoplasia
Speaker: Rajvinder Singh
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| 0945-1000 | TALK 3: Endoscopic assessment and management of dysplasia in IBD
Speaker: Wilson Siu
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1000-1030 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1030-1100 MORNING TEA
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| 1100-1250 | Session 2 | Moderator: Perveen Aslam Panel: Saurabh Gupta, Andrew Metz Matthew Remedios, Mark Bonnichsen
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1100-1150 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1150-1205 | TALK 4: The Biliary Stricture Dilemma: Optimising diagnosis, Reducing Uncertainty
Speaker: Arthur Kaffes | |
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1205-1250 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1250-1340 LUNCH
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| 1340-1600 | Session 3 | Moderator: Perveen Aslam Panel: Siva Gananadha, Peter Wu, Calvin Chan, Mathew Keegan
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| 1345-1400
| TALK 5: Untangling the GI wiring: Endoscopic strategies for Dysmotility
Speaker: Peter Wu
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1400-1450 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1450-1520 | TALK 6: Chronic Pancreatitis Unpacked- Managing symptoms and long-term Sequelae
A. ENDOSCOPIC: Nic Holt B. SURGICAL: Siva Gananadha
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1520-1600 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1600 – 1630 AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 1630-17300 | Session 3 | Panel: Arthur Kaffes, Shiv Chitturi, Rajit Gilhotra, Json Huang |
| 1630-1645 | TALK 7: Endohepatology- “Portal Hypertension and Beyond: Endoscopists in the Hepatology Space”
Speaker: Jason Huang
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1645-1730 LIVE CASES CANBERRA HOSPITAL
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| 1730 |
Close of Day 1: Perveen Aslam | |
| Symposium Dinner @7pm Venue - The Old Parliament House | ||
Day 3: Sunday 2nd November 2025 (lectures)
0900-1430
Location: Hyatt Hotel Canberra
| 0830 -0900 Tea, Coffee & Pastries | ||
| 0900-0910 | Day 2 opening remarks – Vipul Aggarwal | |
| 0910-1035 | Session 5 | Panel: Vipul Aggarwal, Nageshwar Reddy, Michael Bourke, Philip Craig, Saurabh Gupta |
| 0910-0925 | TALK 8: Endo-Bariatrics: Filling the Gap Between Drugs and Surgery”
Speaker: Saurabh Gupta
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| 0925-0940 | TALK 9: Update on management of GERD -beyond PPI
Speaker: Linda Zhang
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| 0940-1000 | TALK 10: Key note lecture: From past to precision: 100 years of endoscopy and the road ahead
Speaker: Nageshwar Reddy
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| 1000-1020 | TALK 11: State of the Art: Artificial Intelligence in Endoscopy- beyond polyp detection
Speaker: Pradeep Bhandari
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| 1020-1035 | TALK 12: “Pancreatic Cysts: Harmless Hitchhikers or Hidden Killers?”
Speaker: Andrew Metz
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| 1035-1135 | Session 6 - Complex HPB MDT case-based discussion
| Panel: Vipul Aggarwal, Nageshwar Reddy, Arthur Kaffes, Sivakumar Gananadha, Charles Mosse, Rohit Tamhane |
| 1135-1230 LUNCH | ||
| 1230-1450 | Session 7
| Panel: Ian Norton, Pradeep Bhandari Rajvinder Singh, Matthew Remedios |
| 1230-1245 | TALK 13: The Unyielding Oesophagus: Tackling Refractory Strictures
Speaker: Matthew Kim
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| 1245-1300 | TALK 14: Post polypectomy bleeding- management and prevention
Speaker: Pradeep Bhandari
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| 1300-1315 | TALK 15: Beyond Bleeding: Recognising and Management of Other Endoscopic Complications
Speaker: Ian Norton
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| 1315-1335 | TALK 16: State of the Art: Endoscopic approaches to early Barretts neoplasia- what does the evidence show?
Speaker: Michael Bourke
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| 1335-1350 | TALK 17: Navigating the second victim syndrome.
Speaker: Mathew Remedios
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| 1350-1450 | Session 8 Video Cases Luminal MDT: A practical approach to early gastrointestinal neoplasia
Michael Bourke Pradeep Bhandari
| Panel: Perveen Aslam, David Rangiah Stuart Kostalas, Ngee-Soon Lau Nicholas Burgess
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| 1450 |
CLOSING REMARKS Vipul Aggarwal
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