ELSA Webinar

ELSA is dedicated to provide surgical education to improve quality of care. The disruption that the world and the surgical community is experiencing has changed the educational experience and ELSA have planned to contribute through an Online Platform to engage all Endo-laparoscopic surgeons. A Series of interactive MIS educational Events will be organized and planned to keep Asian surgeons up-to-date in the actual pandemic. Special Focus will be dedicated to surgical topics and update on COVID-19 Practical Issues inherent to surgical practice but also to other area of interests. World Leading Experts will contribute to the Webinar and they will share their knowledge and experience in an interactive modality.

“Our Vision is to be the Leading Society in advancing
excellence in endo-laparoscopic Surgery”

Each webinar will consists of:

  •  1 -1.5 hrs Online Interactive Symposium – using Zoom Platform
  • 2 Leading Chairs co-organizer
  • 4 to 6 Experts – in the area
  • Interactive Q&A Discussion
  • Polls

List of upcoming webinars

Webinar Titles Date Timings
(+8GMT)
Speakers
Complications in Anastomosis 31-Jul-20 5:00 pm Y Sakai, Japan; Vimal K, Malaysia
Hepatobiliary Surgery: Making Basic Procedures Safer 7-Aug-20 TBC Le Quan Ahn Tuan, Vietnam
Women in Surgery: an Asian perspective TBC TBC TBC
Benign Endo-Lap in Upper GI Surgery TBC TBC TBC
What’s new in Endocrine Surgery TBC TBC TBC
Hepatobiliary Surgery: How to move to Advanced Procedures TBC TBC TBC

Past Webinars

ELSA 8th Webinar:

Endo-Lap Groin / Inguinal Hernia Surgery, what have changed in the last decade?

Lecture topics:

  1. When to do Open and Endo-lap for groin hernia, amy change in the past decade? – Abdul Gafoor Mubarak (MY)
  2. Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair, the New Techniques and Development Over the Past Decade – Jaideepraj Rao (SG)
  3. Application of Laparoscopic Repair in Emergency Groin Hernia Situations, What’s the Development Over the Past Decade? – George Yang (HK) and Pradeep Chowbey (ID)

Chairperson: George Yang & Alfred Allen E. Buenafe

ELSA 7th Webinar

Advances in Endo-Lap Colorectal Surgery

Lecture topics:

  1. From Open to No-Scar Segmental Sigmoid and Rectal Resections: Review of Techniques and Indications? – Prof. Joel Leroy (VN)
  2. Technical Knack and Pitfall in Laparocsopic Surgery for Obese Patients. – Dr Kay Uehara (JP)
  3. Current Status of MIS for Rectal Cancer in Japan and Its Future Propsects – Prof. Ichiro Takemasa (JP)
  4. Robotic Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Advanced Rectal Cancer- Prof Gyu Choi (KR)

Chairperson: Prof Masahiko Watanabe

ELSA 6th Webinar

Gastric Cancer:  Where is the Standard?

Lecture topics:

  1. Endoscopic Therapy for Early Gastric Cancer – Noriya Uedo (JP)
  2. Laparoscopic Surgery for Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer – Han-Kwang Yang (KR)
  3. Robotic Surgery for Gastric Cancer: Techniques and Experience – Masanori Terashima (JP)

Chairperson: Dr. Guo-Wei Kim

ELSA 5th Webinar

Ventral Hernia: Do we Need Changes?

Lecture topics:

  1. Going Extraperitoneal? Victor Radu (RO)
  2. When we need Muscle Release? M. Faylona (PH)
  3. Does Umbilical Hernia needs a Mesh? – Pawan Chansaenroj (TH) 

Chairperson: Prof. Davide Lomanto

ELSA 4th Webinar

Insights: Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Lecture topics:

  1. Management of Leaks – A/Prof M. Talbot (AUS) 
  2. Complications: the Act, the Glitch and the Remedy – Dr. N. Dukkipati 
  3. Why Robotic Bariatric Surgery? – Dr. M. Ozmen (TUR)  

Chairperson: Prof. Davide Lomanto

Register for next webinar now

SOME OF OUR WEBINAR SPEAKERS

DAVIDE LOMANTO
DAVIDE LOMANTOProfessor of Surgery
Senior Consultant Surgeon
Director, Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre
Director, Khoo Teck Puat Advanced Surgery Training Centre
Department of Surgery, YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Dr GV Rao
Dr GV RaoDoctor of Surgery
Chief of Surgical Gastroenterology & Minimally Invasive Surgery Asian Institute of Gastroenterology,
Hyderabad, India
Prof. Han Kwang Yang
Prof. Han Kwang YangProfessor of Surgery
Director, Gastric Cancer Center, Dept of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea
Prof. William Chen
Prof. William ChenProfessor of Surgery
Superintendent. China Medica! University Hs1n-Chu Hospital. Zuber City. Taiwan

Prof. Joel Leroy
Prof. Joel LeroyProfessor of Surgery
Founder and Chairman Hanoi, High Tech and Digestve Center. Saint Paul Hospital. Hanoi, Vietnam

Dr Pradeep Chowbey
Dr Pradeep ChowbeyDoctor of Surgery
Chairman Max Institute of Minimal Access. Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery. Max Hospital. New Delhi, India

Prof. Philip Chiu
Prof. Philip ChiuProfessor of Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Editor-in Chief of ELSA

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