13th Annual Surgery of the Foregut Symposium

Coral Gables, Florida
February 15 to 19, 2014

by Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Michael A. Schultz

Dr. Rosenthal is Clinical Editor, Bariatric Times; Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of General Surgery; Director, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute; Director, General Surgery Residency Program and Fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida. Michael Schultz is CME Coordinator, Continuing Medical Education, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida.

FUNDING: No funding was provided.
DISCLOSURES: The authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article.

Bariatric Times. 2014;11(1):8.

Cleveland Clinic Florida in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease Institute will host its 13th Annual Surgery of the Foregut Symposium from February 15 to 19, 2014, in Coral Gables, Florida.
Total CME hours: 44.0

New Frontiers in Fluorescent Guided Surgery Postgraduate Course
CME hours: 8.75
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014
Course overview: This year, the Foregut Symposium has devoted a full day to updating attendees on a new, promising technology: fluorescent imaging. Fluorescent imaging works by means of injecting different dyes into the blood stream and using different light filters. Surgeons are able to recognize vital structures, such as bile ducts, ureters, and hilar vessels, and also identify metastatic disease when dealing with neoplasms.

We believe that fluorescent-guided surgery is the next major development in general surgery that will improve patient outcomes without adding significant costs to our procedures.
Clinical applications: Biliary ducts, liver, lymph node navigation, gastrointestinal tract, and pelvic surgery.

Surgery of the Foregut Symposium
CME hours: 28.25
Dates: Sunday, February 16 to Tuesday, February 18, 2014. Spanish translation will be available.
Course overview: This program will provide surgeons and other healthcare professionals a wide range of information related to new and well-established topics in gastrointestinal surgery. Attendees will become familiar with surgical aspects of conventional, laparoscopic, robotic, and endoscopic surgery of the foregut. In addition, they will acquire in-depth information related to the diagnosis and management of disease processes of the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver, and biliary tree. Emerging technologies and new treatment modalities that are applied for the surgical approach to malignancies of the liver, such as fluorescent imaging, microwave, Cyberknife (Accuray Incorporated., Sunnyvale, California), and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization or TACE will be reviewed by experts in the field. The program will review the developing field of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy that is being utilized for the treatment of metastatic disease. Abdominal wall hernias, fistulas, and the use of the vacuum assisted closure (VAC) will be presented. Attendees will analyze the management of complications, including anastomotic leak and enterocutaneous fistulas. We will review complex techniques utilized by experts for conversions, revisions, and reversals of bariatric procedures.
Course highlights:
Sunday and Monday—Foregut Surgery
•    Pancreas/biliary tree
•    The European School of Laparoscopic Surgeons
•    The German Society of Visceral Surgeons
•    Surgery of the liver
•    Surgery of the biliary track
•    Esophageal neoplasms
•    Organ transplant
•    HIPEC
•    Mini symposium on gastric neoplasms
•    Annual Robert E. Hermann Lecture in foregut surgery
•    Symposium reception

Tuesday—Bariatric Surgery
•    Current debates in bariatric surgery
•    Internal hernias
•    Weigh regain, small pouch, and large anastomosis
•    Chronic abdominal pain
•    Mini symposium on hiatal hernias, GERD, failures and complications of sleeve gastrectomy
•    Annual Walter E. Pories Lecture in bariatric surgery

Surgery of the Foregut- Live
Surgery from Cleveland Clinic Ohio and Florida. Additional live surgery from Madrid and Brussels.
CME hours: 7.0
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Course highlights:
•    Surgery of the GE junction and diaphragmatic hernia
•    Robotic gastric bypass
•    Reoperative bariatric surgery
•    Fluorescent surgery of the biliary track
•    Hyperthermic intraperitioneal chemotherapy
•    Laparoscopic single incision ventral hernia repair
•    SADI procedure for weight regain

For complete agenda, symposium and hotel information, please visit www.ClevelandClinicFloridaCME.org

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