Scientific Programme

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Time Wednesday, 26 August 2009
08:00 ADVANCED BARIATRIC SURGERY COURSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE Full day practise course by COVIDIEN (at Elancourt)
10:00
10:30 ADVANCED BARIATRIC SURGERY COURSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE
11:00
12:30 Lunchtime Lunchtime
13:00
13:30 ADVANCED BARIATRIC SURGERY COURSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE
14:00 Workshop sponsored by ALLERGAN
16:00 Break Break
16:30 ADVANCED BARIATRIC SURGERY COURSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE
18:30 Congress Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception


Time Thursday, 27 August 2009
08:00 O: Session 1 - Laparoscopic Gastric Banding O: Session 2 - Perioperative Care for Bypass or Sleeve
08:30 V: Concurrent Video Session V1 - Gastric Bypass and Sleeve
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Symposium 1 - OBESITY EPIDEMICS
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Symposium 2 - DIABETES TREATMENT: Evidence for Surgical treatment and future - sponsored by ETHICON O: Session 3 - Perioperative Care and Results of Gastric banding
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Symposium 3 - METABOLIC SURGERY: how does it work ? O: Session 4 - Sleeve Resection V: Concurrent Videos Session V2 - Conversions


Time Friday, 28 August 2009
08:00 O: Session 5 - Gastric Bypass
08:30 Symposium 5 - BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION (I) V: Concurrent Videos Session V3 - Gastric banding Symposium sponsored by ALLERGAN
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Symposium 4 - REDO SURGERY Symposium 5 - BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION (II) O: Session 6 - Diabetes
13:00 Lunch Break Lunch - Sponsored Symposium by COVIDIEN
14:00 Interactive Debates and Controversies O: Session 7 - Revision Surgery Symposium 6 - ADIPOCYTES AND ADIPOUS TISSUE : BEFORE AND AFTER SURGERY
15:00 PLASTIC SURGERY
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Presidential Address
17:00 O: Session 8 - Failure after Gbypass Symposium 7 - Sleeve Gastrectomy O: Session 9 - Superobese and intragastric balloons
19:30 Congress Gala Dinner


Time Saturday, 29 August 2009
08:00 Symposium 8 - ENDOLUMINAL TECHNIQUES AND EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY O: Session 10 - Teaching and Novelties V: Concurrent Video Session V4 - Complications
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 O: Session 11 - OUSTANDING ABSTRACTS Symposium 9 - Bariatric surgery for children and adolescents? V: Concurrent Video Session V5 - Novelties
11:30 Teaching and Centers of Excellence
12:30 Keynote General Lecture and Closing Remarks
13:00 P: Poster exhibition