GESA EUS Australia 2018 Convenor, Associate Professor Nam Nguyen would like to take this opportunity to thank all faculty, sponsors and delegates for their support of GESA EUS Australia 2018. Your contribution to the success of this year’s event is most appreciated. Until 2019 in Brisbane...
EUS Australia 2018 is a state of the art, national meeting focused on the current and future utilities of endoscopic ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of various gastroenterological disorders. This meeting offers comprehensive, yet succinct, reviews of the current understanding of disease states, their diagnosis and management. The live demonstrations aim to show-case both basic and advanced techniques in the performance of EUS. We will focus on the latest advances in EUS which broaden our diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities.
The meeting is suitable for senior surgeons, and physicians right through to basic trainees in these disciplines. Nurses involved in all aspects of gastroenterology will also find the meeting enjoyable and informative. In addition to the core program, we have planned a dedicated half-day, hands-on training workshop for trainees and EUS nurses on Day two. An informal atmosphere encourages questions, discussion and debate.
The New Royal Adelaide Hospital
Cnr. West Terrace & North Terrace
Adelaide SA 3000
Friday, 13 April 2018 & Saturday, 14 April 2018
Day 1 - 08:00-17:20
Followed by the EUS-SIG Meeting - 17:30-18:30
Day 2 - 08:15-12:40
Followed by the Trainees and Nurses Workshop - 13:30-17:00
Registrations are now CLOSED
GESA Members: $200 + GST
Non-Members: $250 + GST
Trainees: $200 + GST
Nurses: $150 + GST
Saturday only (Excludes Dinner): $80 + GST
A flyer to promote this event is available for download here.
Associate Professor Nam Nguyen
Dr Kenneth Binmoeller - California Pacific Medical Centre (USA)
Kenneth F Binmoeller, MD is the Director of Interventional Endoscopy Services (IES) at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
His training and professional positions have been split between the United States and Europe.
He attended medical school at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland, followed by internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and gastroenterology fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.
He held University appointments at the CHR Cimiez in Nice, France (1990-1991), University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany (1991-1998), and UCSD Medical Center in San Diego (1998-2001).
Dr Binmoeller holds over 50 patents for innovative endoscopic technologies. He is the inventor of the AXIOS lumen-apposing stent and founder of Xlumena Inc. acquired in April 2015 by Boston Scientific. He has trained and mentored endoscopists from all corners of the world. He has authored more than 200 publications and several books.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). In 2013 the ASGE honored Dr Binmoeller with the Master Endoscopist of the Year Award.
Dr Marc Giovannini - Paoli-Calmettes Institute (Marseille Cedex, France)
Dr Giovannini is the head of the Digestive Oncology Medico-Surgical Department at Paoli-Calmettes Institute in France. His main activity is therapeutic endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS).
Paoli-Calmettes Medical Centre is the second largest oncology centre in France with more than 7200 new cases of cancer per year. More than 7000 endoscopic procedures are performed there per year including 1300 EUS ,850 EUS guided biopsies and 1200 ERCP.
Dr Giovannini's main interests are pancreatic cancer, neuroendocrine tumors and hepatocellular carcinoma. He oversees the protocol of pre-operative treatment of pancreatic cancer and has conducted a randomized study that compares 2 types of biliary drainage (EUS guided vs PTC) when ERCP failed.
Since 1991 Dr Giovannini has introduced and developed linear EUS and EUS-FNA in France. He also introduced therapeutic EUS as pancreatic pseudocyst drainage, biliary EUS guided anastomosis and pancreatico-gastrostomy under EUS guidance.
In 1995, Dr Giovannini started the endoscopic treatment of superficial GI cancer using EMR (endoscopic mucosal resection). He studied in NCI Tokyo Institute (Pr Gotoda) ESD (endoscopic submucosal dissection). After introducing endomicroscopy in May 2006 (first French hospital equipped in confocal endoscopic) the Paoli-Calmettes Institute has become one of the first centres in the world to realize confocal microscopy in the bile duct and intratumoral confocal microscopy under EUS guidance.
More recently, Dr Giovannini and his team have introduced RF ablation for pancreatic tumors as neuroendocrine tumor, renal pancreatic metastasis and some IPMN with worrisome features.
In addition to our international guests, we have an esteemed local and national faculty.