One-and-a-half-day programme of live EUS and "state of the art" lectures. Open to all with an interest in EUS.
EUS Australia 2020 Workshop
A "state of the art" national meeting focused on the technique of endoscopic ultrasound and its role in the diagnosis and management of an array of pathologies.
Suitable for basic trainees right through to senior surgeons and physicians.
Nurses involved in all aspects of gastroenterology will find the meeting enjoyable and informative.
An informal atmosphere encourages questions, discussion and debate.
Social dinner on Friday night at riverside restaurant Customs House included in your registration..
Topics to be covered include
Course Director
Professor Ben Devereaux
Course Co-ordinators
Dr Jason Hwang and Dr Jason Huang
International Faculty
Professor Anand Sahai, M.D.
University of Montreal Hospital
Quebec, Canada
Dr. Sahai is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the GI Division at the University of Montréal Hospital Center or CHUM. He is a globally recognised thought leader in the world of endoscopic ultrasound and has received numerous awards from the ASGE and the American College of Gastroenterology. CHUM is one of the busiest centres for endoscopic ultrasound, performing more than 2,600 procedures annually with an internationally recognised EUS training program. Dr. Sahai has trained more than 500 physicians globally across 5 continents and has published more than 200 papers and book chapters. He is a graduate of McGill University and completed his medical degree at Universite de Montreal. Dr. Sahai completed fellowships at Hospital St Luc and MUSC.
Associate Professor Pietro Fusaroli, M.D.
University of Bologna,
Bologna, Italy
Pietro Fusaroli graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, with M.D. degree with distinction in 1994. Later during the same year, he became Italian Board-certified and started his fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, which was completed by 1998. He was then recruited to the University of Bologna in 2000 as Assistant Researcher and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2006 and to Associate Professor in 2015. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) represents his main interest both for patients care and clinical research. He is also active in operative endoscopy and hepatology
He is now director of the gastrointestinal unit in the hospital of Imola, nearby Bologna. In this location he developed since 2002 the first EUS program that facilitated multidisciplinary approaches to the diagnosis of various gastrointestinal diseases. He became an expert in pancreaticobiliary and gut wall benign and malignant conditions, contributing significantly to early diagnosis and improved staging. Additionally, he developed contrast harmonic EUS with contrast agents, transforming it from a prototype technique to a well-established one
Fusaroli lectured worldwide and participated in courses and live demonstrations, including the 2011 ASGE state of the art lecture on EUS at DDW.
Prof. Fusaroli authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal publications. He is member of the editorial boards of the journals Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound. He has served on several academic and organizational committees of EUS and gastroenterological societies. He is director of the Master in “Advanced Endoscopy” and Professor of the “Specialization School in Gastroenterology”, at the University of Bologna. He is international member of AGA and ASGE.
Current research activities focus on:
-Endoscopic ultrasonography in pancreatic cystic and solid tumors
-Contrast harmonic endoscopic ultrasonography
-Endoscopic ultrasonography-elastography
-Therapeutic lower GI endoscopy
Professor Hiroyuki Isayama M.D.
Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University
Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Isayama is professor in the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University. He has published more than 394 peer-reviewed English articles.. He has special interest in therapeutic ERCP and interventional EUS, and has many experience of live-demonstration. He is the pioneer of biliary covered self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS). He is also specialised in the chemotherapy for the pancreato-biliary malignancies. He is the committee member of clinical guidelines of both pancreas cancer and cholangiocarcinoma. He is chief of making GL of EUS-BD and Primary sclerosing cholangitis. He is a president of T-CAP (Tokyo Conference of Asian Pancreato-biliary Interventional Endoscopy). Its international workshop is held annually in Tokyo.
Registration Fees Including GST
GESA Members: $220
Non-Members: $275
Trainees: $220
Nurses: $165
This workshop is made possible through the generous support of:
Olympus Australia
FujiFilm/ CR Kennedy
Pentax Medical
Boston Scientific
Medtronic Australia
Cook Medical
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