Surgery Agenda

08:50 | Opening remarks 
  Chair: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Activity Director: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Session 1: Surgical Oncology – I

Moderator: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

09:00 | Immunotherapy in Esophageal and Gastric cancer - recent trials and updates
Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

09:20 | Surgery for mediastinal cancer 
Dr Edward Black, Consultant - Thoracic Surgery, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - Mayo Clinic Partnership, Al Ain, UAE

09:40 | Current management of colorectal cancer metastatic disease
Dr Mahmoud Tabbal, Chief of Surgery, Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, UAE

10:00 | Surgical management of benign and malignant liver disease
Dr Fady Kaldas, Associate Professor of Surgery, Kelly Lee Tarantello Chair in Integrative Liver Transplantation, Director, Liver Transplant Service, Director, Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship & Program, Co-Director, Heart-Liver Disease Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

10:20 | Curing Stage IV cancer: Towards understanding oligometastatic cancer
Dr Kiran Turaga, Professor of Surgery, Vice Chief, Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Director, Surgical Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, Director, Regional Therapeutics Program, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

10:40 | Improving outcomes in pancreatic surgery
Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

11:00 |  Lunch break | Robotic Surgery Workshop (CME accredited by Emirates Health Services)

Session 2: Advances in surgery

Moderators: Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

Dr Maher Abbas, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, UAE

12:40 | Digital Surgery
Prof Dr Shafi Ahmed, Futurist, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

13:00 | Management of acute liver failure
Dr Fady Kaldas, Associate Professor of Surgery, Kelly Lee Tarantello Chair in Integrative Liver Transplantation, Director, Liver Transplant Service, Director, Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellowship & Program, Co-Director, Heart-Liver Disease Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

13:20 | Intramural surgery
Dr John Rodriguez, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

13:40 | ERAS
Dr Guido Mannaerts, Chair of Surgery Department, Tawam Hospital, Adjunct Associate Professor, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

14:00 | Artificial Intelligence and surgery
Prof Dr Homero Rivas, Professor of Surgery, Associate Dean of Innovation and the Future, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE

14:20 | Innovation in Surgery
Dr Matthew Kroh, Vice Chair Innovation and Technology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

14:40 | Advances in minimally invasive living organ donation
Dr Rolf Barth, Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago, Director, Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Associate Director, Transplant Institute, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

15:00 | Coffee Break - Meet the Speakers

Session 3: Multi-disciplinary Tumour Board cases review

Moderator: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

15:20 | Multi-disciplinary Tumour Board cases review
Moderator: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Panelists:

• Dr Sadir Al Rawi, Executive Director of Surgery & Oncology, VPS Healthcare, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Tarek Dufan, Radiation Oncologist, Chief Medical Officer, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Aydah Alawadhi, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Tawam Hospital, SEHA, Al Ain, UAE

Session 4: Advances in surgery – II

Moderators: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Dr John Rodriguez, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

16:20 | Panel discussion: The future of medical education in surgery
Moderator: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Panelists:

• Dr John Rodriguez, Chief of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Kiran Turaga, Professor of Surgery, Vice Chief, Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Director, Surgical Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, Director, Regional Therapeutics Program, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Dr Sana Farid, General Surgery Resident, Consultant - XR & AI in Healthcare, President, VRAR Association MENA, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Dr Yousif Hussein Eltayeb, Consultant Surgeon, Rashid Hospital; Associate Professor, Dubai Medical College; Dubai Surgical Residency Program Director, Dubai Healthcare Authority, Dubai, UAE

17:20 | Closing remarks
Dr Ali Al Dameh, Consultant Thoracic and Surgical Oncology, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

17:30     End of day one