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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Sunday, June 2, 2024
  • 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM ET, USA
    2024 Young Surgeons Committee Walk to Benefit Fight CRC
  • 6:15 AM – 6:00 PM ET, USA
    Registration Hours
  • 6:15 AM – 6:00 PM ET, USA
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM ET, USA
    Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Breakfast

    Co-Moderator: Rachel Hendee, PA-C – Northwestern Medicine

    Co-Moderator: Katelyn Stickney, FNP-BC, COCN – UMass Memorial

    Co-Moderator: Carla Merrick, MSN FNP-C (she/her/hers) – The Cleveland Clinic

    Co-Moderator: Lieba Savitt, ARRN, NP-C

    APP Track

  • 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM ET, USA
    MTP-S1 Geriatric Optimization for the Colorectal Surgeon: Starting Where you are to Improve Patient Outcomes

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Nicole M. Saur, MD, FACS, FASCRS (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Isacco Montroni, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – AUSL Romagna, Ospedale Santa Maria delle Croci

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Chelsia Gillis, RD, PhD – McGill University Health Centre

    Miscellaneous

  • 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM ET, USA
    MTP-S2 Rectal Cancer Surgery (SOLD OUT)

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: George J. Chang, MD, MS, MHCM (he/him/his) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Samantha Hendren, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

    Malignancy

  • 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM ET, USA
    MTP-S3 Pelvic Floor

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Brooke Gurland, MD, FACS, FASCRS – Stanford University

    Ask the Experts Discussion Leader: Liliana Bordeianou, MD – Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

    Pelvic Floor

  • 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM ET, USA
    Regional and Affiliated Societies Meeting
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM ET, USA
    The Leela M. Prasad, MD Great Debate

    Debate Moderator: Kyle G. Cologne, MD, FACS, FASCRS – University of Southern California

    Benign

    Malignancy

    Live Stream

  • 7:15 AM – 3:00 PM ET, USA
    Student Pathway Program
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM ET, USA
    ASCRS/SSAT IBD Super Session: Updates in IBD

    Super Session Moderator: Mukta Krane, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

    Super Session Moderator: Jon D. Vogel, MD, FACS, FASCRS – University of Colorado School of Medicine

    Benign

    Live Stream

  • 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM ET, USA
    Pelvic Floor: 101

    Co-Moderator: Kelly Garrett, MD, FACS, FASCRS (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medical Center

    Co-Moderator: Keri K. Mayers, DO (she/her/hers) – West Virginia University

    Pelvic Floor

  • 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Colon Cancer

    Quick Shot Moderator: Devi Krishnamurty

    Quick Shot Moderator: Aneel Damle, MD – Colon & Rectal Surgery Associates, MN

    Malignancy

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    Core Subjects Update

    Moderator: Jitesh A. Patel, MD, MBA – University of Kentucky

    Benign

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 1-Benign Abdominal Disease 1

    ePoster Moderator: John Berry, MD

    ePoster Moderator: Joseph Trunzo, MD – Cleveland Clinic Foundation

    Benign

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 2-Colon and Colorectal Cancer

    ePoster Moderator: Carla Justiniano

    ePoster Moderator: Paul Johnson, MD, FACS – Methodist Cancer Institute

    Malignancy

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 3-Quality and Cost 1

    ePoster Moderator: Ari Reichstein, MD, FACS, FASCRS – Allegheny Health Network

    ePoster Moderator: Karleigh R. Curfman Clocker, MD – Louisiana State University Health New Orleans

    Practice Management

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 4-Other Neoplasia and Endoscopy 1

    ePoster Moderator: Katherine Kelley, MD, FACS (she/her/hers) – Bronson Methodist Hospital

    ePoster Moderator: Lisa Cunningham, MD – Ohio State University

    Miscellaneous

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 5-Colon and Colorectal Cancer 2

    ePoster Moderator: Mohammed Al Fayyadh, MD – Georgia Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates/Northside Hospital Cherokee

    ePoster Moderator: Najjia N. Mahmoud, MD – University of Pennsylvania Health System

    Malignancy

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 6-Rectal Cancer 1

    ePoster Moderator: Cici Zhang, MD – Georgia Colon And Rectal Surgical Associates

    ePoster Moderator: Erin Wolf Horrell

    Malignancy

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 7-Rectal Cancer 4

    ePoster Moderator: Dana M. Hayden, MD, MPH – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    ePoster Moderator: Alexis Plasencia

    Malignancy

  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    ePoster Session
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    Speed Mentoring (SOLD OUT)

    Professionalism

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    Critical Review of Manuscripts

    Moderator: Susan Galandiuk, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Louisville

    Professionalism

  • 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM ET, USA
    IBD Super Session: Abstract Session

    Abstract Session Moderator: Alex J. Ky, MD (she/her/hers) – Mt Sinai School of Medicine

    Abstract Session Moderator: Bidhan B. Das, MD (he/him/his) – University of Texas-Houston McGovern Medical School, Colon and Rectal Clinic of Houston

    Benign

    Live Stream

  • 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM ET, USA
    Pelvic Floor: Topics of Which We Dare Not Speak

    Co-Moderator: Craig H. Olson, MD FACS – Texas A&M Medical School, Baylor Scott and White

    Co-Moderator: Amy Thorsen, MD

    Pelvic Floor

    APP Track

  • 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Rectal Cancer

    Quick Shot Moderator: Aimal Khan, MD, FACS – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Quick Shot Moderator: Terrah Olson, MD

    Malignancy

  • 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM ET, USA
    IBD Super Session: Panel Discussion

    Super Session Moderator: Elizabeth Raskin, MD (she/her/hers) – Hoag Hospital

    Benign

    Live Stream

  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM ET, USA
    Break in the Innovation Center
  • 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Innovation Center Hours
  • 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Innovation Theater Presentation: Discover The Rafaelo procedure – Rapid Relief with Remarkable Results for the treatment of internal hemorrhoids
  • 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Ongoing Videos
  • 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM ET, USA
    Rectal Cancer Super Session- “What’s New for You”

    Super Session Moderator: Radhika Smith, MD

    Super Session Moderator: Jose Guillem, MD – UNC- Chapel Hill

    Malignancy

    Live Stream

  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM ET, USA
    Gender/Sex Education in Colorectal Surgery

    Co-Moderator: Julian Sanchez, MD (he/him/his) – Moffitt Cancer Center

    Co-Moderator: Bartley Pickron, MD (he/him/his) – University of Utah

    Perioperative

    DEI Track

  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM ET, USA
    General Surgery Forum Abstract Session

    Abstract Session Moderator: Emily Steinhagen, MD (she/her/hers) – University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

    Abstract Session Moderator: Brian R. Kann, MD, FACS, FASCRS – Ochsner Medical Center

    Miscellaneous

  • 10:15 AM – 11:05 AM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Quality 1

    Quick Shot Moderator: Robert N. Goldstone, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Quick Shot Moderator: Sook Chan C. Hoang, MD (she/her/hers) – University of virginia

    Practice Management

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 1-Benign Abdominal Disease and IBD

    ePoster Moderator: Marco Zoccali, MD – Columbia university

    ePoster Moderator: Sue J. Hahn, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Benign

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 2-Colon Cancer 1

    ePoster Moderator: Gregory Charak, MD

    ePoster Moderator: Matthew Symer

    Malignancy

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 3-Quality and Cost 2

    ePoster Moderator: Fergal Fleming, MD MPH FRCSI FACS – University of Rochester Medical Center

    ePoster Moderator: Conor Delaney, MD PhD – Cleveland Clinic

    Practice Management

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 4-Other Neoplasia and Endoscopy and Pelvic Floor

    ePoster Moderator: Cristina B. Sanger, MD – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    ePoster Moderator: Poppy Addison, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Pelvic Floor

    Miscellaneous

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 5-Colon Cancer 4

    ePoster Moderator: Paul Johnson, MD, FACS – Methodist Cancer Institute

    ePoster Moderator: Daniel J. Galante, DO – AdventHealth Medical Group Colorectal Surgery

    Malignancy

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 6-Rectal Cancer 2

    ePoster Moderator: Juliet Ray, MD, MSPH, FACS, FASCRS – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine JFK Medical Center

    ePoster Moderator: Rahila Essani, MD, FACS, FASCRS – Texas A&M College of Medicine

    Malignancy

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 7-Miscellaneous

    ePoster Moderator: Carmen Fong, MD, FACS (she/her/hers) – Hemorrhoid Centers of America

    ePoster Moderator: Scarlett B. Hao, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – ECU Health Medical Center

    Miscellaneous

  • 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Session
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET, USA
    Rectal Cancer Super Session: Abstract Session

    Abstract Session Moderator: Sarah Stringfield

    Abstract Session Moderator: Jonathan Abelson, MD MS (he/him/his) – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

    Malignancy

    Live Stream

  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM ET, USA
    Abstract Session: Pelvic Floor and Basic Science

    Abstract Session Moderator: William Perry, MBChB MPH FRACS FACS FASCRS (he/him/his) – Mayo Clinic

    Abstract Session Moderator: Emina Huang, MD – University of Texas Southwestern

    Pelvic Floor

    Miscellaneous

  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM ET, USA
    Best of the Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (DC&R) Journal

    Moderator: Susan Galandiuk, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Louisville

    Miscellaneous

  • 11:15 AM – 12:05 PM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Benign Abdominal

    Quick Shot Moderator: Wissam Halabi, MD

    Quick Shot Moderator: Tara Russell, MD

    Benign

  • 11:30 AM – 12:05 PM ET, USA
    Rectal Cancer Super Session: Panel Discussion

    Super Session Moderator: David Liska, MD – Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic

    Malignancy

    Live Stream

  • 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Awards Committee Meeting Room
  • 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Luncheon

    Co-Moderator: Christina Jenkins, MD (she/her/hers) – OC Colorectal Clinic

    Co-Moderator: Ann Lowry, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

    Speaker: Steven C. Stain, MD

    DEI Track

  • 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM ET, USA
    Lunch in the Innovation Center
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    Can You Step into OR 23? How to Handle Intraoperative Consults

    Co-Moderator: Sean J. langenfeld, MD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center

    Co-Moderator: Jennifer L. Paruch, MD MS FASCRS (she/her/hers) – Ochsner Medical Center

    Perioperative

    Live Stream

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    Educating the New Generation

    Co-Moderator: Angela H. Kuhnen, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCRS (she/her/hers) – Lahey Clinic

    Co-Moderator: Charles Friel, MD – Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia

    Professionalism

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 1-Benign Abdominal Disease 2

    ePoster Moderator: Carolina Martinez, M.D. – University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine

    ePoster Moderator: Rodolfo Pigalarga

    Benign

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 2-Benign Anorectal Disease 1

    ePoster Moderator: Sandra Kavalukas, MD

    ePoster Moderator: Justin M. Greco, MB BCh (he/him/his) – Thomas Jefferson University

    Benign

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 3-Colon Cancer 2

    ePoster Moderator: Christopher Buzas, DO, MS, MBA, FACS, FASCRS – Geisinger Health

    ePoster Moderator: Jonathan Abelson, MD MS (he/him/his) – Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

    Malignancy

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 4-Education, Training Assessment, and Practice Management 1

    ePoster Moderator: Emily Huang, MD, MEd – Ohio State University

    ePoster Moderator: Cristina Sardinha, MD

    Practice Management

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 5-Quality and Cost 3

    ePoster Moderator: Elizabeth Wick, MD – UCSF

    ePoster Moderator: Marc Singer, MD

    Practice Management

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 6-Other Neoplasia and Education

    ePoster Moderator: Michael Marco, MD – Englewood Health

    ePoster Moderator: Anne Macleod

    Miscellaneous

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 7-Quality and Cost 4

    ePoster Moderator: Steven Y. Chao, MD FACS – Weill Cornell Medicine

    ePoster Moderator: Anne Mongiu, MD, PhD – Yale University

    Practice Management

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Session
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Colorectal Cancer

    Quick Shot Moderator: Emmanouil Pappou, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Quick Shot Moderator: Samantha Quade, MD

    Malignancy

  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM ET, USA
    Video Abstract Session

    Abstract Session Moderator: Brian L. Bello, MD – Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center

    Abstract Session Moderator: Lisa Cannon, MD – University of Rochester Medical Center

    Miscellaneous

    APP Track

  • 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET, USA
    Humanities in Surgery Lectureship

    Special Lecturer Introducer: Piroska Kopar, MD MBA FACS – Washington University in Saint Louis

    Special Lecturer: Karen M. Devon, Msc MDCM FACS FRCSC (she/her/hers) – Women's College Hospital and University Health Network

    Professionalism

    Live Stream

  • 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET, USA
    Innovation Center Hours
  • 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET, USA
    Innovation Theater Presentation: Discover The Rafaelo procedure – Rapid Relief with Remarkable Results for the treatment of internal hemorrhoids
  • 3:00 PM – 6:30 PM ET, USA
    Ongoing Videos
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM ET, USA
    Break in the Innovation Center
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ASCRS Town Hall 125th Anniversary Symposium

    Moderator: Thomas E. Read, MD – University of Florida

    Miscellaneous

    Live Stream

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    Diverticulitis: Not Just the Old Stuff…

    Co-Moderator: Marylise Boutros, MD (she/her/hers) – Dr Marylise Boutros - Colorectal Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic Florida Professor of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Co-Moderator: Dana M. Hayden, MD, MPH – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Benign

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 1-Benign Abdominal Disease 3

    ePoster Moderator: V. Prasad Poola, MD – SIU School of Medicine

    ePoster Moderator: Joon Kim, MD – Sparrow Hospital

    Benign

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 2-Benign Anorectal Disease and Pelvic Floor

    ePoster Moderator: Julia T. Saraidaridis, MD, MMSc – Lahey Hospital

    ePoster Moderator: Ana Sofia Ore, MD MSc MPH (she/her/hers) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School

    Benign

    Pelvic Floor

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 3-Colon Cancer 3

    ePoster Moderator: Tsuyoshi Konishi, MD, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    ePoster Moderator: Rahila Essani, MD, FACS, FASCRS – Texas A&M College of Medicine

    Malignancy

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 4-Pelvic Floor 1

    ePoster Moderator: Hillary L. Simon, DO – University of Louisville Program, Louisville, KY

    ePoster Moderator: Daniel J. Galante, DO – AdventHealth Medical Group Colorectal Surgery

    Pelvic Floor

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 5-Benign Abdominal Disease 4

    ePoster Moderator: Calista Harbaugh, MD, MSc – University of Michigan

    ePoster Moderator: Joceline V. Vu, MD – Temple University Hospital

    Benign

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 6-Rectal Cancer 3

    ePoster Moderator: Anne Fabrizio, MD – Medstar Georgetown University Hospital

    ePoster Moderator: Daniel Wong, MD MHS – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School

    Malignancy

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Monitor 7-Colon Cancer 5

    ePoster Moderator: John Gahagan, MD – Stanford University Medical Center

    ePoster Moderator: Matthew Whealon, MD – University of California, Irvine

    Malignancy

  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    ePoster Session
  • 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM ET, USA
    Quick Shots: Other Neoplasia and Endoscopy

    Quick Shot Moderator: Heather Yeo, MD, MHS, MBA, MS (she/her/hers) – NewYork Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medicine

    Quick Shot Moderator: David Kleiman

    Miscellaneous

  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET, USA
    Walk Through ASCRS History Happy Hour
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM ET, USA
    Colorectal Family Feud

    Game Show Host: David R. Rosen, MD – Cleveland Clinic

    Live Stream

  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM ET, USA
    ASCRS Committee Wine and Cheese Reception
  • 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET, USA
    Graduating Fellows Reception Sponsored by Olympus
  • 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET, USA
    DCR Reviewer’s Guild Reception (by invitation)
  • 7:15 PM – 8:30 PM ET, USA
    ASCRS Residents Reception