Course Organizers: Philippe Rouanet (France), Bilgi Baca (Türkiye)
Course Capacity: 15 Participants
Venue: Acıbadem University Altunizade Hospital - Click here for venue location on the map

Objectives: The course was designed on didactic and live surgery sections. Speakers of didactic session should explain the procedure step by step (port sites, docking, dissection planes, vascular ligation, anastomosis, specimen retrieval and if possible new technologies (ICG, vessel sealer, etc) of da Vinci robotic systems. Surgeons of the live surgery session are able to answer all the questions from the trainees during the operation.

Course Organizers: Carlo Ratto (Italy), Bülent Menteş (Türkiye)
Venue: Congress Venue Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent - Click here for venue location on the map

Objectives: Proctology is a craft, an art that surgeons cannot learn simply by reading or using advanced technology. The objective of this extraordinary course is to add to the operative steps and manipulative skills of already dedicated surgeons, using mainly videos and other illustrations as the education material

Course Organizers: Joaquim Costa Pereira (Portugal), Emre Balık (Türkiye)
Course Capacity: 12 Participants
Venue: Koç University Hospital and RMK AIMES - Click here for venue location on the map

Objectives: The course is designed for colorectal surgeons who want to adopt laparoscopic technique in their daily surgical practices. Theoretical part includes didactic and video lectures focusing on the key operative steps and techniques necessary to efficiently perform laparoscopic colorectal procedures. Laparoscopic colorectal training on porcine models will provide further opportunity to refine skills to perform a successful colorectal procedure. Live cases performed by experts in colorectal field will provide the opportunity to increase procedural knowledge by learning innovative surgical resections in conjunction with real-time perfusion evaluation with indocyanine green fluorescence imaging. At the end of the course each attendee will be able to:
- Decide to perform laparoscopic colorectal surgery
- Describe the indications, patient selection, patient information, risks and complications related to laparoscopic colorectal surgery
- Outline the important anatomical considerations to perform safe laparoscopic colectomy (vascular isolations, embryological plans etc.)
- Be familiar with technological innovations related to dissection, visualization and perfusion

Course Organizers: Eui-Gon Youk (Korea), Fatih Aslan (Türkiye)
Course Capacity: 30 Participants
Venue: Koç University Hospital and RMK AIMES - Click here for venue location on the map

Objectives:
- Understand the indications, contraindicaions, and alternatives for ESD
- Classify the lesion based on morphologic findings using the classification systems
- Interpret the surface structural patterns and vessel patterns based on image-enhanced endoscopy classification systems to recognize the lesion borders and predict the invasion depth
- Develop a strategy for the ESD procedure based on the direction of gravity, orientation of the lesion to the endoscope
- Recognition, prevention, and management of adverse events

Course Organizers: Ricardo Escalante (Venezuela), Sezai Leventoğlu (Türkiye)
Venue: Congress Venue Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent - Click here for venue location on the map

Stoma is one of the most life changing events for patients and it is the biggest disappointment. In this case, any problem that may arise with a stoma can increase the patient's anxiety, stress, and dissatisfaction. On the contrary, a well-planned system from the creation of the stoma to its care and rehabilitation can improve the quality of life by enabling the patient to experience the comfort of the stoma like a natural defecation opening such as the anus. This session was built to better arm surgical teams with resources to help individuals with stoma live a high-quality life even in the most challenging situations.  From preoperative planning, creation of a peroperative stoma to the management of early and late postoperative complications, this session aims to provide surgeons, nurses, with pragmatic, ready-to-use advice on helping individuals with stoma. 

“Creating a stoma is a surgical art.
The artist who beautifies this art is the colorectal surgeon and stomatherapist.”  

Objectives:
- Detail specifics and clinical benefits of stoma site marking and pre-operative education.
- Discuss select technical considerations of stoma creation.
- Describe post-operative stoma care.
- Detail select stoma-related complications and treatment.
- At the end of this session, participants should be able to learn and contribute to changing their personal practice.

Course Organizer: Selman Sökmen (Türkiye), Osman Abbasoğlu (Türkiye)
Venue: Congress Venue Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent - Click here for venue location on the map

Objectives:
Surgery is the mainstay treatment for patients with colorectal cancers. However, despite surgical resection with curative intent and numerous advances in the effectiveness of (neo-)adjuvant therapies, recurrent and metastatic disease remain common and carry a high-risk of mortality. The biological perturbations that accompany the surgical stress response and activation of neural, inflammatory, and pro-angiogenic signaling pathways which also promote the growth and metastatic spread of cancer. In addition, three important domains strikingly affect the perioperative morbidity and mortality and final oncologic outcomes: co-morbidities, nutrition, and (domino-)complications. It is shown that many perioperative programmed interventions such as nutritional support, prehabilitation, ERAS protocols, and intense care may address these challenges and improve outcomes particularly in advanced colorectal and pelvic surgery. In this course, we outline the rationale and use the current evidence in nutritional science to achieve survival benefit and decrease surgical morbidity and mortality.

Learning Objectives:
- To define the extent of malnutrition in colorectal surgery
- To determine the prognostic impact of nutrition in colorectal cancer surgery
- Inflammation-Nutrition-Oncologic outcome analysis
- The effect of enteral immunonutrition: ‘unfinished saga’
- The role of nutritional management in difficult colorectal problems: radiation enteritis and enterocutaneous fistula
- Nutritional facts in complex colorectal surgery
- How the Int’l guidelines guide us in colorectal surgery?