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PRESIDENT’S MEETING & AUDIT SYMPOSIUM 2015
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
Friday 20 March 2015
President’s Meeting & Audit Symposium 2015
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
The theme of this year’s President’s Meeting is Surgical Oncology. Advances in surgical technique
and in the organisation and delivery of care have contributed significantly to improved outcomes
for patients with cancer. This meeting will provide an update on contemporary management
of various malignancies, with a major focus on surgical treatments, as well as updates on
oncological therapies. This meeting will also include a number of plenary lectures and
contributions from all the surgical specialty associations.
20 March 2015
08:00
Coffee and Registration
09:00
Welcome
Mr Ian Ritchie President RCSEd
09:05
Is Radiotherapy Obsolete?
Professor Alastair Munro
09:30
Innovative Cancer Clinical Trials
Professor Richard Wilson
09:55
Debate - Surgical Resection of Colorectal Metastases is of Proven Benefit
For: Professor Graeme Poston
Against: Professor Tom Treasure
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Specialty Association Symposia and Audit Symposia
All those with an interest in surgical oncology are welcome to attend.
Professor Timothy J. Eberlein
Our Annual Audit Symposium invites trainees
to submit audit abstracts for presentation at
this meeting for Trauma and Orthopaedics;
General Surgery or Specialties and Common
Interest. In addition this year, there will also
be an Oncology Session and we are inviting
trainees to submit research abstracts for this.
(Professor and Chair of Surgery and the Head of the
Medical School at the Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland)
Professor Alastair Munro
(Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University
of Dundee and Honorary Consultant Oncologist
NHS Tayside)
Professor Graeme Poston
(Consultant Hepato-biliary Surgeon at University
Hospital Aintree, Liverpool and Professor of Surgery
at the University of Liverpool)
Professor Tom Treasure
The College also invites trainees to submit
abstracts for consideration to present in the
Lister Legacy Medal Session. These abstracts
must be research based on ‘Sepsis and
Infection Control’.
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Vascular Society
Mr Bernard Lee
Retroperitoneal Tumour Surgery Teams
12:15
Lunch
13:15
McKeown Lecture - Professor Timothy J Eberlein
Delivering High Quality Cancer Care in 2015
13:45
Specialty Association Symposia and Audit Symposia
Both the Surgeon in Training Medal and the
Lister Legacy Medal will be awarded at the
end of the day for the best oral presentation.
Abstracts can
be submitted via the Education
website. Closing date is
pages of the RCSEd
5pm on Monday 5 January 2015.
(Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Clinical
Operational Research Unit, University College
London)
www.rcsed.ac.uk/presidentsmeeting
Chairs - Dr Judy Evans/Professor Graham T
Layer
SCTS
Mr Michael Shackcloth
Improving Outcomes from Thoracic
Malignancies in the UK
Abstracts:
Professor Arnold Hill
Symposium 2
Chairs - Mr Pala Rajesh/Mr Alastair Gibson
BOA
Professor Timothy Briggs
The Modern Management of Bone and Soft
Tissue Sarcomas, The UK Experience
Key Speakers include:
(Bixby Professor and Chairman of the Department
of Surgery at Washington University School of
Medicine, St. Louis and Surgeon-in-Chief at BarnesJewish Hospital)
Symposium 1
15:00
BAUS - Mr Mark Speakman
Urological Oncology: Less is More
BAPS
Mr Suren Arul
Paediatric Oncology Surgery – The Last Bastion
of the General Surgeon?
BAPRAS
Professor Barry Powell
Update on Skin Cancer Oncology
ABS
Professor Kieran Horgan
What is Topical in Breast Surgical Oncology in
2015?
Symposium 3
Symposium 4
Chairs – Mr Charles Auld/Professor Michael
Griffin
Chairs - Mr Roger Currie/
Mr Mike Lavelle-Jones
ASGBI
Professor John Primrose
Colorectal Cancer Follow-up- What is the
Benefit?
ENT UK
Professor Hisham Mehanna
Improving the Management of Recurrent Head
and Neck Cancer - an Evidence-based Approach
ACP
Mr Brendan Moran
Recent Advances in Surgical Management of
Rectal Cancer
BAOMS
Professor James McCaul
Surgical Oncology in Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery
AUGIS
Mr Nick Maynard
New Perspectives on Staging Oesophageal
Cancer
Audit
Symposium
Audit
Symposium
SBNS
Mr Paul Grundy
Neurosurgical Oncology: Recent and Future
Developments
Coffee Break
Plenary Session – Professor James D Hutchison
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15:30
Lister Legacy Lecture - Centralisation of Cancer Services The Good and The Bad
Professor Arnold Hill
16:00
Keynote Lecture - Innovations in the Management of Breast Cancer
Professor Timothy J Eberlein
16:30
From a Patient’s Point-of-view
Dr Rami Seth
16:55
Presentation of Prizes and Concluding Remarks
Mr Ian Ritchie President RCSEd
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