52nd Annual Meeting
SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
May 6 - 10, 2011
McCormick Place - Chicago, Illinois
during Digestive Disease Week^®

Program and Abstracts  |  Posters

	The Plenary presentations, Presidential Address, and Doris and John L. Cameron Guest Oration from the Monday morning scientific sessions are all available online. Watch the synchronized PowerPoint and audio of each speaker by clicking on the "" link following each presentation’s title and author block.
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Friday, May 6, 2011

• RESIDENTS & FELLOWS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (by invitation only)

Saturday, May 7, 2011

• MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION COURSE: The Surgeon in the Management of Gastric and Esophageal Diseases
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Bariatric Surgery, Obesity, and NAFLD

Sunday, May 8, 2011

• OPENING SESSION
• PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY A (PLENARY SESSION I)
• PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Happy Mother's Day
• PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY B (PLENARY SESSION II)
• DORIS AND JOHN L. CAMERON GUEST ORATION: Bioengineering and Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cell Microchip
• POSTER SESSION I (non-CME)
• MEET-THE-PROFESSOR LUNCHEONS
• CONTROVERSIES IN GI SURGERY A
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Definition and Management of PPI Failure in GERD
• VIDEO SESSION I: Specialty Videos
• STATE-OF-THE-ART CONFERENCE: Personalized Medicine in Gastrointestinal Cancer: Potential Applications in Clinical Practice
• PLENARY SESSION III
• CLINICAL WARD ROUNDS: Delayed Presentation of Appendicitis: Is Surgery Still Necessary?

Monday, May 9, 2011

• VIDEO SESSION II: Breakfast at the Movies
• CLINICAL WARD ROUNDS: : Laparoscopic Liver Resection: Which Patient and How?
• SSAT PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE PANEL: Staying Alive: Strategies for Accountable Health Care in 2011
• SSAT/AHPBA JOINT SYMPOSIUM: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
• PLENARY SESSION IV
• QUICK SHOTS SESSION I
• VIDEO SESSION III: Emerging Technologies
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of GE Junction Dysplasia
• MAJA AND FRANK G. MOODY STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE: The Transformation of America's Hospitals
• POSTER SESSION II (non-CME)
• MEET-THE-PROFESSOR LUNCHEONS
• HOW TO SUCCEED IN ACADEMIC SURGERY
• CONTROVERSIES IN GI SURGERY B
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Multidisciplinary Approach to GI Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs)
• PLENARY SESSION V
• SSAT/ASCRS JOINT SYMPOSIUM: Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• CLINICAL WARD ROUNDS: : Initial Non-Surgical Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: GI Surgeon and Hepatology Case Presentations
• QUICK SHOTS SESSION II
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Show Me the Way: Finding the Duct in the Surgically Altered Anatomy
• ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING (non-CME)
• MEMBERS RECEPTION

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

• SSAT/ISDS JOINT BREAKFAST SYMPOSIUM: What Do You Do When the First Operation Doesn't Work or Goes Wrong?
• TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE PLENARY (PLENARY SESSION VI)
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Barrett's Esophagus
• PLENARY SESSION VII
• QUICK SHOTS SESSION III
• DDW COMBINED CLINICAL SYMPOSIUM: Familial Colorectal Cancer: Screening and Surgical Management
• POSTER SESSION III (non-CME)
• KELLY AND CARLOS PELLEGRINI SSAT/SAGES JOINT LUNCHEON SYMPOSIUM: The Epidemic of Obesity: Surgical Implications
• MEET-THE-PROFESSOR LUNCHEONS
• BEST OF DDW 2011 (non-CME)