50th Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts
50th Annual Meeting
SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE ALIMENTARY TRACT
May 30 – June 3, 2009
McCormick Place – Chicago, Illinois
during Digestive Disease Week®
Program and Abstracts | Posters
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Postgraduate Course: Acute Care Gastrointestinal Surgery: Thinking on Your Feet—A Case-Based Course
- Session I: Esophegal/Stomach
- Session II: Midgut Emergencies
- Session III: HPB Emergencies
- Session IV: Hindgut Emergencies
- Session V: The 2AM Dreaded Consult or Transfer
- Presidential Plenary A (Plenary Session I)
- Presidential Address
- Presidential Plenary B (Plenary Session II)
- Doris and John L. Cameron Guest Oration
- Poster Session I
- Meet-The-Professor Luncheons
- Controversies in GI Surgery A
- DDW Combined Clinical Symposia
- Video Session I: Clinical HPB/Upper GI
- Plenary Session III
- SSAT/ASCRS Joint Symposium
- Clinical Ward Rounds: Biliary Disease
- DDW Combined Clinical Symposia
- Video Session II: Breakfast At The Movies
- Clincal Ward Rounds: Gastric Tumors
- Public Policy Committee Panel
- SSAT/AHPBA Joint Symposium
- Basic Science Plenary (Plenary Session IV)
- Quick Shots I
- Video Session III: NOTES Appendectomy - Ready, Set...Go?
- DDW Combined Clinical Symposium
- Maja and Frank G. Moody State-of-the-Art Lecture
- Poster Session II
- Meet-the-Professor Luncheons
- Plenary Session V
- Controversies in GI Surgery B
- DDW Combined Clinical Symposia
- SSAT/AGA/ASGE State-of-the-Art Conference
- Clinical Ward Rounds: Anorectal Disorders
- Quick Shots II
- DDW Combined Clinical Symposium
- Annual Business Meeting (members only)
- Members Reception
- SSAT/ISDS Joint Breakfast Symposium
- Education Committee Panel
- Translational Science Plenary (Plenary Session VI)
- Video Session IV: NOTES: Single Port Access Surgery
- Quick Shots III
- DDW Combined Clincial Symposium
- Plenary Session VII
- Poster Session III
- SSAT/SAGES Joint Luncheon Symposium: The Endoscope as a Surgical Tool
- Meet-the-Professor Luncheons
- DDW Combined Clincial Symposium