2023 Conference Programme

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RCS England opening keynote/panel: Training and wellbeing

Speakers

Tim Mitchell, President - Royal College of Surgeons of England

Nuha Yassin, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon - The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals New Cross Hospital

Vinita Shekar, Specialty Doctor Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Co-Chair, SAS Committee AoMRC, - Co-Chair, SAS Forum Royal College of Surgeons of England

Srinivas Cheruvu, President - ASIT

Sue Denmark - Patient Group RCS England

Kevin Turner, Consultant Urologist - University Hospitals Dorset
11:00 11:45
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Optimising Elective Theatre Processes and Patient Flow

Undertaking high volume, low complexity elective lists to maximise theatre utilisation whilst increasing quality of patient outcomes and proficiency.

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Kenan Dehne, Medical Director - Practice Plus Group Hospital, Emersons Green
12:00 12:30
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Festival of Innovation - You can innovate
12:45 13:15
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Meeting emerging waiting list challenges with a new workforce model

How can the NHS access support to ramp up activity on a growing bottleneck of complex cases? Understanding how traditional clinical insourcing models can be reworked to integrate better with existing ...

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Martin Watts, Director of Insourcing - Medacs Healthcare
13:30 14:00
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Festival of Innovation - Innovation: The big picture and the 6 'I's

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Daniel Wain, Certified Six 'I's Practitioner
14:15 14:45
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Festival of Innovation: Lessons from F1 - Using data to focus scarce clinical resources

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Ian Rhodes, Investor Director - Multiple
15:00 15:30
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Festival of Innovation: Lessons from F1 - Applying racing technology off of the track

Having studied Automotive Design, Oscar was recruited to Williams F1 Advanced Engineering, a spin-off from The Williams Race team tasked with applying F1 hybrid powertrain technology to other sectors. ...

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Oscar Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Bo Mobility
15:30 15:45
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Festival of Innovation - Lessons from F1 Q&A

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Oscar Morgan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder - Bo Mobility

Ian Rhodes, Investor Director - Multiple

09:45 10:15
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Robotics: Procurement

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Linda Taylor, Robotic coordinator - NHS Lothian, Western General Hospital

Sasha Stamenkovic, Clinical Director, Robotic Surgery - Barts Health NHS Trust

Steven White, Head of Robotic and Liver Transplantation Surgery - The Freeman Hospital
11:15 12:00
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Anti-bullying

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Omer Karim

Greta McLachlan

Alice Hartley, ST7 Urology Trainee - South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
12:15 12:45
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Sustainability

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Professor Mahmood Bhutta, Chair in ENT Surgery & Professor of Sustainable Healthcare - Brighton & Sussex Medical School
13:00 13:45
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Promoting excellence and maximising delivery of UK day surgery

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David Bunting, President - British Association of Day Surgery

Rachel Tibble, Consultant Anaesthetist - BADS

Karen Harries, Lead Nurse for Day Surgery and Pre-operative Assessment - King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Rosie Stanton, Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon - HHFT
14:00 14:45
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Reducing the risk of surgical fires

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Lindsay Keeley, Patient Safety & Quality Lead - The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
16:00 16:30
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Robotics

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Asit Arora, Robotic Head & Neck Consultant Surgeon - Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust London

Nuha Yassin, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon - The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals New Cross Hospital

Kalpana Ragupathy, Gynae Cancer Lead - NHS Tayside
16:40 17:25
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SAS Strategy

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Vinita Shekar, Specialty Doctor Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Co-Chair, SAS Committee AoMRC, - Co-Chair, SAS Forum Royal College of Surgeons of England

10:15 10:45
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Addressing Radiation Risk

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Katie Hurst, General Surgery Registrar (ST4) - Thames Valley deanery
11:00 11:45
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Innovations in fluorescence-guided surgery

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Stefano Giuliani, Consultant Neonatal and Paediatric Surgeon and Associate Professor - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Healthf
11:55 12:25
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Apprenticeships: What they are and what they mean for you and your team
12:35 13:20
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Session delivered by CODP
13:30 14:00
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The Surgical Care Practitioner - from novice to advanced level practitioner

This session will explore the journey to trainee SCP to day 1 qualified SCP. This will include how the new bi-collegiate curriculum framework for Surgical Care Practitioners guides how the surgical pa ...

Speakers

Sally Stuart, Programme Lead MSc Surgical Care Practice - EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY
14:10 14:40
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Session sponsored by Scalpel

Making Surgery Safer through AI-powered Surgical Supply Chain - Complexities in the current surgical supply chain - How Scalpel is making a difference - Role of AI in the fu ...

Speakers

Yeshwanth Pulijala, CEO - Scalpel
14:50 15:20
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Session delivered by AOSCP
16:25 17:10
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Session delivered by AOSCP

09:00 09:10
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ASiT President Address

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Srinivas Cheruvu, President - ASIT
09:10 09:30
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ASiT Innovation Strategy

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Angela Lam, Innovation Lead - ASIT
09:30 09:45
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Simulation and Virtual Reality in Surgical Training

Adoption of Extended Reality in Surgical Training, The Scientific Evaluation and its Role in Global Health

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Jag Dhanda, Consultant OMFS/Head Neck Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, Professor of Extended Reality in Medicine and Surgery - Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
09:45 10:00
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Teleproctoring to enhance training

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Matt Green, Director - Strategic Partnerships + Initiatives - Proximie
10:00 10:15
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Enhanced learning: Virtual Learning platforms

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Elliot Street, CEO - Inovus Medical
10:30 10:40
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ASiT Robotic Strategy and RCS Robotic Assisted Surgery: a Pathway to the Future

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Mr Aidan Bannon - ASIT
10:40 11:30
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Presentation of platforms - 5 min pres

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Mark Slack, Chief Medical Officer - CMR Surgical

Tilman Schlick, CMO - INTUITIVE SURGICAL
11:30 11:55
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AI in Surgery

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Prof Xavier Griffin
12:00 12:30
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The Positive Impact of Data in Operating Rooms

This talk explores the transformative role of data in modern healthcare, specifically focusing on its positive effects in the operating room (OR). The presentation showcases how data integration optimizes surgical processes, enhances patient safety, and refines outcomes. It will look at what we can learn from data, and how we can grasp data’s role in forging collaborative medical-technical approaches, fostering improved surgical outcomes and OR efficiency.

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Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM, CEO & Founder - Proximie
13:15 13:30
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How to pitch your idea

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Grant Nolan
13:30 13:45
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Funding your idea

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Louise Glanvill, Plastic Surgery Registrar | VC Investor - NHS | RYSE Asset Management
14:00 14:15
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Integrated innnovation pathway - update? vs Fellow in innovation jobs

Improved surgical and cancer outcomes come through innovation but the skills required to be a good surgeon are not the same as those needed to be an innovator. This talk will cover the various routes ...

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Angela Lam, Innovation Lead - ASIT

Dorothy Kufeji, Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon - Trus Guardian of Safe Working Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
14:15 14:30
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Higher education in clinical innovation

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Christopher Peters, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Upper GI Surgeon - Imperial College, London
14:30 14:45
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Higher education with an MBA

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Dorothy Kufeji, Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon - Trus Guardian of Safe Working Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
15:00 16:00
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Innovation, surgery and training in the US

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Debby Keller - Lankenau Medical Centre
16:00 17:00
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Best ASiT Innovation theatre abstracts

12:40 13:40
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Live Surgery

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Katie Adams, Consultant Colorectal & Emergency General Surgeon - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

09:15 10:00
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Keynote

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Stephen Powis, National Medical Director - NHS England
10:15 10:45
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Incisions, instruments…internet?

One of the fascinating advances in recent digital health developments has been the rise of virtual surgery. Rebecca Pelling, eHealth Product Manager, explains how digital health solutions can help to ...

Speakers

Rebecca Pelling, UK & International eHealth Product Manager - CFC
11:00 11:45
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The future of transplantation

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Steven White, Head of Robotic and Liver Transplantation Surgery - The Freeman Hospital
14:30 15:15
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Workforce

Speakers

Adrian Brooke, Medical Director Workforce Alignment, Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E) - NHS England

Ginny Bowbrick, Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Council Member - Royal College of Surgeons of England

Aidan Fowler, National Director of Patient Safety in England and a Deputy Chief Medical Officer - Department of Health and Social Care
15:30 16:15
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The future workforce: Training and development

Speakers

Helen Higham, Consultant Anaesthetist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Joshua Bulleyment, Senior Teaching Fellow - School of Health and Care Professions, University of Portsmouth

09:15 09:45
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Festival of Innovation - Can innovation save healthcare?

In this session Tara will outline how bringing together new clinical models supported by innovative technology can help save healthcare, and how the future hospital will look very different as a resul ...

Speakers

Tara Donnelly, Founder - Digital Care
10:15 10:45
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Festival of Innovation- Lessons from space: Innovating into deep space

Speakers

David Stupples, Professor of Electronic & Radio Engineering - City, University of London
11:00 11:30
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Festival of Innovation - Innovating the human performance
11:45 12:15
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Festival of Innovation - Applying F1 innovation in health and beyond
13:30 14:00
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Moving forward with the safer surgical checklist

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Nigel Roberts, Head Theatre Practitioner - ODP - Birmingham Children's Hospital
14:15 14:45
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Why civility must be part of the future of surgery

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Mark Bowers, Divisional Intervention Lead - Harefield Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust
15:00 15:45
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Sessiond details to follow

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Vipin Asopa

Keith Tucker, Orthopaedic Surgeon (Rtd.) - ODEP

Adnan Taib, Clinical Research Fellow - University of Nottingham
16:00 16:30
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Xenotransplantation: the future of transplant surgery?

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Daniel Rodger, Senior Lecturer in Operating Department Practice, Institute of Health and Social Care - London South Bank University

09:00 09:30
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Ensuring Surgery is fit for the future

Speakers

Mark Henley, President - CBS

Shireen McKenzie, Executive Board - CBS
09:40 10:25
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A systems approach to surgical safety

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Annie Hunningher, Consultant in Anaesthesia, NatSSIPs2 Clinical Lead - Barts Health, CPOC
10:35 11:20
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Setting up a robotic service - review of starting a robotic prostatectomy service at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

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Linda Taylor, Robotic coordinator - NHS Lothian, Western General Hospital
11:30 12:00
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A medico- legal perspective on robotics in surgery

Flora McCabe of Lockon Companies will discuss the legal implications of an increased focus on robotics in surgery. The talk will include consideration of : - where liability sits when things go wrong ...

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Flora McCabe, Head of Advocacy and Risk Management, Healthcare - Lockton Companies LLP
12:15 12:45
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Utilising the wider surgical team

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Juliette Murray, Associate Clinical Director - Centre for Sustainable Delivery
12:55 13:40
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Glass ceilings and stereotypes
13:50 14:35
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Elective Surgical Hubs: A toolkit for success

Speakers

Sas Banerjee, Regional Director for North East London - Royal College of Surgeons of England

Amalesh Thangadorai, Divisional Director of Surgery/Chair - Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust/Surgical Optimisation Group – North East London

Irrum Afzal, Research & Outcomes Manager - Clinical Researcher - Academic Surgical Unit, South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre
14:45 15:30
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Returning to work

Speakers

Maria Stirling, ST7 General Surgery, RCSEd Trainee Committee and South East Scotland Registrar
15:40 16:25
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How we see the future of surgery

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Showkat Mirza, Consultant in Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Consultant in Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
16:25 16:30
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Chair's closing remarks

09:00 09:25
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RCS England and ASiT Innovations Skills for Surgeons - Where are they now?

Speakers

Josh Burke, Academic Colorectal Registrar, Director of Educartion RCSE I-Hub - The Royal College of Surgeons of England
09:25 09:45
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ASiT x PLASTA Innovation Hackathon prize winners presentations

ASiT x PLASTA Innovation Hackathon prize winners presentations
09:50 10:00
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Evidence Based Innovation

In this session I will discuss a very different mindset and approach to innovation away from the NHS entrepreneur programme. I want to highlight the key moments that can make or break a surgeons journ ...

Speakers

Josh Burke, Academic Colorectal Registrar, Director of Educartion RCSE I-Hub - The Royal College of Surgeons of England
10:00 10:10
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Barriers to implementation as a trainee

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Charlotte El-sayed, WM HST/ RCS England/ NHS England Robotics Research fellow - RCS England/NHS England
10:10 10:25
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Innovating as a trainee

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Fareed Iqbal - SurgEase
10:25 10:40
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Innovating as a consultant

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Ajith George, Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Medical Director - University Hospitals of North Midlands, Keele University and endoscope-i Ltd
11:00 11:25
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CodeMed? - live coding

Learn to code with Code Med

Speakers

Arron Thind, Co-Founder - Code Med

Imran Qureshi - Code Med

Joseph Hogan, Co-Founder - Code Med
11:30 11:55
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Coding as a clincian

Speakers

Paul Cool - The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
12:00 12:45
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BOTA Session
13:30 13:45
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Evidence-based robotic training

This session aims to undertake a live Delphi consensus session, including surgeons of all grades attending the Future Surgery Show. This consensus will form the basis of a pilot study, assessing the f ...

Speakers

Justin Collins, Consultant Robotic Urological Surgeon - UCLH
14:10 14:40
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The Feasibility of a Video E-logbook - panel discussion

The Feasibility of a Video E-logbook - panel discussion

Speakers

Jo Skillman, Consultant Plastic Surgeon - UHCW

Matt Green, Director - Strategic Partnerships + Initiatives - Proximie
14:50 15:10
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AI in endoscopics and surgery

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Ronan Cahill
15:10 15:30
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Google Health

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Viknesh Sounderaj
15:30 16:00
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President's closing address and prize giving

Speakers

Srinivas Cheruvu, President - ASIT

10:00 11:00
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First ever UK live HUGO RAS case

Robotic radical prostatectomy. Live surgery with the Hugo Medtronic system First broadcast of a Hugo case in the UK via the Proximie system.

Speakers

Ben Challacombe, Consultant Urological Surgeon - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
11:20 12:20
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Reflections on yesterday's live surgery

Speakers

Katie Adams, Consultant Colorectal & Emergency General Surgeon - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
14:00 15:00
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Live Surgery

Speakers

Asit Arora, Robotic Head & Neck Consultant Surgeon - Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust London