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Scientific Program
Friday, OCTOBER 30, 2020 | Day 1
05.00-07.00 pm
DEBATE SESSION: REVISION OF SLEEVE
PART I
Chairpersons: Lilian Kow (Australia), Khalid Mirza Gari (Saudi Arabia)
05.00-05.05 pm
Welcome Message
Khalid Mirza Gari (Saudi Arabia), IFSO-MENAC President
05.05-05.25 pm
Weight regain after Sleeve: OAGB is Ideal
Ali Khammas (UAE)
VS
Not really, RYGB has excellent outcomes
Hazem Al-Momani (UAE)
05.25-05.45 pm
Weight regain after Sleeve: DS is the gold standard
Ahmad Bashir (Jordan)
VS
….but SADIS is technically easier
Alaa Abbass (Egypt)
05.45-05.55 pm
DISCUSSION
05.55-06.10 pm
BREAK
PART II
Chairpersons: Gerhard Prager (Austria), Hayssam Fawal (Lebanon)
06.10-06.30 pm
Reflux after Sleeve: RYGB is the gold Standard
Mohammed Al Hadad (UAE)
VS
OAGB controls GERD too!
Osama Taha (Egypt)
06.30-06.50 pm
Longterm outcomes: LSG has good longterm outcomes
Salman Al Sabah (Kuwait)
VS
LSG is not that good beyond 10 years
Khaled Gawdat (Egypt)
06.50-07.00 pm
DISCUSSION
07.00-07.15 pm
BREAK
07.15-08.30 pm
BARIATRICS FOR GENERAL SURGEONS
Chairperson: Ali Almontashery (Saudi Arabia) Panelist: Estuardo Behrens (Guatemala)
07.15-07.25 pm
Setting Pathways for Bariatric patients in the Emergency Room
Khalid Mirza Gari (Saudi Arabia)
07.25-07.35 pm
Metabolic complications of Bariatric procedures
Mohey Elbanna (Egypt)
07.35-07.45 pm
Longer BP limb procedures: the price of higher metabolic complications for better weight loss
Abdelrahman Nimeri (USA)
07.45-07.55 pm
Dumping Syndrome and Reactive Hypoglycemia: A surgeon’s nightmare!
Tahir Yunus (Pakistan)
07.55-08.30 pm
DISCUSSION
Saturday, OCTOBER 31, 2020 | Day 2
05.00-07.00 pm
TOP PAPERS IFSO MENAC
PART I
Chairpersons: Ashraf Haddad (Jordan), Kazunori Kasama (Japan)
05.00-05.10 pm
How to write a paper
Abdelrahman Nimeri (USA)
05.10-05.25 pm
SERPINE-1 Gene Methylation and Protein as Molecular
Predictors of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Outcome
Speaker: Tamer Abdelbaki (Egypt)
Discussant: Khaled Hamdan (UAE)
05.25-05.40 pm
Conventional Versus Distal Laparoscopic
One-Anastomosis Gastric Bypass: a Randomized
Controlled Trial with 1-Year Follow-up
Speaker: Tamer Nabil (Egypt)
Discussant: Elie Chelala (Lebanon)
05.40-05.50 pm
DISCUSSION
05.50-06.00 pm
BREAK
PART II
Chairpersons: Scott Shikora (USA), Miguel Herrera (Mexico)
06.00-06.15 pm
Short-term outcomes of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty
in 1000 consecutive patients
Speaker: Aayed Alqahtani (Saudi Arabia)
Discussant: Mousa Khoursheed (Kuwait)
06.15-06.30 pm
Greater curvature as a gastric pouch for sleeve
gastrectomy: a novel bariatric procedure. Feasibility
study in a canine model
Speaker: Athar Elward (Egypt)
Discussant: Mohammed Alnaami (Saudi Arabia)
06.30-06.40 pm
DISCUSSION
06.40-06.50 pm
BREAK
PART III
06.50-07.00 pm
ELECTION OF THE BEST PAPER
(audience vote by voting system)
Chairpersons: Ashraf Haddad (Jordan), Kazunori Kasama (Japan),
Scott Shikora (USA), Miguel Herrera (Mexico), All the speakers
07.00-07.10 pm
BREAK
07.10-08.45 pm
CLINICAL CASES
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN BARIATRIC SURGERY
Chairperson: Bassem Safadi (Lebanon) Panelists: Ramiz Mukhtar (Iraq), Raul Rosenthal (USA)
07.10-07.15 pm
Introduction
Bassem Safadi (Lebanon)
07.15-07.35 pm
Case 1: Difficult Redo cases
Waleed Bukhari (Saudi Arabia)
Discussion
07.35-07.55 pm
Case 2: Retained surgical gauze / specimen
Bassem Safadi (Lebanon)
Discussion
07.55-08.15 pm
Case 3: Small bowel obstruction (SBO) s/p revisional surgery post RYGB
Husan Husien Jalamneh (Jordan)
Discussion
08.15-08.35 pm
Case 4: Too much at the same time, the story of a leak
Sherif Hakky (UK)
Discussion
08.35-08.45 pm
CLOSING REMARKS
Waleed Bukhari and Khaled Mirza Gari invite to attend IFSO MENAC Congress in Al Khobar