International Surgical Week ISW 2009
IAES / AES Trainees' Day Postgraduate Course
Separate registration will be required for this course

The  INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENDOCRINE SURGEONS (IAES) and AUSTRALIAN ENDOCRINE SURGEONS (AES) will  convene a one day meeting to be held at the Sebel Hotel, Adelaide,  just prior to the ISS meeting.

The meeting will start at 09:00 to allow flights from interstate to Adelaide on the same day. The format will be that of 8 lectures by international expert members of the IAES, with adequate time for questions. An extended lunch is included with an opportunity to meet and discuss clinical cases with senior members of the IAES.  Information on membership of the IAES and AES will be available. There will be further discussions at an end of day wine tasting.




Program Details




Workshops / Courses




Date:
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Time:
08:00 - 17:00
Venue:
Sebel Hotel, Adelaide
Course Fee:
AUD 150.00 (incl. Lunch & wine tasting)
Topics and Speakers

Management of adrenal cortical adenomata
G.B. Thompson, USA

Current management of phaeochromocytoma
T.W. Lennard, UK

Surgical techniques for the "difficult" thyroid
H. Abdullah, Malaysia

Current management of differentiated thyroid cancer
J.L. Pasieka, Canada

Sporadic and MEN1 related pancreatic endocrine tumors
P. Hellman, Sweden

Management of medullary carcinoma thyroid
H. Dralle, Germany

Management of the RLN & SLN
A. Miyauchi, Japan

Reoperative parathyroid surgery
G. Akerström, Sweden
Contact:
Robert Parkyn, MD (parkyn@chariot.net.au)

In addition, for Postgraduate Meeting Registrants who will be unable to stay for the formal ISS/SIC meeting during the following week an opportunity will be available to attend a satellite IAES meeting at the Sebel on Sunday afternoon for an additional fee of AUD 50.00. This meeting will include a workshop on Instrumentation in Minimal Access Surgery, Follow up of differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Neuromonitoring. This will conclude by 17:00 hours to allow flights from Adelaide. Further program details are available here.