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Hands-On Endoluminal Therapies for Gastroenterologists and Surgeons - Feb, 22, 2025
*Workshop is open only to first, second, third and fourth year fellows and surgery residents, as well as practicing gastroenterologists and surgeons*
Course Description: This hands-on training program will provide experience with advanced therapeutics endoscopic techniques and technology in the areas of mucosal ablation and resection, tissue closure, intraluminal stenting, gastroesophageal reflux treatments, and ERCP.
Course Directors: Sunil Dacha, MD
Stat Time | End Time | Topic | |
7:00 AM 7:30 | 7:30 AM 8:00 | Registration Intro to MITIE / Change into Scrubs |
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Stations | Speaker | ||
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | ERCP with cholangioscopy |
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| Intestinal ultrasound with standardized patient | Dr. Bincy Abraham | |
| TIFF | Underwood/External Faculty | |
| EndoflipTM (Medtronic) | Dr. Gulchin Ergun | |
| X-tack (Apollo) | Dr. Thomas McCarty | |
| DAT clip/ Boston Mantis clip & OVESCO OTSC | Underwood/External Faculty | |
| Cryoballoon/Radiofrequency ablation | Underwood/External Faculty | |
| EMR colon | Underwood/External Faculty | |
| Band EMR | Underwood/External Faculty | |
12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch and Adjourn |
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FEES
REGISTRATION TYPE | FEE |
| Physician (Private physician located within the Greater Houston Area)* | $140 |
Physician (Private physician located within the Greater Houston Area) | Complimentary Click here to register for the "NO CME Option" |
Physician (All other physicians) | Complimentary |
First / Second / Third / Fourth Year Fellows and Surgery Residents | Complimentary |
* In compliance with HM’s policy on Physician Non-Monetary Compensation regarding “Stark Law,” private physicians who reside and/or practice medicine within the Greater Houston Area are required to pay the full Fair Market Value registration fee.
Learning Objectives
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate proper technique for endoscopic mucosal resection using multiple methods.
- Describe important principles of electrosurgical energy as applied in the GI tract.
- Demonstrate the use of rescue strategies for GI bleeding or perforation following advanced tissue removal in the GI tract.
- Discuss technical difference between endoscopic submucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).
- Demonstrate full thickness resection of small gastric mass.
- Discuss the advantages of per oral choledochoscopy over cholangiography in managing select biliary pathology.
- Describe the use of lumen apposing metal stents.
- Demonstrate transoral incisionless fundoplication treatment of GERD.
Available Credit
- 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Houston Methodist is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Houston Methodist designates this Live activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 4.00 Attendance
Price
FEES
REGISTRATION TYPE | FEE |
| Physician (Private physician located within the Greater Houston Area)* | $140 |
Physician (Private physician located within the Greater Houston Area) | Complimentary Click here to register for the "NO CME Option" |
Physician (All other physicians) | Complimentary |
First / Second / Third / Fourth Year Fellows and Surgery Residents | Complimentary |
* In compliance with HM’s policy on Physician Non-Monetary Compensation regarding “Stark Law,” private physicians who reside and/or practice medicine within the Greater Houston Area are required to pay the full Fair Market Value registration fee.