Underwood Lab Symposium 2025

Houston, TX US
February 22, 2025

This is a privately held training event and is by invitation only.

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

 

Stations

Speaker

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

ERCP with cholangioscopy

 

 

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

 

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 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.
Course summary
Course opens: 
10/01/2024
Course expires: 
02/23/2025
Event starts: 
02/22/2025 - 8:00am CST
Event ends: 
02/22/2025 - 12:00pm CST
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