Underwood Lab Symposium 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 |
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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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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.
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