Scientific Agenda
Day 1 - 24th Aug 2019
| August 24, 2019 Saturday | Topic | Speakers | Chairpersons / Panelists | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 Hrs | Tea/Coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 11:00 Hrs | Welcome | Vivek Bindal | ||
| 11:00 - 13:00 Hrs | General Robotics, Head & Neck & Thoracic Surgery | Kalpana Nagpal, Asuri Krishna, Rajdeep Singh, Anubhav Vindal | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 Hrs | Transition from Laparoscopy to Robotic Surgery | Praveen Raj | ||
| 11:15 - 11:30 Hrs | Robotic Thymectomy | Belal Bin Asaf | ||
| 11:30 - 11:45 Hrs | Robotic Lung Resection | Ali Zamir Khan | ||
| 11:45 - 12:00 Hrs | Robotic Esophagectomy | Jagdishwar Goud | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 Hrs | Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery | Surender Dabas | ||
| 12:15 - 12:30 Hrs | Robotic Thyroidectomy | Sandeep Nayak | ||
| 12:30 - 13:00 Hrs | Panel Discussion | VATS vs. Robotic Thoracic Surgery | Pramoj Jindal (Moderator) | LM Darlong, Shilpa Gandhi, SK Jain, Harshvardhan Puri |
| 13:00 - 14:00 Hrs | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 - 15:30 Hrs | Robotic Colorectal Session | Randeep Wadhawan, Anurag Mishra, Asuri Krishna, Vijay Arora | ||
| 14:00 - 14:15 Hrs | Robotic Rectopexy | Sudeepta Kumar Swain | ||
| 14:15 - 14:30 Hrs | Robotic Right Colectomy | Kishore Alapati | ||
| 14:30 - 14:45 Hrs | Robotic Anterior Resection | Venkatesh Munikrishnan | ||
| 14:45 - 15:00 Hrs | Robotic LAR, ISR, APER | Avanish Saklani | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 Hrs | Panel Discussion | When to Use Robot in Colorectal Surgery: Case Based Panel Discussion | Venkatesh Munikrishnan (Moderator) | Rajesh Bhojwani, Deep Goel, Harit Chaturvedi, Suviraj John, Deepak Govil |
| 15:30 - 16:00 Hrs | Tea/Coffee | |||
| 16:00 - 18:00 Hrs | Robotic Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Session | VK Malik, KN Srivastava, Vivek Mangla, Abhishek Tiwari | ||
| 16:00 - 16:15 Hrs | Robotic Radical Cholecystectomy | Anand Vijai | ||
| 16:15 - 16:30 Hrs | Robotic HJ (Biliary Stricture / Choledochal Cyst) | Kalayarasan Raja | ||
| 16:30 - 17:00 Hrs | Robotic Pancreatic Surgery | C. Palanivelu | ||
| 17:00 - 17:15 Hrs | Robotic in Liver Transplant | Biju Chandran | ||
| 17:15 - 17:45 Hrs | Panel Discussion | Has Robot Got a Role in HPB Surgery? | Adarsh Chaudhary (Moderator) | C Palanivelu, Amit Gupta, Anil Aggarwal, BB Aggarwal, Biju Chandran |
| 18:00 - 19:00 Hrs | Inaugural Ceremony | Launch of CRSA Indian Chapter by Worldwide President and Dignitaries | ||
| 18:00 - 18:30 Hrs | Keynote Lecture: Training, Quality & Safety in Robotic Surgery | Prof. Ranjan Sudan, Worldwide President, CRSA | ||
| 5 mins | Mahendra Bhandari, Detroit, USA | Recorded | ||
| 19:00 Hrs Onward | Gala Dinner |
Day 2 - 25th Aug 2019
| August 25, 2019 Sunday | Topic | Speakers | Chairpersons / Panelists | |||
| 08:00 - 09:00 Hrs | Robotic GYN Surgery | Punita Bhardwaj, JS Chowhan, Rajesh Srivastava, Rupinder Sekhon | ||||
| 08:00 - 08:15 Hrs | Robotic Benign Hysterectomy | Mala Srivastava | ||||
| 08:15 - 08:30 Hrs | Robotic Myomectomy: How to Make it Economically Feasible for Indian Patients | Rooma Sinha | ||||
| 08:30 - 08:45 Hrs | Robotic Radical Hysterectomy | Rupinder Sekhon | ||||
| 08:45 - 09:00 Hrs | Training pathways in robotics for Gynaecologists and surgeons | RK Mishra | ||||
| 09:00 - 10:30 Hrs | Robotic Hernia Surgery | Hemanga Bhattacharjee, Vandana Soni, Vikas Singal, Sharad Sharma | ||||
| 09:00 - 09:20 Hrs | Robotics in AWR | Rockson Liu | ||||
| 09:20 - 09:40 Hrs | Robotics in Diastasis Repair in Incisional Hernia | Shirin Towfigh | ||||
| 09:40 - 10:00 Hrs | What Lap Surgeons Can Learn from Robotic Surgeons | B Ramana | ||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 Hrs | Panel Discussion | Is Robot Really Required for a Simple Disease Called Hernia: A Case Based Discussion | Sarfaraz Baig (Moderator) | Sudhir Kalhan, Jignesh Gandhi, Mukund Khetan, Pramod Shinde, Ramesh Punjani | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 Hrs | Tea/Coffee | |||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 Hrs | Robotic Bariatric & Upper GI Session | Rajinder Parshad, Manish Baijal, Sandeep Aggarwal, Tarun Mittal | ||||
| 11:00 - 11:15 Hrs | Haitus Hernia / Achalasia Cardia | Ashish Vashistha | ||||
| 11:15 - 11:30 Hrs | D2 Gastrectomy | SP Somashekhar | ||||
| 11:30 - 11:45 Hrs | Sleeve / MGB | Arun Prasad | ||||
| 11:45 - 12:00 Hrs | RYGB | Vivek Bindal | ||||
| 12:00 - 12:15 Hrs | Duodenal Switch | Ranjan Sudan | ||||
| 12:15 - 12:30 Hrs | Revisional Upper GI & Bariatric Surgery | EF Elli, Mayo Clinic, USA | ||||
| 12:30 - 13:00 Hrs | Panel Discussion | Is Robot Really Required for Upper GI Surgery | Mohit Bhandari (Moderator) | Ramen Goel, Nandkishore Dukkipatti, Mahender Narwaria, Parveen Bhatia, Raj Palaniappan, Rajesh Khullar | ||
| 13:00 - 13:30 Hrs | State of the Art of Robotics in General Surgery | Keynote Lecture: Prof. PC Giulianotti, UIC, Chicago | Ranjan Sudan, Pradeep Chowbey, Harsh Jauhari, Pawanindra Lal | |||
| 13:30 - 14:30 Hrs | Lunch | |||||
| 14:30- 16:30 Hrs | Hear from the Experts - Building and Managing A Successful Robotic Surgery Program | |||||
| 14:30 - 14:55 Hrs | Intelligent Surgery - Future of Robotic Surgery | Glenn Vavoso | ||||
| 14:55 - 15:20 Hrs | Key Learning and Recommendations for Building a Robotic Program | Somashekhar SP | ||||
| 15:20 - 16:05 Hrs | How Robotic Surgery Features/ Instruments Changed Your Practice? | Arun Prasad Surender Dabas Jagdishwar Goud | ||||
| 16:05 - 16:30 Hrs | Achieving Cost-Effectiveness in Robotic Rectal Cancer Surgery- Single Tertiary Hospital Experience in the Indian Subcontinent | Venkatesh Munikrishnan | ||||
| 16:30 - 17:00 Hrs | Valedictory Followed by Tea |