Program – Full Style

Time Topic 0830 – 0840 Opening Ceremony 0830 – 0840 Welcome Address by Course Director 0840 – 0900 Endoscopy Lecture 1 0840 – 0900 Endocytoscopy – A Primer 0900 – 1010 Live Endoscopy Demonstration Session I

Time Topic 1030 – 1050 Endoscopy Lecture II 1030 – 1050 Complications of Therapeutic Endoscopy 1050 – 1200 Live Endoscopy Demonstrations Session II

Time Topic 1200 – 1330 Lunch and Viewing of Exhibits 1215 – 1245 Lunch Symposium – Sponsored by Fujifilm Screening endoscopy using LCI and BLI -Advanced diagnostic method for upper GI cancers by color image 1245 – 1330 Lunch (continuation) and Viewing of Exhibitions 1330 – 1440 Live Endoscopy Demonstrations Session III

Time Topic 1500 – 1520 Endoscopy Lecture III 1500 – 1520 An Update on EUS Guided Tissue Acquisition 1520 – 1630 Live Endoscopy Demonstrations Session IV

Time Topic 1630 – 1710 Video Case Presentations 1630 – 1640 Case 1 Presentation 1640 – 1650 Case 2 Presentation 1650 – 1700 Case 3 Presentation 1700 – 1710 Case 4 Presentation

Time Topic 1710 – 1725 Closing Remark by Course Director END OF ENDOSCOPY WORKSHOP

Time Topic 0900 – 1000 Free Paper Presentations 0900 – 0910 Association Between Human Gut Microbiota and the Host Central Obesity 0910 – 0920 Customising Polyethyleneimine (PEI) Polymer for Hepatitis B Virus Therapy in Cellular and Animal Models 0920 – 0930 Use of Vibration Controlled Transient Elastography (Fibroscan) With or Without Platelet Count to Predict... Read More

1000 – 1100 Morning Tea Break and Viewing of Exhibits 1000 – 1100 Poster Round 1000 – 1005 The “ASSURANCE” IBD Neoplasia Surveillance Software Guides Patient Management and Data Collection: Results from Asia-Pacific 1005 – 1010 Clinical Manifestations, Treatment and Prognosis of Wilson’s Disease – Outcomes from a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore 1010 – 1015 Safety of Calcineurin... Read More

1100 – 1230 HCC Symposium 1100 – 1120 Impact of Anti-Viral Treatment on HCC Development 1120 – 1140 Advances in Locoregional Therapy for HCC 1140 – 1200 Immunotheraphy and Chemotheraphy for HCC 1200 – 1220 Surgery and Transplantation for HCC 1220 – 1230 Question and Answer Session

1230 – 1340 Lunch 1245 – 1315 Lunch Symposium (Sponsored by DCH Auriga Singapore) Evolution of Infliximab Biosimilar: CT-P13 Key Clinical Evidence of CT-P13: From Concept to Clinical Practice – 3.4 CD RCT (Switching Data for 54 weeks) – SC Trial 1315 – 1340 Lunch (continuation) and Viewing of Posters and Exhibitions

1300 – 1400 Lunch 1300 – 1345 Lunch Symposium 1345 – 1400 Continuation of Lunch (Dessert) and Viewing of Posters and Exhibitions

1340 – 1400 Opening Ceremony 1340 – 1345 Welcome Address By Scientific Chair, GESS 1345 – 1350 Welcome address by Chairman Nursing Committee, GESS 1350 – 1400 Opening address by President, GESS 1400 – 1500 Plenary Session 1400 – 1430 Seah Cheng Siang Memorial Oration – Gastroenterology in Singapore – Evolving Challenges 1430 – 1500 Plenary Lecture –... Read More

    1400 – 1500 Luminal Symposium 1400 – 1420 Helicobactor Pylori – Is it Still a Problem? 1420 – 1440 Update in the Management of Stubborn Constipation 1440 – 1500 Probiotic  

1400 – 1410 Opening Ceremony 1410 – 1510 Nursing Free Paper Presentation

1520 – 1700 IBD Symposium 1530 – 1600 New Drugs for IBD: How Do We Fit Them Into Our Treatment Algorithm New Mesalazines and Steroids in the Treatment of Mild-Moderate UC New Biologic Sgents For Moderate – Severe IBD 1530 – 1550 New Mesalazines and Steroids in the Treatment of Mild-Moderate UC 1550 – 1610... Read More

1530 – 1700 Capsule Endoscopy Symposium 1530 – 1550 What is Capsule Endoscopy 1550 – 1610 What are The Indications and Complications 1610 – 1630 What The Doctors are Looking For? 1630 – 1650 The Role of Nurses 1650 – 1700 Question and Answer Session

  1530 – 1630 Liver Symposium 1530 – 1550 Supplements and Drug Induced Liver Injury 1550 – 1610 Fatty Liver – Is it only Down to Diet and Exercise? 1610 – 1630 Doctor, is My Liver Ok? How to Assess Liver Function Accurately

1830 – 2100 GIHep Conference Dinner Symposium 1830 – 1900 Evening lecture Looking Ahead: Treating Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in 2020 1900 – 1915 Award Presentations Award Presentation – Doctor’s Catergory Award Presentation – Nursing Category 1915 – 2100 GIHep Conference Dinner (By Invitation Only)

0830 – 1000 Liver Symposium – Practical Approach to Hepatology Referrals 0830 – 0850 Please See For ? Hepatorenal Syndrome – My Patient has Abnormal LFT and Renal Impairment 0850 – 0910 Please See For ? Hepatic Encephalopathy – My Drowsy Patient Has Raised Serum Ammonia 0910 – 0930 “Should I Observe or Treat My... Read More

0830 – 1000 Deep Sedation and Endoscopy 0830 – 0900 New Trends and Challenges Faced in Private Sector for Patients Under Moderate to Deep Sedation 0900 – 0930 Proceduralist Administered Propofol (PAP) and His Challenges in Giving Moderate to Deep Sedation 0930 – 1000 Nurse Sedation Experience in Administer Sedation – Roles and Responsibilities

1030 – 1200 Upper GI Symposium 1030 – 1050 Pathophysiology and Prevention of NSAID-enteropathy: Focus on Gut Microbiota 1050 – 1110 Preventing Gastric Cancer through H. Pylori Eradication 1110 – 1130 Medical Treatment of GERD 1130 – 1150 Management of Anticoagulants during Endoscopy 1150 – 1200 Question & Answer Session

1030 – 1200 Role of Nursing in Therapeutic Endoscopy 1030 – 1050 Therapeutic EUS 1050 – 1110 Role of Nurses in Preparation/ Assisting Spyglass Cholangiosocopy 1110 -1130 Sengstaken Tube – Role in Modern Day Nursing 1150 – 1200 Question and Answer Session

1200 – 1315 Lunch 1215 – 1245 Lunch symposium (Sponsored Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Asia Pacific)) Treatment of Helicobacter Pylori in 2018 1245 – 1315 Lunch (continuation) and Viewing of Posters and Exhibitions

1200 – 1300 Lunch Lunch Symposium Lunch (Continuation) and Viewing of Posters and Exhibitions

1300 – 1430 Special Populations 1300 – 1325 Risk Management of Elderly Endoscopy Patient 1325 – 1350 Paediatric Patients 1350 – 1415 Pregnant Patients 1415 – 1430 Question and Answer Session

1315 – 1445 Gastroenterology and the Gut Microbiome 1315 – 1335 Probiotics for GI Diseases 1335 – 1355 Macrobiota-directed Therapies in Digestive Diseases 1355 – 1415 Genetic Modification of Probiotic 1415 – 1435 Free Paper Presentations 1435 – 1445 Question and Answer Session

  1515 – 1645 Endoscopy Pot-Pourri 1515 – 1535 POEM – The Singapore Experience 1535 – 1555 Role of EUS in Portal Hypertension 1555 – 1615 Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy 1615 – 1635 Strategies to Diagnose and Manage Complications of OGD and Colonoscopy 1635 – 1645 Question and Answer Session

1645 – 1700 Closing Closing Remarks by President