Program Details
Presidential Lecture
Presidential Lecture
Thursday, 8, December
13:30〜14:20
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Go Wakabayashi | Ageo Central General Hospital Surgery |
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Atsushi Sugioka | International Medical Center, Fujita Health University Hospital |
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Special Lecture
Special Lecture 1
Thursday, 8, December
14:30〜15:00
| Chair: | Atsushi Sugioka | International Medical Center, Fujita Health University Hospital |
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Chung Ngai Tang | Department of Surgery, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital / President of The Asia-Pacific Association of Robotic Surgeons |
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Special Lecture 2
Friday, 9, December
11:10〜11:40
| Chair: | Hironori Kaneko | Department of Surgery, Toho University School of Medicine |
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| Speaker: | Go Wakabayashi | Ageo Central General Hospital Surgery |
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JSES/ACRLS Joint Session
JSES/ACRLS Joint Session1
Surgical training in the era of robotic surgery
Thursday, 8, December
10:30〜12:05
| Chair: | Yoshiharu Sakai | Department of Surgery, Red Cross Hospital Osaka |
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| Yuko Kitagawa | Department of Surgery,Keio University School of Medicine |
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Gerald M. Fried | Surgery, McGill University |
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Philip Wai Yan Chiu | Division of Upper GI & Metabolic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine,The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| Hiroshi Yagi | Department of Surgery, Keio University, School of Medicine | ||
| Yohei Kojima | Department of Surgery, Kyorin University Hospital | ||
| Masanori Tokunaga | Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University | ||
| Susumu Shibasaki | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University | ||
| Kazutaka Obama | Department of Surgery, Kyoto University | ||
| Takeyuki Misawa | Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine | ||
| Fumiya Hongo | Department of Urology, Kyoto Prefectural Univetsity of Medicine |
JSES/ACRLS Joint Session2
Advancing Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery-Update and Future Perspectives
Friday, 9, December
9:30〜11:10
| Chair: | Satoshi Ieiri | Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kagoshima University |
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| Toshihiko Watanabe | Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine |
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Daniel Jon Ostlie | Department of Surgery, Phoenix Children's Hospital and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
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Kenneth Kak-Yuen Wong | Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong | |
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| Speaker: | Hiroki Hirao | Department of Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences | |
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| Yuma Yagi | Department of Surgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center | ||
| Masakazu Murakami | Department of Pediatric Surgery, Research Field in Medical and Health Sciences, Medical and Dental Area, Research and Education Assembly, Kagoshima University | ||
| Takahisa Tainaka | Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nagoya University | ||
| Masahiro Takeda | Department of Pediatric General & Urogenital Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine | ||
| Go Miyano | Department of Pediatric Surgery, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital |
JSES/ACRLS Joint Session3
Tips and Pitfall on Robotic surgery in rectal cancer
Friday, 9, December
14:10〜15:46
| Chair: | Hidetoshi Katsuno | Fujita Health University, Okazaki Medical Center / Fujita Health University Hospital |
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| Akio Shiomi | Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center |
| keynote: | Gyu-Seog Choi | Colorectal Cancer Center, Department of Surgery, Kungpook National University, Korea |
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| Speaker: | Shunsuke Tsukamoto | Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital | |
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| Kazuhiro Sakamoto | Department of Coloproctological Surgery, Juntendo University | ||
| Hidetoshi Katsuno | Fujita Health University, Okazaki Medical Center / Fujita Health University Hospital | ||
| Soichiro Ishihara | Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Tokyo | ||
| Masataka Ikeda | Div. of Lower GI, Dept of Gastroenterologicalsurgery, Hyogo College of Medicine | ||
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Nam Kyu Kim | Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Yonsei University | |
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Symposium
Symposium 1
Transoral Robotic Surgery for oropharyngeal cancer - current status and prospects -
Thursday, 8, December
16:30〜18:00
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Se-Heon Kim | Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University |
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| Ichiro Tateya | Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Fujita Health University |
| Speaker: | Se-Heon Kim | Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University |
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| Ichiro Tateya | Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Fujita Health University | |
| Akira Shimizu | Department of Otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, Tokyo medical university | |
| Taku Yamashita | Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kitasato University |
Symposium 2
Robot-assisted pancreatoduodenectomy: state of the art and standardization - From resection to reconstruction -
Friday, 9, December
7:50〜9:20
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Palanivelu Chinnusamy | Depertment of Surgical Gastroenterology, GEM hospital & Research center |
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| Yuichi Nagakawa | Department of Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery, Tokyo Medeical University |
| Speaker: | Kosei Takagi | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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| Gozo Kiguchi | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University | |
| Saiho Ko | Department of Surgery, Nara Prefecture General Medical Center | |
| Kohei Nakata | Department of Surgery and Oncology, Kyushu University | |
| Chie Takishita | Department of gastrointestinal and pediatric surgery, Tokyo Medical University , Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery | |
| Jae Seung Kang | Department of Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine |
| SpecialComment: | Palanivelu Chinnusamy | Depertment of Surgical Gastroenterology, GEM hospital & Research center |
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Symposium 4
State of the art in robotic mitral valve repair: Tips aiming for high quality repair of complex mitral pathology
Friday, 9, December
17:30〜19:00
| Chair: | Go Watanabe | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, NEWHEART WATANABE INSTITUTE |
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| Junjiro Kobayashi | National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center |
| SpecialComment: | Toshihiko Shibata | Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University |
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T. Sloane Guy | Minimally Invasive & Robotic Cardiac Surgery, Georgia Heart Institute, Northeast Georgia Medical Center |
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Jae Won Lee | Thoracic and CVS, ASAN Medical Center, Univ. of Ulsan | |
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| Yoshitsugu Nakamura | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Chibanishi General Hospital | ||
| Tomoyuki Fujita | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan | ||
| Yosuke Takahashi | Department of Cardiovascular surgery, Osaka Metroplitan University |
Symposium 5
Robot assisted radical hysterectomy for early cervical cancer: current status and future perspectives
Saturday, 10, December
8:00〜8:50
| Chair: | Keiichi Isaka | Department of Gyencology, Tokyo International Ohori Hospital |
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| Speaker: | Masaki Mandai | Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kyoto University |
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| Masaaki Andou | Gynecology, Kurashiki Medical Center |
Symposium 6
Robotic and endoscopic surgery for thyroid cancer
Saturday, 10, December
9:50〜11:20
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Kyung Tae | Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hanyang University |
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| Ichiro Tateya | Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Fujita Health University |
| Speaker: | Kyung Tae | Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hanyang University |
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| Akihiro Katayama | Endoscopic Thyroid Surg-center, Sapporo Tokushukai Hospital | |
| Norihiko Ishikawa | Department of Endocrine surgery, NewHeart Watanabe Institute | |
| Akihiro Nakajo | Department of Digestive, Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Kagoshima University |
Symposium 7
Robotic surgery for advanced colorectal cancer
Saturday, 10, December
13:20〜14:50
| Chair: | Eiji Sunami | Department of Surgery,Kyorin university |
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| Soichiro Ishihara | Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Tokyo |
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Seon-Hahn Kim | Professor (past), Colorectal Division, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine |
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| Tomohiro Yamaguchi | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research | ||
| Hiroki Takahashi | Department of gastroenterological surgery, Nagoya city university | ||
| Hidetoshi Katsuno | Fujita Health University, Okazaki Medical Center / Fujita Health University Hospital | ||
| Tomomichi Kiyomatsu | Department of Surgery, Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine | ||
| Akinari Nomura | Department of Surgery, Osaka Red Cross Hospital | ||
| Takeru Matsuda | Surgery, Kobe University |
Video Symposium
Video Symposium 1
Robotic liver resection: current status and future perspectives
Friday, 9, December
9:30〜11:00
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Gi Hong Choi | Department of Surgery,Yonsei University College of Medicine |
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| Chung Ngai Tang | Department of Surgery, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital / President of The Asia-Pacific Association of Robotic Surgeons |
| keynote: | Chung Ngai Tang | Department of Surgery, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital / President of The Asia-Pacific Association of Robotic Surgeons |
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| Speaker: | Gi Hong Choi | Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine | |
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| Brian K.P. Goh | Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital /Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School | ||
| Mamoru Morimoto | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya City University | ||
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Yutaro Kato | Department of Advanced Robotic and Endoscopic Surgery, Fujita Health University | |
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| SpecialComment: | Motohide Shimazu | Department of Surgery,Tama Kyuryo Hospital |
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Video Symposium 2
Is standardization of highly difficult laparoscopic anatomic liver resection possible?
Friday, 9, December
14:10〜15:40
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Daniel Cherqui | Hepatobiliary Center, Paris Saclay University |
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| Goro Honda | Department of Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
| Speaker: | Daniel Cherqui | Hepatobiliary Center, Paris Saclay University |
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| Mamoru Morimoto | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya City University | |
| Takashi Kaizu | Surgery, Kitasato University Hospital | |
| Tomotake Koizumi | Division of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Showa University | |
| Kazuteru Monden | Department of Surgery, Fukuyama City Hospital | |
| Yusuke Ome | Department of Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University | |
| Gozo Kiguchi | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University |
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion 1
Minimally invasive donor operation: current status and future prospects -Pancreas and kidney transplantation -
Friday, 9, December
15:50〜17:20
| Chair: | Takashi Kenmochi | Department of Organ Transplant Surgery, Fujita Health University |
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| Mamoru Kusaka | Department of Urology, Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center |
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Cheng-Yen Chen | Division of Transplantation Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital |
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| Taihei Ito | Department of Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Fujita Health University | ||
| Taichi Kanzawa | Department of Urology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University | ||
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Sung Shin | Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine | |
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Panel Discussion 2
Urinary diversion on robotic assisted radical cystectomy
Friday, 9, December
7:50〜9:20
| Chair: | Ryoichi Shiroki | Department of Urology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine |
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| Keita Nakane | Department of Urology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine |
| Speaker: | Kenji Zennami | Department of Urology, Fujita Health University | |
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Nianzeng Xing | Department of Urology, National Cancer Center/ National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/ Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College | |
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| Satoshi Ando | Department of Urology, Jichi Medical University | ||
| Keita Nakane | Department of Urology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine |
Panel Discussion 3
Future vision of robotic assisted cardiac surgery and thoracoscopic cardiac surgery in the era of minimally invasive cardiac interventions
Saturday, 10, December
8:00〜9:30
| Chair: | Yasushi Takagi | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujita Health University |
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| Toshihiko Shibata | Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University |
| Speaker: | Ryuta Seguchi | Department of cardiovascular surgery, New Heart Watanabe Institution | |
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| Tomoki Shimokawa | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute /Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Teikyo University | ||
| Taichi Sakaguchi | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo Medical University | ||
| Toshiaki Ito | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital | ||
| Kazuma Okamoto | Cardiovascular Surgery, Kindai University | ||
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Nai-Hsin Chi | Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital | |
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Husam H Balkhy | Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine | |
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| Atsuo Maekawa | Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujita Health University |
Workshop
Workshop 1
Robotic surgery with biliary and vascular reconstruction
Thursday, 8, December
10:30〜12:00
| Chair: | Go Wakabayashi | Ageo Central General Hospital Surgery |
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| Yuichi Nagakawa | Department of Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery, Tokyo Medeical University |
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Shin-E Wang | Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang Ming University |
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Kuo-Hsin Chen | Far Eastern Memorial Hospital | |
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| Speaker: | Ayumi Nishioka | Department of Surgery, Nara Prefectural General Medical Center |
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| Yuzo Umeda | Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| Junichi Yoshikawa | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University | |
| Gozo Kiguchi | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University |
Workshop 2
Minimally invasive surgery for perihilar malignancy
Thursday, 8, December
15:10〜16:40
| Chair: | Go Wakabayashi | Ageo Central General Hospital Surgery |
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| Osamu Itano | Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic & Gastrointestinal Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare |
| Speaker: | Shin Nakahira | Department of Surgery, Ohyama Memorial Hospital / Department of Surgery, Kure Medical Center / Department of Digestive Surgery, Kansai Rosai Hospital |
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| Daiki Nezu | Department of surgery, Nara Prefectual General Medical Centor | |
| Daisuke Ban | Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan | |
| Yutaro Kato | Department of Advanced Robotic and Endoscopic Surgery, Fujita Health University | |
| Hiroyuki Nitta | Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine |
Workshop 4
For zero-complication in alimentary tract reconstruction during esophago-gastric junctional cancer surgery
Thursday, 8, December
15:00〜16:30
| Chair: | Han Kwang Yang | Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital |
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| Speaker: | Kei Hosoda | Division of Upper GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University | |
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| Shigeru Tsunoda | Department of Surgery, Kyoto University | ||
| Yukie Yoda | Department of Surgery, Saga University | ||
| Yukinori Kurokawa | Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka University | ||
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Hyung-Ho Kim | Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine / Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital | |
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Workshop 5
Robot-assisted pulmonary segmentectomy for lung cancer: knacks and pitfalls
Friday, 9, December
15:50〜17:20
| Chair: | Hiroshige Nakamura | Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University |
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| Kenji Suzuki | Department of Respiratory surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine |
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Hecheng Li | Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine |
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| Toshihiko Sato | Department of Thoracic, Breast and Pediatric Surgery, University of Fukuoka | ||
| Makoto Oda | Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shin-yurigaoka General Hospita | ||
| Shota Nakamura | Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine | ||
| Hirotaka Yamamoto | Department of general thoracic surgery, Gifu university hospital, Gifu, Japan | ||
| Tomohiro Haruki | Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University, Yonago, Japan | ||
| Takashi Eguchi | Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine | ||
| Noriaki Sakakura | Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital |
Workshop 6
Laparoscopic or robotic donor hepatectomy
Saturday, 10, December
13:20〜14:50
| Chair: | Go Wakabayashi | Ageo Center General Hospital, Japan | |
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Ho-Seong Han | Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital | |
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Ki-Hun Kim | Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center and Ulsan University |
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Kyung-Suk Suh | surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine | |
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| Speaker: | Hiroyuki Nitta | Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine |
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| Masaaki Hidaka | Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences | |
| Shoichi Kageyama | Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Kyoto University |
| SpecialComment: | Susumu Eguchi | Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences |
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Workshop 7
New robotic surgical systems in Asia
Saturday, 10, December
9:50〜11:20
| Chair: | Ryoichi Shiroki | Department of Urology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine |
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| Kazutaka Obama | Department of Surgery, Kyoto University |
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Woong Kyu Han | Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine |
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| Norihito Wada | Department of Surgery, Shonan Keiiku Hospital | ||
| Masaaki Ito | Department of Colorectal surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East /Department of Surgical device innovation, National Cancer Center Hospital East | ||
| Nobuyuki Hinata | Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences | ||
| Koichi Suda | Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University /Collaborative Laboratory for Research and Development in Advanced Surgical Intelligence, Fujita Health University |
Debate
Debate
Is Robotic surgery useful for bariatric treatment?
Friday, 9, December
17:30〜19:00
| Chair : | Kazunori Kasama | Weight loss and metabolic surgery center, Yotsuya Medical Cube Yotsuya Medical Cube |
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| Pros : | Mohit Bhandari | Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Dept, Mohak Bariatrics and Robotics |
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| Cons : | Chih-Kun Huang | Body science & Metabolic disorders International Medical Center (BMIMC), China Medical University Hospital | |
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| Panelist: | Takeshi Naitoh | Department of Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine |
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| Yosuke Seki | Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube | |
| Seiichi Kitahama | Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Center for Obesity, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Chibune General Hospital | |
| Masayuki Ohta | Research Center for GLOBAL and LOCAL Infectious Diseases (RCGLID), Oita University | |
| Takashi Oshiro | Department of Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center |






































