SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 28 November, 2012 14:00 16:00 Registration and Welcome refreshments 16:00-16:20 Greetings Prof Ricardo Alfisi Chairman, Israel Surgical Association Prof Joel Sayfan Prof Leonid Lantsberg Dr Daniel Duek Dr Ahmad Assalia 16:20-17:50 Plenary Session, Invited lectures 16:20-16:50 LAPAROSCOPIC APPROACH TO RECTAL CANCER: PROS and CONS Eduardo Mª Targarona, M.D., Spain Director of the Unit of Gastrointestinal and Hematological Surgery Professor of Surgery Hospital Santpau Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (Speaker will be presented by L.Lantsberg) 16:50-17:20 LAPAROSCOPY, ROBOTICS, AND BEYOND Amir Szold, Assia Medical Group, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. 17:20 17:50 TAMIS TO FACILITATE DISTAL RECTAL RESECTION André D Hoore, M.D., Belgium (Speaker will be presented by O.Zmora) 17:50-18:40 Plenary Session, Free papers 17:50 18:00 LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION OF PRIMARY MIDGUT CARCINOID TUMORS (28) A Dagan, S Shmailov, S Grozinsky-Glasberg*, DJ Gross*, P Reissman Department of Surgery, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, *Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Department of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. The Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 18:00 18:10 RISK OF ADHESIVE OBSTRUCTION AFTER COLORECTAL SURGERY THE BENEFITS OF THE MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPROACH MAY EXTEND WELL BEYOND THE PERIOPERATIV PERIOD. (31) A Reshef, T Hull, RP Kiran Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 18:10 18:20 ROBOTIC-ASSISTED SURGERY FOR RECTAL CANCER (RASRR) (37) M Khaikin¹, O Zmora¹, M Rubin², M Papa², M Gutman¹ ¹Department of General Surgery B, ² Department of General Surgery C Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 18:20 18:30 CLINICAL OUTCOME OF LAPAROSCOPIC RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY WITH TRASVAGINAL SPECIMEN EXTRACTION (47) D Froilich^, O Lavie*, k kamal^, G Pascal,^ E Shiloni^, D Hazzan^ ^Department of Surgery B, *Department of Gynecology Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. 19:30 Dinner 21:00 Social Event
29 November, 2012 From 07:30 Breakfast 08:00-09:30 Plenary Session, Invited lectures 08:00-08:30 OUR EXPERIRNCE WITH LAPAROSCOPIC ILEO-ANAL POUCH SURGERY Joel Bauer, M.D., USA (Speaker will be presented by H. Tulchinsky) 08:30-09:00 OUR EXPERIRNCE WITH NOSE FOR LEFT COLECTOMY André D Hoore, M.D.,Belgium 09:00-09:30 SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY: STATE OF THE ART Michel Gagner, M.D. FRCSC, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, AFC(Hon.) Clinical Professor of Surgery Florida International University, Miami, FL Research Associate, Hopital du Sacre Coeur, Montreal, Canada (Speaker will be presented by A. Assalia) 09:30 11:00 Plenary Session, Video 09:30 09:45 LAPAROSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY COMPLICATIONS. (2) E Sadot, I Maler, E Carmeli, H Kashtan, A Keidar Department of Surgery B, Rabin Medical Center, Petch-Tikva, Israel. 09:45-10:00 COMBINED TECHNIQUE OF VIDEO-ASSISTED AND OPEN EN-BLOCK RESECTION OF LARGE CHEST WALL TUMORS WITH RECONSTRUCTION BY NEW TITANIUM BASED DEVICES. (8) S Azzam, C Korin, M Papiashvilli The Edith Wolfson and Assaf-Harofe Medical Centers, Israel. 10:00 10:15 THORACOSCOPIC BILATERAL & UNILATERAL LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE EMPHYSEMA: IT IS STILL HERE. (9) C Korin, S Azzam, M Papiashvilli. The Edith Wolfson and Assaf-Harofe Medical Centers, Israel. 10:15 10:30 LAPAROSCOPIC TOTAL GASTRECTOMY WITH ESOPHAGO JEJUNOSTOMY FOR CHRONIC GASTRIC FISTULA FOLLOWING SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY (24) M Ben-David, I Carmeli, I Maler, H Kashtan, A Keidar General Surgery B, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center 10:30 10:45 TRANSANAL MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY (TAMIS) FOR LOCAL EXCISION OF RECTAL TUBOVILLOUS ADENOMA (TVA) (42) M Khaikin, O Zmora, M Gutman Department of General Surgery B, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 10:45 11:00 ROBOTIC RESTORATIVE PROCTECTOMY (LAR WITH TME) FOR CANCER (39) M Khaikin, O Zmora, M Gutman Department of General Surgery B, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel *** 8-10 min presentation, 5-7 min discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break and Visit the Exhibition 11:30-12:30 - Parallel Session, Free papers: Laparoscopic session: 11:30 11:40 SHOULD A POTENTIAL FUTURE NEED FOR RADICAL PROSTACTECTOMY IN A MALE PATIENT WITH INGUINAL HERNIA BE A DETERMINING FACTOR AGAINST A LAPAROSCOPIC REPAIR - ANALYSIS OF ALL LITERATURE PUBLISHED DATA.(4) M Haiflera 1, B Benjaminb 2, R Ghineab 2, S Avital 2 1 Department of Urology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 2 Department of Surgery B, Meir Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 11:40 11:50 THE EFFECT OF GASTRIC BANDING ON MORBID OBESITY IS BEYOND ITS' RESTRICTIVE PROPERTIES.(14) S Atias, U Netz, ZH Perry, E Avinoach, S Mizrahi, Department of surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. + Moshe Prywes, Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 11:50 12:00 LAPAROSCOPIC NEARTOTAL DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY FOR BENIGN AND MALIGNANT PANCREATIC TUMORS (21) A Keinan, J Alberton, A Mintz, P Reissman Department of surgery, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel 12:00 12:10 ENDOSCOPIC CLIP AS A TREATMENT FOR GASTRIC LEAK AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY. (49) O Eyal, G Sroka, T Raynes, D Keren, I Matter Department of General Surgery and Gastroenterology, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Technion, Haifa 12:10 12:20 ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF FISTULAS AFTER SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY(50) I. Khamaysi, A. Suissa, K.Yassin, A. Mahajna, B. Bishara, A. Assalia Department of Gsatroenterology and General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus 12:20 12:30 SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY (54) M Laniado, G Sroka, H Mady, I Matter Department of General Surgery, Bnai-Zion Medical Center,Technion, Haifa Colorectal session: 11:30 11:40 ARE THERE SPECIFIC ENDOSONOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN CROHN'S PATIENTS WITH PERIANAL FISTULAE? (3) N Horesh*,Vd Bücholtz *, O Zmora*,M Beer-Gabel, D Carter,AP Zbar* *Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan Israel (affiliated with Sackler Medical School and Tel Aviv University) Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan Israel (affiliated with Sackler Medical School and Tel Aviv University) 11:40 11:50 THIRD- AND FOURTH-DEGREE PERINEAL TEARS INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS (10) N Melamed, O Gavish, M Eisner, A Wiznitzer, N Wasserberg, Y Yogev, Helen Schneider Hospital for Womenand department of surgery B, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva,and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv,Israel
11:50 12:00 TRANSANAL ENDOSCOPIC MICROSURGERY AFTER NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION FOR RECTAL CANCER (11) N Issa, A Mourninkas, E Powsner, Z Dreznek Surgery B. Hasharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University 12:00 12:10 HEMORON TREATMENT FOR HEMORRHOIDS (23) A Ferdman, General & Colorectal Surgeon, proctology unit, Laniado Hospital,Netaniya 12:10 12:20 FROZEN SECTION EXAMINATION MAY FACILITATE RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOR MID AND LOW RECTAL CANCER (29) W Khoury, W Abboud, SD Duek, Y Kluger Department of General Surgery, Colorectal surgery Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel 12:20 12:30 WHEN COLONIC INERTIA IS THE INDICATION FOR TOTAL ABDOMINAL COLECTOMY EXPECT WORSE 30 DAYS OUTCOMES (32) A Reshef. B Gurland. M Zutshi. RP Kiran, T Hull Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 12:30-13:30 - Parallel Session, Free papers Colorectal session: 12:30 12:40 CLINICAL PRESENTATION PREDICTS THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH COLON CANCER (1) O Ben-Ishay, Z Peled, A Othman, E Brauner, Y Kluger, Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus and the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel 12:40 12:50 SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CLOSTRIDIUM COLITIDES (6) L Mitáš 1, R Svatoň 1, T Skřička 1, Z Kala 1, I Penka 1, M Hanslianová 2, T Grolich 1, P Polák 3 Hlavsa 1. 1 Surgical Clinic of University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology of University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic 3 Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk and J University Brno, Czech Republic 12:50 13:00 COLONIC DIVERTICULITIS OF YOUNG PATIENTS (17) A Hadary, I Waksman Department of General Surgery,Ziv Medical Center, Safed. Affiliated to Bar Ilan Faculty of Medicine. 13:00 13:10 ENDORECTAL ULTRASOUND DOES NOT RELIABLY IDENTIFY PATIENTS WITH UT3 RECTAL CANCER WHO CAN AVOID NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY (19) R Shapiro 1,2, IC Lavery 1, RP Kiran 1 1 Department of Colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA 2 Department of Surgery C and Surgical Oncology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 13:10 13:20 RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH APPENDICEAL NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS: DOES SIZE MATTER? (20) A Keinan 1, S Grozinsky-Glasberg 2, KI Alexandraki 3, D Barak 3, Doviner 2, GA Kaltsas 4, DJ Gross 2, P Reissman 1, 1 Department of Surgery, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
2 Neuroendocrine Tumor Unit, Endocrinology & Metabolism Service, Department of Medicine, and 3 Department of Pathology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Department of Pathophysiology, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece 13:20 13:30 TRANSANAL VACUUM-ASSISTED THERAPY (TVAT) OF ANASTOMOTIC LEAKAGE FOLLOWING RESTORATIVE PROCTECTOMY: OUR INITIAL EXPERIENCE (35) M Khaikin, O Zmora, M Gutman Department of General Surgery B, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Laparoscopic session: 12:30 12:40 VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY VERSUS THORACOTOMY LOBECTOMY: PROSPECTIVE STUDY.(7) M Papiashvilli, S Azzam, C Korin The Edith Wolfson and Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center, Israel. 12:40 12:50 INTERVAL LAPROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY WHAT IS THE BEST TIMING FOR SURGERY? (12) Y Hershkovitz, H Kais, A Halevy Division of Surgery, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center 12:50 13:00 DOES TIME TILL SURGERY AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF A SIMPLE LAP APPENDECTOMY A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY (15) Z Perry * +, U Netz *, S Atias *, S Mizrahi*, E Avinoach*, L Lantsberg*, B Kirshtein * Department of surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. + Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 13:00 13:10 MINIMAL INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY (MILC): A NEW, SIMPLE AND COST EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR ELECTIVE CHOLECYSTECTOMY (34) A Szold 1, O Raziel 1, D Goitein 1,2, D Hershko 3, N Sakran 1,3. 1 Assia Medical Group, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2 Department of Surgery C, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Avis University Tel Aviv, Israel. 3 Department of Surgery A, Emek Medical Center, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Afula, Israel 13:10 13:20 BARIATRIC SURGERY IN THE ELDERLY COMPARING THE 3 MAJOR BARIATRIC PROCEDURES (45) S Eldar, HM Heneghan, S Brethauer, PR Schauer Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 13:20 13:30 COMPARISON OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS OF INTRA ABDOMINAL PRESSURE IN MORBIDLY OBESE PATIENTS UNDERGOING LAPAROSCOPIC BARIATRIC SURGERY A PROSPECTIVE CONTROLLED CLINICAL STUDY (52) W Aboud, M Mekel, B Bishara, A Assalia, A Mahajna Department of General Surgery, Rambam Medical center and The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 - Plenary session, Invited lectures 14:30-14:50 LAPAROSCOPIC COLOANAL ANASTOMOSIS: IS IT A SAFE OPTION? Eric Rullier, M.D., France (Speaker will be presented by Y.Ziv) 14:50-15:10 SPIDER TECHNOLOGY Michel Gagner, M.D. FRCSC, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, AFC(Hon.) Clinical Professor of Surgery Florida International University, Miami, FL Research Associate, Hopital du Sacre Coeur, Montreal, Canada 15:10-15:30 BARIATRIC CHALLENGES: REVERSALS, CONVERSIONS AND REVISIONS Scott shikora, MD, Director, Center for Metabolic Health and Bariatric Surgery,Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA (Speaker will be presented by M.Rubin ) 15:30-16:10 - Plenary Session, Free papers 15:30 15:40 GRADING OF COMPLICATIONS AND RISK FACTORS EVALUATION IN LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY (5) Z Asa 1, R Greenberg 2, R Ghinea 1, S Avital 1 1 Department of Surgery B, Meir Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2 Department of Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 15:40 15:50 ENDOSCOPIC RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION TREATMENT OF GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA: RESULTS FROM A EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE STUDY (18) D Wengrower 1, X Dra 2, PG Carro 3, C Fristrup 4, FP Roldan 3, T Adar 1, P Marteau 2 1 Digestive Diseases Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. 2 Gastroenterology, HÔPITAL LARIBOISIERE, APHP & PARIS 7 UNIVERSITY, PARIS, France. 3 Digestive Unit, Hospital General Mancha Centro, Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. 4 Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, 15:50 16:00 EARLY EXPERIENCE WITH SINGLE PORT LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT TUMOR (22) I Melnik, O Dukhno, Y Mnouskin, D Goldstien, B Yoffe Department of General and Vascular Surgery, the Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon. Affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 16:00 16:10 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER IN NONAGENERIANS (30) S Yellinek, M Retchkiman, Y Eden, J Alberton, P Reissman. Depatment of surgery, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 16:10-16:40 Coffee Break and Visit the Exhibition
16:40 17:30 - Parallel Sessions Laparoscopic session: 16:40 16:50 LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING REMOVAL, AN HISTORICAL COHORT STUDY (13) N Teich*, U Netz *, S Atias*, S Mizrahi*, E Avinoach*, ZPerry* + * Department of surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. + Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 16:50 17:00 LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING AFTER A HIATAL HERNIA REPAIR, AN HISTORICAL COHORT STUDY (16) Y Glazer*, S Atias *, U Netz*, S Mizrahi*, E Avinoach*, L Lantsberg*, Zvi Perry* + * Department of surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. + Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Health sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 17:00 17:10 LAPAROSCOPIC BPD & DS VERSUS ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS AFTER ISOLATED SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY FOR OBESITY (25) I Carmeli, M Ben-David, C Schweiger, H Kashtan, A Keidar Department of Surgery, bariatric clinic,rabin Medical Center Tel-Aviv University, Petach-Tikva, Israel. 17:00 17:10 AN EASY AND REPRODUCIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR ACCESS TO THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY AND ESTABLISHING PNEUMOPERITONEUM IN BARIATRIC PATIENTS (48) W Abboud, A Mahajna, Z Peled, H Gilstein, Y Kluger, A Assalia Division of Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel 17:20 17:30 TOTALLY LAPAROSCOPIC LEFT HEMICOLECTOMY FOR SPLENIC FLEXURE TUMORS (55) A Safadi, G Sroka, I Matter Department of General Surgery, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel Colorectal session: Professional meeting - Elections 19:30 Dinner 21:00 Social Event Certificates of appreciation Awards for outstanding abstracts Show of Beatles cover band: The magical Mystery tour
30 November, 2012 From 07:30 Breakfast 08:30-10:30 Plenary session, Invited lectures 08:30-09:00 TBD Eduardo Mª Targarona, M.D., Spain Director of the Unit of Gastrointestinal and Hematological Surgery Professor of Surgery Hospital Santpau Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 09:00-09:30 WHY GOOD SURGEONS FAIL? Scott shikora, MD,Director, Center for Metabolic Health and Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA 09:30-10:00 LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR CROHN'S DISEASE Joel Bauer, M.D., USA 10:00-10:30 LOW RECTAL CANCER: NEW CLASSIFICATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF SURGERY Eric Rullier, M.D., France 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break and Visit the Exhibition 11:00-11:50 Plenary session, Free papers 11:00 11:10 SINGLE-INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY (SILC): OUR EXPERIENCE (36) M Khaikin, O Zmora, M Gutman Department of General Surgery B, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer,Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 11:10 11:20 REVISIONAL PROCEDURES FOR FAILED VERTICAL BANDED GASTROPLASTY (44) I Mahler, C Schweiger, S Abu-Gazala, E Kerem, AB Yaakov, H Kashtan, A Keidar, MD Rabin medical center and Hadassah 11:20 11:30 LAPOROSCOPIC COLORECTAL RESECTION IN OCTAGENERIANS (51) R Linder, R Khoury, W Khoury, A Assalia, Y Kluger, A Mahajna. Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, The Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 11:30 11:40 ACCELERATED RECOVERY PROGRAM COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL POSTOPERATIVE CARE AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY (53) W Aboud, S Khoury, K Sirkovich, A Assalia, A Mahajna MD. Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, The Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 11:40 11:50 ROBOTIC SURGERY FOR THE TREATMENT OF RECTAL PROLAPSE (56) M Venturero 1, M Khaikin 2, N Wasserberg 3, O Zmora 2, D Goietin 1, M Gutman 2, M Papa 1, M Rubin 1 1 Department of Surgery and Surgical Oncogy C, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 2 Department of Surgery and Transplantation B, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 3 Department of Surgery B, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center 11:50 12:00 Presentation of the FLS project and award for the resident with the best performance: Dr Sroka and Dr Assalia 12:00-13:00 Panel Discussion: LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR RECTAL CANCER :MERITS AND LIMITS 13:00 closing remarks 13:30 Lunch