Minimally Invasive Surgery ProgramThe Twentieth Annual

Steinberg-Bernstein Visiting Professor

Horacio Asbun, MDOctober 16 -17, 2019

Dr. Michel GagnerDr. Namir KatkhoudaDr. Lee L. SwanstromDr. David W. Rattner

Dr. Dennis FowlerDr. Marco Patti

Dr. Adrian E. ParkDr. Nathaniel J. Soper

Dr. W. Scott MelvinDr. T. Young-Fadok

Dr. Carlos A. PellegriniDr. Mark A. Talamini

Dr. Daniel J. ScottDr. L. Michael BruntDr. Brian J. Dunkin

Dr. Aurora PryorDr. Christopher M. Schlachta

Dr. Steve EubanksDr. Archana Ramaswamy

Generously supported by:

Steinberg-Bernstein Foundation Karl Storz

Previous Visiting Professors in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Horacio Asbun, MD, FACS Chief, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Miami Cancer Institute

Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Dr. Horacio Asbun is Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Miami Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Prior to this role, he served as Chairman of General Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida (2008-2018).

He is President-Elect (2020-2021) of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and Executive Member of the Board of Governors. He also served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Hepato-Pancreatic Biliary Association (AHPBA), Chairman of the Video-Based Education of the American College of Surgeons and is a founding Board Member of The G4 Alliance, the International Laparo-scopic Liver Society and the International Minimally Invasive Pancreas Surgery consortium.

Dr. Asbun is the Editor-in-Chief of the American College of Surgeons Multi-media Atlas of Surgery and is on the Editorial Board of Surgical Endoscopy. He has served as a panel member on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for pancreatic cancer and is a member of 25 medical societies. He has been, and is currently a member, Chair or Co-Chair of multiple Committees on several major US surgical societies.

Dr. Asbun is a member of multiple international experts’ surgical initia-tives and expert study groups. Among them, International Study Group of Pancreas Surgery (ISGPS), Tokyo Guidelines (TG 18), European Guidelines on Laparoscopic Liver Surgery (EGMLLS), International Consensus on Laparoscopic Liver Resection (ICLLR), International Consensus on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury. He currently serves as the Chair of the Evidence-Based, International Guidelines in Minimally Invasive Pancreas Resection (IG-MIPR).

Dr. Asbun has published more than 150 peered-reviewed scientific articles and 110 peer-reviewed surgical videos. He is author of over 35 book chapters and editor of 6 surgical books. His publications are in the areas of liver, pancreas, biliary and endocrine surgery, minimally invasive surgery and surgical oncol-ogy. He directs and teaches national and international courses on surgery and speaks frequently at scientific conferences around the world, with more than 240 presentations in the US and over 410 invited presentations internationally. He is an Honorary Fellow of several international surgical societies and has received multiple awards.

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16th, 2019

13:00 -17:00 Invited Lecture Sir William Osler Amphitheatre (Room A6.105) The Montreal General Hospital "Tips and Tricks in Laparoscopic Pancreas Surgery: Becoming a Better Open Surgeon" – Horacio Asbun, MD

Video and Scientific Presentations by McGill M.I.S. faculty, fellows, residents and alumni. THURSDAY OCTOBER 17th, 2019

07:30 Surgical Grand Rounds Sir William Osler Amphitheatre (Room A6.105) The Montreal General Hospital "Innovation in Surgery: The Good the Bad and the Wrong" – Horacio Asbun, MD

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