About this event

  • Date and time Thu 1 Jun 2023 from 9:00am to 3 Jun 2023 at 5:00pm
  • Location Ersta Hospital
  • Organised by Coloproctology

Join us in Stockholm for an upcoming coloproctology event where experts from the UK and Sweden will share their expertise, best practices, and innovative ideas.

This four-day event offers an exceptional opportunity to connect with international peers and participate in a fantastic program filled with engaging, topical sessions. 

Please view the exciting social programme here.

If you would like to attend the social programme, please email Jeremy at jeremy.nightingale@nhs.net

Please note that you will need to arrange your own flights and accommodation for this meeting. Please scroll down to find more information about the recommended hotels where we have secured exclusive rates for attendees.

By attending, you will:

  • Learn about restorative surgery for colitis and polyposis, and the surgical strategies for Crohn’s disease
  • Explore new treatments for faecal incontinence and locally advanced rectal cancer
  • Understand how to manage patients with a short bowel including when to give growth factors and distal feeding, and when surgery is appropriate
  • Have the opportunity to hear the renowned John Golligher lecture by Carolynne Vaizey

Don't miss out on this exciting event. Register today and gain valuable insights into the latest advances in coloproctology while networking with fellow professionals from around the world.

Hotel Reisen

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Grand Hotel

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Ersta Diakoni

Please email konferens@erstadiakoni.se and state the reservation number of 136717.

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Tickets

Standard pricing available until 31 May 2023.

Member

RSM Member
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
£225.00 Day 1
£0.00 Day 2
£140.00 Dinner
(optional)
£0.00 Day 3

Non - Member

Non - Member
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
£245.00 Day 1
£0.00 Day 2
£140.00 Dinner
(optional)
£0.00 Day 3
Guest
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
£50.00 Day 1
£0.00 Day 2
£140.00 Dinner
(optional)
£0.00 Day 3

Agenda

Day one: Thursday 1 June 2023

Welcome drinks reception

Hôtel Reisen, Skeppsbron 12, 111 30 Stockholm

Day two: Friday 2 June 2023

Registration tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Jeremy Nightingale and Mattias Soop

Session one: Restorative surgery for colitis/polyposis

Chair: Mattias Soop, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Head of Department of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Intestinal Failure Surgery at Karolinska University Hospital and Gordon Buchanan, Colorectal surgeon

Case presentation

Rebecka Ahl

Current role of ileorectal anastomosis

Caroline Nordenvall, Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor, Department of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Intestinal Failure Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital

Robotic restorative proctocolectomy

Omar Faiz, Clinical Director and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital, Professor of Practice in Colorectal Surgery, Imperial College

When not to do a pouch

Sue Clark, Consultant colorectal surgeon, St Mark's Hospital, Honorary senior lecturer, Imperial College

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session two: Locally advanced rectal cancer. When to:

Chair: Peter Sagar, Professor of Colorectal Surgery, The John Goligher Department of Colorectal Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Immediate Past President, Association of Coloproctology of GB & Ireland, Council member, Royal College of Surgeons of England and Henrik Iversen, Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor, Department of Colorectal Cancer Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital

Case presentation

Arthur Sun Myint, President of International Contact Radiotherapy Society, Honorary Professor (Gastro) Translation Research Unit, University of Liverpool

Give radiotherapy

Per Nilsson, Consultant Surgeon and Reader, Department of Colorectal Cancer Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital

Watch and wait

Anna Martling, Consultant Surgeon, Department of Colorectal Cancer Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital and Professor of Surgery and Dean of Karolinska Institute North

Operate

Ian Jenkins, Consultant Surgeon, St. Mark’s Hospital

Panel discussion
Lunch

Session three: Trainee presentations and Golligher Lecture

Chair: Per Nilsson and Charles Maxwell-Armstrong, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, President ACPGBI

Case presentation

TBC

John Goligher lecture

Carolynne Vaizey, Consultant Surgeon and Co-Clinical Director of St Mark's Hospital 

Tea and coffee break

Session four: Treatments for intestinal failure

Chair: Jeremy Nightingale and Matt Soop

Management of a high output stoma (including growth factors)

Jeremy Nightingale

Distal feeding

Kirstine Farrer, Consultant Dietitian – Intestinal Failure

Surgery for a short bowel

Gordon Carlson, Consultant Surgeon and Honorary Professor of Surgery, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion
Close of day

Optional dinner at the National Museum

Pre-registered delegates only

Day three: Saturday 3 June 2023

Registration tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Mattias Soop

Session five: Faecal incontinence

Chair: Carolynne Vaizey and Ulrik Lindforss, Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor, Department of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Intestinal Failure Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital

Case presentation

TBC

Neuromodulation

Gregory Thomas, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital

Sphincter repair

Wilhelm Graf, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Professor of Surgery, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital

Biofeedback

Ellisa Bradshaw, Biofeedback and Neuromodulation Specialist Nurse

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session six: Surgical strategies for Crohn’s disease

Chair: Björn Bolmstrand, Consultant Surgeon, Department of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Intestinal Failure Surgery,  Karolinska University Hospital and Steve Brown, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the University of Sheffield

Case presentation

TBC

Nutritional support

Jeremy Nightingale and Kirstine Farrer

When to do an anastomosis (why do leaks occur)

Par Myrelid, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Linköping

Update on surgical techniques

Mattias Soop

Panel discussion
Close of meeting
Lunch

Location

Ersta Hospital, Fjällgatan 44, 116 28 Stockholm, Sweden

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Wednesday 31 May 2023.  Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.