About this event

  • Date and time Fri 8 Dec 2023 from 8:45am to 5:00pm
  • Location Education Centre St Peter’s Hospital, Duchess of Kent Wing, Guildford Road Chertsey, Surrey KT16 OPZ
  • Organised by Coloproctology, Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

Join us for the 12th edition of our annual winter colorectal meeting. This joint meeting between the Coloproctology Section of the RSM, the ACPGBI and St Peter’s Hospital is attended by all Colorectal Surgeons in the London Chapters and colleagues from the UK.

Open to clinicians in associated fields including gastroenterologists, GI radiologists and nurse specialists as well as trainees from all deaneries. 

The purpose of this meeting is to review the current best practice in the management of colorectal disorders. Attendees can anticipate keynote addresses from recognised world experts, plenty of debate, discussions on controversial subjects and academic presentations by trainees.

By attending this meeting, you will

  • Learn about the latest research on advances in colorectal cancer
  • Find out how to manage complex pelvic fistula 
  • Take part in a state of the art lecture on multivisceral resection 
  • Hear trainees present academic short papers in prize session

Address: 

Education Centre, St Peter’s Hospital, Duchess of Kent Wing, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 OPZ

Parking & transport:

Parking is quite limited. If you are able to travel by car together or by public transport that would be preferable.  Please park in either the Hazel visitors carpark or the multi storey car park which is located near the front of the hospital; on either on level 2 or 2.5 only.

For additional information please click on this link: 

Travelling to St Peter's (asph.nhs.uk)

Dinner:

The faculty dinner will be held at the Runnymede Hotel, Windsor Road, Egham, TW20 OAG after the Annual Winter Colorectal Meeting. This dinner will provide a great opportunity for attendees to meet other colleagues in the same field and discuss the day’s events. The Runnymede Hotel is well known for their excellent buffet style dining and tickets will be £35 per head. The dinner will be from 6pm onwards. Register your place for the dinner here.  

Colorectal Papers for Oral Session:

 Abstracts to be submitted by 20 November 2023. Please email abstracts (max 250 words) to: alison.hainsworth@gstt.nhs.uk and pasha.nisar@nhs.net

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Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Mr Philip Bearn, Colorectal Surgeon, Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Trainee short paper prize session

Chairs: Miss Emma Carrington, Colorectal Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Miss Linda Ferrari, Colorectal Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Mr Piero Nastro, Colorectal Surgeon, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust 

Presentations
Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Symposium – the changing face of colorectal cancer

Introduction
Survivorship in colorectal cancer

Dr Zainab Noor, Clinical Psychologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Genetics and colorectal cancer – latest in diagnostics and management

Professor Sue Clark, Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital

Colorectal cancer in the young – an increasing problem

Dr Kai-Keen Shiu, Medical Oncologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Associate Professor, UCL Cancer Institute

Panel discussion
Lunch

Royal Society of Medicine lecture

Chairs: Mr Pasha Nisar, Colorectal Surgeon, Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Miss Alison Hainsworth, Colorectal Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Rectovaginal fistula experience at home and abroad

Miss Mhairi Collie, Colorectal Surgeon, Western General Hospital

The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland lecture

Chair: Professor Jared Torkington, The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) President, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Multi-visceral resection – where are we going?

Professor Jim Khan, Colorectal Surgeon, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Colorectal Disease lecture

Chair: Mr Neil Smart, Editor, Colorectal Disease, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

Functional outcomes after colorectal surgery

Professor Peter Christensen, Colorectal surgeon, Aarhus University, Denmark

Panel discussion

Short Paper Prize presentation

Mr Justin Davies, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Evening drinks and dinner

Runnymede On Thames Hotel, TW20 0AG

If you would like to attend the dinner, please book using the link above

Location

Education Centre St Peter’s Hospital, Duchess of Kent Wing, Guildford Road Chertsey, Surrey KT16 OPZ

 

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Thursday 7 December 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.