About this event

  • Date and time Fri 1 Mar 2024 from 8:45am to 4:00pm
  • Location DISC Centre, Astra Zeneca HQ, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
  • Organised by Coloproctology

Join us for an educational day exploring multidisciplinary working in benign and malignant conditions, to learn about cutting edge translational research and how it will influence future patient care and to look to the future in terms of digital and technological advances in how patients with colorectal conditions may be managed.

This meeting aims to discuss clinical and research topics at the cutting edge of Coloproctology patient care.

By attending this meeting, you will:

  • Gain increased knowledge of cancer and IBD MDT teamworking
  • Learn about multidisciplinary working in benign and malignant conditions
  • Enhance your knowledge about the cutting edge translational research and how it will influence future patient care
  • Be able to look to the future in terms of digital and technological advances and how patients with colorectal conditions may be managed

Location: The Discovery Centre (DISC), Astra Zeneca, Robinson Way, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ

Travel Guide

Travel and parking: Standard bus and train routes to Cambridge city centre. Paid car parking is available 2 minutes walk from the venue at Car park 2 on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus- Addenbrooke's Multi-Storey Car Park 2, Cambridge (sabaparking.co.uk)- Robinson Way. Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ.

 

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We would like to thank our sponsor Platinum sponsor CMR Surgical and our sponsors Ethicon, KSL Martin, Modern Aesthetic Solutions, Medtronic, Origin Sciences and THD for their support of this meeting.
Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Tom Keith-Roach, CEO, Astra Zeneca UK and Justin Davies, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine 

Session 1: From bench to bedside

Chairs: Professor Grant Stewart, Professor of Surgical Oncology and Honorary Consultant Urologist, University of Cambridge and Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, University of Cambridge

On the polyclonal origins of intestinal tumours

Mr Iannish Sadien, Research Fellow, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, East of England Specialty Trainee, General Surgery

Bytes to bedside: Utilising whole genome sequencing for clinical value

Professor Serena Nik Zainal, Professor, Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics, Honorary Consultant, Clinical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Fellow, The Academy of Medical Sciences 

Science today, treatment tomorrow: Translational research in IBD

Professor Miles Parkes, Professor of Translational Research, Consultant Gastroenterologist, University of Cambridge 

Does mutational order matter during colorectal cancer evolution?

Professor Simon Buczacki, Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University of Oxford 

Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Looking to the future

Chairs: Miss Rina George, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Secretary, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Mr Janindra Warasuvitarne, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Marks Hospital, Council Member, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Publishing and research in surgery - doomed or blooming?

Professor Neil Smart, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Associate Professor, University of Exeter, Editor-in-Chief, Colorectal Disease 

Can digital technology improve outcomes for patients having colorectal surgery?

Mr Richard Brady, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Council Member, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

PiPAC in peritoneal metastases - the rationale, the evidence and the future

Professor Jared Torkington, President, Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

Digital surgery - what will surgeons of the future do and how will they do it?

Professor Shafi Ahmed, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Bartholmew’s Hospital

Lunch and networking
Sponsored session - Difficulties and controversies in introducing a Surgical Robot

Dr Mark Slack, CMO and Co-Founder, CMR Surgical

Session 3: MDT potpourri

Chairs: Mr Ian Jenkins, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Marks Hospital, President Elect, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Mr Michael Powar, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, President Elect Designate, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Getting in the way of the knife: What can medical therapy offer patients with IBD in 2024?

Dr Tim Raine, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Immunotherapy and colorectal cancer - hype or reality?

Dr Ultan McDermott. Chief Scientist, AstraZeneca, Consultant Oncologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Faculty, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Multivisceral transplantation for colorectal surgeons - from abdominal catastrophe to IBD and cancer

Miss Irum Amin, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Optimising outcomes for patients and the wider clinical team in challenging pelvic surgery

Miss Nicola Fearnhead, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Council Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Past President, Association of Coloproctology, Great Britain and Ireland and Miss Alex Colquhoun, Consultant Urologist and Clinical Director, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Closing remarks

Mr Justin Davies

Location

DISC Centre, Astra Zeneca HQ, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge

 

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Friday 23 February 2024. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

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 not be recorded.

Domus - reception

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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