We hope to see you at the forthcoming AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which will take place from Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 September at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. The provisional Scientific Programme is available online at: www.augis.org/2018conference/scientific-programme/ You can find Read on! →
The AUGIS Council is looking forward to welcoming you to the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting which will take place from 19 – 21 September at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. There will be a Gala Dinner at the National Museum of Scotland on the Thursday evening. Read on! →
The 2018 AUGIS ASM will take place at the Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, from September 19 – 21 and it already promises to be a great meeting. The website can be viewed here – www.augis.org/conference2018 We look forward to seeing as many Read on! →
The 16th International Oesophago-Gastric Symposium will take place on 9 March in London. An expert faculty will discuss the optimal techniques of performing minimal access cancer, anti-reflux, achalasia, bariatric and gallstone surgery. Expert surgeons will share their experience and lead discussion among participants Read on! →
Please complete the following survey aimed at identifying research priorities in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery – https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HPBdelphi This study is supported by the GBIHPBA committee. Following the collation of round 1 responses, a further two rounds will be performed through the GBIHPBA membership for Read on! →
AUGIS member, Tim Underwood, has achieved the notable accolade of becoming the first surgeon to be awarded an Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellowship by Cancer Research UK. Tim, Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery at the University of Southampton, trained in London and Read on! →
The BJS Speaker at the Cork meeting in September will be Professor Richard Van Hillegersberg from the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Professor Nigel Heaton, Head of Liver Transplantation at King’s College Hospital and Professor John Reynolds, Professor of Clinical Surgery Read on! →
AUGIS members should start to plan their to journey to Cork for the 20th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which will be be held at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork from 21 – 22 September. Take a look at the Microsite for more information. Registration is open and we are happy Read on! →
In conjunction with the RCS (Eng), AUGIS has developed guidelines for commissioning services for gallstone and reflux diseases and these were reviewed in the last year. Their aim is to indicate to Commissioners how high-quality services should be configured. Clinical Read on! →
Congratulations to Olga Tucker (lead), Jonathan Weblin, David McWilliams, Laura Nicholson, Peter Nightingale and Abigail Evans with their trial ‘Prehabilitation and rehabilitation in patients undergoing oesophagectomy or total gastectromy – the POGO trial’ which won the very popular Dragon’s Den at Read on! →
