Events & Webinars

AUGIS continues to provide educational opportunities for members through our online webinars and with the face to face meetings and networking opportunities planned for the future. 

AUGIS Webinars

AUGIS ASM

Meetings & Online

AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

P&J Live Conference Centre, Aberdeen 

Wednesday 21 to Friday 23 September 2022

The 26th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place at P&J Live Conference centre in Aberdeen on 21 -23 September 2022.

Congratulations to our AUGIS 2022 Abstract Prize Winners: 

Free Papers

  • Upper GI Cancer: Dr Sheraz Markar - "Delayed surgical Intervention after Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal cancer (DICE) study" (OGC O01)
  • Benign: David Robinson - "Upper Gastrointestinal Training in the UK & Ireland – a Roux Group Study" (OGBN O04)
  • HPB: Tamsyn Clark - "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC) for enhanced drug delivery" (HPB O03)
  • Bariatric: Sarah Hill - "Should we be doing routine post-operative blood tests in patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery?" (BS O05)

Poster Presentations: 

  • Upper GI Cancer: Raymond Cuffe - "Unmet needs in survivorship: Increased anxiety post oesophago-gastric cancer surgery" (OGC P36)
  • Benign & Bariatric: Maitreyi Patel - "Report of early experience from newly introduced Cytosponge service" (OGBN P02)
  • Emergency Surgery: Mohammad Sharif - "Management of Acute Gallstone disease at an urban acute Trust during the pandemic" (EGS P16)

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Prize - Papers Session 

  • Trisha Kanani - "Ex vivo perfusion of isolated human liver segments: the development of a novel model for ethical, translational research" (AO03 - HPB)

 

UGI Congress 2021

The UGI Congress took place from 13 -15 October 2021 in the City of Belfast. 

The winners of the Free Papers Sessions are: 

Zeeshan Afzal: Endoluminal Vacuum Therapy (EVT) for leaks in the upper gastrointestinal (UGI) tract; 10-years’ experience in a specialist Oesphagogastric centre (O-EGS08)

Stella Breininger: Genomic analysis of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in oesophageal adenocarcinoma (O-OGC06)

Sian Farrell: A composite polymeric nanoparticle as a sensitiser for sonodynamic therapy (SDT)-based treatment of pancreatic cancer (O-P03)

Piriyah Sinclair: The effect of high fat diet and subsequent intentional weight loss on tumour burden in an animal model of spontaneous endometrial cancer (O-B04)

Caoimhe Walsh: Peri-operative thrombophilia in patients undergoing liver resection for colorectal metastases (O-L04)

Helen Whitmore: The management of pancreatitis and complications that require intervention in a Benign Specialist Surgical Unit (O-BN05)