This section includes details on previous AUGIS Annual Scientific Meetings, dating back to Leeds 1997.

The 26th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place in the Examination School in Oxford. The meeting was preceeded by a Training Morning for Trainee Members. AUGIS was joined by the Dutch Society of GI Surgeons (NVGIC) and we had an excellent number of face to face delegates attending. 

Scientific Programme

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Wednesday 27 September 2023

Thursday 28 September 2023

Friday 29 September 2023

Awarded 17 CPD Points by the ASGBI

Abstract Presentation Prize Winners

Oral Papers Winners

Prize Papers (Wednesday 27th September) - BJS Prize

Philip Pucher: "Prevalence and risk factors for malignant nodal involvement in early oesophago-gastric cancer: Initial results from the CONGRESS study (endosCopic resectiON, esophaGectomy or gastrectomy foR Early oeSophagogastric cancerS)" (Prog no: AO04)

Bariatric Free Papers (Thursday 28th September)

Lewis Hall: "Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency after Bariatric Metabolic Surgery: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (Prog no:BSO 02)

Benign OG Free Papers (Thursday 28th September)

Gregory Falk: "Factors in Recurrence following 862 Giant Paraesophageal Hernia Repairs" (Prog no: OGBN O07)

HPB Free Papers "Merv-Rees Prize" (Thursday 28th September)

Keaton Jones: "Targeting the host in Pancreatic Cancer: A Novel Combination Therapeutic from Bench to Bedside" (HPB O05)

OG Cancer Free Papers (Thursday 28th September)

Alexander Bull: "Linear stapled technique for robotic assisted minimally invasive oesophagectomy and gastrectomy: technique, stepwise introduction, reproducibility and outcomes" (OGC O04)

Poster Presentation Winners

Allied Health Professional/CNS 

Helen Bennett: "Retrospective study reviewing post-operative feeding after gastric cancer surgery and the impact on outcomes" (Prog no: AHP P02)

Bariatrics 

Felix Hammett: "The Return to Bariatric Surgery Following the COVID Pandemic 2020- A Single Center Prospective Study" (Prog no: BS P05)

Benign OG 

Gregory Falk: "Co-location of pulmonary abnormalities on high resolution CT imaging and pulmonary microaspiration reflux scan: Suggests a causative relationship" (Prog no: OGBN P06)

Emergency UGI 

Bilal Alkhaffaf: "Outcomes from 450 Endoluminal Vacuum Therapy (EVT) Procedures in the Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Leaks and Perforations" (Prog no: EGS P03)

HPB 

Chin K Tan: "The incidence and diagnostic potential of Extra-biliary findings on Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography" (HPB P41)

OG Cancer 

Lewis Hall: "Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency after Oesophagogastric Resection: Results from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (OGC P16)

BJS Online

Abstracts accepted for the 26th Annual AUGIS Scientific Meeting have now been published with the BJS online. 

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Trainees' Competition Winner

Congratulations to the .... team for winning the inaugural Trainees' Competition at AUGIS in 2023. The team included....

AUGIS celebrated its 25th Anniversary at the AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which took place from 21 - 23 September 2022 at the P&J Live Conference Centre in Aberdeen. 

Scientific Programme

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Wednesday Programme

Thursday OG Cancer Programme

Thursday Benign Programme

Thursday Bariatric Programme

Thursday HPB Programme

Thursday AHP Programme

Friday Programme

Awarded 18 CPD Points by the ASGBI

Abstract Presentation Prize Winners

Winner of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Prize Paper Session: Trish Kanani "Ex vivo perfusion of isolated human liver segments: the development of a novel model for ethical, translational research"

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Free Papers: Dr Sheraz Markar "Delayed surgical Intervention after Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal cancer (DICE) study"

Winner of the Benign Free Papers: David Robinson "Upper Gastrointestinal Training in the UK & Ireland – a Roux Group Study"

Winner of the HPB Free Papers: Tamsyn Clark "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC) for enhanced drug delivery"

Winner of the Bariatric Free Papers: Sarah Hill "Should we be doing routine post-operative blood tests in patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery?"

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Poster Presentations: Raymond Cuffe "Unmet needs in survivorship: Increased anxiety post oesophago-gastric cancer surgery"

Winner of the Benign and Bariatric Poster Presentations: Maitreyi Patel "Report of early experience from newly introduced Cytosponge service."

Winner of the HPB Poster Presentations: Lucia Lazzareschi "The introduction of antimicrobial-coated sutures to reduce the rate of surgical site infections in the hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) department: a quality improvement project"

Winner of the Emergency Surgery Poster Presentations: Mohammad Sharif "Management of Acute Gallstone disease at an urban acute Trust during the pandemic"

BJS Online

Abstracts accepted for the 25th Annual AUGIS Scientific Meeting have now been published with the BJS online. 

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Trainees' Competition Winner

Congratulations to the East of England team for winning the inaugural Trainees' Competition at AUGIS in 2022. The team included Geoffrey Roberts, Piriyah Sinclair and Catriona Walker

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)

The 22nd AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the ACC Liverpool, 25 - 27 September 2019.

Scientific Programme

Abstract Presentation Prize Winners

Winner of BJS Prize: Robert Walker - “Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma cancer cells persist after complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy detected by novel techniques”

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Saqib Rahman - “Machine Learning to predict early recurrence after oesophageal cancer surgery"

Winner of the Benign Upper GI and Bariatric Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Kulbir Mann - “Early specialist opinion may reduce the use of percutaneous cholecystostomy for cholecystitis – a collaborative regional study"

Winner of the Hepato Biliary Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Benjamin Chan - “Pharmacological Stimulation of Nrf2 Enhances Functional Liver Regeneration Following Major Hepatectomy"

Special mention to Tamjeed Alam for his UGI Cancer presentation on: “The “UNCUT” Roux-en-Y: A novel procedure in Upper GI Reconstruction”

Winner of the Cancer Upper GI Best Poster Presentation: John Saunders - “The impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and disease recurrence following oesophago-gastric cancer resection"

Winner of the Benign Upper GI and Bariatrics Best Poster Presentation: Hwei Jene Ng - “Predicting the Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Development and validation of a pre- operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system"

Winner of the HPB Best Poster Presentation: Rebecca Saunders - “An outcome and cost analysis of endoscopic, minimal access surgery and open pancreatic necrosectomy"

Winner of Best Poster: John Saunders - "The impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and disease recurrence following oesophago-gastric cancer resection"

View abstracts at BJS Online

The 21st Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, 19 -21 September 2019.

Scientific Programme

Winner of the BJS Prize: Geoffrey Roberts - “Glucagon-like peptide 1 is a key factor in early and late dumping syndrome after gastrectomy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled crossover study” (Programme No: A05/Abstract no:21)

Winner of the Best Poster: J Robert O’Neill - “High content phenotypic profiling can determine drug mechanism of action and uncovers clinically approved drugs with novel in vitro activity against Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma” (Poster no: PO11/Abstract no:26)

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Website: www.augis.org/2018conference

The 20th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place at Rochestown Hotel, Cork, 21 - 23 September 2017.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: John Findlay - "Staging gastric cancer with 18F-FDG PET-CT identifies frequent unsuspected" (Abstract no 125: A04)

Winner of Best Poster: Tomas Urbonas -  "Factors contributing to local tumour recurrence after percutaneous microwave ablation of colorectal liver metastases: a retrospective review of 126 ablations" (Abstract no 46: PoD4)

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Website: www.augis.org/2017conference

The 19th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at The Armouries, Leeds, 21 -23 September 2016.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: Robert Jones - “Incorporating RAS mutation status into the Clinical Risk Score better predicts survival after resection of colorectal liver metastases“(A08 /Abstract no: 0120 )

Winner of Best Poster: Briony Robinson - “Enhanced dietetic support improving nutritional and clinical outcomes in oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer surgery“ (Poster no: POD 7 / Abstract no 0143)

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Website: www.augis.org/2016conference

In 2015 AUGIS joined up with the Digestive Disorders Federation (DDF) for joint meeting at the ExCel in London, 22 - 25 June 2015. 

The DDF included ACPGBI, BAPEN, BASL & BSG

The 18th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, 18 - 19 September 2014.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: Barry Dent - "The Role of Endoscopic Mucosal Resection in the Management of Early Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer"

Winner of Best Poster: Dr Ayesha Noorani - “Inferring the clonal evolution of oesophageal adenocarcinoma through whole genome sequencing” 

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The 17th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at The Sage, Gateshead, 19 - 20 September 2013.

Scientific Programme

Winner of Best Poster: Klaas Schuur - "A study of Ablative Techniques in Cirrhotic Livers"

View Abstracts at BJS Online