IPSO Education Day
Event Description
IPSO Educational Day
7 October 2015
Venue: J and J Education Building
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
Cape Town South Africa
Program:
07.45 to 08.15 Registration, Coffee
08.15 to 08.30 Welcome Address:
Sharon Cox, IPSO Local Organizing Committee
Stephen Shochat President, IPSO
Session1: Hepatoblastoma
08.30 – 10.30 Chair: Prof Alp Numanoglu
The concept is to look at what the trials are saying with respect to hepatoblastoma, resection, transplant indications, staging, risks etc. and then to look at resection methods for the difficult tumour anatomy where transplant is not a possibility due to resource limitations
08.30–09.00 The Staging: PRETEXT and POSTTEXT
Prof Dan Aronson
Leeds Children’s Hospital at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK (IPSO)
09.00-09.30 The Trials: Where we are and how we got there?
Prof. Piotr Czauderna
Past SIOPEL (International Childhood Liver Tumors Strategy Group) Chairman, Head of the Dept. of Surgery and Urology for Children and Adolescents of the Medical University of Gdansk, President-Elect of the European Board of Pediatric Surgery of UEMS
09.30-10.00 Extreme resection in place of transplant: surgeon poker game or patient Russian roulette?
Prof Jean de VILLE de GOYET
PhD, MD, FRCS.Paediatric liver and transplant surgeon at Bambino Gesù Children’s Hosp, Roma, Professor of Paediatric Surgery Universita Tor Vergata Roma
10.00-10.30 Case discussions
Prof Alastair JW Millar
Emeritus Professor in Paediatric Surgery, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University of Cape Town
Tea: 10.30-11.00
Session 2: Oncology in Africa
11.00-12.30 Chair: Prof Daniel Sidler
The concept is to look at facilities in Africa and compare first and third world presentations and treatment.
11.00-11.30 Access to care, facilities in:
South Africa (8 min) Dr D Von Delft, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Red Cross
Malawi (8min) Dr Eric Borgstein Professor of Surgery, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Pediatric surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital
Kenya (8min) Francis Osawa Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Nairobi, Kenya
11.30-12.00 The big, the bad and the ugly
Prof L Hadley: Emeritus Professor in Paediatric Surgery, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban;
Talk on some of the larger tumours he has been involved in associated management dilemmas in children presenting with these to resource poor areas
12.00-12.30 Africa Vs Global care
Scott Howard, MD
Chair, World Child Cancer USA
Consultant, Oncology, Healthcare IT, Epidemiology, Global Heath
Professor, University of Memphis
Lunch: 12.30-13.30
Session 3: Oncological Surgical Emergencies
13.30-15.00 Chair: Prof Rob Brown
To discuss a range of emergency oncological situations that may present to the surgeon
13.30-14.00 Spinal Cord Compression
Prof A Figaji
HOD Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery Red Cross
14.00-14.30 Airway Issues
- Anaesthetic (15 min) Dr R Gray, Consultant Anaesthetist, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
- Radiology (15 min) Dr T Kilborn HOD, Department of Paediatric Radiology, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
14.30-15.00 Abdominal emergencies
Bowel obstruction, intussusception, Ovarian Torsion, Typhlitis, PR bleeding, chemo complications
Prof Samad Shaik, Paediatric Surgeon, Kwazulu-Natal Bowel perforation,
Tea: 15.00-15.30
Session 4: Genetics / Prophylactic Surgery/ Adolescent tumours
15.30-17.00 Chair: Dr Marion Arnold
Prophylactic Surgery for Childhood Genetic conditions
15.30-16.00 The role of developmental genes in childhood cancer
Prof Sam Moore Emeritus Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, University of Stellenbosch
16.00-16.30 MEN, Paediatric Thyroid malignancies
Prof Panieri HOD Endocrine Surgery, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital
16.30-17.00 Inherited colorectal cancer syndromes
Prof Paul Goldberg HOD, Colo-rectal Unit, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
Closure and Thanks 17.00-17.15