Course Co-Director
Morris Franklin, Jr., MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
University of Texas Health Science
Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

We are in the process of developing the 2011 MISS colon agenda.  To receive email updates about the MISS agenda please contact kathy.wenzler@qhc.com.

Below you will find the 2010 MISS colon agenda to give you a flavor of the conference. 

7:00 am

Breakfast and Exhibits

COLON SESSION I

8:00 am

Welcome and Introduction
Morris Franklin, MD

8:10 am 

Morcellation of Specimen-Fact or Fiction?
Gustavo Plasencia, MD

8:30 am

Enterotomies and Need for Intracorporeal Suturing
Barry Salky, MD

8:50 am

Question & Answer Session

9:10 am

Break & Exhibits

9:40 am

What to do with a Patient who has Carcinoma of Sigmoid and Chronic/Acute Diverticulitis - Does Approach Change?
Eduardo Parra Davila, MD

10:00 am

Hepatic Flexure Mobilization
Eduardo Parra Davila, MD

10:20 am

Robotic Approach - Franklin Technique with Transanal Extraction
Alessio Pigazzi, MD

10:40 am

Question & Answer Session

11:00 a.m.

Long Term Follow-up: Rectal Cancer
John Marks, MD

11:20 a.m.

Lap Approach to Foreign Bodies of Rectum?
Dan Geisler, MD

11:40 a.m.

Question & Answer Session

12:00 noon

Luncheon Symposium  (non-CME)
Advances in Hemorrhoid Treatment and Technology
Sponsored by:  Covidien 
Dan Geisler, MD

COLON SESSION II

2:00 p.m.

How to Prevent Wound Infection and Incisional Hernias in Colorectal Surgery
Barry Salky, MD

2:20 p.m.

How to Prevent and Treat Parastomal Hernia in Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
Eduardo Parra Davila, MD

2:40 p.m.

What to do with Anastomotic Strictures
Gustavo Plasencia, MD

3:00 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

3:20 p.m.

Break & Exhibits

3:40 p.m.

Approaches to Splenic Flexure Mobilization: Medial to Lateral, Lateral to Medial, Omentum Takedown, Retroperitoneal
Dan Geisler, MD

4:00 p.m.

To Divert or Not to Divert after Anterior Resection
John Marks, MD

4:20 p.m.

Obesity and Lap Colon Surgery
Alessio Pigazzi, MD

4:40 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

5:00 p.m.

How to ID and Treat Intraoperative Complications Part 1
Urethral; Duodenal; Cautery Burn; Small Bowel Injury; Vascular Injury
Gustavo Plasencia, MD

5:20 p.m.

How to ID and Treat Interoperative Complications - Part 2
Stapler Misfire; Ischemic Segment; Bladder Invasion; Small Bowel Invasion; Intraoperative Bleeding
Morris Franklin, MD

5:40 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

6:00 p.m

Adjourn

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

COLON SESSION III

2:00 p.m.

Equipment Needed for Modern-Day Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
Alessio Pigazzi, MD

2:20 p.m.

How to Establish Planes of Dissection for Laparoscopic Colon Surgery Where There Are None
Barry Salky, MD

2:40 p.m.

How to Get More Lymph Nodes in Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
John Marks, MD

3:00 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

3:20 p.m.

Break and Exhibits

3:40 p.m.

Extraction Site - Decisions
Morris Franklin, MD

4:00 p.m.

Extraction Site - Complications
John Marks, MD

4:20 p.m.

How Low Can You Go: Value of Articulating Staplers
Alessio Pigazzi, MD

4:40 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

5:00 p.m.

Single Port Colon Resection
Dan Geisler, MD

5:20 p.m.

Debate: Open vs. Standard Laparoscopic Versus
Single Port vs. Pure Laparoscopic
All Faculty

5:40 p.m.

Question and Answer Session

6:00 p.m.

Adjournment