You can't find anywhere else a meeting dedicated to Foregut disease with the collegiality and depth of knowledge that has brought GIs and Surgeons together than at the annual AFS meeting! Please join us to discuss and learn in Dallas on Sept 28–Oct 1st, 2023. Reginald Bell, MD – President, AFS
AFS Membership is only $350 annually and includes free general registration to this year's Annual Meeting! Become an AFS member for the same price as meeting registration and enjoy all the benefits of AFS membership today!
2023 ANNUAL MEETING DATES TO SAVE
Registration Opens March 2023
FAFS – Learn More Here Applications Open: February 1, 2023 Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023
Abstracts Submissions Open: February 1, 2023 Submission Deadline: May 1, 2023
The AFS is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the annual American Foregut Society Awards.
A paragraph or two supporting the nominee is required for submissions. Nominations can be sent via e-mail directly to [email protected]. Nominations are due by July 15th at 5pm CST.
Awardees will be recognized during the awards ceremony at the AFS Annual Meeting in Dallas, Saturday, September 30th.
The nomination categories are:
Outstanding Trainee Awards
To resident or fellow trainees who are considered by their faculty and peers (residents/students) to demonstrate be outstanding educators and/or clinician teachers.
Awarded annually to up to three residents or fellows
Candidates must have completed at least two years of clinical training and who will be no more than 1 year after formal training is completed at the time of the awards ceremony.
Awardees receive complimentary registration to the annual meeting
Nominees are not required to be AFS members
Early Career Award
For an early career clinician-scientist demonstrating excellence in scientific inquiry, including basic science, clinical/translational, device development or educational research
Must be within 5 years of the completion of formal training at the time of the awards ceremony
Nominees must be current, active AFS members
Distinguished Service Awards
The Award will be granted for a significant, long-term educational, research, clinical and/or technological contribution to the field of foregut disease as well as to AFS.
Nominees must be current, active AFS members
Excellence in Community Practice Award
For a community-based practitioner for enduring contributions to the field of Foregut disease and contributions to AFS.
Nominees must be current, active AFS members
AFS 2023 Annual Meeting Preliminary Agenda
Esophageal Cancer Session:
Stratifying risk in Barrett's – Stu Spechler
What to do with the chemoradiation responder – Wayne Hofsetter
Endoluminal therapies for esophageal cancer (EMR, ESD) – Aziz Aadam
Esophagectomy: How do we improve perioperative outcomes – Daniela Molena
Palliative treatment of esophageal cancer – Vani Konda
Extraesophageal GERD session:
Hoarseness and Laryngitis – John Pandolfino
Chronic cough – Peter Kahrilas
Pulmonary syndromes and ILD – Walter Chan
Reflux and lung transplant graft rejection – Sumeet Mittal
ARS for extraesophageal GERD – Marco Patti
Gastroparesis session:
Approach, medical management, feeding tubes – Linda Nguyen
Gastric electrical stimulation – Brian Lacy
G-POEM/pyloroplasty/gastrectomy – John Rodriguez
Emerging Technologies/techniques:
MSA after sleeve – Leena Khaitan
Endoluminal robotics – Erik Wilson
Gastric mapping of motor function – Greg O'Grady
EFS session:
State of EFS – Luigi Bonavina, President of EFS
Microbiome and foregut disease – Anthony Hobson (EFS)
Training and Education:
Competency based education – Mike Brunt
Video based assessment – Christy Dunst
Discussion
60 Minutes:
PCABs: indications and use – Colin Howden
Prediction of Barrett's progression – Prasad Iyer
Dupilumab/Biologics in EoE – Nirmala Gonsalves
Innovation in Foregut Endoscopy:
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty – Barham Abu-Dayyeh
Endoluminal wound vac for fistula/leak – Steve Leeds
Endoscopic gastrojejunostomy – Mouen Khashab
Esophageal holes and foreign bodies:
Erosion of Mesh, MSA, Lap band – Luigi Bonavina
Ingested foreign bodies – Peter Draganov
Management of acute esophageal perforation – Tom Watson
Keynote Addresses
President's speech – Reg Bell
Video based assessment/epa – John Mellinger
Salvage procedures for gerd – Jon Gould
Artificial intelligence in GI
AI in surgery/procedural analysis – Dan Hashimoto
AI in motility/pH/FLIP interpretation – John Pandolfino
Meet the Press:
GERD updates – Rena Yadlapati
FLIP updates – Dusty Carlson
HRIM updates – Reena Chokshi
C-TIF – Ken Chang
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