Allen A Buenafe Philippines

5 November 2025, Wednesday

Time	Session

08:00 15:00	Mastering Complex Inguinal Hernia: From Lap to Robotic Repair Videos, Debates, Meet the Experts What is a Complex Inguinal Hernia? Sean LEE Kien Fatt Speaker Singapore The Large and The Giant Inguino-scrotal Hernia with Loss of Domain Allen A Buenafe Speaker Philippines Fabio Cesare Campanile Speaker Italy Marc Soler Speaker France Rakesh GUPTA Speaker Nepal Sujith WIJERATHNE Speaker Singapore The Annoying Post-prostatectomy Swelling Davide LOMANTO Speaker Singapore Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile Tea Break The Pain That Never Disappears Ashokka Balakrishnan Speaker Singapore David Chen Speaker United States Stopping The Re-Recurrence Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile Rakesh GUPTA Speaker Nepal Randeep Wadhawan Speaker India The 2am Emergency Groin Hernias Fabio Cesare Campanile Speaker Italy Randeep Wadhawan Speaker India Robotics and When Things Go Wrong Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile Piyanun Wangkulangkul Speaker Thailand Sarfaraz Baig Speaker India Certificate Presentation and Lunch Seminar Hall, Advanced Surgery Training Centre (ASTC) @ National University Hospital

Time

Session

08:00

15:00

Mastering Complex Inguinal Hernia: From Lap to Robotic Repair Videos, Debates, Meet the Experts

What is a Complex Inguinal Hernia?

Sean LEE Kien Fatt Speaker Singapore
The Large and The Giant Inguino-scrotal Hernia with Loss of Domain

Allen A Buenafe Speaker Philippines

Fabio Cesare Campanile Speaker Italy

Marc Soler Speaker France

Rakesh GUPTA Speaker Nepal

Sujith WIJERATHNE Speaker Singapore
The Annoying Post-prostatectomy Swelling

Davide LOMANTO Speaker Singapore

Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile
Tea Break
The Pain That Never Disappears

Ashokka Balakrishnan Speaker Singapore

David Chen Speaker United States
Stopping The Re-Recurrence

Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile

Rakesh GUPTA Speaker Nepal

Randeep Wadhawan Speaker India
The 2am Emergency Groin Hernias

Fabio Cesare Campanile Speaker Italy

Randeep Wadhawan Speaker India
Robotics and When Things Go Wrong

Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile

Piyanun Wangkulangkul Speaker Thailand

Sarfaraz Baig Speaker India
Certificate Presentation and Lunch

Seminar Hall, Advanced Surgery Training Centre (ASTC) @ National University Hospital

6 November 2025, Thursday

Time	Session

09:00 10:30	Symposium 1A What's New in Colorectal Surgery? Barry Salky Chairperson United States BETTINA LIESKE Chairperson Singapore Craig LYNCH Chairperson Australia Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in Colorectal Care: Adoption Challenges and Solutions Bawantha Gamage Speaker Sri Lanka CME: Are the Advantages real? Allen A Buenafe Speaker Philippines Laparoscopic Modified Delayed Coloanal Anastomosis Technique (L-mDCAA) for Sphincter Preservation in Low Rectal Surgery: A Viable Alternative to Traditional Methods Minhua ZHENG Speaker China Current AI and Imaging Technology In Colorectal MIS MASAAKI ITO Speaker Japan Right Hemicolectomy: Intracorporeal vs Extracorporeal Anastomosis Eduardo Targarona Speaker Spain Obesity & Colorectal Cancer Gianfranco Silecchia Speaker Italy ERBE Hall C
11:15 12:30	Plenary 1 (ELSA Plenary) ELSA Presidential Lecture Future of Surgical Training and Education Michael Ka-Wah Li Chairperson Hong Kong, China Mahir Ozmen Speaker Turkey 2025 ELSA Innovation Lecture Seigo Kitano Chairperson Japan Andrea Pietrabissa Speaker Italy ELSA Honorary Membership Andrea Pietrabissa Awardee Italy Allen A Buenafe Citation Philippines ELSA Lifetime Achievement Award Abdul Aziz Laghari Awardee Pakistan Allen A Buenafe Awardee Philippines Craig LYNCH Awardee Australia Ho-Seong Han Awardee Korea (Republic of) Kazunori KASAMA Awardee Japan Sarder A NAYEEM Awardee Bangladesh William T CHEN Awardee Taiwan Hall C
13:30 15:00	Symposium 2A Global MIS Training Allen A Buenafe Chairperson Philippines Anil Sharma Chairperson India Global Catalysts: The Role of IFSES in Advancing Minimally Invasive Surgery Andrea Pietrabissa Speaker Italy Endoscopic Training in Outreach Programs: Bridging Gaps or Stretching Limits Ray Sarmiento Speaker Philippines From Inception to Impact: 15 Years of ELSA OP in Myanmar Moe Moe TIN Speaker Myanmar Elevated Surgery: The Experience of ELSA OP and MIS at High Altitude Tashi Motup Speaker India Cross-Cultural Insights into Outreach Programs: A Global Perspective David Chen Speaker United States MIS Education in South Asia Ishan De Zoysa Speaker Sri Lanka Future OR Digital Surgery (Sponsored by Medtronic) Nicolas Quezada Speaker Chile Building Surgical Capacity for Africa’s Future: The Role of Teaching and Training David Gorry Speaker South Africa Hall C
17:00 18:00	Video Session 1C How I do it: MIS Colorectal Barry Salky Chairperson United States Francis Seow-Choen Chairperson Singapore Subhash Aggarwal Chairperson India CME with CVL: A General Surgeons Perspective Allen A Buenafe Speaker Philippines Complicated Crohn’s Disease Barry Salky Speaker United States Laparoscopic Surgery in Intestinal Obstruction Subhash Aggarwal Speaker India Eight Different Anastomosis During Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy Giovanni Dapri Speaker Italy Robotic Low Anterior Resection with end-to-end Single Stapling William T CHEN Speaker Taiwan MIS Radical Lymph Adenectomy in Rectal Cancer Yoon Suk Lee Speaker Korea (Republic of) Hall D