SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇SS14: Plenary Session II

Moderators: Mark Talamini, MD and Christopher Schlachta, MD

S069 TREATMENT OF ULTRA-LONG SEGMENT BARRETTS USING FOCAL AND BALLOON-BASED RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION Melina C Vassiliou, MD, Daniel C Wiener, MD, Linda L Fadden, RN, Cynthia L Swasey CRC, Richard I Rothstein, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

S070 LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER ENDOSCOPIC STENT THERAPY FOR COMPLICATIONS AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY Atif Iqbal, MD, Brent Miedema, MD, Steve Eubanks, MD, Archana Ramaswamy, MD, Nicole Fearing, MD, Bruce Ramshaw, MD, Stephen Caleb, MS, Klaus Thaler, MD, Department of General Surgery, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO

V020 MINIMALLY INVASIVE FUNCTIONAL ABDOMINAL WALL RECONSTRUCTION: A NEW PARADIGM IN VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR. Michael J Rosen, MD, Case Medical Center. University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH

S071 TRANSGASTRIC AND TRANSVAGINAL ENDOSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN HUMAN BEINGS Gustavo Salinas, MD, Lil Saavedra, MD, Hellen Agurto, MD, Jeffrey Marks, MD, Edwin Ramírez, MD, José Grande, MD, Juan Carlos Tamayo, MD, Victoria Sánchez, MD, Avendaño Clinic, Lima, Peru

S072 TELESIMULATION IN AFRICA: AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Allan Okrainec, MD, Oscar Henao, MD, Georges Azzie, MD, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada – SAGES Research Grant