Day 2 - 18th October 2025

Day 2 - 18 October 2025

Time	Session

08:00 08:30	Registration
08:30 09:45	Symposium 5a: Oncological gastric surgery Kelvin Voon Chairperson Ngo Choon Woon Chairperson Conversion Surgery – A Path to Cure or A Myth? Masanori Terashima Speaker Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer Jimmy SO Bok Yan Speaker Chemotherapy or Chemoradiation? Precision Neoadjuvant Approaches in Junctional Cancer Ooi Po Lin Speaker Q&A Summit 2	Symposium 5b: Bariatric Surgery Mohanrajah A/L Silvarajah Chairperson Muhammad Haekal Bin Khazalle Chairperson Redefining Criteria for Bariatric Surgery in Precision Medicine Bariatric Matchmaker: Which Procedure for Which Patient, Sleeve vs RYGB vs OAGB vs Jejunal Bypass Asim Shabbir Speaker Revisional Options for Weight Regain / GERD After Bariatric Surgery Q&A The Zenith		USAN Young Researcher Collaborative Meeting Loo Guo Hou Chairperson Tang Yiu Maeng Chairperson Su Hlaing Phyo Speaker Su Yamin Speaker Tan Yun Rong Speaker Pinnacle 10
09:45 10:05	Breakfast Symposium Becton Dickinson (BD) Summit 2
10:05 11:20	Symposium 6a: Robotic Surgery - Video Review Kelvin Voon Chairperson Ng Chong Beng Chairperson Duodeno-jejunal bypass and jejunal bypass Huang Chih-Kun Speaker Robotic one-anastomosis gastric bypass Voraboot Taweerutchana Speaker Recurrent laryngeal nerve lymphadenectomy Takeo Fujita Speaker Robot assisted Trans-Cervical Esophagectomy Takeo Fujita Speaker Q&A Summit 2	Symposium 6b: Salvage UGI surgery Hans Alexander Mahendran Chairperson Tan Yun Rong Chairperson Best Approaches for the High-risk Perforated Peptic Ulcer – Playing it Safe or Pushing the Limits? Sekkapan Thannimalai Sambathan Speaker A step-wise approach to delayed oesophageal perforation Ooi Wei Keat Speaker Multi-modal approach to Recalcitrant peptic ulcer bleeding Hashimah Binti Abdul Rahman Speaker Q&A The Zenith		Video Presentations 1 Asim Shabbir Judges Pinnacle 10
11:20 12:00	Keynote lecture 2: From Simulation to Scalpel: Training the Next Generation of Oesophageal Surgeons Takeo Fujita Speaker Summit 2
12:00 13:00	Lunch Symposium 2 The Role of Immunotherapy in Perioperative Treatment of Gastric and Gastro-oesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma AstraZeneca Summit 2
13:00 14:15	Symposium 7a: Gastric Cancer Surgical Techniques Ahmad Sudirman bin Mohd Salleh Chairperson Nor Ilyani binti Othman Chairperson Laparoscopic, robotic, or open surgery for locally advanced gastric cancer? Masanori Terashima Speaker The role of palliative gastrectomy in Metastatic disease Lau Peng Choong Speaker Rethinking gastrectomy – moving away from total gastrectomy and to organ-preservation Vo Duy Long Speaker Q&A Summit 2	Symposium 7b: Functional Dyspepsia & Achalasia Lee Pei Pei Chairperson Ramesh A/L K Gurunathan Chairperson Early experience on LINX Ho Shiaw Hooi Speaker Chicago 4.0: Incorporation of Adjunctive Tests Asim Shabbir Speaker Endoscopic Treatment of Reflux and Achalasia Third Space Endoscopy of the UGI Tract C. Palanivelu Speaker Q&A The Zenith		Video Presentation 2 Voraboot Taweerutchana Judges Pinnacle 10
14:15 15:30	Symposium 8a: How I do it: Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery Ahmad Junaidi Bin Ahmad Hamidi Chairperson Yeap Chee Loong Chairperson A master’s approach to MIE Takeo Fujita Speaker Proximal gastrectomy + Double flap technique Vo Duy Long Speaker Delta anastomosis for Billroth 1 and Roux-en-Y reconstruction Masanori Terashima Speaker Laparoscopic station 10 dissection HYUNG Woo Jin Judges Laparoscopic techniques for oesophago-jejunal anastomosis HYUNG Woo Jin Judges Q&A Summit 2		Symposium 8b: How I do it: Bariatric and Functional Disease Loo Guo Hou Chairperson Mohanrajah A/L Silvarajah Chairperson Laparoscopic management of sleeve leaks Huang Chih-Kun Speaker Hiatal hernia repair for complex paraoesophageal hernias Asim Shabbir Speaker Management of fundoplication complications Tee Sze Chee Speaker Revisional surgery for weight recidivism Nik Ritza Kosai Speaker Q&A The Zenith
15:30 16:30	Prize giving ceremony & Closing ceremony
16:30 16:30	End of day 2