Sekkapan Thannimalai Sambathan Malaysia

Started houseman ship at hospital Taiping and worked at various KKM hospital all throughout semenanjung Malaysia . Surgical masters were under HUKM off campus at HTAA Kuantan under Dato jiffre. Did gazettement at HSA and continued serving here . UGI sub training were at HUKM , IKN and GEM Hospital Coimbatore India (overseas). My area of interest if minimally invasive esophagectomy for both benign and malignant condition and functional disease of Upper GI track. Actively involved various research on bariatric surgery and functional disease

Day 1 - 17 October 2025

Time	Session

08:30 09:45	Meet the Experts Ngo Choon Woon Chairperson Sekkapan Thannimalai Sambathan Chairperson C. Palanivelu Speaker Huang Chih-Kun Speaker Takeo Fujita Speaker Pinnacle 10
14:00 15:15	Symposium 3b: UGI Emergencies Ahmad Junaidi bin Ahmad Hamidi Chairperson Azrina binti Abu Bakar Chairperson Managing Gastric Outlet Obstruction Hashimah Binti Abdul Rahman Speaker Management of UGI Bleeding Ng Chong Beng Speaker Management of Corrosive Injury Sekkapan Thannimalai Sambathan Speaker Q&A The Zenith

Day 2 - 18 October 2025

Time	Session

11:15 12:30	Symposium 6b: Salvage UGI Surgery Hans Alexander Mahendran Chairperson Tan Yunrong 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
13:30 14:45	Video Presentation 2: Esophageal, Hernia & Innovative Techniques Kelvin Voon Judges Voraboot Taweerutchana Judges Enhancing Minimally Invasive McKeown Esophagectomy: A Modified Approach to the Abdominal Phase AB-0020 Sekkapan Thannimalai Sambathan Presenter Hybrid Endo-thoracoscopic Enucleation of a Large Oesophageal Leiomyoma with Novel Pre-operative Cardiopulmonary Bypass Cannulation AB-0067 Mohd Razeen Mohd Hassan Presenter Yellow Light-Enhanced Laparoscopic Repair of Large Sliding Hiatus Hernia with Primary Cruroplasty and Toupet Fundoplication AB-0022 Kevin Tay Kon Voi Presenter Rives-Stoppa Retromuscular Mesh Repair for Challenging Incisional Hernias: A Case-Based Video Presentation AB-0071 Lim Wei Qian Presenter Stomacolysis - Chyme Reinfusion Therapy (CRT) Device AB-0050 Mohamed Arif Bin Hameed Sultan Presenter Pinnacle 10