Thu, Dec 19
|InterContinental Dubai - Festival City
32nd IBC Symposium


Time & Location
Dec 19, 2019, 7:00 PM – 10:05 PM GMT+4
InterContinental Dubai - Festival City, Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Guests
About the Congress
32nd International Bariatric Club Affiliated Symposium in
collaboration with the Emirates Society of
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 2019
Honorary Chair: Dr. Abdulwahid Alwahidi (UAE)
Founder IBC & Symposium Co-Director: Professor Tomasz Rogula (Poland/USA)
Symposium Director: Professor Tarek Mahdy (UAE)
19:00–19:05
WELCOME
Professor Tarek Mahdy (Scientific Chair: ESMBS)
Dr. Abdulwahid Alwahidi (President: ESMBS)
Professor Tomasz Rogula (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Session Chair: Professor Tarek Mahdy (UAE/Egypt)
Moderators: Dr. Adriana Rotundo (UAE/UK) & Dr. Zafar Gondal (UAE)
19:10–19:25
Can American Standards and Patients Expectations be Easily Adapted in the Middle East Bariatric Practice?
Professor Safwan A. Taha (UAE/Iraq)
19:30–19:45
My Experience and Strategies on Prevention and Management of Complications After One Anastomosis/Mini Gastric Bypass
Dr. Laurent Layani (UAE/France)
19:50–20:05
Benefits and technique of constructing jejuno-jejunostomy in the supracolic compartment in LRYGB.
Dr. Javed Ahmed (UAE/UK)
20:10–20:25
SASI, MGB/OAGB, LRYGB: Perfect Robotic Operations?
Dr. Abdulwahid Alwahidi (UAE)
20:30 - 20:45
Endoscopic Gastroplasty: Lessons Learned from My Early Experience
Dr. Maryam Al Khatri
GRAND DEBATE:
(10 minutes each debater, 10 minutes cross examination from moderator
and audience)
20:50–21:20
Debate Chair: Dr. Abdulwahid Alwahidi (UAE)
Moderator: Dr. Omar Elmarzooki (UAE
“Elongation of the Bilio-Pancreatic Channel Improves Metabolic Outcomes in RYGB and MGB/OAGB”
Dr. Ali Khammas (UAE) Vs Professor Almantas Maleckas (UAE/ Lithuania)
EXPERTS' FORUM (Video Session)
Session Chair: Dr. Matthew Kroh (UAE/USA)
Moderators: Dr. Basem Khafagi (UAE) , Dr. Ricard Corcelles (UAE/Spain) , Dr. ESSA Al Muallimi (UAE)
21:25–21:40
DISASTERS IN SURGERY
Mohit Bahandari (India)
21:40–22:00
Portal Vein Thrombosis after Laparoscopic
Sleeve Gastrectomy & Twisted MGB/OAGB
Professor Tomasz Rogula (Poland/USA)
22:00 - 22.05
Conclusions and Closing the Symposium
Professor Tarek Mahdy
Professor Tomasz Rogula