ESS Symposiums
“Level Up Your Surgical Skills”
Two intensive tracks: Advanced Ultrasound and Robotic Surgery
Hotel Nicolaus, Bari
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
ESS Symposiums — Post-Congress 2025
Level Up Your Surgical Skills: Two intensive tracks: Advanced Ultrasound and Robotic Surgery
On the occasion of the 127th National Congress of the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), the European Society of Surgery presents two specialized symposiums designed to enhance surgical expertise and foster direct exchange with international experts.
📍 Hotel Nicolaus, Bari –Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
The symposiums will take place in dedicated venues inside the congress center, featuring hands-on sessions, case-based discussions, and interactive Q&A.
1. Advanced Ultrasound for Surgeons
From complex pre-operative assessments to intra-operative guidance, including biopsies and ultrasound-guided drainage. Applications in emergency, thyroid, breast, and hepatobiliary surgery.
Special focus on emerging technologies: portable devices, 3D imaging, elastography.
2. Robotic Surgery: Update and Perspectives
A comprehensive overview of the latest robotic platforms, clinical applications (colorectal, HPB, hernia), and comparative data against traditional procedures. Innovative training pathways (simulation, VR) and future perspectives including AI, telesurgery, and miniaturization. A critical outlook on costs, accessibility, and ethics.
🎯 Common Goal: to provide immediately applicable skills in the operating room and a clear vision of the future trajectories of surgical innovation.
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Advanced Ultrasound for Surgeons
Transform Your Practice with Real-Time Imaging
A practical symposium that goes beyond the basics of ultrasound diagnostics,
focusing on advanced applications in surgical practice. Participants will gain
hands-on experience and immediately applicable skills.
📌 Main topics
- Advanced diagnostic techniques: How to use ultrasound for complex pre-operative assessments and intra-operative guidance.
- Procedural skills: Hands-on training for ultrasound-guided procedures such as biopsies and drainage.
- Subspecialty applications: Specific use cases in emergency, thyroid, breast, and hepatobiliary surgery.
- Case-based discussions: Real-world surgical cases where advanced ultrasound is critical in decision-making and outcomes.
- Emerging technologies: The latest advancements in ultrasound equipment, including portable devices, 3D imaging, and elastography.
- Hands-on workshops: Practical sessions where surgeons can practice techniques under expert guidance.
👨⚕️ Faculty
- Pisani (Italy) – Introduction and core concepts
- Laterza (Italy) – Emergency setting
- Lucarelli & Villanova (Italy) – Operative concepts of ultrasound targeting
- Dell’Atti (Italy) – Peritoneal drainage
- Papini (Italy) – Ultrasound-guided RFA of thyroid nodules
- Panzera (Italy) – Ultrasound-guided RF treatment of liver lesions
- Moschetta & Telegrafo (Italy) – Identification of small breast lesions and core biopsy
📍 Hotel Nicolaus – VIP Suite 1, 12th floor
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Goal: to provide practical knowledge and skills immediately transferable
to the operating room and different clinical settings.
Robotic Surgery: Update and Perspectives
Navigate the Future of Surgery
A symposium providing a comprehensive overview of the latest developments and
forward-looking perspectives in robotic general surgery, combining updates on
current platforms with discussions on future directions, training, and ethics.
📌 Main topics
- New robotic systems: Latest platforms and capabilities, including advancements in haptic feedback, instrument dexterity, and ergonomics.
- Clinical applications: Use of robotics in colorectal, hepatobiliary, and hernia surgery, with data on outcomes, operative times, and complication rates.
- Comparative analysis: Data comparing robotic-assisted procedures to traditional laparoscopic and open surgery.
- Training & education: Simulation, virtual reality, and proctored pathways for skill acquisition.
- Future perspectives: Integration of AI, telesurgery, and the miniaturization of robotic systems.
- Cost and ethics: Critical discussion of economic impact, accessibility, liability, and regulatory challenges.
👨⚕️ Faculty
- Marano (Poland) – Evolving concepts; Upper GI surgery
- Bhalla (USA) – Cutting-edge platforms and use cases
- Guerra (Italy) – Robotic colorectal surgery
- Calu (Romania) – Standards in benign and malignant upper GI disease
- Kauffman (Italy) – Pancreatic resection
- Cuccurullo (Italy) – Robotic hernia repair
- Oviedo (USA) – Validated metrics of proficiency in robotic surgery
📍 Hotel Nicolaus – VIP Suite 2, 12th floor
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Goal: to provide an up-to-date vision and practical tools
to integrate robotic surgery into daily practice and anticipate future challenges.
Join the ESS Symposiums
Take part in two high-level training events, designed for those who want to enhance their surgical skills and stay at the forefront of innovation.
📅 Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
📍 Hotel Nicolaus, Bari
Don’t miss the opportunity to redefine your surgical future.
We look forward to welcoming you at the ESS Symposiums
for a day of practice, innovation, and international exchange.