This section includes details on previous AUGIS Annual Scientific Meetings, dating back to Leeds 1997.

AUGIS celebrated its 25th Anniversary at the AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting which took place from 21 - 23 September 2022 at the P&J Live Conference Centre in Aberdeen. 

Scientific Programme

Click on the links below to view the meeting's scientific programme

Wednesday Programme

Thursday OG Cancer Programme

Thursday Benign Programme

Thursday Bariatric Programme

Thursday HPB Programme

Thursday AHP Programme

Friday Programme

Awarded 18 CPD Points by the ASGBI

Abstract Presentation Prize Winners

Winner of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Prize Paper Session: Trish Kanani "Ex vivo perfusion of isolated human liver segments: the development of a novel model for ethical, translational research"

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Free Papers: Dr Sheraz Markar "Delayed surgical Intervention after Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal cancer (DICE) study"

Winner of the Benign Free Papers: David Robinson "Upper Gastrointestinal Training in the UK & Ireland – a Roux Group Study"

Winner of the HPB Free Papers: Tamsyn Clark "Preclinical safety and feasibility of in situ Isolated Normothermic Liver Chemoperfusion (INLiC) for enhanced drug delivery"

Winner of the Bariatric Free Papers: Sarah Hill "Should we be doing routine post-operative blood tests in patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery?"

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Poster Presentations: Raymond Cuffe "Unmet needs in survivorship: Increased anxiety post oesophago-gastric cancer surgery"

Winner of the Benign and Bariatric Poster Presentations: Maitreyi Patel "Report of early experience from newly introduced Cytosponge service."

Winner of the HPB Poster Presentations: Lucia Lazzareschi "The introduction of antimicrobial-coated sutures to reduce the rate of surgical site infections in the hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) department: a quality improvement project"

Winner of the Emergency Surgery Poster Presentations: Mohammad Sharif "Management of Acute Gallstone disease at an urban acute Trust during the pandemic"

BJS Online

Abstracts accepted for the 25th Annual AUGIS Scientific Meeting have now been published with the BJS online. 

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Trainees' Competition Winner

Congratulations to the East of England team for winning the inaugural Trainees' Competition at AUGIS in 2022. The team included Geoffrey Roberts, Piriyah Sinclair and Catriona Walker

The 22nd AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the ACC Liverpool, 25 - 27 September 2019.

Scientific Programme

Abstract Presentation Prize Winners

Winner of BJS Prize: Robert Walker - “Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma cancer cells persist after complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy detected by novel techniques”

Winner of the Upper GI Cancer Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Saqib Rahman - “Machine Learning to predict early recurrence after oesophageal cancer surgery"

Winner of the Benign Upper GI and Bariatric Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Kulbir Mann - “Early specialist opinion may reduce the use of percutaneous cholecystostomy for cholecystitis – a collaborative regional study"

Winner of the Hepato Biliary Parallel Paper Oral Presentation: Benjamin Chan - “Pharmacological Stimulation of Nrf2 Enhances Functional Liver Regeneration Following Major Hepatectomy"

Special mention to Tamjeed Alam for his UGI Cancer presentation on: “The “UNCUT” Roux-en-Y: A novel procedure in Upper GI Reconstruction”

Winner of the Cancer Upper GI Best Poster Presentation: John Saunders - “The impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and disease recurrence following oesophago-gastric cancer resection"

Winner of the Benign Upper GI and Bariatrics Best Poster Presentation: Hwei Jene Ng - “Predicting the Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Development and validation of a pre- operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system"

Winner of the HPB Best Poster Presentation: Rebecca Saunders - “An outcome and cost analysis of endoscopic, minimal access surgery and open pancreatic necrosectomy"

Winner of Best Poster: John Saunders - "The impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and disease recurrence following oesophago-gastric cancer resection"

View abstracts at BJS Online

The 21st Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, 19 -21 September 2019.

Scientific Programme

Winner of the BJS Prize: Geoffrey Roberts - “Glucagon-like peptide 1 is a key factor in early and late dumping syndrome after gastrectomy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled crossover study” (Programme No: A05/Abstract no:21)

Winner of the Best Poster: J Robert O’Neill - “High content phenotypic profiling can determine drug mechanism of action and uncovers clinically approved drugs with novel in vitro activity against Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma” (Poster no: PO11/Abstract no:26)

View abstracts at BJS Online

Website: www.augis.org/2018conference

The 20th AUGIS Annual Scientific Meeting took place at Rochestown Hotel, Cork, 21 - 23 September 2017.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: John Findlay - "Staging gastric cancer with 18F-FDG PET-CT identifies frequent unsuspected" (Abstract no 125: A04)

Winner of Best Poster: Tomas Urbonas -  "Factors contributing to local tumour recurrence after percutaneous microwave ablation of colorectal liver metastases: a retrospective review of 126 ablations" (Abstract no 46: PoD4)

View abstracts at BJS Online

Website: www.augis.org/2017conference

The 19th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at The Armouries, Leeds, 21 -23 September 2016.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: Robert Jones - “Incorporating RAS mutation status into the Clinical Risk Score better predicts survival after resection of colorectal liver metastases“(A08 /Abstract no: 0120 )

Winner of Best Poster: Briony Robinson - “Enhanced dietetic support improving nutritional and clinical outcomes in oesophago-gastric (OG) cancer surgery“ (Poster no: POD 7 / Abstract no 0143)

View Abstracts at BJS Online

Website: www.augis.org/2016conference

In 2015 AUGIS joined up with the Digestive Disorders Federation (DDF) for joint meeting at the ExCel in London, 22 - 25 June 2015. 

The DDF included ACPGBI, BAPEN, BASL & BSG

The 18th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at the Brighton Centre, Brighton, 18 - 19 September 2014.

Scientific Programme

Winner of BJS Prize: Barry Dent - "The Role of Endoscopic Mucosal Resection in the Management of Early Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer"

Winner of Best Poster: Dr Ayesha Noorani - “Inferring the clonal evolution of oesophageal adenocarcinoma through whole genome sequencing” 

View Abstracts at BJS Online

The 17th Annual Scientific Meeting took place at The Sage, Gateshead, 19 - 20 September 2013.

Scientific Programme

Winner of Best Poster: Klaas Schuur - "A study of Ablative Techniques in Cirrhotic Livers"

View Abstracts at BJS Online