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Researchers in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and REproductive ScienceS (PROGRESS) Course. Application Deadline June 15!
2023-11-05 00:00 - 2023-11-10 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N Resort Dr, Tucson, AZ, 85750, United States
The Society of Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology (SASGOG) announces that applications are being accepted for the 2023 Program for Researchers in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and REproductive ScienceS (PROGRESS) Course.
Led by:
Co-Director – Kristen Matteson, MD, MPH
Professor, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, and Research Division Chief, Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health
Co-Director – Emily DeFranco, DO, MS
Professor, Vice Chair of Obstetrics, Research and Faculty Development, and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
The Course will establish, augment, and solidify foundational research knowledge and skills of early career obstetrician gynecologist specialist faculty and subspecialist faculty and fellows. PROGRESS will also establish and engage a network of experienced and emerging researchers that together will promote, sustain, and empower course participants’ research careers while furthering the health and welfare of women and genderdiverse persons cared for by obstetricians and gynecologists.
Application Deadline is Thursday, June 15, 2023
More Information https://sasgog.org/progress-overview/

Advanced Laparoscopic Suturing and Knot-tying Course 17 hrs all hands-on all-the-time, intensive training
2023-12-02 08:00 - 2023-12-03 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Cambria Houston Downtown Convention Ctr, 1314 Texas Ave., Houston, 77002, United States
Who: This course is designed for MIS surgeons who want to transform their surgical skill and confidence by developing the ability to reliably suture and tie knots
Course Goals: To build surgical skill and confidence.
– Understand essential geometric concepts fundamental to laparoscopic suturing and knot tying.
– Develop facility and flexibility in laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying with a variety of techniques, equipment and approaches to progressively more complex surgical simulation challenges.
– Have performed on Real Tissue Models: myomectomy (focusing on defect closure) and/or TLH and/or Sacrocolpopexy (focusing on procedure steps, cuff closure and resuspension suturing).
COURSE CURRICULUM HERE
Course Fee (includes morning coffee, snacks and lunch):
Practicing Surgeons: $1250
Resident/Fellow: $950

Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Course and Cadaver Lab
2024-01-12 - 2024-01-14 | Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), 124 S. Franklin Street, Tampa, Florida, 33602
The minimally invasive surgery course is a cadaver based, hands-on educational course for gynecologic surgeons who desire to advance their skills and knowledge in laparoscopic surgery. Participants will learn and practice surgical techniques for efficient and safe total laparoscopic hysterectomy and advanced pelvic dissection. A laparoscopic suturing lab will be available throughout the entire course for participants to practice the skills of laparoscopic suturing and knot tying. The course will also cover laparoscopic surgical dissection, effective use of laparoscopic instrumentation, electrosurgery and prevention and repairing of incidental bladder and bowel injuries. There will be a pre course hysteroscopy lab on 1/12/2024.

AAGL PAG SIG Webinar: What the MIGS Surgeon Needs to Know About Prior Pediatric Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery in the Adult Gynecology Patient
2024-02-26 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
AAGL PAG SIG Webinar: Click here to register.
Webinar Topic: What the MIGS Surgeon Needs to Know About Prior Pediatric Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery in the Adult Gynecology Patient
Presented by:
Y. Frances Fei, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Topic Title: Embryology & Background on Complex Anorectal Surgeries in the Pediatric Population
Stephanie Cizek, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Topic Title: What Goes Where? (Diversions, Vaginoplasties, and More)
Allison C. Mayhew, MD, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C
Topic Title: Case Presentations: MIGS Preoperative Considerations and Examples
Webinar Description:
This webinar will focus on describing complex anorectal and pelvic malformations and reconstructive surgeries done in the pediatric and adolescent patient that will impact adult gynecologic medical and surgical care. During this course, listeners will gain knowledge on the embryology and diagnosis of anorectal and pelvic malformations in the pediatric patient; surgical considerations for urinary diversion, fecal diversions, mullerian anomalies, and vaginoplasty; discuss case examples of adult gynecologic patients with prior complex surgical history including understanding differences in anatomy and important considerations for pre-operative and intra-operative planning.
1. Describe the embryology and background on complex anorectal and pelvic surgeries in the pediatric and adolescent
population
2. Understand the surgical considerations for urinary diversion, fecal diversion, vaginoplasty types, required for complex
anorectal malformation patients.
3. Understand how prior complex pelvic reconstructive surgeries can impact adult gynecologic surgeries including
differences and other considerations in anatomy.
Webinar Course Objective(s):
1. Describe the embryology and background on complex anorectal and pelvic surgeries in the pediatric and adolescent
population
2. Understand the surgical considerations for urinary diversion, fecal diversion, vaginoplasty types, required for complex
anorectal malformation patients.
3. Understand how prior complex pelvic reconstructive surgeries can impact adult gynecologic surgeries including
differences and other considerations in anatomy.

AAGL Endometriosis SIG Webinar: Hot Topics in Surgical Management of Endometriosis
2024-03-26 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
AAGL Endometriosis SIG Webinar: Click here to register.
Webinar Topic: Hot Topics in Surgical Management of Endometriosis
Presented By:
Marcello Ceccaroni, MD, PhD, Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy
Topic Title: Laparoscopic Eradication of DE with Parametrial and Segmental Bowel Resection, According to the “Negrar Method” with Nerve-Sparing, “Touch-Less” Technique
Nicholas Fogelson, MD, Northwest Endometriosis and Pelvic Surgery, Portland, Oregon
Topic Title: Surgical Management of Sciatic Nerve Endometriosis
Moderated By:
Shanti Mohling, MD
Webinar Description:
Two leading experts discuss pearls of wisdom in the management of Endometriosis: Dr. Marcello Ceccaroni discusses nerve sparing surgery for invasive endometriosis of the bowel, and Dr. Nicholas Fogelson discusses surgical management of endometriosis of the sciatic nerve.
Webinar Course Objective(s):
Discover surgical techniques for treatment of rectovaginal endometriosis and awareness of the possibility for surgical management of endometriosis involving the sciatic nerve.

The AAGL/ESGE Webinar Series - Webinar #1: Role of Hysteroscopy in Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB)
2024-04-08 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The AAGL/ESGE Webinar Webinar Series – Webinar #1
Click here to register.

Webinar Topic: Role of Hysteroscopy in Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB)
Presented By:
Howard Curlin, MD (AAGL), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Topic Title: Anatomic Contributions to AUB: Role of Hysteroscopy in Diagnosis
Luis Alonso Pacheco, MD (ESGE), Hospital Quironsalud Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Topic Title: Ultrasound and Hysteroscopy: Against or Together?
Jovana Tavcar, MD (AAGL), MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Topic Title: How to Eliminate Blind Procedures
Moderated By:
Linda D. Bradley, MD (AAGL) and Ursula Catena, MD, PhD (ESGE)
Webinar Description: Multiple diagnostic modalities are commonly employed to describe intrauterine pathology, many of which rely on subjective interpretation of indirect or incomplete information. This webinar explores evidence-based improvement in diagnostic accuracy and planning for appropriate procedural interventions by making hysteroscopic assessment of the uterine cavity a component of your diagnostic evaluation.
Webinar Objectives:
1. List the ways in which hysteroscopy improves diagnostic accuracy on intrauterine pathology
2. Describe the synergies afforded by ultrasonic and hysteroscopic evaluation of the uterine cavity
3. Discuss evidence supporting hysteroscopic guided biopsies of endometrial pathology

Pelvic Anatomy Expo 2024 - Endorsed by the AAGL and ESGE
2024-04-15 - 2024-04-20 | St, Louis University, 3839 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63108, United States
Five different advanced courses, with theory and hands-on cadavers labs. Practical Anatomy and Surgical Education
Expo Director: Nucelio Lemos, MD, PhD
Course Directors: Justin Brown, Cristian Campian, Jose D. Eugenio, William Kondo, Armando Menocal, Ally Murji, Meir Jonathan Solnik

AAGL Hysteroscopy SIG Webinar: Hysteroscopy: Expanding Your Toolkit
2024-04-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
AAGL Hysteroscopy SIG Webinar: Click here to register.
Webinar Topic: Hysteroscopy: Expanding Your Toolkit
Presented By:
Jovana Tavcar, MD, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Topic Title: Incorporating Office Hysteroscopy into Your Practice
Cynthia Arvizo, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
Topic Title: Optimizing Pain Management and Anxiety in the Hysteroscopy Patient
Christina Salazar, MD, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas
Topic Title: Update on Asherman’s Syndrome
Lara Harvey, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Topic Title: Advancements in Hysteroscopy
Moderated By:
Erica F. Robinson, MD
Webinar Description:
This webinar will be broadly applicable in providing real strategies to incorporate office hysteroscopy into practice. With that, we will review ways to optimize pain management for patients and patient selection. Expert surgeons will then review some techniques to navigate Asherman’s and complex scarring. Finally, we will take time to look at where technology and advancements may be taking us as hysteroscopists in the coming years.
Webinar Course Objective(s):
1. Demonstrate how incorporation of office hysteroscopy can expand patient management options.
2. Evaluate evidence of interventions to reduce pain and anxiety in the hysteroscopy patient
3. Review techniques to navigate the scarred uterus.
4. Glimpse into the future with upcoming advances in the world of hysteroscopy.

The AAGL/ESGE Webinar Series - Webinar #2: Role of Hysteroscopy in Treatment of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB)
2024-04-29 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The AAGL/ESGE Webinar Webinar Series – Webinar #2
Click here to register.
Webinar Topic: Role of Hysteroscopy in Treatment of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB)
Presented By:
T. Justin Clark, MD (ESGE), Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Topic Title: Retained Products of Conception: Space for Hysteroscopic Treatment?
Hannah French, MD (AAGL), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Topic Title: The Resectoscope for Intrauterine Pathology and When to Choose it Over Morcellating Devices
Paolo Casadio, MD (ESGE), IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Topic Title: Fertility Sparing Treatment in Early Endometrial Cancer
Moderated By:
Erica F. Robinson, MD (AAGL) and Ursula Catena, MD, PhD (ESGE)
Webinar Description: Treatment of uterine pathology often relies on blind procedures or using enabling technologies to accomplish removal of intrauterine tissue. This webinar explores ways in which resectoscopic-based techniques provide minimally invasive approaches to common intrauterine pathologies and provide for evidence-based effective uterine-sparing treatments.
Webinar Objectives:
1. Discuss hysteroscopic-guided techniques for treating retained products of conception
2. Compare the merits and challenges between the resectoscope and the morcellator for treating intrauterine pathology
3. Describe uterine-sparing hysteroscopic techniques for treatment of early stage endometrial carcinoma
