Orlando - Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute is changing the scope of digestive health through an international symposium that benefits patients and participants. Florida Live Endoscopy 2022 is a comprehensive educational experience that brings together experts from around the world to perform advanced procedures with participants from across the country and globe to learn, while providing innovative treatment options to patients from Florida and other southeastern states. The three-day event, recently held August 18-20, 2022, features live procedures using the latest technology, lectures, and hands-on training.
The endoscopic procedures were streamed live from the digestive health institute’s downtown campus location at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, to participants at JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa.
The symposium combines two pillars of the digestive health institute – advanced treatment options for patients and programs that educate the next generation of digestive health experts in advanced interventional endoscopy.
“This unique learning experience allows attendees to observe the latest endoscopic techniques and exposes them to the latest endoscopic technologies,” said Shyam S. Varadarajulu, MD, president, Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute. “Attendees also get to know and learn from the true masters of the disciplines”
While educating the next generation of digestive health experts, the world-renowned experts also perform advanced procedures for the current patients which also enhances future patient care.
“Patients participating in the symposium receive unparalleled care,” said Dr. Varadarajulu. “For physicians who attend the symposium, it provides a unique opportunity to observe experts and improvise their techniques which in turn will benefit their patients in every part of the world they come from – a ripple effect.”
Florida Live Endoscopy 2022 by the Numbers:
8 components: live demonstration of endoscopic procedures, lectures, one-on-one teaching sessions, interactive luncheon sessions, industry-sponsored satellite symposiums, self-assessment, hands-on training and a dedicated session for nurses and technicians
40 endoscopic procedures including treatment options to remove early-stage esophagus, stomach, small bowel or colon tumors; to treat achalasia, a motility disorder; to remove stones or stent tumors in the bile duct and pancreas; to biopsy tumors in the pancreas or other organs; and to perform minimally bypass procedures in patients with cancer-related intestinal obstruction
12 international faculty members from Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands
6 national faculty members from Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York
300+ participants, representing nearly each state in the United States, and many countries across the world — Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Columbia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay. Participants included practicing gastroenterologists or gastroenterologists in training, general surgeons, colorectal surgeons, and endoscopy nurses and technicians.
