Scientific Program

  • Day - 1 Friday, July 17 th, 2026
  • Day - 2 Saturday, July 18 th, 2026
  • Day - 3 Sunday, July 19 th, 2026
Time Topic faculty
MOC’s: Kulvinder Dua, SP Misra, Naresh Bhat, Manisha Dwivedi, Suhas Date, Sanjay Salunkhe, Sachin Palnitkar, Sahil Rasane, Akshay Kulkarni
OT Coordinators: Harshal Gadhikar, Rajendra Pujari, Lalit Shimpi
10:50 - 11:00 Introduction Welcome Amol Bapaye
11:00 - 11:40 Screening for Early GI Cancer
Chairpersons: Manisha Dwivedi, Parimal Lawate, Yogesh Shastri, H.P. Yadav, Vinay Thorat
11:00 - 11:10 Epidemiology of GI Cancers in India - The Changing Landscape Naresh Bhat
11:10 - 11:20 CRC Screening in India - Need, Feasibility, Application? S. P. Misra
11:20 - 11:30 Gastric Cancer Screening - Can There be an Indian Model? Nitin Jagtap
11:30 - 11:40 Q&A
11:40 - 12:30 Gastric Lesions
Chairpersons: Ajay Jain, Bhooshan Pandit, Sheetal Mahajani, B. Ravi Shankar, Veera Raghavan
11:40 - 11:50 Guidelines & Reporting Standards for UGI Endoscopy Sravan Kumar Korrapati
11:50 - 12:00 Systematic Screening Protocol for Stomach Ashutosh Mahapatra
12:00 - 12:10 Endoscopic Differential Diagnosis of Pre-malignant Gastric Lesions - Atrophy, IM, Dysplasia Noriya Uedo
12:10 - 12:30 Case based Panel Discussion - Early Cancer Diagnosis Sudhir Maharshi, Jimil Shah
12:30 - 13:30 Esophageal Lesions
Chairpersons: Shyam Thakkar, Nitin Behl, Sanjay Kumar, Lalit Shimpi, Vishnu Abhishek
12:30 - 12:40 Lugol's, NBI & EUS - Building the Diagnosis of Esophageal SCC Shrihari Anikhindi
12:40 - 12:50 ESD for Esophageal SCC - Tips, Tricks & Troubleshooting Gaurav Patil
12:50 - 13:00 Post ESD Strictures - Prevention & Management Alexander Schlacterman
13:00 - 13:10 Endoscopic Diagnosis of Barrett's - the Agony & the Ecstasy Sridhar Sundaram
13:10 - 13:20 Endotherapy for Early SCC vs Adeno Ca - Different Beasts, Different Approaches Seiichiro Abe
13:20 - 13:30 Case based Discussion
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (3 parallel Luncheon Symposia in Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 on 1st Floor, details overleaf)
14:30 - 15:15 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Anurag Govil, Meghraj Ingle, Amit Agarwal, Sandeep Kalokhe, Arvind Namdeo
Moderators: Umesh Jalihal, Varun Khandagale, Pawan Rawal, Pankaj Nemade, Suresh Chawla
15:15 - 16:00 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Elly Ogutu, Aravind Gubbi, Nitin Borse, Dadasaheb Maindad, Venkat Iyer
Moderators: Jeffey George, Advay Aher, Prasad Bhate, S. Palaniappan, Sumit Bhatia
16:00 - 16:50 Duodenal Lesions
Chairpersons: Yogesh Batra, Mahadevan, S.P. Bhandari, Vaibhav Banait, Udaysinh Patil
16:00 - 16:10 Sporadic Duodenal Adenoma - Enbloc or Piecemeal? Endoscopy or Surgical Resection? Rajkumar Wadhwa
16:10 - 16:20 Endoscopic Ampullectomy - When and Why Not! Nilay Mehta
16:20 - 16:30 Cold vs Hot in the Duodenum - How to Choose? And When? Zaheer Nabi
16:30 - 16:40 Duodenal NET - Decision Algorithm for Endoscopic Resection Jayanta Samanta
16:40 - 16:50 Case based Discussion Chintan Patel, Radhika Chavan
16:50 - 18:00 Colorectal Lesions
Chairpersons: Alexander Schlacterman, Chalapathi Rao, Abhijit Ranjan, Jahnvi Dhar, Nachiket Dubale
16:50 - 17:00 Bowel Preparation - Standardization, Clinical Implications, Challenges & Solutions Amit Dutta
17:00 - 17:10 Sessile Serrated Adenomas - Diagnosis & Management Rajvinder Singh
17:10 - 17:20 LST-G vs LST-NG - Optical Diagnosis & Treatment Selection - Does Location Matter? Noor Mohammed
17:20 - 17:30 Diminutive Colonic Polyps - Forceps or Snare? Cold or Hot? Nilay Mehta
17:30 - 18:00 Case based Panel Discussion - T1 Rectal Cancer - ESD or Surgery? Deepak Madhu, Abhinav Sharma
18:00 - 18:40 Tumor Board (Early SCC Esophagus & LST with SM Invasion - Distal Rectum)
Expert Panelists: Chetan Deshmukh, Gajanan Wagholikar, Sonali Pingley, Shital Biradar, Anup Tamhankar, Padmaj Kulkarni, Bhagyashree Khaladkar
Moderators: Rohan Yerwale, Sanjana Bhagwat
18:40 - 19:30 Keynote Address 1
Chairpersons: Kulvinder Dua, S.P. Misra, A.L. Kakrani, Parimal Lawate, Vinay Thorat
18:40 - 19:00 The Japanese Approach to Early Cancer Surveillance - Lessons for Indian Practice Noriya Uedo
19:00 - 19:20 Optical Diagnosis - Pit Pattern, Vascular Pattern & the Confidence to Skip Biopsy Rajvinder Singh
19:20 - 19:40 GI Cancer Screening - Policy, Implementation, Practice & Challenges (Lessons for India) Shyam Thakkar
19:40 Onwards Welcome Dinner

Luncheon Symposia

Time Topic faculty
13:30 - 14:30 3 parallel Luncheon symposia - in Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 on 1st Floor
13:35 - 14:15 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 1 - Olympus I
Chairpersons: Nilay Mehta, Ashutosh Mahapatra
13:35 - 13:40 Introduction
13:40 - 14:00 Beyond White Light & Hyperspectral Endoscopy - Imaging the Invisible in GI (TXI, M-NBI, Endocyto) Mohan Ramchandani
14:00 - 14:15 Q&A Discussion
13:35 - 14:15 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 2 - ERBE
Chairpersons: Sukrit Sud, Gaurav Patil, Sandip Pal
13:35 - 13:40 Introduction
13:40 - 14:00 HybridFlex Pankaj Desai
14:00 - 14:15 Q& A Discussion
13:35 - 14:15 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 3 - EndoFLIP Medtronic
Chairpersons: Zubin Dev Sharma, Akshay Kulkarni
13:35 - 13:40 Introduction
13:40 - 14:00 EndoFLIP - Clinical Applications Rakesh Kalapala
14:00 - 14:15 Panel Discussion
Time Topic faculty
07:30 - 08:30 Breakfast Sessions (3 parallel Breakfast sessions in Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 on 1st Floor)
07:30 - 08:20 Perfecting your Tunnel! What you need to Know!
Expert Commentator: Alex Schlactermann
K.K. Rawal, Pradev Inavolu
07:30 - 08:20 Covering up! Choosing the Right Device for ESD Defect Closure
Expert Commentator: Georgios Mavrogenis
Shankar Zanwar, Chintan Patel
07:30 - 08:20 The Mysteries of NBI - Explained & Unravelled
Expert Commentator: Seiichiro Abe
Shiran Shetty, Jahangeer Basha
08:50 - 09:00 Review - Day 1 & Welcome - Day 2 Harshal Gadhikar
09:00 - 10:15 The Light in the Tunnel
Chairpersons: Nitin Pai, Varun Mehta, Prashant Bhandarkar, Satish Kulkarni
09:00 - 09:10 Post Myotomy Recurrent Dysphagia Shyam Thakkar
09:10 - 09:20 Post POEM GER Praveer Rai
09:20 - 09:30 Tailoring the Myotomy during E-POEM - Recommended Yardsticks Vikas Singla
09:30 - 09:40 Z-POEM - Technical Variations explained & contrasted Georgios Mavrogenis
09:40 - 09:50 Determining Optimal length of myotomy - PREM Harshal Gadhikar
09:50 - 10:15 Case based Panel Discussion Zubin Dev Sharma, Rajendra Pujari
10:15 - 11:30 Brainstorming ESD Techniques
Chairpersons: Smruti Ranjan Mishra, Hussain Bohri, Shrikant Appasani, Arul Prakash, Rakesh Kumar Adi
10:15 - 10:25 Pocket ESD - Alone or Combined? Sonmoon Mahapatra
10:25 - 10:35 Bridge / Tunnel ESD - Nuances of Technique Georgios Mavrogenis
10:35 - 10:45 ESD Submerged - a Practical Guide to Saline Immersion Technique Alexander Schlactermann
10:45 - 10:55 Traction ESD - Understanding the Vectors Biswa Ranjan Patra
10:55 - 11:05 Navigating Complexity in Circumferential ESD Seiichiro Abe
11:05 - 11:30 Case based Panel Discussion Shivam Khare, Jijo Varghese
11:30 - 12:15 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Sanjay Rajput, Mukta Bapat, Prakash Dalai, Aditya V Kulkarni
Moderators: K.K. Rawal, Lalit Nihal, Ravindra Gaadhe, Nitin Narawane, Udaysinh Patil
12:15 - 13:00 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Nitin Pai, Jyoti Ranjan Mahapatra, Gaurav Chawla
Moderators: Sunil Dadhich, Chirayu Choksi, Nitin Joshi, Ravi Gupta, Dhaval Choksi
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (3 parallel Luncheon Symposia in Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 on 1st Floor, details overleaf)
14:00 - 14:50 Going Full-Thickness
Chairpersons: Mohan Ramchandani, L. Venkatkrishnan, Lalit Shimpi, Sridhar Sundaram, Suresh Jain
14:00 - 14:10 Gastric SEL - STER or EFTR? What to choose When? Rajesh Puri
14:10 - 14:20 FTRD - The Device-assisted Approach & Its Sweet Spot Sukrit Sud
14:20 - 14:30 Closure of Full Thickness Defects - The Endoscopist's Toolkit Harshal Mandavdhare
14:30 - 14:40 EFTR - Bailout Strategies When Things Go Wrong Pankaj Desai
14:40 - 14:50 Case based Discussion Saransh Jain, Bimal Sahu
14:50 - 15:30 Leaks, Perforations & Fistulae
Chairpersons: Kapil Jamwal, Mandar Doiphode, Rajesh Bathini, Deepak Johnson, Gautam Reddy
14:50 - 15:00 Autologous Fat Grafting for Chronic Fistulae Management Mohan Ramchandani
15:00 - 15:10 Performing Endovac - a Practical Checklist Saurabh Mukewar
15:10 - 15:20 Device Closure for Chronic Fistulae - What Works, What Doesn't? Amol Bapaye
15:20 - 15:30 Case based Panel Discussion Ashish Gandhi, Sandip Pal
153:0 - 16:15 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Sunil Jain, Alok Mishra, Mahesh Mahadik, Madhura Prasad, Bhaskar Kante
Moderators: Sawan Bopanna, Keerthi Chenduran, Siddharth Dharamsi, Manoj Lahoti, Vikrant Kale
16:15 - 17:00 Live Demonstrations
Chairpersons: Vivekanand Kulkarni, L.R. Girinadh, Jimmy Narayan, Amol Dahale
Moderators: Sandeep Pandey, Sujeet Jahagirdar, Advay Aher, N. Surajkumar
17:00 - 17:30 Tumor Board (EGC & GIST)
Expert Panelists: Chetan Deshmukh, Aditya Kulkarni (Surgeon), Sujit Joshi, Gajanan Wagholikar, Anup Tamhankar
Moderators: Sandeep Davavala, Jaseem Ansari
17:30 - 18:30 Keynote Address 2
Chairpersons: Sandeep Nijhawan, A.L. Kakrani, Rajesh Dharamsi, Ramesh Satarkar
17:30 - 17:50 AI for GI Cancer Screening - Are we there yet? Nageshwar Reddy
17:50 - 18:10 Tissue Regeneration Technologies for Endoluminal Surgery Kulvinder Dua
18:10 - 18:30 Pledging for a Cancer free Gut in India - an Appeal to the GI Community Amit Maydeo
18:30 - 19:30 Share & Learn
8 selected videos - 5+2 min each
Judges: Amit Maydeo, Kulvinder Dua, Noriya Uedo, Seiichiro Abe, Rajvinder Singh, Shyam Thakkar, Noor Mohammed, Georgios Mavrogenis, Alex Schlacterman
Moderators: Amol Bapaye, Harshal Gadhikar, Rajendra Pujari
19:30 - 19:40 Closing Remarks, Vote of Thanks - Amol Bapaye & Team DMH Gastro
19:40 onwards Fellowship & Dinner

Luncheon Symposia

Time Topic faculty
13:00 - 14:00 3 parallel Luncheon symposia - in Meeting Rooms 3, 4, 5 on 1st Floor
13:05 - 13:45 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 4 - Olympus II
Chairpersons: Pankaj Desai, Sridhar Sundaram, Nitin Behl
13:05 - 13:10 Introduction & Welcome
13:10 - 13:30 Endoscopic Hand Suturing - Redefining Precision in Advanced Endoscopy Noor Mohammed
13:30 - 13:45 Q&A Discussion
13:05 - 13:45 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 5 - Ovesco
Chairpersons: B. S. Ravindra, Srikant Appasani
13:05 - 13:10 Introduction & Welcome
13:10 - 13:20 Pocket OTSC Sawan Bopanna
13:20 - 13:30 FTRD Rajesh Puri
13:30 - 13:45 Q&A
13:05 - 13:45 Industry Luncheon Symposium - 6 - Closure Devices - Boston Scientific
Chairpersons: Amol Bapaye, Jayanta Samanta, Zaheer Nabi, Vikas Singla
Moderators: Saransh Jain, Saurabh Mukewar
13:05 - 13:10 Introduction & Welcome
13:10 - 13:45 Panel Discussion on Closure Devices & Techniques
Time Topic faculty
05:30 - 07:45 Run for a Healthy Gut! 3km & 5km Awareness Run for GI Early Cancer Diagnosis - Keshav Baug, Pune
07:45 - 08:30 Public Awareness Program on Early GI Cancer Diagnosis + Medal Distribution
Invited Dignitaries for Flag-off & Public Awareness Program:
Shri Jitendra Dudi, District Collector & District Magistrate of Pune
Mr. Uday Jadhav, CEO, Sakal Media Group
Ashish Kasodekar, Ultra Marathon Runner
Dr. Amit Maydeo, Padmashree Recipient, Chairman, Institute of Digestive Sciences, Reliance Healthcare, Mumbai
Dr. Sandeep Nijhawan, Past-President, Indian Society of Gastroenterology
Prof. Dr. Noriya Uedo, Osaka Cancer Center, Osaka, Japan & Vice Chairman, Asian Novel Bio-imaging & Intervention Group
Prof. Dr. Rajvinder Singh, Lyell McEwin Hospital, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia & Chairman, Asian Novel Bio-imaging & Intervention Group
Dr. Kulvinder Dua, University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA & Chair of International Committee, World Endoscopy Organization
Dr. D. S. Kelkar, Medical Director, DMHRC
Dr. Utkrant Kurlekar, Deputy Medical Director, DMHRC & International Marathon Runner
10:00 - 16:00 Hands on Trainings
Bapaye TipMaster™
Tip Control System
ESD
POEM
Ovesco OTSC
Overstitch
X-Tack & Mantis
DAT & Starclip
Steris Padlock
Sutuart
Hands On Faculty
International
Seiichiro Abe, Georgios Mavrogenis, Noor Mohammed, Alexander Schlactermann, Shyam Thakkar

National
Rakesh Kumar Adi, Shrihari Anikhindi, Jaseem Ansari, Shrikant Appasani, Sandeep Davavala, Harshal Gadhikar, Ashish Gandhi, Jeffey George, Saransh Jain, Bhaskar Kante, Shivam Khare, Shravan Kumar, Deepak Madhu, Sonmoon Mahapatra, Sudhir Maharshi, Harshal Mandavdhare, Jimmy Narayan, Sandip Pal, Darshan Parekh, Chintan Patel, Inavelu Pradev, Arul Prakash, Rajendra Pujari, Biswa Ranjan, K.K. Rawal Mahapatra, Bimal Sahu, Jayanta Samanta, Jimil Shah, Kapil Sharma, Abhinav Sharma, Sukrit Sud, Sridhar Sundaram, Jijo Varghese