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By Philip W.Y. Chiu, Cesare Hassan, Hon Chi Yip, Prateek Sharma

A roundtable webinar was recorded on April 15, 2020 following the release of the ISDE Guidance Statement on the Management of Upper-GI Endoscopy & Surgery in the COVID-19 outbreak. The ISDE Guidelines Committee Chairs, Philip W.Y. Chiu and Cesare Hassan, were joined by panelists from Hong Kong, Italy, Japan and Taiwan sharing their experiences and perspectives on this topic.

ISDE wishes to recognize and thank the following individuals for their contributions to this roundtable discussion:

Hosts

• Philip W.Y. Chiu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Cesare Hassan, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy

International Panelists

• Ying Kai Chao, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linko, Taoyuan, Taiwan
• Haruhiro Inoue, President of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Japan
• Alessandro Repici, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
• Noriya Uedo, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan
• Hon Chi Yip, The Chinese University of Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

Full Roundtable

Roundtable Segments

Introduction to ISDE Guideline Statement on COVID-19

• Hon Chi Yip, The Chinese University of Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

Comments on the experience in Italy during COVID-19

• Cesare Hassan, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy

Managing esophageal cancer during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

• Ying Kai Chao, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Perspectives on the ISDE guidelines from different regions

• Alessandro Repici, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

• Haruhiro Inoue, President of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Japan

• Noriya Uedo, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan

Use of PPE during upper endoscopy

• Alessandro Repici, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

• Haruhiro Inoue, President of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Japan

• Philip W.Y. Chiu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Noriya Uedo, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan

• Cesare Hassan, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy

Innovations and techniques to reduce infection

• Alessandro Repici, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

• Philip W.Y. Chiu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Hon Chi Yip, The Chinese University of Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong

Restarting endoscopy and surgery after COVID-19

• Philip W.Y. Chiu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Alessandro Repici, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy

• Haruhiro Inoue, President of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Japan

The effect of treatment delays on patients with upper-GI cancers

• Noriya Uedo, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan

• Ying Kai Chao, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linko, Taoyuan, Taiwan

• Philip W.Y. Chiu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

• Haruhiro Inoue, President of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, Japan