The 2015 ESDE meeting was held at the Sheraton hotel in Stockholm November 5 – 7. The meeting started with two parallel precourses; one surgical featuring minimal invasive esophagectomy and the other endoscopic with focus on endoscopic mucosal resection techniques and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). Both precourses were very lively and interactive, featuring live procedures broadcasted from the Karolinska and Ersta hospitals to the downtown venue at the Sheraton Hotel.
The opening ceremony session, after the precourses, included state of the art presentations and an honorary membership ceremony in which Professor Lars Lundell, host of the 2003 ESDE meeting in Göteborg, was awarded a honorary membership. The first day of the meeting was wrapped up with a welcome reception at the Stockholm City Hall, the venue of the Nobel Prize dinner banquet held annually on December 10th.
On November 6th, the main day of the event, several highly interesting sessions were held, focusing on new frontiers in oesophagology, enhanced recovery after esophagectomy, benign esophageal diseases, lymph node dissection and a neoadjuvant therapy session endorsed by ESTRO. There were also oral presentations of original work and poster sessions. At the ESDE societal affairs meeting a new board was elected for the society, with Manuel Pera leaving way as president for Peter Siersema, Christophe Mariette staying on as financial officer and Magnus Nilsson being elected as General Secretary. The icing on the cake was the main social event for the whole meeting, the Gala Dinner at Soliden, at the outdoor museum of Skansen.
The last day of the 2015 ESDE meeting, Saturday November 7th, featured several very interesting topics. The first session of this day was Controversies in oesophagology, with medical debates on various hot and controversial topics. This was followed by the first trainee chapter session in the history of the ESDE, taking the form of a Dragon’s den session with trainees proposing study ideas before a den of “dragons”, experienced academic oesophagologists and a biostatistician, critically discussing the proposals. The last session of the entire 2015 ESDE meeting was the Top of the crop: selected oral presentations session with the top five abstracts presented and then the award of best abstract of the meeting. Winner of the award was home player Fredrik Klevebro, with his abstract on the NeoRes trial.
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