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Registries and audits in esophagogastric cancer surgery play an important role in monitoring the quality of care provided to patients. During this webinar an international panel of speakers discussed the importance of registries and shared updates from around the world including set-up, results and the effect registries have had on national or regional outcomes. Panelists also discussed the way research has been incorporated into registries.

Setup and outcomes were shared from NREV (Sweden); NOGCA (England/Wales); EURECCA (Spain); (Canada/USA); (Japan), DUCA (The Netherlands).

Introduction and Defining Quality of Care in Esophagogastric Cancer Surgery

Registries and Audits: Learning from Current Nationwide Experiences

Patient Reported Outcomes in Auditing. What can we learn from them?

What is the Future of Research Within Registries

The ISDE wishes to sincerely thank the following individuals for their contributions to this presentation:

• Manuel Pera, Head of the Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hospital del Mar, Spain
• Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Natalie Coburn, Surgical Oncologist, Sunnybrook's Odette Cancer Center, Canada
• William Allum, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK
• Jan Johansson, Head of Oesophageal and Gastric Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Sweden
• Sheraz Markar, Senior Oesophago-Gastric Fellow, Oxford University Hospital Trust, UK
• Pernilla Lagergren, Professor of Surgical Care Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Nicholas Maynard, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
• Masayuki Watanabe, Deputy Hospital Director, Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Japan

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It is with great pleasure to present a Distinguished Membership of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE) to:

• André Duranceau
• Glyn Jamieson

The criteria for this award is “being a distinguished person who has achieved prominence in the field of the esophagus and related diseases, and who has contributed to its advancement”.

Both professors have contributed in an extraordinary way to the ISDE, and the field of esophageal disease. Here are some of their notable achievements.

André Duranceau

• Represented Canada and North America on ISDE executive committees, and served as President of the Society from 2004 to 2006.
• Convened the Society’s highly successful 7th World Congress in Montreal in 1998.
• Led the transition of the Society to its current multidisciplinary membership.
• Served as Editor of Diseases of the Esophagus from 2008 to 2014, enhancing the quality and status of the journal.
• Professor Duranceau has trained many esophageal surgeons from all over the world and is a mentor to countless esophageal and thoracic surgeons. His willingness to share his expertise has impacted esophageal disease management well beyond Montreal and Canada.
  
  

Glyn Jamieson

• Advocated for ISDE in Australia and New Zealand and represented them on committees in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
• Significantly led the bid for, and then convened the ISDE’s successful World Congress in Adelaide, Australia in 2006.
• Contributed strongly to the field of esophagology with countless scholarly contributions. He edited, cowrote and published what at the time was the definitive textbook on esophageal disease in 1988 – “Surgery of the Oesophagus”. He has published more than 350 peer reviewed scientific papers across his career.

We thank both André Duranceau and Glyn Jamieson for their time, accomplishments and for advancing our field and leaving a legacy for future generations.

David Watson

ISDE Past President

We are pleased to announce the newly elected Officers and Executive Committee of the 2021 - 2022 ISDE Board of Directors.

Sheila K. Krishnadath is now the President and has activated participated in ISDE over the years. 

Also, congratulations to the following members who have been elected:

• Vice President (2021-2022): Nicholas J. Shaheen
• Director (2021-2023): Long-Qi Chen
• Director (2021-2023): Magnus Nilsson
• Director (2021-2023): Varocha Mahachai
• Director (2021-2023): Takuji Gotoda

We are confident they will have a great deal to offer in directing the future of ISDE.

Check out the latest DOTE issue for articles on Benign Esophageal and Malignant Esophageal Diseases.

Myotomy in sigmoid megaesophagus: is it applicable? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Editor's Choice - Free Article
Achalasia is a rare esophageal primary motor dysfunction with no cure. The aim of the achalasia therapy is to palliate the symptoms, mainly dysphagia. Its treatment usually focuses on inferior esophageal sphincter disruption, leading to facilitated food transit to the stomach. It can be done by surgical myotomy or endoscopic procedures, such as cardia dilatation or peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). Read the full article.

Severity of GERD and disease progression
Editor's Choice - Free Article
Many factors may play a role in the severity and progression of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) since pathophysiology is multifactorial. Data regarding the progression of GERD are controversial: some reports of increased esophageal acid exposure (EAE) and mucosal damage were considered as evidence for a stable disease course, while others interprete these findings as disease progression. The aim of this study is to analyze a large patient-population with persisting symptoms indicative of GERD under protonpumpinhibitor-therapy and identify components characterizing disease severity and progression. Read the full article.

See the full table of contents here.

As the term has ended for some of our ISDE Board of Directors, we'd like to thank them for their service and contributions to the society. Thank you to Prateek Sharma (Past President), and Directors Manuel Pera and Edoardo Savarino. Their contributions have been invaluable in the continued development of ISDE, and in switching the Congress to a virtual platform in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. We thank you for your time and commitment and wish you all the best.

The International Society for Disease of the Esophagus (ISDE) is pleased to announce the 2022 World Congress for Esophageal Diseases will be held in Tokyo, Japan from September 26-28, 2022.

In order to serve the esophageal community better the ISDE is working closely with the Japan Esophageal Society (JES), who will be hosting their annual meeting just before the ISDE World Congress at the same venue. The programs for both society meetings will be independent and delegates may choose to attend one meeting or both.

ISDE President, Prateek Sharma was quoted as saying “Japan is known for their cutting-edge treatments in the field of endoscopy and surgical procedures. This is a great opportunity for members and attendees from around the world and from Japan to observe, learn and share information on the esophagus.”

ISDE Executive Director, Mark Ferguson commented that “the 2022 Congress in Tokyo, Japan marks the 4th time this meeting has been held in this country and honors a longstanding relationship between ISDE and the Japanese Esophageal Society (JES). We anticipate this meeting will have the highest attendance numbers of any of our congresses to date.”

We look forward to welcoming you in Tokyo!

Check out the latest DOTE issue for articles on Benign Esophageal and Malignant Esophageal Diseases.

Paraconduit hiatal hernia after esophagectomy. Prevention—indication for surgery - surgical technique

DOTE Volume 34, Issue 9 | Editor's Choice
Free Article

The laparoscopic part of minimal invasive esophagectomy (MIE) and gastric pull-up has become the preferred approach either in hybrid or total MIE. The advantages are well known, however, one shortcoming is the increased rate of postoperative paraconduit hiatal hernias (PHH) leading to enterothorax.

Exploring the concept of centralization of surgery for benign esophageal diseases: a Delphi based consensus from the European Society for Diseases of the Esophagus

DOTE Volume 34, Issue 9 | Editor's Choice
Free Article

Surgery for benign esophageal diseases may be complex, requiring specialist training, but currently, unlike oncologic surgery, it is not centralized. The aim of the study was to explore the opinion of European surgeons on the centralization of surgery for benign esophageal diseases. A web-based questionnaire, developed through a modified Delphi process, was administered. Read the full article.

See the full table of contents here.

Go through the ISDE 2021 Congress Supplement. Abstracts submitted to the 17th ISDE World Congress for Esophageal Diseases are now available online.

See the full table of contents here. 

Congratulations to the DOTE Award winners who were recognized during today's DOTE Awards ceremony, at the ISDE World Congress. The Diseases of the Esophagus Journal awards were created in 2018 to recognize outstanding junior faculty members and help promote professional and educational interest in the esophagus and related diseases. Since last year's Congress was cancelled due to Covid-19, the winners were recognized today for both 2020 and 2021. Well done to the following winners and thank you for your support of the Diseases of the Esophagus journal. 

Best Junior Faculty/Trainee Manuscript Award

2021 - Evangelos Tagkalos
University of Mainz, Department of General Surgery and Transplants, Germany

Evangelos is a Junior Consultant at the University of Mainz. His main interests are esophageal cancer surgery and robotic surgery. The title of his awarded article is: Robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) compared to conventional minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) for esophageal cancer: a propensity-matched analysis.

2020 - Katrin Schwameis
University of Vienna/ Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, Austria/USA

Katrin is a Consultant at the Vienna School of Medicine Department of General Surgery (Division of Visceral Surgery). She spent two years as a fellow in minimally invasive and foregut surgery at the Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Her main interests are esophageal motility disorders, esophageal functioning testing, Barrett's esophagus, esophageal adenocarcinoma, and  gastroesophageal reflux disease.

The title of her awarded article is: Clinical outcome after laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication in patients with GERD and PPI refractory heartburn.

Outstanding Junior Faculty Peer Reviewer Award

2021 - Fredrik Klevebro
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Digestive Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Klevebro works at Karolinska Institutet. His main interests are Esophageal and Gastric cancer, Mini-invasive surgery, and Epidemiology.

2020 – Joonas Kauppila
University of Oulu, Finland, Sweden

Joonas Kauppila, Assistant Professor of Surgery, received his M.D. in 2013 and Ph.D. in 2014 from Oulu, Finland. He became a lecturer in Cancer Biology in 2015, at the age of 27 years, as one of the youngest faculty members in medical sciences ever in Finland. Joonas worked as a Research Fellow at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, from 2016 until 2019.

October 12, 2021  13:00-14:30 GMT

Join a global panel of speakers at a webinar devoted to registries and audits in esophagogastric cancer surgery. The importance of registries in monitoring quality of care is discussed. Furthermore, a series of registries from all around the world are presented with their set-up, results and effect on national or regional outcomes, and the way research is incorporated into these registries. Also, patient reported outcomes and audit-based research is discussed. Registration is free. To find out more details, click here.