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27 June 2026, Saturday
BOSPHORUS HALL TOPKAPI HALL GALATA HALL A1 ROOM A2 ROOM A3 ROOM
07:30-08:30 EPC Research Committe Meeting EPC Education Committe Meeting EPC Guidelines Committe Meeting 07:30-08:30
08:30-10:15 EPC / KPBA Joint Meeting Best Abstracts Pancreatic Cancer 08:30-10:15
10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK & SPONSORS EXHIBITION 10:15-10:45
10:45-13:00 Hot Topics in Pancreatitis Best Abstracts Surgery 10:45-13:00
BOSPHORUS HALL
08.30-10.15 EPC/KPBA Joint Symposia
Next-Generation Technologies in Pancreatology: AI, Robotics and Advanced Diagnostic Intelligence
Chairs: Gabriele Capurso (Milan, Italy), Dong-Wan Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Kaya Saribeyoglu (Dresden, Germany)
08.30-08.45 AI-Powered Spatial Analysis of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Pancreatobiliary Tract Cancers Young-Hoon Choi (Seoul, South Korea)
08.45-09.00 AI into Clinical Practice: Advances in PDAC Diagnosis and Treatment Decision-Making Jung Won Chun (Seoul, South Korea)
09.00-09.15 AI for everything and for everyone?
Where are the limitations and the risks?
Santhi Vege (Rochester, USA)
09.15-09.30 From Percutaneous to Endoscopic: Clinical Impact of Converting PTGBD to EUS-Guided Gallbladder Drainage Rogier P. Voermans (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
09.30-09.45 AI-Supported Molecular Tumor Boards: Integrating Omics, Imaging and Organoid Data for PDAC Therapy Simulation Jörg Kleeff (Halle, Germany)
09.45-10.00 AI-Guided Risk Stratification of POPF and PPH After Pancreaticoduodenectomy: From Scores to Real-Time Decision Support Colin J. McKay (Glasgow, UK)
10.00-10.15 Robotic and Augmented-Reality Guided Pancreatic Resection Felix Nickel (Hamburg, Germany)
10.15-10.45  Coffee Break
10.45-13.00 Hot Topics in Pancreatitis
Breaking Barriers in Pancreatitis Care: Precision Medicine, Biologics and Next-Generation Interventions
Chairs: Markus Lerch (Munich, Germany) Atsushi Masamune (Sendai, Japan), Daniel de la Iglesia Garcia (Madrid, Spain)
10.45-11.00 Genetic and Molecular Profiling in Pancreatitis: Who Should Be Tested and How Does It Change Management? Miklos Sahin-Toth (Los Angeles, USA)
11.00-11.15 Optimal Dose of Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT) for Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency (PEI) in Different Pancreatic Diseases: European PEI Registry: Final Results Enrique Dominguez-Muñoz (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
11.15-11.30 Gut microbiota in acute pancreatitis: Ready for prediction? Hannah Pauw (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
11.30-11.45 Precision Risk Prediction in Acute Pancreatitis Using AI & Radiomics: Are We Ready for Clinical Implementation – Johanna Laukkarinen (Tampere, Finnland)
11.45-12.00 From Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis to Cancer the RAP–CP–PDAC Axis: Emerging Strategies to Interrupt Progression Vinciane Rebours (Paris, France)
12.00-12.15 Total pancreatectomy and Islet Auto Transplant: Current state and future directions: Proceedings from the Transatlantic EPC-TPIAT Symposium Sanjay Pandanaboyana (Newcastle, UK)
12.15-12.30 Nutrition, Sarcopenia and Bone Health in Chronic Pancreatitis: Beyond Pancreatic Enzymes Sinead N. Duggan (Dublin, Ireland)
12.30-12.45 Targeting the Inflammatory Cascade in Severe Acute Pancreatitis: Lessons From the Auxora CARPO Trial and Beyond? Timothy B. Gardner (Dartmouth, USA)
12.45-13.00 Imaging Fibrosis in CP and Distinguishing AIP From Cancer: Advances in EUS Elastography & Quantitative MRI Matteo Tacelli (Milan, Italy)
TOPKAPI HALL
08.30 – 10.15 Best Abstracts Pancreatic Cancer
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 13.00 Best Abstracts Surgery
A1 ROOM
07:30-08:30 EPC Research Committe Meeting
A2 ROOM
07:30-08:30 EPC Education Committe Meeting
A3 ROOM
07:30-08:30 EPC Guidelines Committe Meeting