Our Agenda
Over the next three days, you will have the opportunity to observe live endoscopic procedures, explore the latest technologies, and engage in meaningful discussions that challenge and expand current approaches.
Our aim is to create a dynamic learning environment where knowledge is exchanged openly and professional growth is encouraged.
Day 1
Thursday, 29 Jan 2026
Registration
7:30 – 8:30
Abed AlLehibi
Welcome Remarks/ Course Director
8:20 – 8:30
Kulwinder Dua (USA)
WEO Recognition for KFMC as WEO center of Training
8:30 – 8:45
Session 1
8:45 – 10:15
Moderators:
Badr Alajlan
Hammad Alothmani
Hussein El Amin (Egypt)
Mohamed El Nady (Egypt)
Syed Anjum (UK)
8:45-9:05
Moamen Gabr (USA)
If biliary path resists: advances in biliary cannulation
9:05-9:25
Rajesh Puri (India)
Two pathways and one goal: EUS-guided solution for chronic pancreatic pain
9:25-09:45
Kulwinder Dua (USA)
Endoscopic Management of Esophageal Strictures: Eosinophilic vs Non-Eosinophilic Disease
09:45-10:05
Benedetto Mangiavillano (Italy)
EUS tissue acquisition; current practice and future direction
10:05-10:15
All Faculties
Q&A
Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:30
Session 2
10:30 – 12:00
Moderators:
Ahmed Bazarbashi
Hiwa Abubakr (Iraq)
Mohammed Alfawaz
Roberta Maselli (Italy)
Sarah Alghamdi
10:30-12:00
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Abed AlLehibi
Ahmed Madkour (Egypt)
Alberto Murino (UK)
Emad AlJahdali
Khaled Bamakhrama (UAE)
Laurent Palazzo (France)
Manuel Pérez-Miranda (Spain)
Michel Kahaleh (USA)
Mustapha Benazzouz (Morocco)
Rajesh Puri (India)
Resheed Alkhiari
Yogesh Shastri (UAE)
Live Transmission (1)
Prayer Time & Lunch Break
12:00 – 12:45
Satellite Symposium
Takeda
Ahmed Alghamdi
Bashaar Al Ibrahim
12:45 – 13:00
Session 3
13:00 – 14:15
Moderators:
Ahmed Madkour (Egypt)
Asma Alkandari (Kuwait)
Mazin Rasool Aljabiri (UAE)
Michel Kahaleh (USA)
Resheed Alkhiari
13:00-13:20
Noor Mohammed (UK)
Optimal diagnosis in ESD seeing beyond the surface
13:20-13:40
Alberto Murin (UK)
Emerging strategies for safer and faster ESD
13:40-14:00
Mohammed Othman(USA)
Hussam Alamri
Endoscopic tunnel vs surgical table for SEL resection
14:00-14:15
All Faculties
Q&A
Session 4
14:15 – 15:45
Moderators:
Abdulrahman Alkhormi
Amr El Fouly (Egypt)
Ayman Alqiraqri
Emad AlJahdali
Mohamed Negm (Egypt)
14:15-15:45
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Abdullah Algifari
Abdulrahman Alfadda
Ahmed Bazarbashi
Ammar AlOtaibi
Fatih Aslan (Turkey)
Hisham Al Dhahab (Oman)
Laurent Palazzo (France)
Moamen Gabr (USA)
Mohammed Albeshr
Mohan Ramchandani (India)
Noor Mohammed (UK)
Nawaf Alotaibi
Live Transmission (2)
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
Session 5
16:00 – 17:25
Moderators:
Abdullah Almousa
Adeeb Elghalayini
Bahaa Alkilani
Roberto Di Mitri (Italy)
Sajjad Mahmood (UK)
16:00-16:30
Ayedh Alqahtani
Mohammed Abukhater
ESG or LSG: A comparative Riview of Efficacy, Safety and Patient Selection
16:30-16:50
Mohan Ramchandani (India)
Difficult situations and challenges in POEM
16:50-17:10
Mohammed Al-Haddad (USA)
G-POEM in gastroparesis: strategies for better patient outcome
17:10-17:25
All Faculties
Q&A
Day 2
Friday, 30 Jan 2026
Session 6
8:45 – 10:00
Moderators:
Ali Alali (Kuwait)
El Sayed Ghoneim (Egypt)
Eyad Gadour
Manuel Pérez-Miranda (Spain)
Nada El Domiaty (Egypt)
8:45-9:05
Cesare Hassan (Italy)
ESGE, future of innovation and collaboration
9:05-9:25
Pradeep Bhandari (UK)
Beyond the snare; innovations in endoscopic mucosal resection
9:25-9:45
Fatih Aslan (Turkey)
Optimizing outcome; emerging technologies in endoscopic closure
9:45-10:00
All Faculties
Q&A
Coffee Break
10:00- 10:15
Session 7
10:15 – 11:30
Moderators:
Abdullah Algifari
Hazem Hammad (Jordan)
Ibrahim Balubaid
Khaled Bamakhrama (UAE)
Majed Almaghrabi
10:15-11:30
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Abdullah Almtawa
Ahmed Salah (Algeria)
Ammar Kheir (UAE)
Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
Asma Alkandari (Kuwait)
Aymen Almuhaidb
Hesham Aljohany
Majid Alsahafi
Mohammad Al-Haddad (USA)
Mohammed Othman (USA)
Pradeep Bhandari (UK)
Sajjad Mahmood (UK)
Live Transmission (3)
Prayer Time & Lunch Break
11:30 – 12:45
Satellite Symposium
Sanofi
Fahad Alsohaibani
12:45 – 13:00
Session 8
13:00 – 14:10
Moderators:
Ammar AlOtaibi
Muteb Alabdulwahab
Nasser Alqahtani
Rakan Alshalan
Saad Alzahrani
13:00-14:10
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Abdullah Alshahrani
Amr El Fouly (Egypt)
Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
Benedetto Mangiavillano (Italy)
Cesare Hassan (Italy)
Fatih Aslan (Turkey)
Hany Shehab (Egypt)
Hazem Hammad (Jordan)
Mohamed Negm (Egypt)
Mohammad Al-Haddad (USA)
Saad Alrajhi
Vinay Dhir (India)
Live Transmission (4)
Session 9
14:10 – 15:20
Moderators:
Abdullah Alshahrani
Alberto Murino (UK)
Almotasembillah Rammal
Shaker Bakkari
Yahya Alhaqawi
14:10-14:30
Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
EUS-Guided drainage and necresectomy: A minimally invasive approach to pancreatic collection
14:30-14:50
Manuel Pérez-Miranda (Spain)
Role of EUS guided gastroenterostomy in the management of benign upper GI obstruction
14:50-15:10
Laurent Palazzo (France)
From Diagnosis to Therapy: EUS-Guided RFA for Non-Malignant pancreatic lesions
15:10-15:20
All Faculties
Q & A
Coffee Break
15:20 – 15:30
Session 10
15:30 – 16:40
Moderators:
Fahad Alsohaibani
Hany Shehab (Egypt)
Mohammed Al-Dugdugi
Muhannad Altayeb (Sudan)
Turki Alamri
15:30-16:40
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Aayed Alqahtani
Antonio Facciorusso (Italy)
Badr Alajlan
Benedetto
Mangiavillano (Italy)
Ghias Un Nabi Tayyab (India)
Manuel Pérez-Miranda (Spain)
Mazin Rasool Aljabiri (UAE)
Roberta Maselli (Italy)
Roberto Di Mitri (Italy)
Sami Boudabbous (Tunisia)
Sarah Alghamdi
Vinay Dhir (India)
Live Transmission (5)
Session 11
16:40 – 17:50
Moderators:
Abdullah Alatawi
Abdullah Alghamdi
Abdulrahman Alfadda
Amr El Fouly (Egypt)
Omar Sharif (Bahrain)
16:40-17:00
Michel Kahaleh (USA)
EUS guided Gallbladder drainage: Expanding indications in Benign and Malignant Disease
17:00-17:20
Vinay Dhir (India)
HGS vs CDS : Choosing the right Biliary drainage approach
17:20-17:30
All Faculties
Q & A
Day 3
Saturday, 31 Jan 2026
Session 12
9:00 – 10:50
Moderators:
Abdullah Albishi
Abdullah Alotaibi
Antonio Facciorusso (Italy)
Hamed Alshehri
Mohamed Acharki (Morocco)
09:00-09:20
Ahmed Salah (Algeria)
Mastering Endoscopic approaches for ampullary lesions
09:20-09:40
Yogesh Shastri (UAE)
Practical approach to diagnosing SELs with EUS; when to biopsy, when to resect and when to follows
09:40-10:00
Mohammed Albeshr
Khalid AlSaleh
Mirizzi syndrome:
Endoscopy Vs. Surgery Management
10:00-10:20
Hesham Aljohany
Management of Indeterminate biliary stricture
10:20-10:40
Ammar AlOtaibi
Advanced ERCP strategies for difficult CBD stones
10:40-10:50
All Faculties
Q&A
Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:00
Session 13
11:00 – 12:10
Moderators:
Bodour Mohammadraheem
Faisal Aladwani
Hesham Aljohany
Mohammad Alageeli
Muhammed Alsaleemi
11:00-12:10
Live Endoscopy Demonstrators
Abdullah Alatawi
Adel Alghamdi
Ahmed Almalki
Ahmed Kayal
Ali Alali (Kuwait)
Carlos Robles-Medranda (Ecuador)
Hiwa Abubakr (Iraq)
Mohamed Acharki (Morocco)
Mohamed El Nady (Egypt)
Mohamed Enaba (Egypt)
Nada El Domiaty (Egypt)
Nawaf Almutairi
Live Transmission (6)
Prayer Time & Lunch Break
12:10 – 12:45
Satellite Symposium
Abbvie
Mishal Alshowair
Mohammed Alahmari
12:45 – 13:15
Session 14
13:15 – 14:45
Moderators:
Adnan Alzanbagi
Ammar Al Dabbagh
Helal Alenazi
Ibrahim Alruzug
Moamen Gabr (USA)
13:15- 14:05
- Ibrahim Alhafed
- Ayman Almuhaidb
- Ahmad Kayal
- Emad Aljahdali
- Abdulrahman Alfadda
Video cases (1)
14:05-14:25
Mustapha Benazzouz (Morocco)
Diagnostic EUS in liver disease: From visualization to tissue diagnosis
14:25-14:45
Přemysl Falt (Czech Republic)
Evolution of Lumen-apposing stents in digestive endoscopy
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:00
Session 15
15:00 – 16:00
Moderators:
Abdullah Alenazi
Abdullah Altheyabi
Hazim Hakem (Egypt)
Mohammad Al-Haddad (USA)
Salem Thaniah
15:00-15:50
- Ahmad Bazerbachi
- Rasheed Alkhairi
- Majid Alsahafi
- Abdullah Alshahrani
- Nawaf Almutairi
Video cases (2)
Dr. Abed AlLehibi
Closing Remarks and group photo
15:50-16:00