"Scalpel to Software – an Evolution"

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TALK1: AI and Detection of Breast Disease

Speaker: Professor Mark Halling-Brown
Head of Scientific Computing, Royal Surrey County Hospital, UK

TALK 2: Engineering Precision in Surgical Oncology: Digital Surgery, AI and Human Expertise

Speaker: Professor Alberto Arezzo
Distinguished Full Professor of Surgery, University of Torino, Italy

TALK: Anatomical modelling for precision surgery

Speaker: Mr Jordan Fletcher
Colorectal General Surgery Specialist Trainee, Yorkshire and Humber

TALK: Precision in surgical oncology: from scan to scalpel

Speaker: Dr Marcel den Dulk
Assistant Professor HPB Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center +, The Netherlands 

TALK: Precision before incision: 3D Modelling, surgical planning and reconstruction

Speaker: Professor Anastasios Kanatas 
Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospital,UK

TALK: Partnership and the Rare Cancers Act

Speaker: Dr Scott Arthur , MP for Edinburgh South West

TALK: New Randomised Data on young women with breast cancer

Speaker: Professor Jayant Vaidya                                                                                                  Professor of Surgery and Oncolocy, UCL, UK

BASO Raven Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor John Primrose 
Professor of Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, UK
BASO~ACS Honorary Member

Geoff Oates Achievement Award

Miss Nicola Fearnhead 
Past President ASGBI  | Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Cambridge University Hospitals, UK

Uccio Querci della Rovere Award

Professor Michael Baum 
Professor Emeritus of Surgery & Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities, University College London, UK
BASO~ACS Honorary Member

SESSION:  Presentation on Cancer Clinicians with Cancer

Speaker: Miss Leena Chagla                                                                                                                    Consultant Surgeon and Head of Breast Services MWL | Immediate Past President, ABS | Council member RCSEd

TALK: Automated skill metrics in robotic surgery: How AI is changing the way we train

Speaker: Mr Nicholas Raison 
Clinical Senior Lecturer | Consultant Urological Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, UK

TALK: Credentialling the Future Surgeon: What UK Trainees Need from Robotics Training Pathways

Speaker: Mr Aidan Bannon 
Robotics Lead,  ASiT | General Surgery Registrar, Manchester , UK 

TALK: Precision Surgery and Digital Decision Support: The Next Frontier in Surgical Training

Speaker: Professor Niki Rashidian
Professor of Innovative Computer-Assisted Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

BASO Annual Dinner (venue: The Atheneaum Club, London)

Talk 1: From prediction to prioritisation: what shadow-mode evaluation taught us about machine learning in the oesophageal cancer MDT

Speaker: Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran,MBBS BSc PhD FRCR (IR) 
Associate Professor of Interventional Radiology and Medical AI
Consultant Interventional Radiologist, AI Lead, Innovation for Translation Research Group, Research Lead for Radiology                                                                                                          University Hospitals Dorset and University of Southampton, UK

Talk 2: Digital Transformation in Cancer Surgery: What UK Policy need next 

Speaker: Dr Zubir Ahmed 
Ex-Minister of Health Innovation and Safety, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Transplant Surgeon,  Glasgow,UK

TALK 1: The Role of the Surgical Oncologist in the Era of AI

Speaker: Mr Hassan Malik                                                                                                                    Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon and Sarcoma Surgeon, Royal Liverpool University Hospital , UK                                                                                                                                                      Past President BASO~ACS, Incoming President ESSO

TALK 2: AI for Early Breast Cancer Detection: Lessons from Validation in the NHS

Speaker: Professor Fiona Gilbert 
Professor of Radiology, Head of Department of Radiology, The University of Cambridge, UK

BASO KEYNOTE LECTURE: Smarter Scalpel: Building Learning Systems for Future Surgical Oncology

Speaker: Professor Tony Young OBE 
National Clinical Director for Innovation, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Southend University Hospitals NHS FT, UK

TALK 1: AI and Cancer MDTs

Speaker: Mr Shazad Ashraf                                                                                                          Consultant Colorectal Surgein, University of Birmingham, UK 

TALK 2:   Talk Title TBC

Speaker: Mr Saladin Sawan
Consultant in Gynaecological Surgical Oncology and Robotics
President, Emirates Gynaecology Oncology Working Group, EOS, UAE | Vice Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, RCOG, London | Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK