IMPORTANT DATES
May 22, 2025 / Conference Start Date| May 25, 2025 / Conference End Date| May 5, 2025 / Deadline for Submission of Abstracts

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

  HALL A
14:00-14:30 OPENING CEREMONY
14:30-15:15 BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY FROM PAST TO FUTURE
Chairs:
Oktay Banlı, Mustafa Taşkın
14:30-14:45 20 years of experience in bariatric surgical techniques
Cüneyt Kayaalp
14:45-15:00 Abandoned techniques and their replacements (In's and out's of bariatric and metabolic surgery)
Eren Taşkın
15:00-15:15 Shining stars of bariatric and metabolic surgery
Burçin Batman
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 BITTER AND SWEET MEMORIES IN BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Mustafa Şahin, Halil Coşkun
Panelists: Aziz Sümer, Oktay Banlı, Mustafa Cesur, Ali Durmuş
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:45 HEALTH TOURISM: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Chairs:
Tuna Bilecik, Burak Kavlakoğlu
17:00-17:15 Health tourism process management in obesity surgery; integration, logistics and patient follow-up
Mani Habibi
17:15-17:30 The importance of quality standards and accreditation in bariatric surgery centers in health tourism
Oğuz Doğan
17:30-17:45 Turkey's prominent position in the global health tourism industry and the management of key sectoral challenges
Behlül Ünver
  HALL A   HALL B 
08:30-09:45 MASTER OF TECHNIQUES: SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
Chairs:
Cüneyt Kırkıl, Shahab Shahabi Shahmiri
08:30-09:30 FIGHTING WITH OBESITY IS A TEAM WORK
Chairs:
Nihal Zekiye Erdem, Ali Uzunköy
08:30-08:45 WH questions in sleeve gastrectomy
Halil Coşkun
08:30-08:45 A surgeon's day in the metabolic and bariatric surgery team
Ali Durmuş
08:45-09:00 Cosmetic? Safety? Is both possible? (Bikini sleeve, SILS port)
Tuna Bilecik
08:45-09:00 A dietitian's day in the metabolic and bariatric surgery team
Berna Melis Hepgüler
09:00-09:15 Is sleeve gastrectomy as effective as other methods in the long term? Is patient follow-up after sleeve gastrectomy a utopia? How feasible is it?
Hasan Altun
09:00-09:15 How should patient follow-up before and after surgery in metabolic and bariatric surgery be specific to Turkey with guidelines?
Nihal Zekiye Erdem
09:15-09:30 Accentuation of angel of hiss  effects on gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) post-sleeve gastrectomy
Sami Salem
09:15-09:30 How does the obesogenic environment affect the team and the patient?
Ümran Yılmaz Özdemir
09:30-09:45 What should the road map look like in case of a post-SG revision requirement? New winding roads added to the map
Amir H. Davarpanah Jazi
   
09:45-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-11:00 New Trends in Primary Cases
Chairs: Halil Coşkun, Oktay Banlı

Can standardization be possible in primary RYGB?
Tuna Bilecik
Sleeve gastrectomy with paragastric block
Abdullah Şişik
11:00-12:00 OLD HAND AND ITS COMPANIONS: BYPASS TECHNIQUES
Chairs:
Eren Taşkın, Anıl Ergin
11:00-12:00 NUTRITION IN METABOLIC AND BARIATRIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Kinyas Kartal, Hülya Kamarlı
11:00-11:15 Is the throne of the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass bypass wobbling? Have other bypass techniques diminished the power of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass? Current situation of the technique
Fakı Akın
11:00-11:15 What do the guidelines say about nutrition in metabolic and bariatric surgery? Macro and micronutrients
Burçak Yabanlı
11:15-11:30 One anastomosis gastric bypass : Easy? Short time? Effective? Safe?
Oktay Banlı
11:15-11:30 What should be the nutritional quality of patients after metabolic and bariatric surgery?
Emre Bayraktaroğlu
11:30-11:45 Are magnetic anastomoses close to becoming a part of routine clinical practice?
Antonio Torres
11:30-11:45 Functions of prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics in metabolic and bariatric surgery
Hülya Kamarlı
11:45-12:00 Classical bypasses or Sleeve plus techniques in revisional surgery?
Ben Clapp
11:45-12:00 Which nutritional supplements should be used before and after metabolic and bariatric surgery?
Ayşe Kübra Çalışkan
12:00-13:00 Lunch Time
13:00-14:00 MY WEIGHT GAIN RECURRENCE! WHAT NOW?
Chairs:
Nurullah Bülbüller, Tuna Bilecik
13:00-14:30 THE OPERATION'S OVER! WHAT'S NEXT?
Chairs:
Cengiz Aydın, Selçuk Özbalcı
13:00-13:10 Sleeve Gastrectomy revisions, complications and weight gain recurrence! Can it be done without being in the news?
Burak Kavlakoğlu
13:00-13:15 Aesthetic interventions after primary and revisional surgery
Houtan Zolfagharpour
13:10-13:20 Current approaches to bypass revisions. Should you always change the bowel length?
Taner Yiğit
13:15-13:30 Other complications (dumping, hypoglycemias, nausea and vomiting, chronic vitamin deficiencies)
Bilgin Bahadır Başgöz
13:20-13:30 Tricks in surgery after endoscopic obesity treatments
Halil Alış
13:30-13:45 Psychiatric evaluation in preoperative and weight gain recurrence
Nehir Kürklü
13:30-13:40 Medical treatment options after weight gain recurrence
Aydoğan Aydoğdu
13:45-14:00 Patient's exercise prescription before and after bariatric surgery
Sıla Hidayet Bozdoğan Polat
13:40-13:50 Dietitian approach after weight gain recurrence
Nihal Zekiye Erdem
14:00-14:30 Intensive care management and pain control after metabolic and bariatric surgery
Gurban Ildarov
13:50-14:00 Discussion    
14:00-14:30 DEBATE: IS BARIATRIC SURGERY BECOMING A THING OF THE PAST?
Chairs:
Aydoğan Aydoğduz, Mevlüt Pehlivan
   
14:00-14:15 Surgeon: History will be rewritten
Ahmet Ziya Balta
   
14:15-14:30 Endocrine: Is drug therapy a substitute for surgery?
Seher Çetinkaya Altuntaş
   
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-15:45 Are Previous Solutions Today's Problems?
Chairs: Halil Coşkun, Oktay Banlı

Gastric band conversion to RYGB
Abdullah Şişik
Gastric band conversion to OAGB
Tuna Bilecik
15:45-16:45 PANEL: LEGAL DIMENSION
Chairs:
Ahmet Serdar Karaca, Mustafa Taşkın
Panelists: Halil Alış, Fırat Kocaay, Yusuf Yavuz, Oktay Banlı, Kayhan Özdemir, Gülden Göymen
15:45-16:45 NUTRITIONAL COMPLICATIONS AND SOLUTIONS IN METABOLIC AND BARIATRIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Koray Tekin, Birsen Demirel
  "Turkey Consensus Report 2025" on multidisciplinary obesity treatment
Eren Taşkın
15.45-16.00 Nutrition in early and late complications
Birsen Demirel
    16.00-16.15 Steatorrhea following one anastomosis gastric bypass
Radhika Shah
    16.15-16.30 Nutritional management in pregnancy following metabolic and bariatric surgery
Nida Yıldız
    16.30-16.45 Indications for enteral and parenteral nutrition: When should they be initiated?                                                                                                                                         
Serhan Yılmaz
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 BARRIERS AND INNOVATIONS IN BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Ahmet Türkçapar, Fatih Mehmet Avşar
17:00-17:55 VIDEO SESSION (COMPLICATION VIDEOS)
Chairs:
Oktay Banlı, Burçin Batman, Erkan Yardımcı
17:00-17:15 Classification and standardization in the diagnosis of GERD
Ergin Aslan
17:00-17:05 Intragastric balloon mortality
Ali Durmuş
17:15-17:30 Procedure selection according to GERD diagnosis and grade
Ahmet Türkçapar
17:05-17:10 Diagnostic laparoscopy in strictures - Gastro-Gastrostomies
Özgür Sevim
17:30-17:45 MAGDI and MAGGI
Ayhan Mesci
17:10-17:15 Re-stapling in leaks and exploration in strictures
Serhat Ocaklı
17:45-18:00 Impact of GERD in revisional surgery
Anıl Ergin
17:15-17:20 Two forgotten intragastric balloons in the stomach and a perforation after four years
Ozan Şen
    17:20-17:25 Aortic injury due to initial trocar entry
Ozan Şen
    17:25-17:30 Chronic gastrocutaneous fistulae after sleeve gastrectomy
Shahab Shahabi Shahmiri
    17:30-17:35 Mishap during stapling
Sami Salem
    17:35-17:40 Anastomotic stricture following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A postoperative complication
Ömer Faruk Can
    17:40-17:45 Marginal ulcer perforations
Harun Karabacak
    17:45-17:50 Stapler cartridge complication
Arif Aslaner
  HALL A   HALL B
09:00-10:00 EARLY COMPLICATIONS
Chairs:
Mehmet İbiş, Filiz Akyüz
09:00-10:00 ROBOTS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Chairs:
Fakı Akın, Toygar Toydemir
09:00-09:15 The place of endoscopy in complications and endoscopic techniques that can be applied (Pigtail, vac, T-TUBE, stent)
Erkan Parlak
09:00-09:15 Robotic bariatric and metabolic surgery training and current status in the world
Ben Clapp
09:15-09:30 Hemorrhages
Abdullah Şişik
09:15-09:30 Robotic sleeve; convenience or torment?
Eren Taşkın
09:30-09:45 When should early surgery be preferred?
Özgür Sevim
09:30-09:45 The growing popularity of robotic bypass
Yunus Yavuz
09:45-10:00 Migrated sleeve
Adil Sallom
09:45-10:00 Comparison of robotic bariatric and metabolic surgery with laparoscopy (literature summary)
Mehmet Mahir Fersahoğlu
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 LATE COMPLICATIONS
Chairs:
Ümit Akyüz, Erhan Aygen
10:15-11:15 TREATMENT OF OBESITY IN ADOLESCENTS AND ELDERLY
Chairs:
Hande Turan, Ahmet Ziya Balta
10:15-10:35 Balloon dilatation in twist and stenosis
Aydın Şeref Köksal
10:15-10:30 Medical treatment in elderly patients and high risk patients?
Seher Çetinkaya Altuntaş
10:35-10:55 Surgical treatment of twists and strictures
Mehmet Özdoğan
10:30-10:45 Surgical treatment in elderly patients and high risk patients?
Erkan Yardımcı
10:55-11:15 Approach to late nutritional complications
Sertaç Ata Güler
10:45-11:00 Medical treatment in adolescents?
Hande Turan
    11:00-11:15 Surgical treatment in adolescents?
Muhammet Raşit Aykota
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 REVISIONAL BARIATRIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Cüneyt Kırkıl, Tuna Bilecik
11:30-12:30 CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES
Chairs:
Taryel Omarov, Ozan Şen
11:30-11:45 Sleeve gastrectomy in revisional surgery
Abdullah Şişik
11:30-11:40 Nissen Sleeve
Ozan Şen
11:45-12:00 RYGB revision
Shashank Shah
11:40-11:50 Endoscopical sleeve gastroplaty
Cem Şimşek
12:00-12:15 OAGB revision
Mohammad Kermansaravi
11:50-12:00 Is resleeve safe and effective?
Taryel Omarov
12:15-12:30 Is it revision bariatric surgery or second stage?
Khalid Mirza
12:00-12:10 Botox (A futile effort?)
Özden Avcı
12:10-12:20 Intragastric balloon procedures
Ali Sapmaz
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch Time
13:30-14:30 Chairs: Eren Taşkın, Tuna Bilecik

What should we do with the staple line in sleeve gastrectomy? What does scientific evidence say?
Cüneyt Kayaalp
Comparison between powered handle versus manual handle in sleeve gastrectomy
Tahseen Thuwaynee
14:30-15:30 ARE SLEEVE PLUS TECHNIQUES PROMISING?
Chair:
Fakı Akın, Oktay Banlı
14:30-15:15 OTHER TOPICS IN OBESITY SURGERY
Chairs:
Sertaç Ata Güler, Ali Durmuş
14:30-14:45 SADI-S
Antonio Torres
14:30-14:45 Hernia repair in bariatric and metabolic surgery patients
Oktay Aydın
14:45-15:00 SASI BYPASS
Burak Kavlakoğlu
14:45-15:00 Should concomitant cholecystectomy be performed or not?
Onur Birsen
15:00-15:15 Transit Bipartition
Muzaffer Al
15:00-15:15 Portal vein thromboses
Toygar Toydemir
15:15-15:30 Evaluation of the metabolic effects of Transit Bipartition and SASI surgery
Fatih Can Karaca
   
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 NIGHTMARES IN BARIATRIC SURGERY
Chairs:
Taryel Omarov, Eren Taşkın
15:45-16:45 CASE PRESENTATIONS
Chairs:
Yusuf Yağmur, Emre Bayraktaroğlu
15:45-15:55 Bariatric beriberi / Wernicke
Özgür Sevim
15:45-15:55 Case with weight regain
Ayten Altunsaray
15:55-16:05 Thromboembolism
Namık Özkan
15:55-16:05 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass gastric bypass case
Beyda Çiçekdenk
16:05-16:15 Perioperative hemorrhage
Muhammed Taha Demirpolat
16:05-16:15 Sleeve gastrectomy case
Senanur Kaçar
16:15-16:25 Trocar injuries
Ferhat Çay
16:15-16:25 Diabetic case
Ahmet Akbulut
16:25-16:35 Stapler problems
Serhat Ocaklı
16:25-16:35 Dumping Syndrome case
Ahmet Akbulut
16:35-16:45 Discussion 16:35-16:45 Nutritional problems in a revisional surgery case
Berna Melis Hepgüler
  HALL A
08:30-09:00 RATIONAL MEDICINE USE SESSION
Speaker:
Büşra Köklü Taşkın
09:00-10:00 ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION-1
Chairs:
Serhat Ocaklı, Orhan Aras
09:00-09:10 S-01 - Monitoring body composition after bariatric surgery: A retrospective evaluation of a female patient undergoing sleeve gastrectomy
Burcu Akpınar
09:10-09:20 S-02 - The silent enemy after sleeve gastrectomy: Iron deficiency anemia
İrem Yıldırım
09:20-09:30 S-03 - Comparison of sleeve gastrectomy and single anastomosis sleeve ileal bypass in superobese individuals: A single center study
Sangar Abdullah
09:30-09:40 S-04 - Impact of intragastric botulinum toxin-A injections on weight loss and its relation to eating habits: A single center experience
Hilmi Yazıcı
09:40-09:50 S-05 - Five-year follow-up compliance after obesity surgery and the reasons for patient non-compliance: A comprehensive retrospective cohort study
Ömer Faruk Acar
09:50-10:00 S-06 - Hair loss after sleeve gastrectomy and the biotin myth: How effective is biotin?
İrem Yıldırım
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:40 ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION-2
Chairs:
Mehmet Mahir Fersahoğlu, Can Küçük
10:30-10:40 S-07 - Should bariatric surgery candidates be screened for colorectal cancer? A systematic review
Cüneyt Kayaalp
10:40-10:50 S-08 - Treatment of perforation developed after endoscopic treatment in a case with stricture following sleeve gastrectomy
Süleyman Büyükaşık
10:50-11:00 S-09 - First living donor liver transplantation following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in a super obese patient
Cüneyt Kayaalp
11:00-11:10 S-10 - Correction of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with jejunal interposition
Cüneyt Kayaalp
11:10-11:20 S-11 - Gastro-Gastrostomy fistula after mini gastric bypass
Burak Kankaya
11:20-11:30 S-12 - Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a patient with partial situs inversus: A rare case
Aydın Dinçer
11:30-11:40 S-13 - Effects of different types of gastric balloons on weight loss: A comparative study
Berna Melis Hepgüler
11:40-11:55 CLOSING