NESA Days
The NESA organizes the yearly NESA Days, an interdisciplinary conference the aim of which is to promote the exchange of knowledge and stimulate new thinking. The first NESA Days took place in Berlin in January, 2006, with participants from 23 countries. It set a high standard, as its interdisciplinary concept was very fruitful and resulted in a variety of research projects.
NESA Days 2006
Concise Report
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Programme and abstracts
Photo Gallery – Power Point Presentations (downloads)
After many consultations, it was decided to divide the prize of the NESA Days 2006 between three speakers for the originality and innovative character of their presentations:
1) Kai Kuhnt (Borna) for his lecture on “Resection of the neurovascular bundle as second step procedure in case of positive margins after nerve-sparing laparoscopic prostatectomy”
2) Georg Slavka (Vienna) for his presentation about “Laparoscopic hysterectomy - A computer-generated 3-dimensional animation of a surgical procedure”
3) Soren Meisner (Copenhagen) for his lecture about “Endoscopic placement of Self Expanding Metal Stents - first choice treatment of colo-rectal obstruction: Technique and results from a single center”
NESA Days 2007 – The Second Annual Scientific Meeting of the
New European Surgical Academy
Programme and Book of Abstracts
The second annual scientific meeting of the New European Surgical Academy took place in
Istanbul on September 1-3, 2007.
Participants from 31 countries came to the Harbiye Askeri Museum
in the centre of the Turkish metropolis to update their knowledge
in basic sciences as well as in their own professions and to be
exposed to new ideas and techniques in other disciplines.
Thanks to the excellent lectures given by experts in fields such as
general surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, otolaryngology,
anaesthesiology and urology, the conference reached a high
scientific standard.
Among the highlights of the conference were the introduction
of new surgical methods such as neuropelveology, which
was presented by Prof. Marc Possover, and Natural
Orifice Surgery, introduced by the NESA.
NESA Days 2008 – "Natural Orifice Surgery and other innovations.
A NESA meeting promoting excellence in surgery"
The NESA's 2008 conference took place in Naples on November 21-22, 2008. The meeting attracted more than 200 participants from 26 countries. Surgeons from various disciplines came to update themselves with innovative surgical ideas. Some of them, such as Transdouglas Abdominal Surgery, the modified Thyroidectomy, and recent developments in Ductuscopy and Neuropelveology, were presented for the first time.
NESA Days 2009
Programme and Book of Abstracts
The NESA Days 2009 was in Athens, Greece, on May 28-30, 2009.
The conference was joined with the 5th Breast Symposium. Again, the NESA Days emphasized on innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. A workshop on Quality Control was offered, and in a workshop on the Development of Robotic Tools for Surgery, a new generation of robotics with haptic sense was introduced and discussed.