Saturday, April 24, 2021
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Symposium: Practice Management
Symposium: Advance Practice Provider/Allied Health
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Workshop: Question Writing: Do You Know How to Write the Perfect Exam Question?
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Symposium: Advanced Techniques in Rectal Prolapse Surgery: Ventral Rectopexy Masterclass
Symposium: AIN and HRA: What the Colorectal Surgeon Needs to Know
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Workshop: Early Career Mock Orals and More
Sunday, April 25, 2021
7:00 am – 9:00 am
Symposium: Critical Review of Manuscripts
7:30 am – 9:45 am
Symposium: Advanced Endoscopy
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Symposium: The Challenging Stoma
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Symposium: Core Subject Update
Plenary Abstract Session I: Benign Anorectal Disease and Pelvic Floor
10:15 am – 11:45 am
Symposium: Management of Diverticulitis. Is There Anything We Were Taught That is True?
Symposium: Pelvic Floor: The Great Falling Out.
Abstract Session: Quick Shots I
10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Plenary Abstract Session II: Rectal Cancer
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Welcome and Opening Announcements
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Humanities in Surgery Lectureship
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Memorial Lectureship Honoring David Margolin, MD
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Symposium: Duty Hours and Evaluation Forms and Robots, Oh My! A Levelheaded Approach to Intraoperative Teaching
Symposium: Paradigm Shifts in the Diagnosis and Neoadjuvant Treatment of Rectal Cancer
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Plenary Abstract Session III: Colorectal Cancer and Other Neoplasia
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
ASCRS Welcome Reception: ASCRS "TOGETHER"
Monday, April 26, 2021
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Meet the Professor Roundtable:
M1 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
M2 Anorectal
M3 Colorectal Cancer
LGBTQ+ and Allies Virtual Meet-up
7:30 am – 9:15 am
Plenary Abstract Session IV: Quality, Cost and Education
7:45 am – 9:15 am
Abstract Session: Quick Shots of Distinction
8:00 am – 9:15 am
Abstract Session: General Surgery Forum
9:30 am – 10:15 am
Norman D. Nigro, MD, Research Lectureship
10:15 am – 11:30 am
Abstract Session: Quick Shots II
10:15 am – 11:45 am
Symposium: Enhancing Your Recovery Program
Symposium: From Pull-through to PSARP: Caring for Patients with Congenital and Pediatric Colorectal Disease as they Age
Plenary Abstract Session V: Benign Abdominal Disease
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Leadership in Turbulent Times
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Symposium: Controversies in IBD Surgery
Symposium: How to Wake-Up from An Intra-Operative Nightmare
Symposium: Beyond the Knife. Personalized Colorectal Cancer Treatment – Genetics, Molecular Targets, Immunotherapy and More
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Symposium: New Technologies (Non-CME)
5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
Residents’ Reception
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Diversity Virtual Meet-up
7:30 am – 9:00 am
Abstract Session: Quick Shots III
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Symposium: A Well-Made Anastomosis Could Be Your Best Sleep Medicine
Symposium: Diversity in Colorectal Surgery
Abstract Session: Research Forum
9:15 am – 10:15 am
ASCRS Annual Business Meeting and State of the Society Address
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Masters in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship Honoring Robert D. Fry, MD
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Ernestine Hambrick, MD, Lectureship
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Women and Allies for Women in Colorectal Surgery Virtual Meet-up
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Symposium: Complete Response after Neoadjuvant Therapy for Rectal Cancer: Cases and Considerations
Symposium: So, You Want to Be an Academic Colorectal Surgeon? Then Come to this Session
Plenary Abstract Session VI: IBD
Abstract Session: Quick Shots IV
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Presidential Address
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Game Show: JePARODY
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Plenary Abstract Session VII: Best of 2020 (I)
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Symposium: The Challenge of Caring for Geriatric Patients – Adopting Novel Studies in Everyday Practice
Symposium: Video Based Education Premiers: Robotic and Laparoscopic Techniques
Symposium: Best of the Diseases of the Colon & Rectum Journal
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Harry E. Bacon, MD, Lectureship
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
Plenary Abstract Session VIII: Best of 2020 (II)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Symposium: Anorectal Controversies: Let’s Get to the Bottom of This
Symposium: Alternate Career Options: From Manhattan to Rural America
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Abstract Session: Quick Shots: Best of 2020
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Abstract Session: Videos