Programme
How not to miss early GI cancer
THURSDAY 12 February 2026
Empiria Hall – Medical Section
- 08:20–08:30 Opening
Tomáš Hucl
Libor Janoušek, Deputy Director of IKEM
Andrea Bruckerová - 08:30–09:30 Live 1: Hyderabad / AIG
- 09:30–09:50 Raf Bisschops – How not to miss dysplasia in Barretts esophagus
09:50–10:20 Coffee break - 10:20–11:20 Live 2: Hyderabad / AIG
- 11:20–11:40 Cesare Hassan – How not to miss colonic polyps
- 11:40–12:40 Live 3: Prague / IKEM
- 12:40–13:00 Helmut Messmann – How not to miss gastric cancer
- 13:00–13:20 Luncheon Symposium
Satellite Symposium of Janssen-Cilag, s.r.o.
Pavel Drastich – Guselkumab – a New Biological Therapy for Crohn’s Disease - 14:00–15:10 Live 4: Prague / IKEM
- 15:10–15:40 Coffee break
- 15:40–16:00 George Webster – How not to miss cholangiocarcinoma
- 16:00–17:00 Live 5: Prague / IKEM
- 17:00–17:20 Satellite Symposium of Gilead Sciences s.r.o.
Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jan Šperl, CSc. – New Drugs in Hepatology: The Role of Fibrates and Seladelpar in the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis - 17:20–17:40 Satellite Symposium of Ipsen Pharma s.r.o.
Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Soňa Fraňková, PhD. – Cholestatic Liver Diseases in Adults
Panorama Hall
- 13:00–14:00 FUJIFILM / SuppMed Symposium Block: New Technologies and Devices in Outpatient and Hospital Endoscopy
Chair: Tomáš Hucl- Jan Šťovíček – Part I. Can Technology Increase the Yield of Colorectal Cancer Screening? A Practical Perspective from Outpatient Practice
- Štěpán Suchánek – Part II. PuraStat in Clinical Practice: Prevention of Bleeding and Faster Healing of Post-resection Defects
- Jan Šťovíček – Part I. Can Technology Increase the Yield of Colorectal Cancer Screening? A Practical Perspective from Outpatient Practice
Young Gastroenterologists Section
- 18:00–19:00 Young Endoscopists’ Workshop
Chair: Denisa Kyselová- How I Started My Research in Endoscopy
- Cesare Hassan
- Raf Bisschops
- George Webster
- Helmut Messmann
- How I Started My Research in Endoscopy
FRIDAY 13 February 2026
Empiria Hall – Medical Section
- 08:20–10:00 Best of 2025 – Part 1
Chairs: Miroslav Zavoral, Jana Koželuhová, Jiří Stehlík, Michal Demeter- Zuzana Vacková – Gastroscopy
- Martin Bortlík – Colonoscopy
- Vladimír Nosek – ERCP
- Petr Vítek – EUS
- Radek Kroupa – AI
- Stanislav Rejchrt – Bleeding
- 10:00–10:20 Coffee break
- 10:20–12:00 Best of 2025 – Part 2
Chairs: Radan Brůha, Pavel Kohout, Jan Hajer, Eduard Veseliny- Boris Pekárek – ESD
- Přemysl Falt – IBD Endoscopy
- Štěpán Suchánek – Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Ilja Tachecí – Gastrointestinal Motility
- Ondřej Urban – EUS in Hepatology
- Jan Šťovíček – Endoscopic Complications
- 12:00–12:20 Presentation of Histological Findings
Tomáš Hucl, Ondřej Fabián - 12:20–12:30 Closing of the Congress
Tomáš Hucl
Panorama Hall – Endoscopy Nurses Section
- 08:30–10:00 Chairs: P. Absolonová, P. Bartošová
- Petra Absolonová – Proper Patient Preparation Before Colonoscopy Is the Key to a Successful Procedure
- Andrea Pulkrábková – EUS-guided Transenteric ERCP
- Eva Nováková, Lucie Macáková – Endoscopic Vacuum Therapy
- Jana Honnerová – Bleeding Complications After Pancreatic and Liver Transplantation – Case Report
- Petra Bartošová, O. Urban – Rare Indications for the Use of LAMS
- Tereza Kopecká – Do We Have Sufficient Information for Patients with Colonic Diverticular Disease?
Panorama Hall – Young Gastroenterologists Section: Case Reports
- 10:30–12:00 Chairs: Denisa Kyselová, Michal Prokopič
- Kateryna Yepishkina, Tomáš Hucl, Miloš Kučera, Martin Vašátko – LAMS Dislocation During EDGE: Technical and Procedural Aspects
- Tomáš Skutil – Complications Associated with Colonoscopy: Educational Case Reports from Clinical Practice
- Marek Vrábel – Complications of Therapy for Subcardial Varices
- Šimon Bohuš, Radim Vyhnánek – A Foley Catheter in the Wrong Place
- Tomáš Dědič, Tomáš Hucl – A 16-year-old Patient with Chronic Pancreatitis and Multiple Pancreaticolithiasis: Therapeutic Options and the Use of Endoscopic Lithotripsy in Pediatric Patients
- Štěpán Peterka – Balloon Dilation as a Solution for Difficult Choledocholithiasis
- Jan Křivinka, Přemysl Falt – Enteroscopically Guided Sigmoid–Cecal Anastomosis in Patients with Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction