SURGICAL TECHNIQUE

• Operating manual

  • Operating room setup, patient positioning, and port placement

  • Appropriate indications for minimally invasive management

  • Applied anatomy of liver and pancreas

  • Fluorescent guided, 3D imaging

• Middle hepatic vein roadmap​

• Partial splenectomy

• Pancreatic enucleation

• Tips and tricks of splenic vessel preservation in distal pancreatectomy

BASIC SCIENCE

• Adult stem cell biology

• Suicide gene stem cell products to target cancer

• Tissue engineering

• Liver regeneration and cancer formation

• Stem cells and lymphatic regeneration

CANCER MANAGEMENT

• Loss of muscle as predictor for cancer outcome

• The impact of liver failure on prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer metastases to liver

• RAS mutation to predict oncologic outcome in colorectal cancer

• Sarcoma liver metastases outcome

• Duodenal cancer outcome 

• The impact of diaphragmatic invasion 

• Gallbladder cancer 

• Pancreatic cancer

• Pancreatic Neuroendocrine tumor

• Surgical complications impacting cancer outcome

CLINICAL USE OF MUSIC

• Molecular pathway

• Music and metabolism

• Music to improve surgical performance

• Music for relatives of patient

• Team dynamics in the operating room and music 

• What surgeons can learn from professional musicians 

• The history of music in medicine