It is a great pleasure to invite you to the ASGBI 2018 International Surgical Congress to be held in Liverpool from Wednesday 9th to Friday 11th May 2018. This will be the seventh time in the Association’s 97 year history that the annual meeting will be held in Liverpool. With excellent access by train and air from all parts of the UK and abroad, Liverpool is an excellent venue to host the 2018 meeting.

The theme of the Congress will be “Surgical Teams”, recognising that surgical services are now delivered by multi-disciplinary, multi-professional teams, and that collaborative teamwork has significant benefits in increasing efficiency, improving clinical outcomes, fostering innovation and delivering phenomenal academic and research opportunities.

Building on the success of last year’s Congress, there will continue to be a strong emphasis on high quality plenary sessions and symposia of relevance to established consultants and trainees with a major focus on elective and emergency general surgical care. We look forward to including eponymous lectures from the four Royal Colleges and input from many of our sister Specialty Associations. Following very positive feedback on a number of new initiatives introduced at the Glasgow meeting, we will continue to incorporate educational updates and videos within short paper sessions, and ensuring the very best abstracts are presented in plenary sessions…Read More →