ASGE-JGES Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection ESD (Live and Virtual)

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The document outlines the 2026 Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) Course, held December 5–6, 2026, at the ASGE Institute for Training and Technology in Downers Grove, Illinois, with a virtual attendance option. The two-day program is organized in Central Time and combines lectures, hands-on laboratory training, virtual video case discussions, and live demonstrations.<br /><br />Day 1 begins with registration, breakfast, and opening remarks from the course directors, followed by lectures on ESD devices and basic techniques such as flap creation and tunneling. Participants then move to hands-on conventional ESD training in the bio-skills lab using multiple knife systems from BSC, ERBE, Olympus, and Fuji. Virtual attendees join video case discussions and hands-on demos. Afternoon sessions cover electrosurgery principles and indications/preprocedural evaluation for upper ESD, followed by hands-on tunneling and pocket techniques and additional virtual demonstrations. The day ends with a reception, shuttle service back to the hotel, and an offsite faculty dinner.<br /><br />Day 2 starts with breakfast and a welcome back session, then lectures on traction and underwater techniques and on indications/preprocedural evaluation for lower ESD. Hands-on training focuses on traction and underwater methods, including dental floss traction, Tracmotion, SureTrac, and water pressure techniques. Virtual participants again join case discussions and demos, including closure methods such as DAT Clip and X-Tack. The course concludes with boxed lunch pickup, a final Q&A, closing remarks, and adjournment.<br /><br />Course directors are Hiroyuki Aihara, Norio Fukami, and Mohamed Othman, with a large international faculty from leading medical centers in the U.S., Japan, and Canada.

Keywords

Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

ESD Course

ASGE Institute

hands-on laboratory training

electrosurgery

tunneling technique

traction methods

underwater ESD

virtual video case discussions

closure methods