ERCP Bootcamp: Cutting Edge Comprehensive Training for the Team

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This document is the agenda for an ASGE Institute for Training and Technology course held July 11–12, 2026, in Downers Grove, Illinois. The event focuses on ERCP, biliary/pancreatic endotherapy, cholangioscopy, stone management, and complication management, with a mix of lectures, hands-on lab sessions, exhibits, and networking.

<strong>Saturday, July 11</strong> begins with shuttle transportation from the Westin Hotel, registration, breakfast, and exhibits. The morning lecture block covers modern ERCP patient selection, biliary cannulation, stent selection, and indeterminate biliary strictures. This is followed by combined hands-on bioskills lab training on cannulation, biliary stents, and biliary strictures. After lunch and a group photo, the program splits: nurses/techs attend hands-on training while practicing GIs attend lectures on pancreatitis prevention, managing bleeding/perforation, incorporating cholangioscopy, and advanced stone management. The afternoon includes separate hands-on sessions for GI participants and a parallel lecture track for nurses/APPs/GI techs. The day ends with Q&A, a reception and exhibits, faculty dinner, and shuttle return to the hotel.

<strong>Sunday, July 12</strong> also starts with shuttle transport, breakfast, and exhibits. Morning lectures address ERCP in pregnancy, disposable duodenoscopes and scope reprocessing, pancreatic endotherapy, building an ERCP team, and improving ERCP efficiency. After a break, all attendees participate in hands-on training on needle knife, metal stenting, and dilation stone extraction. The program concludes with box lunch pickup, case-based discussions, and closing remarks.

The document also lists the course directors and a multidisciplinary faculty roster from institutions across the U.S. and Canada.

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Concept Endoscopic Ultrasound

Concept Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

Concept Selective Biliary Cannulation

Concept Indeterminate Biliary Stricture

Concept Biliary Stent

Keywords

ASGE

ERCP

biliary endotherapy

pancreatic endotherapy

cholangioscopy

stone management

biliary strictures

hands-on training

complication management

Downers Grove

Endoscopic Ultrasound

Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

Selective Biliary Cannulation

Indeterminate Biliary Stricture

Biliary Stent