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Saturday, April 11 2026
From 10:00
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Organisation
Opening of the Course Secretariat and Registration
From 11:00
Flüela
Format
Lecture
Start Advanced Course Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Module
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH; Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH
11:15 – 12:30
Flüela
Lecture I
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH; Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH
Format
Lecture
Introduction of faculty & participants
Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH
Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS):
Historic operations and today’s problems of patients who underwent them
Paulina Salminen, Turku FI
Mechanisms behind obesity and MBS
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH
Medical therapies for obesity, pre – and postoperative
Marloes Emous, Leeuwarden NL
12:30 – 13:45
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Lunch break
From 13:45
Hall Davos
Format
General
Davos Course Opening
Walter Brunner, St. Gallen CH; Lana Fourie, Luzern CH
14:15 – 16:00
Seehorn
Practical Exercises
Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH; Ralph Peterli, Basel CH
according to individual schedule
Format
Practical Exercise
Tissue dissection
Vessel handling
Management of bleeding
Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT; Dieter Birk, Bietigheim DE; Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES; Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE; Dimitrios Pournaras, Bristol GB; Moritz Felsenreich, Vienna AT
Single stitch suture with intraperitoneal knotting
Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT; Dieter Birk, Bietigheim DE; Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES; Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE; Dimitrios Pournaras, Bristol GB; Moritz Felsenreich, Vienna AT
16:00 – 16:30
Format
Break
Break
Coffee and sweets (trade exhibition)
16:30 – 18:30
Flüela
Lecture II
Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES; Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE
Format
Lecture
What´s needed before MBS & preoperative assessment
Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT
Video: Roux-Y-gastric bypass (RYGB) Step-by-Step
Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES
Video: One-anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB) Step-by-Step
Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT
Video: Gastric sleeve resection Step-by-Step
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH
Discussion technical details all procedures
Interactive Session:
MBS vs. Obesity Management Medications (OMMs)
Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE
From 18:30
Hall Davos & Foyer
Format
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