Tuesday, 4 February 2025

08.45 - 09.45

Registration

09.45 - 16.15

National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) Annual Conference

19.00 - 21.30

19th Annual Intercollegiate Case Presentations

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

08.00 - 09.00

Registration

09.00 - 16.30

Annual Health Service Quality Improvement and Innovations Conference hosted by RCSI National Clinical Programmes in Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Emergency Medicine

Opening of the Charter Robotic Learning Village

• daVinci SP (Single Port) (Intuitive Surgical)
• Hugo Robot (Medtronic)
• Versius Robot (CMR Surgical)
• VELYS Orthopaedic Robot (J&J)

and Launch of the Robotic Surgery Governance in Ireland: A Guide to Good Practice

Thursday, 6 February 2025

Fellows and Members Networking Breakfast

09.00 - 10.30

Symposium I

10.30 - 11.00

Exhibition , Refreshments and Robotic Learning Village

11.00 - 13.00

Symposium II 
RCSI Early Career Surgical Network

13.00 - 14.00

Exhibition, Lunch and Robotic Learning Village

14.00 - 14.30

Johnson and Johnson Lecture
Precision Learning and Data Sharing Through Wearable Technology. What’s AI got to do with it?

delivered by: Dr Carla Pugh, Professor of Surgery, Stanford University in California

14.30 - 14.45

Awards and Presentations

Keynote Lecture
A Tale of Two Colleges 

Mr Declan J. Magee
RCSI Past President (2014 - 2016)

14.45 - 17.15

Symposium III
Training for the Shift to Robotic Surgery 

17.30 - 20.00

35th Annual Video Surgery Meeting

Friday, 7 February 2025

07.00

Registration 

07.30 / 09.00 - 10.30

Parallel Group II
– Breast Surgery
– Cardiothoracic Surgery
–  ENT / Otolaryngology
– General Surgery in Childhood
– Neurosurgery
– Ophthalmic Surgery
– Oral and Maxillofacial
– Pelvic Floor Conditions
–  Plastic Surgery
– Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
– Vascular Surgery 

10.30 - 11.00

Exhibition, Refreshments and Robotic Learning Village

11.00 - 12.30

Symposium IV
Best Practice in Clinical Governance 

12.30 - 13.00

32nd Carmichael Lecture
Trust and Truth in Healthcare

delivered by: Professor Deirdre Madden, Professor of Law, University College Cork 

13.00 - 14.00

Exhibition, Lunch and Robotic Learning Village

14.00 - 15.45

Symposium V
Pioneering the Future of Surgery: Medical Technology Innovation 

16.00 - 16.30

100th Abraham Colles Lecture
From Colles' Fracture to Gene-Activated Biomaterials: A journey through tissue engineering at RCSI

delivered by: Professor Fergal J. O’Brien, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

Saturday, 8 February 2025

09.00 - 10.00

Registration

Irish Surgical Training Group Meeting (ISTG), including the annual Bosco O'Mahony Lecture

delivered by Miss Dilly Little, Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin entitled 'Grasp the Nettle'