GUSTAVO LEANDRO ROSSI

Gustavo Rossi MD MASCRS is the Vice Chairman of Colon and Rectal Surgery Section at the Department of Surgery of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Director of the Colorectal Surgery Fellowship Program at the same institution. He is also the Vice Director of the Colorectal Surgery Program at University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine. He has served and serves as reviewer for many medical journals including Surgical Endoscopy, Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and Techniques in Coloproctology, and he authored/co-authored many peer-reviewed indexed papers in different aspects of the minimally invasive colorectal surgery.
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Wednesday, September 04, 2025
Angelita Habr-Gama Golden Hall
14:00-15:30
SESSION: RECTAL CANCER - POST-TREATMENT DECISIONS
Case presentation: almost complete response
Watch and wait: how long to wait?
Local resection is the best choice
Total mesorectal excision: safer
What can and cannot MRI help in assessing response?
Complete response with resodual adenoma: what now?
ctDNA and response assessment
Discussion
Moderator: Tiago Leal Ghezzi (RS)
Debater: Pedro Carlos Basílio (RJ)
Case presentation: almost complete response
Speaker: Gustavo Leandro Rossi (Argentina)
Watch and wait: how long to wait?
Speaker: Andre D’hoore (Belgium)
Local resection is the best choice
Speaker: Julio Garcia-aguilar (United States)
Total mesorectal excision: safer
Speaker: Rodrigo Gomes da Silva (MG)
What can and cannot MRI help in assessing response?
Speaker: Cinthia Denise Ortega (SP)
Complete response with resodual adenoma: what now?
Speaker: Guilherme Pagin São Julião (SP)
ctDNA and response assessment
Speaker: Julio Garcia-aguilar (United States)
Discussion
Friday, September 05, 2025
WTC Theater
14:00-15:30
SESSION: DIVERTICULOSIS AND DIVERTICULITIS
Approach to diverticulitis in young people: what changes?
Recurrent Diverticulitis: How Long Should We Wait?
My Option for Elective Surgical Treatment
Techniques and impact of interventional medicine in the management of complicated diverticulitis
The role of primary anastomosis in emergency surgery
Laparoscopic drainage: how to do it and when not to do it?
Discussion
Moderator: Gustavo Seva Pereira (SP)
Debater: Euler de Medeiros Azaro Filho (BA)
Approach to diverticulitis in young people: what changes?
Speaker: Joaquim Jose Oliveira Filho (SP)
Recurrent Diverticulitis: How Long Should We Wait?
Speaker: Rocco Ricciardi (United States)
My Option for Elective Surgical Treatment
Speaker: Laila Rashidi (United States)
Techniques and impact of interventional medicine in the management of complicated diverticulitis
The role of primary anastomosis in emergency surgery
Speaker: Sami Chadi (Canada)
Laparoscopic drainage: how to do it and when not to do it?
Speaker: Gustavo Leandro Rossi (Argentina)
Discussion
Monday, September 06, 2025
WTC Theater
10:30-12:00
SESSION: CHALLENGES IN EARLY RECTAL CANCER (CASE DISCUSSION)
1. Local resection with finding of adverse factor in pathology 2. Synchronous tumor of rectum and colon D 3. Early rectal tumor in advanced age 4. Rectal tumor for endoscopic treatment
Panelist: Roel Hompes (Netherlands)
Panelist: Daniel Damin (RS)
Panelist: Gustavo Leandro Rossi (Argentina)
Panelist: Carlos Augusto Rodrigues Véo (SP)
Panelist: Nicolas Rotholtz (Argentina)
1. Local resection with finding of adverse factor in pathology 2. Synchronous tumor of rectum and colon D 3. Early rectal tumor in advanced age 4. Rectal tumor for endoscopic treatment