Team King’s hosts global specialists for King’s Live 2024

05 November 2024 - Annual international conference showcases latest endoscopic techniques

Specialists at King’s are joining experts across the globe to share the latest innovations in endoscopy.

Running from 6 – 8 November 2024, King’s Live is held at King’s College Hospital, bringing together delegates from around the world specialising in interventional endoscopy.

As well as hands-on courses, the event, which is in its 14th year, will include live broadcast of interventional endoscopy procedures.

Key highlights at this year’s conference include hands on training in treatment of complex gastrointestinal early cancer and natural orifice endoscopic surgery including endoscopic suturing. The conference will also showcase advanced endoscopic procedures in hepatobiliary and metabolic endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound.

Professor Prof Shin-ei Kudo, who is widely recognised as the father of magnification endoscopy, will also be travelling from Japan to the conference at King’s to receive a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the field of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy.

Mr Amyn Haji, course convenor and Clinical Director of Surgery at King’s, said: “This international conference is a unique opportunity for experts to demonstrate emerging technology in complex procedures utilising endoscopic techniques. There is a wealth of innovation and research in this area, and by sharing these advanced procedures to a live professional audience, we are able to further develop these minimally invasive techniques, helping our patients make a faster recovery.”

The conference takes place during the same month that the Trust celebrated the ‘topping out’ ceremony of its brand new endoscopy unit being constructed at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH). The new £20 million, standalone, two-storey endoscopy unit will enable up to 4,500 additional patients to be seen every year when it opens in 2025.