10.30 -11.00     Opening Ceremony

Minster of Health

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee Break      

11.30 – 12.00    State of art: Medicine in Ancient Egypt

                           Chairmen:

                           Moderator:

                           Speaker:             Wassim El-Sissy

12.00 -12.30      State of art:      The Embryology and Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor

                        Chairmen:

                         Moderator:

                         Speaker:             John E. Skandalakis      

12.30 – 14.00     Panel – 1:           Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

                          Chairmen:     

                          Panelists:      Urology --- Urodynamic analogs of pelvic floor contractility                       and displacement (Chris Constantinou)

                                                Gynecology --- TOTAL ANAL RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING ABOMINO-PERINEAL RESECTION (Filippo La Torre)

                                                Coloproctology --- PHYSIOLOGIC RESULTS AND LIFE QUALITY IN PATIENTS AFTER 3 RD DEGREE SPHINCTER TEARS (Johann PFEIFER)

                                                Neurology --- Chronic constipation and damage to the innervation of the pelvic floor muscles (M. Mehdizadeh)

14.00 – 15.00     Lunch

15.00 – 16.00     Symposium – 1:      Investigations in pelvic floor dysfunction

                           Speaker:            Urogynacology --- Hypothesis on the dynamics of the defects of the pelvic floor (Jack Mouchel)

                                                      Urodynamics --- New technologies in the evaluation of pelvic floor function (Chris Constantinou)

                                                       Radiodiagnosis   (Yhia A. Ali)

16.00 – 16.30        LIPTIS

16.30 – 18.00                          Free Communication

20.00                                             Nile Cruise (Nile Crystal)

October 25, 2002 Friday

9.00 – 9.30   State of art:   Pelvic Organ Prolapse

                          Chairmen:

                             Moderator:

                             Speaker:    Ahmed Shafik       

9.30 – 11.00     Panel –2:        Pelvic Floor Reconstruction

                           Chairmen:

              Panelists: Coloproctology ---  Sacral Nerve Stimulation for Faecal Incontinence (J. Christiansen)

                       Gynecology --- SLINGLIKE COLPOSUSPENSION WITH APPROPRIATE TENSION (M.B. Lazarevski)

                                               Urology

                                               Physiotherapy ---Transevaginal stimulation in female stress incontinence (Adly Sabbour)

                                               Coloproctology  --- RECTOCELE AND OBSTRUCTED EVACUATION: A COMBINED TREATMENT. (Filippo La Torre)

11.00 – 11.30     Lecture  (Role of antibiotics in infection) B.M.S.

11.30 – 13.00    Felucca Sailing

13.00 – 14.00     Lunch

14.00 – 15.00   Symposium – 2:      Biofeedback and Pelvic Floor

                            Chairmen:

                             Speakers:     Urology  --- Hypothesis on the dynamics of the defects of the pelvic floor (Jack Mouchel)

                                                   Coloproctology --- Biofeedback in the Management of Complete Rectal Prolapse: A thrilling solution for younger patients (M. Essam Moussa)

                                                   Physiotherapy --- EMG Biofeedback versus Interferential Electrical  stimulation in Genuine Stress Incontinence (Hanan S. El-Mekowy)