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Welcome to our new ACE 2013 interactive schedule application, Sched! With Sched you can easily read session descriptions and speaker bios. Personalize Sched by creating a custom schedule based on the sessions you are interested in attending using the Sched website or mobile app. You can view your schedule as a simple list, detailed view, or grid view; sort by venue or session type; and identify each activity at a glance with Sched’s useful color-coding system. Once you are headed to or arrive at the convention, you can print or sync your schedule to your smart phone for easy viewing!
The ACE Sched even highlights friends and contacts also attending, so after you create a Sched profile, connect using your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts to network ahead of time.
Current information as of 7-23-2013; schedule subject to change.
Robert Hawes has been a gastroenterologist for over 25 years. He spent a year in London, England, doing an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship concentrating on ERCP and endoscopic laser therapy under the direction of Peter B. Cotton and Steve Bown. In July of 1994, Dr. Hawes re-connected with Peter Cotton and moved to the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston to form a new digestive disease center. During his tenure at MUSC, the institution became recognized nationally and internationally for excellence in EUS, ERCP and therapeutic endoscopy. Dr. Hawes went on to serve as president of the ASGE in 2005-2006. Immediately following his ASGE presidency, he joined with David Rattner from Massachusetts General Hospital and immediate past president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) to form the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR) committee.
In January 2012, Dr. Hawes moved to Florida Hospital Orlando to establish the Center for Interventional Endoscopy (CIE), a one of a kind, national/international referral center for advanced therapeutic endoscopy. CIE is a state of the art, purpose-built endoscopy unit that is the only one of its kind in the Southeast U.S. He will also partner with Dr. Steve Eubanks, an internationally recognized minimally invasive surgeon, to build Florida Hospital Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy. Together they will further integrate therapeutic endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery to improve patient outcomes through research, education and device and technique development. Dr. Hawes has published over 250 peer reviewed articles and written numerous book chapters. He has lectured and performed live demonstration in over 30 countries throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is a co-editor of the most widely read textbook on EUS and has partnered with two very good friends, Paul Fockens and Shyam Varadarajulu to produce the 2nd edition in 2010.
