Dear Friends,
We are very proud to receive in Bari our colleagues coming from all over the world for the “1st World Congress of Office Hysteroscopy and Resectoscopy”, which will be held from May 18th to 21st 2011 (www.hysteroscopybari2011.com).
This is the second time in which Bari will be the theatre for an International Meeting on Gynecological Endoscopy, after the ISGE 2008 World Congress of Gynecologic Endoscopy. The University of Bari has always paid particular attention to the field of Gynaecologic Endoscopy, becoming one of the International reference centers for Office Hysteroscopy and receiving many foreign trainees every year.
Office Hysteroscopy is not a new field. However, less attention has been paid to this area in meetings and congresses. Being an important part of gynaecological endoscopy, we have decided to focus on a topic that probably still need to be answered and on all the new technological improvements and hot topics in this field. We aim to put together the idea of a technical workshop together with a specialist congress.
The 1st day will be dedicated to technological improvements and hot topics in Hysteroscopy and Resectoscopy. New instruments and electronic devices will be presented for the first time. Televoting systems will be used to evaluate the general trend of opinions.
The 2nd and 3rd days will be dedicated to live surgery sessions from both office and operating theatre performed by International experts and junior surgeons. The trends of the audience will be discussed comparing the televoting results obtaining first and after live surgery sessions.
A great number of experts will drive the discussion in the conference hall involving all the participants by using a TV debate’s model.
The last day will be fully dedicated to the “Hands-On” using many workstations for direct training. This will be an occasion for both residents and junior doctors to get into the different techniques assisted by experts.
This meeting will also be an occasion to taste the typical cuisine of this area and visit architectural and natural beauties of the Apulia region, which is famous for its sunny weather, as well as warm and friendly people.
We will work hard to organize a memorable meeting and for this reason we will be glad if you could help us publishing the relevant preliminary program (http://www.cicsud.it/Documenti/preliminaryprogramhysteroscopy2011.pdf) and also the registration form (http://www.cicsud.it/Documenti/registrationformhysteroscopy2011.pdf) on your web site.

See you soon in Bari
President of the Congress Honorary President
Prof. Stefano Bettocchi Prof. Luigi Selvaggi

Please contact the Organizing Secretariat
CENTRO ITALIANO CONGRESSI CIC SUD
Ph: 0039 080/5043737
Fax: 0039 080/5043736
for all the enquiries:
about the scientific program and general information, please refer to Luisella Berardi (luisella@cicsud.it)
about participation in the Congress and hotel booking information, please refer to Rachele Mizzi (rachele@cicsud.it)
about all the enquiries about sponsorship, please refer to Mina Magenta (mina@cicsud.it)