Introduction -- Evaluating evidence.-IBD/ Management of symptomatic anal fistulas in pts with Crohn's disease -- Management of a painful anal fissure and skin tags in pts with Crohn's disease -- Elective surgical management in patients with ulcerative colitis-how many stages? -- Which UC patients should not have IPAA? -- Management of pouch-vaginal fistulas -- IPAA for Crohn's colitis? -- Steroid management in patients undergoing surgery for IBD -- Management of dysplasia in patients with ulcerative colitis -- Postoperative prophylaxis in patients with Crohn's disease -- Colon cancer/ Followup in patients after curative resection for colon cancer -- Management of patients with acute large bowel obstruction from colon cancer,- Management of patients with colon cancer and synchronous liver metastases -- Management of the patient with an endoscopically unresectable cecal polyp -- Role of chemotherapy for resected Stage 2 colon cancer -- Rectal cancer/ Management of T1 rectal cancer -- Management of T2 rectal cancer -- Management of the pt with a complete clinical response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation -- Management of the patient with rectal cancer presenting with synchronous liver metastases -- Who needs a loop ileostomy after LAR for rectal cancer? -- Selection factors for reoperative surgery for local recurrent rectal cancer -- Anal dysplasia/ Management of patients with AIN 3 -- Management of the abnormal pap smear in HIV positive patients -- Benign colon disease/ Indications for surgery in patients with severe C dificile colitis -- Do we need to operate on patients after successful percutaneous drainage of a diverticular abscess? -- Acute surgery for Hinchey 3 diverticulitis-resect or washout? -- Surgery for acute complicated diverticulitis-Hartmann vs primary anastomosis -- Who needs elective surgery for recurrent diverticulitis? -- Deciding on IRA vs IPAA for FAP -- How do we select the operation for pts with rectal prolapse? -- Benign anal disease/ Optimal management of the transsphincteric anal fistula -- Management of the recurrent anovaginal fistula -- When to do surgery for the pt with an anal fissure -- Management of the recurrent fissure after LIS -- Third degree hemorrhoids-Who really needs surgery? -- Which patients with fecal incontinence require physiologic workup? -- Who are the right candidates for sacral nerve stimulation? -- When is an anal sphincter repair indicated? -- Quality improvement/ What role checklists? -- Where are we with bowel preps for patients undergoing colon resection?.-Are fast track pathways for laparoscopic surgery needed? -- What are the right ingredients for a successful fast track pathway for open surgery? -- Preventing readmission after colon and rectal surgery -- Technique/ What is the best approach to transanal surgery: TEM vs TAMIS vs traditional transanal excision.-/ Lap vs robotic vs open surgery for rectal cancer -- Reservoir construction after LAR-Who and what? -- Hand assisted vs multiport vs single port approaches to laparoscopic colectomy -- Management of an anastomotic leak after LAR -- Management of the unhealed perineal wound after proctectomy.