2026 Azad Najmaldin Lecturer: Ciro Esposito MD, PhD, MFAS, Hon RSPLS 🇮🇹

Paediatric Robotic Surgery: State of the Art and Training

• Full Professor of Pediatric Surgery Federico II University of Naples, Italy

• Chief, Pediatric Surgery Federico II University of Naples, Italy

• Director of Pediatric Surgery Training Program of Federico II University of Naples, Italy

• President of International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG)

• President Elect of Italian Society of Pediatric Surgery (SICP)

• Past C.E.O. and Chief of Educational Committee of ESPES, European Society of Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery

• Co - Director of IRCAD Pediatric Surgery Courses, Strasbourg France

• Co- Director of IRCAD Pediatric Urology Courses, Strasbourg France

• Honorary Member of French Academy of Surgery, Paris FRANCE

• Director of Pediatric Robotic Surgery Master (PROMASTER)

• Honorary President of Romanian Association of Pediatric Laparoscopic Surgery (RSPLS)

• Director of Regional Reference Center for Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery and Pediatric Robotics

• Laurea at Honoris Causa in Medicine and Surgery, University of Athens, Greece

• IRCAD expert at Pediatric Surgery and Urology Courses since 1996

2026 MIS UROLOGY LECTURER: ROSA ROMERO MD, MSc, FRCS (England), FEAPU 🇪🇸

Pediatric Endourology: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting It Right

Rosa Maria Romero Ruiz MD, MSc, FRCS (England), FEAPU is a Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Paediatric Urologist and Head of the Paediatric Urology Unit at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío in Seville, Spain. She trained in paediatric surgery at Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid and subsequently undertook specialist training in paediatric urology in Spain and the UK, including fellowships at Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Her career has included consultant posts at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, St George’s Hospital and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Since 2017, she has led the Paediatric Urology Unit at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío and remains an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Urologist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Her clinical work includes complex paediatric urology, renal transplantation, bladder exstrophy–epispadias, genitourinary anomalies and differences in sex development.

She holds an MSc in Surgical Science and Practice from the University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Fellow of the European Academy of Paediatric Urology. She has an active role in postgraduate education and training, including teaching in renal transplantation and advanced paediatric urology, and serves as a Paediatric Surgery Training Tutor at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío.

Rosa is currently Vice President of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Surgery and a Board Member of the European Society for Paediatric Urology (ESPU), reflecting her longstanding involvement in the development of paediatric surgery and paediatric urology at national and European level.

Thursday Nov. 5th

• 🎓 MIS Course

• 💧 Urology Papers

• 🎤 MIS Urology Keynote Lecture: Rosa Romero

• 🧬 General Papers

Friday Nov. 6th

• 🧬 General Papers

• 🎓 Meet the Experts: MIS Surgery in the UK - State of the Art

  • Duodenal Atresia (Jimmy Lam)

  • Oesophageal Atresia (Paolo De Coppi)

  • CDH (Mike Singh)

• 🫁 Thoracic Papers

• 🎤 Azad Najmaldin Lecture: Ciro Esposito

• 🏛️ BAPES AGM

📍THE VENUE

Our 2026 meeting will be held at the Cornerstone Cardiff which is centrally located in the heart of the city within easy walking distance to the train station.

🎉 2026 Annual Dinner

Our 2026 Annual dinner is open to all from medical students to Consultants and will be held on Thursday November 5th at Base Camp Indian Kitchen which is located in the centre of Cardiff and a short walk from the main conference venue.