The Congress will commence on Wednesday 2 June 2027 with a series of pre-Congress workshops allowing you the opportunity to deep dive into a range of topics and issues. Half day workshops will be on offer in the morning and the afternoon. All workshops will be held at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center.
All pre-Congress workshops include a tea break (either morning or afternoon tea). For those participating in the pre-Congress workshops and looking for the perfect spot to have your lunch, a list of eateries can be found on this page of the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center website.
Details on the proposed pre-Congress courses can be found below. Further details on these - including cost and scheduling details - will be provided when registration opens in late 2026. Note all morning workshops will run from 0830-1230hrs and all afternoon workshops will run from 1330-1730hrs.
Workshop 1: Deciphering Endometriosis-Related Pain
Workshop being run in collaboration between the World Endometriosis Society (WES) and the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS).
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Workshop Director and Chair: Dr Isabel Green
Workshop Presenters:
- Dr Isabel Green
- Prof. Erkut Attar
- Dr Juan Diego Viellegas-Echeverri
Details: Participants will learn how pain mechanisms, central sensitisation, and overlapping pain conditions shape the experience of endometriosis-related pain.
Using interactive cases, attendees will develop skills in identifying pain generators, creating individualised treatment plans, optimising surgical and perioperative care, and engaging patients through effective communication and expectation setting.
The session emphasises a personalised, multidisciplinary approach to improving outcomes for patients with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain.
Workshop 2: Endometriosis and Neural Therapy: From Neuroinflammation to Neuromodulation
Workshop being run in collaboration with the International Federation of Medical Associations of Neural Therapy (IFMANT) and Turkish Society of Neural Therapy and Regulation Medicine (BNR).
Workshop Directors:
- Prof. Dr Huseyin Nazlikul
- Prof. Pinar Yalçın Bahat
Workshop Chair: Prof. Dr Huseyin Nazlikul
Workshop Presenters:
- Dr. Nura Fitnat Topbaş Selçuki
- Prof Pinar Yalçın Bahat
- Prof. Dr Huseyin Nazlikul
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the principles, historical development and proposed mechanisms of Neural Therapy
- Relate contemporary neuroimmune mechanisms of endometriosis-associated pain to potential Neural Therapy targets
- Explore the roles of chronic inflammation, neurogenic inflammation and neuroimmune interactions in persistent pelvic pain
- Evaluate the contribution of autonomic nervous system dysfunction to pain generation and chronification in endometriosis
- Understand the clinical relevance of segmental dysfunction and proposed interference fields in chronic pelvic pain
- Critically evaluate the scientific evidence supporting Neural Therapy in endometriosis-associated pain
- Integrate Neural Therapy, where appropriate, into evidence-based multidisciplinary treatment strategies
- Develop individualized treatment approaches based on clinical assessment, pain mechanisms and patient characteristics
- Appreciate a holistic, regulation-medicine perspective on endometriosis and its comorbidities
Workshop 3: Beyond the Lesion: Physiotherapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain
Workshop Directors, Chairs and Presenters:
- Assoc. Prof. Alime Buyuk
- Assoc. Prof. Meltem Yavuz Serçekman
Details:
She waited years for the diagnosis. She has had the surgery. The imaging is clear. She still cannot sit through a working day, still dreads intimacy, still plans her month around the pain.
A substantial proportion of women continue to report pain after optimal medical and surgical management of endometriosis. The musculoskeletal and nervous system contributors — pelvic floor muscle involvement, abdominal wall and scar pain, and central sensitisation — cut across endometriosis, bladder pain syndrome and vulvodynia alike, yet remain the component least often assessed.
This half-day course is about that patient. It covers why pain persists once the disease has been treated, a shared framework for identifying what is actually driving it, what a pelvic floor physiotherapy assessment involves, and what the current evidence supports — presented honestly, including where it is thin. It closes with multidisciplinary case work.
The course is open to every discipline involved in endometriosis care, with no prerequisites. All demonstrations use anatomical models; no participant examines another participant, and participation in practical elements is optional throughout.
Delegates leave with a one-page reasoning algorithm, a referral guide and patient-facing materials.
Workshop 4: WES Early/Mid-Career Pre-Congress Course
Workshop Directors and Chairs:
- Assoc. Prof. Leslie Farland
- Dr Thomas Tapmeier
- Dr Naoko Sasamoto
Workshop Presenters:
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
Details: TBC
Workshop 5: Essential Surgery for Endometriosis
Workshop Directors:
- Prof. Ahmet Kale
- Prof. Taner Usta
- Prof. Ertan Sarıdoğan
- Session 1:
- Prof. Dr Michelle Nisolle
- Prof. Dr Yücel Karaman
- [Dr/Prof] Resul Karakuş
- Session 2:
- Prof. Jörg Keckstein
- Prof. Turan Çetin
- Prof. Nuray Bozkurt
Workshop Presenters:
- Prof. Dr Michelle Nisolle
- Assoc. Prof. Elvin Piriyev
- Mr Helder Ferreira
- Prof. Mohamed Mabrouk
- Dr Tamer Seçkin
- Prof. Ertan Sarıdoğan
- Prof. Vito Chientera
- Prof. Jörg Keckstein
Workshop 6: Advanced Surgery for Endometriosis
Workshop Directors:
- Prof. Taner Usta
- Prof. Ahmet Kale
- Prof. Ertan Sarıdoğan
- Session 1:
- Prof. Ercan Baştu
- Prof. İslam Magalov
- Assoc. Prof. Fatma Ketenci Gencer
- Session 2:
- Prof. Ertan Sarıdoğan
- Prof Fatih Şendağ
- [Dr/Prof] Bülent Berker
Workshop Presenters:
- Prof. Ahmet Kale
- Dr Alessandra Di Giovanni
- Prof. Attila Bokor
- Prof. Taner Usta
- Prof. Horace Roman
- Prof. Mario Malzoni
- Prof. Elvira Bratila
Workshop 7: Essential Imaging for Endometriosis
Workshop Directors and Chairs:
- Prof. Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara
- Dr Wendaline Van Buren
- Assoc. Prof. Mathew Leonardi
Workshop Presenters:
- Ms Alison Deslandes
- Dr Alessandra Di Giovanni
- Assoc. Prof. Mathew Leonardi
- Prof. Thierry Van den Bosch
- Assoc. Prof. Ligita Jokubkiene
- Prof. Hilal Şahin
- Prof. Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara
- Prof. Davor Jurkovic
- Dr Wendaline Van Buren
Target Audience: Gynecologists and gynecologist-sonologists, sonographers, trainees, reproductive medicine clinicians and radiologists. The course is intentionally ultrasound-led because many gynecologists in Türkiye and surrounding regions perform their own pelvic ultrasound. Radiologists will be specifically encouraged to attend to strengthen multidisciplinary participation and cross-modality learning.
- Perform and document a four-step IDEA examination, including patient preparation, probe handling for each compartment and the dynamic manoeuvres that carry diagnostic weight.
- Recognise normal pelvic sonoanatomy — rectum and sigmoid, bladder, distal ureters, vagina, rectovaginal space, uterosacral ligaments, parametria and pelvic sidewall — as the baseline against which disease is detected.
- Distinguish an endometrioma from its principal mimics, recognise decidualisation and suspicious change, and state when ultrasound is sufficient and when MRI adds information.
- Apply the revised MUSA criteria for adenomyosis on ultrasound and the junctional-zone criteria on MRI.
- Prescribe and check a guideline-compliant endometriosis MRI protocol and produce a structured, compartment-based report.
- Map deep disease in the central compartments using ultrasound and MRI together, and document what surgical decision-making requires.
- Interpret serial imaging: distinguish stability from true progression, and apparent regression during medical treatment from real biological change.
- Articulate what a surgeon needs to know before operating, and whether imaging changes the planned team or procedure, including during a joint live imaging / surgery session.
Workshop 8: Advanced Imaging for Endometriosis
Chairs:
- Prof. Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara
- Dr Wendaline Van Buren
- Assoc. Prof. Mathew Leonardi
Workshop Presenters:
- Prof. Pascal Rousset
- Ms Ezgi Darıcı
- Dr Ceylan Colak
- Dr Wendaline Van Buren
- Assoc. Prof. Mathew Leonardi
- Prof. Horace Roman
- Replacement for Dr Glen Lo
- Prof. Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara
- Ms Luciana Chamie
- Prof. Jörg Keckstein
- Mr Kevin Kuan
- Dr Caroline Mathias
- Ms Alison Deslandes
Target Audience: Experienced gynecologist-sonologists, endometriosis surgeons, radiologists, sonographers, fellows, imaging scientists and multidisciplinary endometriosis teams. The programme deliberately integrates ultrasound and MRI rather than treating them as competing disciplines.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Assess the lateral compartment systematically and identify the imaging predictors of ureterolysis, ureteric reimplantation and prolonged surgery.
- Recognise sacral plexus, sciatic, pudendal and inferior hypogastric plexus involvement on MRI and on ultrasound, and report the embedded-versus-infiltrated distinction that determines whether nerve-sparing surgery is feasible.
- Use bowel imaging to anticipate operative complexity and inform the choice between shaving, discoid excision and segmental resection.
- Follow a single case from the images through to the operative decision, for bowel and for lateral deep disease, and state at which point imaging changed the plan.
- Adapt imaging when transvaginal ultrasound is not possible or appropriate, and communicate uncertainty without dismissing disease.
- Recognise extrapelvic disease and the multimodality red flags for malignant transformation.
- Appraise an artificial intelligence tool critically, including the ground-truth problem and the current regulatory position.
- Critically compare classification systems and consider a common framework across imaging, surgery, research and clinical care.
Workshop 9: Molecular & Genetic Mechanism in Endometriosis
Workshop Directors:
- Dr Nilufer Rahmioglu
- Prof. Krina Zondervan
Workshop Chairs:
- Session 1:
- Assoc. Prof. Feyza Nur Tuncer
- Prof. Krina Zondervan
- Session 2:
- Dr Doug Gibson
- Dr Nilufer Rahmioglu
Workshop Presenters:
- Dr Nilufer Rahmioglu
- Prof. Krina Zondervan
- Dr Brett McKinnon
- Prof. Dr Arne Vanhie
- Dr Roser Vento Tormo
- Dr Erin Greaves
- Replacement for Dr Rahul Gajbhiye
Learning objectives: By the end of the course, participants should be able to explain the contribution of inherited and somatic genetic variation to endometriosis; understand how epigenetic, transcriptomic and other molecular mechanisms contribute to disease biology; evaluate experimental models used to investigate causal mechanisms; and recognise the importance of ancestry and global representation for translating molecular discoveries into clinically relevant insights.
Workshop 10: Medical Treatment of Endometriosis: From Guidelines to Clinical Practice
Workshop Directors:
- Prof. Engin Oral
- Assoc. Prof. Meryem Hocaoğlu
Workshop Chairs:
- Session 1:
- Prof. Dr Koray Elter
- Dr Berivan Güzelbağ
- Session 2:
- Dr Turgut Var
- Dr Begüm Ertan
Workshop Presenters:
- Prof. Yutaka Osuga
- Prof. Christian Becker
- Prof. Andrew Horne
- Dr Mohamed Bedaiwy
- Prof. Sawsan As-Sanie
- Replacement for Prof. Dr Kutay Biberoğlu
- Dr Ümit İnceboz
- Assoc. Prof. Meryem Hocaoğlu
A practical, guideline-anchored course that walks clinicians through the full ladder of medical management for endometriosis, from first-line hormonal therapy through second-line and refractory-disease strategies , and translates current guideline recommendations into decisions for the special populations that do not fit a standard algorithm.
Gynecologists, reproductive endocrinologists, and trainees managing the medical treatment of endometriosis, particularly those who counsel patients through multiple lines of hormonal therapy and need a structured approach to escalation, special populations, and long-term postoperative management.
- Select and sequence first-line hormonal medical treatment , combined hormonal contraceptives and progestins , for endometriosis-associated pain.
- Escalate appropriately to second-line treatment with GnRH agonists and oral GnRH antagonists, weighing their respective benefits and limitations.
- Manage refractory and recurrent disease using aromatase inhibitors, the LNG-IUS, combination strategies, and long-term postoperative therapy.
- Tailor medical treatment to special clinical situations: adolescent patients, those seeking fertility, extrapelvic endometriosis, and the menopausal transition.
- Apply current guideline recommendations to real-world medical management decisions.
- Translate the above into practice through a real clinical case discussion and expert panel.
Workshop 11: Infertility and Endometriosis: From Mechanism to Management
Workshop Directors:
- Prof. Engin Oral
- Assoc. Prof. Şule Yıldız
Workshop Chairs:
- Session 1:
- Prof. Cihat Ünlü
- Prof. Hakan Yaralı
- Session 2:
- Prof. Recai Pabuçcu
- Prof. Ümit İnceboz
Workshop Presenters:
- Prof. Hale Göksever Çelik
- Prof. Simone Ferrero
- Prof. Harald Krentel
- Prof. Ludovico Muzii
- Prof. Emre Pabuçcu
- Prof. Sezcan Mumusoğlu
- Assoc. Prof. Şule Yıldız
- Prof. Dr (Yusuf) Aytaç Tohma
Target Audience: Reproductive medicine specialists, gynecologists, minimally invasive gynecologic surgeons, and trainees involved in the fertility care of women with endometriosis and adenomyosis. The course is intentionally built around joint surgeon, ART specialist decision-making, since real-world treatment pathways for these patients routinely require both perspectives at the same table.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how endometriosis affects fertility, including the current concepts and mechanisms of disease-related reproductive impairment.
- Apply ultrasound criteria to assess endometriosis disease burden in the infertility clinic before proceeding to ART, and know when specialist sonographic input changes the plan.
- Recognize sonographic features and types of adenomyosis, and state whether and how they affect reproductive outcomes.
- Decide, case by case, when surgical decision-making should precede assisted reproduction rather than proceeding directly to ART.
- Tailor embryo transfer strategy in women with endometriosis and adenomyosis, adjusting timing and protocol to disease presentation.
- Evaluate recurrent implantation failure through the lens of underlying endometriosis/adenomyosis, and determine whether it is the missing link in a given case.
- Discuss fertility preservation options in endometriosis and counsel patients appropriately given their disease trajectory.
- Translate the above into practice through real clinical cases and an expert panel discussion, and close with the shared decisions the group would take forward.
Workshop 12: Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis in Chronic Pelvic Pain: From Mechanisms to Clinical Management
Workshop being run in collaboration between the World Endometriosis Society (WES) and the International Urogynaecological Association.
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Workshop Director and Chair: Assoc. Prof. Kazibe Koyuncu Demir
Workshop Presenters:
- Assoc. Prof. Kazibe Koyuncu Demir
- Prof. Funda Güngör Uğurlucan
- Assoc. Prof. Murat Seval
- Assoc. Prof. Ersin Köseoğlu
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical significance of BPS/IC in women with chronic pelvic pain.
- Recognize the role of sensitization and nociplastic pain mechanisms in symptom generation and treatment response.
- Identify distinct clinical phenotypes of BPS/IC and understand their implications for diagnosis and management.
- Apply evidence-based treatment strategies for women with BPS/IC.
- Integrate phenotyping and pain-mechanism-based approaches into the evaluation of complex chronic pelvic pain cases.
Workshop 13: Nursing in Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain
Workshop Directors:
- Assoc. Prof. Handan Ozcan
- Sarah Parker
Workshop Chairs: TBC
Workshop Presenters:
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
Workshop 14: Ablation Beyond Surgery: Non-Surgical Techniques (HIFU, RFA, MWA) for Adenomyosis
Workshop Directors:
- Dr Xiaoming Gong
Workshop Chairs: TBC
Workshop Presenters:
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
- [Dr/Prof] TBC
International Congress Office:
WALDRONSMITH Management
119 Buckhurst Street
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Australia
T +61 3 9645 6311
E wce2027@wsm.com.au