Dr. Drakopoulos attended the 23rd International Congress of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), where he presented the abstracts «Three-Port Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbit Obesity: Our Early Experience» and «Laparoscopic Resection of a Large Symptomatic Hydatic Cyst of the Liver», while at the same time he participated in an intensive seminar in Laparoscopic Surgery for Upper, Lower GI and rectum, under the direction of Prof. Roberto Bergamaschi and Professor. Victor Tomulescu.