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Improvement of Outcomes in Digestive Surgery with Prehabilitation: The Lyon Experience
What is this webinar about?
Join us for this webinar on prehabilitation in digestive surgery: an emerging approach that combines physical, nutritional, and psychological support to strengthen patients before major surgery.
Speakers from Lyon's HEH and Croix-Rousse hospitals share how their multidisciplinary program works in practice, from the day hospital model to physiotherapy, nutrition, and the barriers they had to solve to make it stick.
- Introduction: Dr. Julie Périnel
- Empowering Patients: Inside the Prehabilitation Day Hospital, Florence Abraham
- Prehabilitation in Action: The Power of Physiotherapy, Aina Moral-Alzaga & Marta Gonzalez-Pereira
- The Prehab Blueprint: Nutritional Management in Liver & Pancreatic Surgery, Sarah Achatoui & Doriane Lionti
- Limitations and Keys to Success: Dr. Julie Périnel
- Live Q&A
Date & Time
🕓 September 11, 2026
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Central Europe (CEST) – 10:30–11:30 AM
- Australia (AEST) – 6:30–7:30 PM
Unable to attend live? The recording will be sent to all registrants.
🌍 Language: English
⏱️ Duration: 40 minutes + 20 minutes Q&A
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What will you learn?
- How a multidisciplinary team structures a prehabilitation pathway before major digestive surgery
- What the day hospital model looks like in practice, and how patients move through it
- How physiotherapy is built into prehabilitation, and what it changes for patients
- How nutritional management is adapted for liver and pancreatic surgery specifically
- The practical barriers Lyon's teams faced when implementing prehabilitation, and how they addressed them
- Why sustaining a prehabilitation program, like any ERAS® pathway, depends on consistent measurement and audit, the principle behind the ERAS® Interactive Audit System (EIAS)
Meet the speakers
Dr. Julie Périnel, Digestive & Pancreatic Surgeon, Hôpital Édouard Herriot, Lyon
Practicing digestive surgery since 2017, with a fellowship focus on pancreatic surgery. Completed a one-year fellowship at CHUV Lausanne, a recognized ERAS® center of excellence. Medical lead of the prehabilitation day hospital since 2022.
Florence Abraham, ERAS® Nurse Coordinator, Hôpital Édouard Herriot, Lyon
Registered nurse since 2003, leading ERAS® initiatives since 2016 across hepatobiliary, pancreatic, colorectal, and cardiothoracic surgery. Leads the Groupe des Infirmier(e)s Francophones (GIF), supporting ERAS® coordination across French-speaking institutions.
Doriane Lionti, ERAS® Nurse Coordinator, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon
Registered nurse since 2003, specializing in ERAS® pathways since 2019. Has presented on ERAS® implementation challenges at the ERAS® World Congress.
Sarah Achatoui, Dietitian, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon
Hospital dietitian since 2020. Works in the Digestive Surgery department, and since January 2026 splits her time between Digestive Surgery and the Transversal Dietetics and Nutrition Unit.
Aina Moral-Alzaga, Physiotherapist, Hôpital Édouard Herriot, Lyon
Physiotherapist since 2021, with clinical experience in Spain before joining Lyon's digestive and urological surgery departments, where she works on perioperative physiotherapy and functional recovery.
Marta Gonzalez-Pereira, Physiotherapist, Hôpital Édouard Herriot, Lyon
Physiotherapist since 2022, with early clinical experience in Madrid and at CHU de Nîmes. Joined the digestive surgery department at Hôpital Édouard Herriot in February 2025.
Who should attend?
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Surgeons
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Anesthetists
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Perioperative nurses
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Physiotherapists
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Dietitians
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Anyone involved in perioperative pathway design for digestive surgery
