Imran Mushtaq, MD Great Ormond Street Hospital London (United Kingdom)
-	You are at the origin of the retroperitoneoscopy in the prone position; what are the benefits of this approach?

Henrik Steinbrecher, MD Southampton General Hospital Southampton (United Kingdom)
-	How do you train surgeons without hands-on training on animals?
-	How do you evaluate the skills of surgeons?

Adrian Park, MD University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore (United States)
-	How important is pancreatic surgery oncologically speaking?
-	What type of approach do you favour when it comes to the tail of the pancreas (supine vs. lateral)?
-	With regards to the pancreatic gland, what division and control techniques do you use (staples, Ligasure device, ultrasound, or regular sutures)?
-	Do you prefer to perform pancreatectomy with or without preservation of the spleen and what are your indications and the limits of both strategies?
-	What are the ideal indications for laparoscopic splenic surgery?
-	Which approach do you prefer, namely anterior, posterior, or a combined approach and what are the limits of the laparoscopic splenectomies?
-	With regards to pedicle control, do you favour an ‘en bloc’ approach or do you divide the splenic vein and artery?
-	To control the pedicle, do you use clips, sutures or staples and what are the benefits and limits of each method?
-	Faced with portal vein thrombosis, do you think it is a specific laparoscopic problem or does it occur in the same way in the open approach?
-	With regards to the treatment of incisional hernias, what type of mesh do you use and is there an ideal one?
-	When treating incisional hernias, do you close the hernial defect or not?
-	To fix the mesh, do you prefer tackers, suture, or even a transparietal suture?

Nathaniel Soper, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medecine Chicago (United States)
-	What are the most difficult technical aspects to teach?
-	For the treatment of GERD, do you favour total or partial fundoplication?
-	When and how do you reinforce the crura?
-	What do you tell your patients after their anti-reflux procedure? What should they expect?
-	What are the most difficult steps of the operation?
-	What approach do you favor when faced with postoperative dysphagia?

Lee L Swanström, MD, PhD Legacy Health System Portland, OR (United States)
-	What are the most difficult technical aspects to teach?
-	For the treatment of GERD, do you favor total or partial fundoplication?
-	When and how do you reinforce the crura?
-	What do you tell your patients after their anti-reflux procedure? What should they expect?
-	What are the most difficult steps of the operation?
-	What approach do you favor when faced with postoperative dysphagia?

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