GS04: General Session 4 - Endometriosis Across the Lifespan: Awareness, Access, Autonomy & Outcomes

Monday, November 16, 2026
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Room: BALLRM-ABC

Chairs: Nash S. Moawad

Faculty: Ricardo M.A. Pereira, Sukhbir S. Singh, Jon I. Einarsson, Michelle Louie, Asha B. McClurg, Leigh A. Humphries, Hilary R. Haber, Holly Harris, Shannon Cohn, Arnold Wilson, Philippa Bridge Cook, Juan Diego Villegas-Echeverri, Jorge F. Carrillo, Ted T. Lee

Description: GYNAWARENESS PATIENT FORUM - OUTLINE

For the first time in the history of the AAGL Global Congress, patients and surgeons will come together on the Main Stage to share experiences, challenges, innovations, and solutions in the care of endometriosis and complex pelvic pain disorders. This groundbreaking patient-centered session is designed to foster meaningful dialogue between patients, surgeons, multidisciplinary clinicians, and advocates while maintaining the scientific rigor and educational excellence that define the AAGL. Through expert presentations, multidisciplinary discussion panels, live audience Q&A sessions, and powerful patient story videos, participants will explore barriers to diagnosis and treatment, advances in multidisciplinary care, and opportunities to improve awareness, access, outcomes, and autonomy for women worldwide. By bringing the patient voice directly into the Congress, this session aims to strengthen collaboration, empathy, and shared understanding between those delivering care and those living with these conditions.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

1. Understand the lived experience of patients with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain through direct dialogue with patients, surgeons, and multidisciplinary experts;
2. Examine emerging strategies to improve diagnosis, access to care, surgical outcomes, and long-term quality of life for women with pelvic pain disorders; and
3. Foster meaningful collaboration between patients, clinicians, advocates, and healthcare systems to shape the future of endometriosis care together.

COURSE OUTLINE

9:30 AM #2 SEEING THE DISEASE - A Patient-Oriented Anatomical Atlas: What's Really Happening inside the Pelvis

R. Pereira

9:55 AM #3 What Patients Actually Experience - Real-World Data, Symptoms & Quality of Life – the Lidea Registry

S. Singh

10:20 AM #4 Laparoscopic Excision of Endometriosis – Spectrum of Procedures, Options and Outcomes (Pain and Fertility Outcomes, complications, Recurrence, Reoperation)

J. Einarsson

10:45 AM #5 Lifespan Based Care - From Adolescence to Menopause

M. Louie

11:10 AM #5 Lifespan Based Care - From Adolescence to Menopause

A. McClurg

11:35 AM #6 - Beyond Surgery: LIfestyle Adjunts: What the Evidence Actually Says - and What Doesn't Work

L. Humphries

12:00 PM #6 - Beyond Surgery: LIfestyle Adjunts: What the Evidence Actually Says - and What Doesn't Work

H. Haber

12:25 PM #7 - Nutrition & Endometriosis - "Eating for Endometriosis: Evidence-Based Dietary Modifications, Anti-Inflammatory Approaches & Fad Diets Debunked"

H. Harris

12:50 PM #8 - Shared Decision-Making Panel

S. Cohn

1:15 PM #8 - Shared Decision-Making Panel:

A. Wilson

1:40 PM #8 - Shared Decision-Making Panel

P. Bridge Cook

2:05 PM #8 Shared Decision-Making Panel

H. Harris

2:30 PM #9 - PAIN ANTICIPATION: A PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENON

A. Wilson

2:55 PM #10 - Why Surgery Isn’t Enough? Persistent Pain after Treatment

J. Villegas-Echeverri

3:20 PM #10 - Why Surgery Isn’t Enough? Persistent Pain after Treatment

J. Carrillo

3:45 PM #11 Endometriosis Care Quality Collaborative

T. Lee