The GIEQs faculty
With a stellar international faculty GIEQs VI promises to be a launch-pad for innovative thinking in everyday endoscopic practice.
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International Faculty
Dr Samer Al-Dury
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Medical City Hospital for Military and Security Services, Muscat
Focus:
Dr Giulio Antonelli
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Castelli Hospital and Sapienza University
Focus: Artificial Intelligence in colonoscopy, and colorectal cancer early diagnosis, treatment and management.
Professor Robert Bechara
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Kingston Health Sciences Center, Kingston Ontario
Focus: Optical diagnosis, Tissue resection, and Third-space procedures
Professor Stefano Crino
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Hospital of Verona
Focus:
Professor Mirko D'Onofrio
Consultant Radiologist
Focus:
Professor Jason A. Dominitz
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Focus: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Dr Paul Dunckley
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust
Focus: Endoscopy, Endoscopy training and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Dr Jason Dunn
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Guy and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Focus: Barretts, Dysplasia and early cancer, EMR, BarrX, POEM, eosinophilic oesophagitis
Professor Monika Ferlitsch
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Ordinationsgemeinschaft Semperstrasse 29 - Medical University of Vienna
Focus: Quality in Endoscopy
Professor Lawrence Hookey
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Queen’s University and Kingston Health Sciences Centre
Focus: Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy
Dr Vikash Lala
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre
Focus: Quality, Colonoscopy training, Polypectomy
Professor Christopher Ma
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University of Calgary
Focus: IBD
Dr Raymond McCrudden
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Dr Michele Montori
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UNIVPM, Ancona
Focus: Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of dysplastic lesions
Professor Leon Moons
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UMC Utrecht
Focus: Endoscopic interventions in GI oncology, with a special focus on colorectal cancer
Dr Nima Mottacki
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Professor Massimiliano Mutignani
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano
Focus: ERCP, EUS
Dr Niroshan Muwanwella
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Royal Perth Hospital
Focus: POEM, C-POEM, G-POEM, ESD, EMR, ERCP, and advanced Barrett’s endotherapy
Dr Andrea Palermo
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan
Focus: Biliopancreatic diseases
Dr Enrico Palmeri
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Gasttroenterologic Endoscopy Unit, AOPD, Padua
Focus: ERCP and interventional EUS
Professor Enrique Perez-Cuadrado-Robles
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris - University of Paris Cité
Focus: Bilio-Pancreatic Endoscopy and Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasound
Dr Roos Pouw
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Medical Center Utrecht
Focus: Endoscopic detection of early upper gastrointestinal neoplasia, and minimally invasive endoscopic treatment techniques such as ablation, endoscopic resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection, as well as management of defects in the upper GI-tract using endoscopic vacuumtherapy
Professor Enrique Rodriguez de Santiago
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Ramon y Cajal Health Research Institute
Focus: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, with an emphasis on EMR-ESD-POEM, sustainability, hemostasis, and novel therapeutic approaches
Dr Mayenaaz Sidhu
Consultant Gastroenterologist
CityWest Gastroenterology Westmead
Focus: Advanced Endoscopy
Dr Andrea Sorge
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan
Focus: Complex Tissue Resection, third-space endoscopy
Dr Ashish Srinivasan
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Dr Tamas Tornai
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Dr Rogier Voermans
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Amsterdam UMC
Focus: Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases and (Advanced) Endoscopic Pancreatic and Biliary Interventions
Dr Ana Wilson
Consultant Gastroenterologist
St Mark's The National Bowel Hospital
Focus:
Organising Committee
Dr John Anderson
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Cheltenham General Hospital
Focus: Polypectomy, Colonoscopy training
Dr Lobke Desomer
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
AZ Delta Hospital
Focus: Endoscopy Quality, Polypectomy, Training
Dr Jeroen Geldof
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Ghent
Focus: IBD
Professor Pieter Hindryckx
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
UZ Ghent
Focus: ERCP, interventional EUS
Professor Triana Lobaton
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Ghent
Focus: Quality in IBD and endoscopy
Dr David Tate
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
UZ Ghent
Focus: Endoscopy Quality, Tissue resection, Training
Dr Roland Valori
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Focus: Quality, Colonoscopy training
National Faculty
Professor Marianna Arvanitaki
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Erasme University Hospital
Focus:
Professor Raf Bisschops
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Hospital of Leuven
Focus: Endoscopic imaging, Barrett's oesophagus
Dr Peter Bossuyt
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Imelda General Hospital, Bonheiden
Focus: IBD
Dr Lynn Debels
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Brussels
Focus: Training, ESD, EMR and POEM
Professor Helena Degroote
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
UZ Brussels
Focus: Quality in ERCP and EUS
Dr Brecht Hens
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Brussels
Focus: IBD
Dr Philippe Leclercq
Consultant Gastroenterologist
CHC Groupe Santé & UZ Leuven & CHU UCL Namur
Focus:
Dr Christophe Schoonjans
Consultant Gastroenterologist
AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende
Focus:
Dr Christophe Snauwaert
Consultant Interventional Endoscopist
AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende
Focus:
Local Faculty
Dr Maria Eva Argenziano
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Dr Fakirah Badrulhisham
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Focus:
Dr Eduard Callebout
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Ghent
Focus: Oncology in the GI tract
Professor Hasan Eker
Consultant Surgeon
University Hospital Gent
Focus: hepato billiary disease
Professor Anja Geerts
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Ghent
Focus: Hepatology and Endoscopy
Dr Pieter Jan Poortmans
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Hospital of Ghent and University Hospital of Brussels
Focus:
Dr Marie Truyens
Consultant Gastroenterologist
University Hospital Gent
Focus: IBD
Professor Hans Van Vlierberghe
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UZ Ghent
Focus: Hepatology and Endoscopy