Faculty 2021 – European Colorectal Congress 2021

Michel Adamina

Eva Angenete

Eva Angenete is professor of surgery at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. She also holds a position as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, one of the largest colorectal units in Sweden. Her research focus is colorectal and anal cancer, surgical outcome, minimally invasive surgery and patient reported outcome measures and survivorship. In the clinic she mainly works with rectal cancer, anal cancer and recurrent cancer.

Regina Beets-Tan NL-Amsterdam

Regina Beets-Tan

Willem Bemelman NL-Amsterdam

Willem Bemelman

Frederik Berrevoet BE-Gent

Frederik Berrevoet

Sebastiano Biondo ES-Barcelona

Sebastiano Biondo

Sebastiano Biondo
EBSQ-Coloproctology
Professor of Surgery

University of Barcelona
Chief of Department
General and Digestive Surgery
Bellvitge University Hospital
Barcelona. Spain

Walter Brunner CH-St.Gallen

Walter Brunner

Richard Cohen UK-London

Richard Cohen

Justin Davies UK-Cambridge

Justin Davies

Ulrich Dietz CH-Olten

Ulrich Dietz

André D'Hoore BE-Leuven

André D'Hoore

Nuno Leitão Figueiredo PT-Lisboa

Nuno Leitão Figueiredo

2015 - Head of Champalimaud Surgical Centre, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 - Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England)

2020 - National Representative for the European Society of Coloproctology

2021 - Member of the European Surgical Association

2021 - Head of General Surgery Department - Lusíadas Health Cluster, Lisbon, Portugal

Colorectal Surgeon and Researcher in the field of Colon and Rectal Cancer, Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery (laparoscopy and robotics), Tumor Response to Neoadjuvant Treatment and Personalized Oncologic Therapy, with over 60 peer-reviewed publications in these areas. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-0933.

Recipient of the “Pfizer Award in Fundamental Research - 2013” and “Honorable Distinction - BIAL Award in Clinical Medicine - 2020"

René Fortelny AT-Wien

René Fortelny

Dieter Hahnloser CH-Lausanne

Dieter Hahnloser

Laura Hancock UK-Manchester

Laura Hancock

Miss Laura Hancock

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer;
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK;
Chair of Education and Training, ACPGBI;
Member of the IBD Subcommittee, ACPGBI;
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Colorectal Disease

Alexander Herold DE-Mannheim

Alexander Herold

Roel Hompes NL-Amsterdam

Roel Hompes

Dr.

Colorectal Surgeon, Departement of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, NL

Maria Hufenus CH-St.Gallen

Maria Hufenus

Wolfram Jochum CH-St.Gallen

Wolfram Jochum

Johannes Jongen DE-Kiel

Johannes Jongen

Ralph Lorenz DE-Berlin

Ralph Lorenz

Christian Lovis CH-Geneva

Christian Lovis

Ferdinand Köckerling DE-Berlin

Ferdinand Köckerling

Jan Kukleta CH-Zürich

Jan Kukleta

John Marks US-Wynnewood

John Marks

John Marks MD

Chief of Colorectal Surgery
Main Line Health System

Executive Committee National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer

Program Director Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgical and Rectal Cancer Management Fellowship
Lankenau Medical Center
Wynnewood, PA.

Piercarlo Meinero IT-Chiavari

Piercarlo Meinero

Danilo Miskovic UK-London

Danilo Miskovic

Agneta Montgomery SE-Malmo

Agneta Montgomery

Salvador Morales-Conde ES-Sevilla

Salvador Morales-Conde

Salvador Morales-Conde

Chief of the Unit of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the University Hospital "Virgen del Rocío"
Head of the General, Digestive and Laparoscopic Surgery Unit of the Hospital QuirónSalud Sagrado Corazón in Sevilla (Spain).

President of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC)
President of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES)
Past General Secretary of the European Hernia Society (EHS)

Vice-Chairman of the Chapter of Abdominal Wall surgery of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)
Director of the Training program of endoscopic surgery of the Spanish Association of Surgery (AEC)
President of the Expert Committee of the Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (from 2018)
Chairman of the working group “Surgery-Covid-AEC”

Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Sevilla (Spain)

Papers published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed: 155
H-index 35
Author of different Clinical Guidelines and Consensus paper on different fields of surgery

Honorary Member of the Andalusian Society of Surgery (2021)
“Illustrious Doctor” by The Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (2018)

Neil Mortensen UK-Oxford

Neil Mortensen

Gabriela Möslein DE-Duisburg

Gabriela Möslein

Filip Muysoms BE-Gent

Filip Muysoms

Dr Filip Muysoms

Born in Ghent, Belgium in 1965, graduated from the Medical School at the University of Ghent in 1990.
* Training in General surgery at the Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg in South Africa and at the AZ Maria Middelares Hospital in Ghent: 1990-1998.
* Training in General Thoracic Surgery at the St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein in The Netherlands: 1995.
* Certified Intensive Care specialist training at the University Hospital in Ghent: 1999.
* Doctor in the Biomedical Sciences: PhD thesis was successfully defended at the Ghent University in May 2015: Title: "Prevention of incisional hernias." promotor Frederik Berrevoet.
* Since May 2017 proctoring for robotic abdominal wall surgery.

Currently working in the Department of General and Abdominal Surgery at the Maria Middelares Hospital in Ghent.

Has developed a specific focus in practice and in science on abdominal wall hernias and on the adoption of robotic assisted surgery in Europe.
* Board Member and Past-President (2008-2010) of the Belgian Section for Abdominal Wall Surgery.
* First author of the "Classification of primary and incisional abdominal wall hernias" of the European Hernia Society, 2009 and of the guidelines on closure of abdominal wall incisions.
* Congress President of the 33th International Congress of the European Hernia Society in Ghent: May 2011.
* Founding president of the EuraHS, the European Registry for abdominal wall hernias: 2011.
* European Hernia Society Board Member since 2013 and currently President elect.
* Member of the Scientific committee of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery, 2015 - 2018.
* proctor for robotic abdominal wall surgery

Caroline Nordenvall SE-Stockholm

Caroline Nordenvall

Docent, kirurg/Associate professor, surgeon
Institutionen för Molekylär Medicin och Kirurgi (MMK)/Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset (D2:05) | 171 76 Stockholm

P. Ronan O'Connell IE-Dublin

P. Ronan O'Connell

P. Ronan O’Connell, MD, FRCSI, FRCPS Glas (Hon) , FRCS Edin (Hon), FRCS Eng (Hon), FASA (Hon), FCSHK (Hon)

President Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
President Elect European Surgical Association
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College Dublin 

Yves Panis FR-Paris

Yves Panis

Vincent de Parades FR-Paris

Vincent de Parades

MD
• PhD
• Head of the Department of Medico-Surgical Proctology

Saint-Joseph Hospital, 185, rue Raymond Losserand, 75014 Paris, France.

Frank Pfeffer NO-Bergen

Frank Pfeffer

Ruediger Proßt DE-Stuttgart

Ruediger Proßt

Prof. Dr. Ruediger Proßt

Proctological Institute Stuttgart, Professor of Surgery (Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Philip Quirke UK-Leeds

Philip Quirke

Carlo Ratto IT-Rome

Carlo Ratto

Frédéric Ris CH-Geneva

Frédéric Ris

Bruno Roche CH-Geneva

Bruno Roche

Fernando Ruiz Jasbon SE-Kungsbacka

Fernando Ruiz Jasbon

I am PhD and Consulting Surgeon at the department of surgery at Halland Hospital / Kungsbacka, Sweden. This clinic is specialized in the surgery of hernias of the abdominal wall. The focus of my scientific research is directed primarily to hernia repair and the use of absorbable meshes in this type of surgery.

Överläkare Kirurgi
Opererande Specialistvård
Hallands sjukhus / Kungsbacka
Kungsbacka

Giulio A. Santoro IT-Treviso

Giulio A. Santoro

Dr.Giulio A.Santoro was educated at the University of Naples and at the University of Siena (PhD), Italy. He is the Chief of the Tertiary Referral Pelvic Floor Center and Consultant General Surgeon and Colorectal Surgeon, I°Department of Surgery at Treviso Regional Hospital, Italy.

He was Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi for 1 year from August 2014 to 2015. He also holds academic appointments as Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery at University of Padua, Italy and Honorary Professor of Surgery at Shandong University, China. He is Director of the Italian School of Pelvic Floor Ultrasonography and Past-President of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery. He is member of the editorial board of World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Female Pelvic Medicine Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of Ultrasonography and Pelviperineology.

He is also author of more than 200 chapters and articles published on peer-review journals as well as the author of four books (Atlas of Endoanal and Endorectal Ultrasonography; Benign Anorectal Diseases; Pelvic Floor Disorders; Rectal Cancer).

He was in the faculty of more than 300 international congresses, workshops and courses. He was President of the VI° National Congress of SICCR in 2015.

Bruno Schmied CH-St.Gallen

Bruno Schmied

Mike Scott UK-St Helens, Merseyside

Mike Scott

Neil Smart UK-Exeter

Neil Smart

Antonio Spinelli IT-Milano

Antonio Spinelli

Prof. Antonino Spinelli is General Secretary of the European Society of ColoProctology (ESCP), Director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and Full Professor of Surgery at Humanitas, Rozzano Milano, Italy. He is Associate Editor for several Journals. He is dedicated to the development of innovative techniques in minimally invasive colorectal surgery.