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

Professor Stefano Crino
Professor Stefano Crino

Consultant Gastroenterologist

University Hospital of Verona

Focus:

Dr Paul Dunckley
Dr Paul Dunckley

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Gloucestershire NHS Foundation Trust

Focus: Endoscopy, Endoscopy training and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Professor Monika Ferlitsch
Professor Monika Ferlitsch

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Ordinationsgemeinschaft Semperstrasse 29 - Medical University of Vienna

Focus: Quality in Endoscopy

Professor Lawrence Hookey
Professor Lawrence Hookey

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Queen’s University and Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Focus: Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy

Dr Vikash Lala
Dr Vikash Lala

Consultant Interventional Endoscopist

Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre

Focus: Quality, Colonoscopy training, Polypectomy

Professor Leon Moons
Professor Leon Moons

Consultant Gastroenterologist

UMC Utrecht

Focus: Endoscopic interventions in GI oncology, with a special focus on colorectal cancer

Professor Massimiliano Mutignani
Professor Massimiliano Mutignani

Consultant Interventional Endoscopist

ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano

Focus: ERCP, EUS

Dr Roos Pouw
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 Rodríguez de Santiago
Professor Enrique Rodríguez 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 Andrea Sorge
Dr Andrea Sorge

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan

Focus: Complex Tissue Resection, third-space endoscopy

Organising Committee

Dr John Anderson
Dr John Anderson

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Cheltenham General Hospital

Focus: Polypectomy, Colonoscopy training

Dr Lobke Desomer
Dr Lobke Desomer

Consultant Interventional Endoscopist

AZ Delta Hospital

Focus: Endoscopy Quality, Polypectomy, Training

Dr Jeroen Geldof
Dr Jeroen Geldof

Consultant Gastroenterologist

UZ Ghent

Focus: IBD

Professor Pieter Hindryckx
Professor Pieter Hindryckx

Consultant Interventional Endoscopist

UZ Ghent

Focus: ERCP, interventional EUS

Professor Triana Lobaton
Professor Triana Lobaton

Consultant Gastroenterologist

UZ Ghent

Focus: Quality in IBD and endoscopy

Dr David Tate
Dr David Tate

Consultant Interventional Endoscopist

UZ Ghent

Focus: Endoscopy Quality, Tissue resection, Training

Dr Roland Valori
Dr Roland Valori

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Focus: Quality, Colonoscopy training

National Faculty

Professor Raf Bisschops
Professor Raf Bisschops

Consultant Gastroenterologist

University Hospital of Leuven

Focus: Endoscopic imaging, Barrett's oesophagus

Local Faculty

Professor Hans Van Vlierberghe
Professor Hans Van Vlierberghe

Consultant Gastroenterologist

UZ Ghent

Focus: Hepatology and Endoscopy