Goran Barisic (Serbia)
Associate Professor of Surgery, First Surgical Clinic, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade
Presentation: Sphincteroplasty today
Gian Andrea Binda (Italy)
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy
Presentation: Diverticular disease - Long term outcomes
Jane Blazeby (UK)
Professor of Surgery at the University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Presentation: The need for consensus, consistency and core outcome sets in clinical trials
Eloy Espin-Basany (Spain)
Chief of Colo-rectal Surgery Unit, Hospital Valle de Hebron, Barcelona (Spain); Professor of Surgery, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Presentation: New techniques for perianal fistula
Frank Frizelle (New Zealand)
Professor of Surgery and Head of University Department of Surgery, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
Presentation: Pelvic surgery for advanced and recurrent rectal cancer - where is the limit? Quality and outcome
Alois Fürst (Germany)
Professor, Department of Surgery, Caritas-Clinic St. Josef, Landshuterstr, Germany
Presentation: Benign rectovaginal fistulas
Pascal Gervaz (Switzerland)
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Clinique de La Colline, Geneva, Switzerland
Presentation: Diverticular disease - Natural history
Torbjörn Holm (Sweden)
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Coloproctology, Centre of Surgical Gastroenterology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Presentation: Pelvic surgery for advanced and recurrent rectal cancer - where is the limit? Technical aspects (including IORT)
Jean Pierre Hugot (France)
Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Paris Diderot University; Head of Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Robert Debré Hospital; Head of Research Unit U843 INSERM, Paris Diderot University
Presentation: Genetics of inflammatory bowel diseases
Njegica Jojic (Serbia)
Professor, Zvezdara Clinical Center, Belgrade
Presentation: Update on Crohn's Disease - Can medical treatment change the natural course of Crohn's disease?
Lilli Lundby (Denmark)
Consultant Surgeon, Department of Surgery P, Aarhus University Hospital
Presentation: Injectable prosthesis and bulking agents
Anna Martling (Sweden)
Associate Professor in Surgery, Senior Consultant Surgeon, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Presentation: Tailored abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer
Neil Mortensen (UK)
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, University of Oxford Medical School and Oxford University Hospitals
Presentation: Update on Crohn’s Disease - Surgery for Recurrent Crohn’s disease
Dion Morton (UK)
Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, Director of Clinical Research at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Deputy Head (Clinical) at the School of Cancer Sciences
Presentation: Neoadjuvant treatment in colon cancer
Tom Øresland (Norway)
Professor, University of Oslo, Akershus University Hospital, Department of GI Surgery
Presentation: Diverticular disease - Emergency surgery
Yves Panis (France)
Head of the Department of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France
Presentation: Prevention and complications of ileopouch anal anastomosis
Gianluca Sampietro
Head of IBD Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, 'Luigi Sacco' University Hospital, Italy
Presentation: Surgical management of severe colorectal Crohn's disease
Thomas Schiedeck (Germany)
Director of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Clinic Ludwigsburg, Teaching Hospital University Heidelberg, Ludwigsburg
Presentation: Haemorrhoids: cut, pexy, ligation: when and how
Yury Shelygin (Russia)
Professor, Chief Colorectal Surgeon of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Director of the State Research Center of Coloproctology
Presentation: Recto-urogenital fistulas - Post radiation and malignant rectovaginal fistulas
Michael J Stamos (USA)
The John E. Connolly Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Presentation: Modern Treatment of Appendicitis
Giorgio Stassi (Italy)
Associate Professor in General Pathology, University of Palermo, Department of Surgical and Oncological Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology Laboratory
Presentation: Colon cancer stem cells: clinical and therapeutic implications.
Paris Tekkis (UK)
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, and Imperial College, London
Presentation: Pelvic surgery for advanced and recurrent rectal cancer - where is the limit? Selection and staging
