Entrance to Acropolis Conference Centre

On 27 Sep 2018

Thursday dawned bright at La Palais des Congrès Acropolis as coloproctologists from all over the world headed back to Nice’s old-town for day two of our Annual and Scientific Meeting.

Omar Faiz

On 27 Sep 2018

Chaired by Christianne Buskens (the Netherlands) and Antonia Spinelli (Italy), today’s joint symposium on ulcerative colitis elected many ‘aha moments’ from the audience as they were first challenged to consider the role of surgery in Crohn’s disease recurrence by Andre D’Hoore, who is Professor of Surgery at University Clinic Gasthuisberg in Belgium.

John Alverdy

On 27 Sep 2018

The first keynote speaker at the ESCP Annual Meeting in Nice this year was world renowned expert in microbial pathogenesis of infections which occur post-surgery, Dr John Alverdy, Professor of Surgery and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago. As well as his Executive Vice-Chair of surgery role, he is also co-associate director of the Digestive Disease Research Center Core (DDRCC) and Past President of the Surgical Infection Society (North America).

Acropolis Centre, Nice

On 27 Sep 2018

ESCP 2018 got off to a fantastic start with the most delegates we’ve ever had welcomed to our Annual and Scientific meeting - over 1,700. Again we are proving that there is demand for a quality programme packed with world-class keynote speakers, inspiring symposia, in-depth educational and top class research sessions.

Richard Brady

On 27 Sep 2018

This hugely inspirational session focussed on how the exponential development of technology currently being seen has the potential to revolutionise how we work in the colorectal speciality - from collaboration across borders sharing best practice and extending research, to engaging with patients and harnessing cutting-edge techniques to improve procedures.

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