Introducing iNOAA, Wolverine, and SELSA studies
Monday 16 December 2024, 12:00 GMT / 13:00 CET
In our 14th Global Reach webinar, we look ahead to new studies in abdominal and rectal surgery:
- interNational Open Abdomen Audit (iNOAA) - Deepak Vijayan (United Kingdom)
- Wound closure and SSI prevention in abdominal surgery with long term follow-up (Wolverine) - Gabrielle van Ramshorst (Belgium)
- Selective defunctioning stoma approach in low anterior resection for rectal cancer (SELSA) - Martin Rutegård (Sweden)
Speaker profiles
Deepak Vijayan
to follow.
Gabrielle van Ramshorst
Gabrielle van Ramshorst is a consultant colorectal surgeon at Ghent University Hospital and associate professor at Ghent University in Belgium. She studied at Leiden University in The Netherlands and spent part of her training in Sweden, Ghana and in Surinam. After obtaining her PhD degree, she undertook surgical training at Amsterdam UMC. During her fellowship - funded by the Dutch Cancer Society - she was trained in colorectal surgery, gynaecological oncology and urologic oncology at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam UMC and at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
She leads several projects on abdominal wound closure and surgical site infection prevention as a member of the Research Committee and Cohort Studies Committee of the European Society for Coloproctology (ESCP). She is the lead for ESCP’s Diversity Working Group, the current vice-chair for the International Committee of the Society for Surgical Oncology (SSO), and a member of the Education Committee of the European Network for Young Gynaecological Oncologists (ENYGO).
Martin Rutegård
Martin Rutegård is a colorectal consultant and adjunct professor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden.
His main clinical interests include robotic-assisted colorectal cancer surgery and pelvic exenteration, while anastomotic leakage after anterior resection comprises his research focus.
This webinar will be translated simultaneously into Spanish.
