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Rosa Jimènez-Rodrìguez, Chair
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Rosa Jimènez-Rodrìguez
Current position:
Attending at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Professor of Surgery at Universidad de Sevilla
Medical school:
Universidad de Extremadura
General surgical and colorectal training:
General Surgery training at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Fellow in colorectal surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA
Main clinical and research interests:
Colorectal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery
Member of the Membership Committee since:
2021
Additional information:
- PhD Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
- European Board of Surgery Qualification - Coloproctology.
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Stefanie Devriendt, Y-ESCP Representative
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Stefanie Devriendt
Current position
General and colorectal surgeon, ZNA, Antwerp, Belgium (since 2022)
Medical school
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (graduated in 2014)
General surgical and colorectal training
General surgical:
- Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen (ZNA), Antwerp, Belgium (2 years)
- AZ Sint Blasius, Dendermonde, Belgium (2 years) - ETZ, Tilburg, The Netherlands (1 year)
- University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium (1 year)
Colorectal fellowships:
- University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium (1 year)
- Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1 year)
Main clinical and research interests
I am interested in the broad range of colorectal surgery, with a slight preference to IBD and colorectal oncology, but also functional and benign colorectal diseases.
Member of the Membership Committee since
2023
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Najia Azhar, Central Region Representative
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Najia Azhar
Current position
Consultant colorectal surgeon at Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Sweden
Medical school
Lund University (graduated 2005)
General surgical and colorectal training
General Surgery training at Halland sjukhus Halmstad. Colorectal surgery at Skåne University Hospital.
Main clinical and research interests
Diverticular disease, colorectal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery
Member of the Membership Committee since
2025
Additional information
- PhD Lund University 2021
- National Representative Sweden 2020-2023
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Giuseppe Sica, Central Region Representative |
Giuseppe Sica
Current position
Associate professor of surgery and Head of Minimally Invasive and Gastrointestinal Surgery, University and Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Medical school
Sapienza University 1985-1990, 1993-1995 (PhD program; research fellow Harvard and NYU, U.S.A.)
General surgical and colorectal training
Tor Vergata University 1998 Specialist in General Surgery Oxford University Hospitals 2000-2003 G.I. Surgery clinical fellow and consultant surgeon
Main clinical and research interests
Colon cancer and IBD Surgery
Member of the Membership Committee since
2023
Additional information
- Host centre for ESCP fellowship laparoscopic colorectal surgery
- Centre of Excellence Italian Society of colorectal surgery for laparoscopic surgery
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Mustafa Oncel, Eastern Region Representative
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Mustafa Öncel
Current position
Chair, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye, since 2012
Medical school
Istanbul University, Medical School, Istanbul, Türkiye (graduated in 1993)
General surgical and colorectal training
Kartal Education and Research Hospital
Main clinical and research interests
- Colorectal cancer
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
Member of the Membership Committee since
2024
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Tomas Poskus, Eastern Region Representative
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Tomas Poskus
Current position
- Head of abdominal and oncosurgery, Vilnius University Hospital Santara Clinics
- Director of Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University
- Professor of surgery, Vilnius University
Medical school
Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University 1999
General surgical and colorectal training
- General Surgery Residency, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University 2004
- PhD, Vilnius University, 2008
- Clinical fellow, Mayo Clinic, USA 2010
- FEBS Coloproctology, 2018
Main clinical and research interests
- Colon cancer
- Anorectal disorders
Member of the Membership Committee since
2023
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Albert Wolthius, Western Region Representative
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Albert Wolthius
Current position
Staff member at the Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospital Leuven (since 2011)
Medical school
Graduated medical school, KU Leuven, cum laude (2002)
General surgical and colorectal training
Became a general surgeon in 2008 and further trained in abdominal surgery with specialisation in colorectal surgery.
Main clinical and research interests
- Minimally invasive colorectal surgery (NOSE, CME)
- IBD
- Transanal approaches (TaTME, TAMIS, Ta-IPAA)
- Reoperative (pelvic) surgery
- Debulking
- HIPEC
Member of the Membership Committee since
2023
Additional information
- He defended his PhD titled ‘New strategies to improve outcome after colorectal surgery’ in 2015.
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
- Passed the European Board of Surgical Qualification exam for Coloproctology and for Surgical Oncology
- EBSQ honorary fellow in minimally-invasive surgery
- Secretary General of the Belgian Group for Endoscopic Surgery
- Board member of the Belgian Society of ColoRectal Surgery
- Regular reviewer for many surgical journals and is associate editor for the Acta Chirurgica Belgica, for Colorectal Disease and for the European Journal of Surgical Oncology
- (Co-)authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters.
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Johannes Kurt Schultz, Eastern Region Representative
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Johannes Kurt Schultz
Current position
Consultant colorectal surgeon at Akershus University Hospital and Oslo University Hospital, and Associate professor at the University of Oslo Norway
Medical school
Graduated in 2002 at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany
General surgical and colorectal training
- Molde General Hospital, Norway and Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Board certified general and colorectal surgeon since 2014
Main clinical and research interests
- IBD
- Colorectal cancer
- Diverticular disease
- Quality control registries and registry based clinical trials
Member of the Membership Committee since
2024
Additional information
He defended his PhD thesis 'Surgical aspects of diverticular disease of the colon' in 2018. He has been a certified Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons in Coloproctology since 2019. Since 2021 section editor for colorproctology at the Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, Member of the editorial board of Colorectal Disease.
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