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On 7 Oct 2015

UEG Week Live is UEG’s new interactive platform which allows you to connect directly to UEG Week Barcelona 2015 (October 24-28), follow over 100 scientific sessions via livestream and post questions directly to the podium from anywhere in the world.

On 23 Sep 2015

Since 2008, ESCP have arranged short visits to centres that are local to the annual conference, with full support from Covidien who provided an educational grant to cover travel expenses and local accommodation. These grants have enabled young surgeons to get a glimpse of operations in another centre/country.

Professor Andrea Coratti

On 10 Sep 2015

At this year’s ESCP meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Professor Andrea Coratti (Chief, Division of Oncological and Robotic General Surgery, Professor at General Surgery School, University of Florence and the University of Siena, Italy), will outline in his Keynote Lecture the role of robotics in colorectal surgery and assess whether it is time for the technology to be more widely adopted in Europe…

Professor Charles Knowles

On 2 Sep 2015

At this year’s ESCP meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Professor Charles Knowles  (Professor of Surgical Research at Queen Mary University of London and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK), will assess the role of sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) for bowel disorders in one of several keynote presentations. In this interview, Professor Knowles discusses the benefits, limitations and evidence supporting its use…

Anvar Makhmodov with colleagues at Leicester General Hospital

On 1 Sep 2015

ESCP offered nine 3-month fellowship opportunities between August 2014 and June 2015, each worth €8,000 and eight of these were taken up. ESCP would like to express their sincere thanks to Ethicon and Medtronic, each company supported three fellows and ESCP supported three too.