ESGE Governing Board
The "motor" of the society, the ESGE Governing Board convenes three times per year. Creating avenues for cooperation with affiliated societies and partners in the industry, the board also oversees individual committees and administers the finances of the society.
PRESIDENT: Paul Fockens
- Professor and Chair of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Academic Medical Center
- University of Amsterdam
- PO Box 22700
- 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Tel.: +31.20.5663534, Fax: +31.20.6917033
- p.fockens@amc.nl

PRESIDENT ELECT: Lars Aabakken
- Professor of Medicine, GI Endoscopy
- Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet
- 0027 OSLO, Norway
- larsaa@medisin.uio.no

PAST PRESIDENT: Horst Neuhaus
- Professor of Internal Medicine
- Dpt. of Internal Medicine
- Evangelisches Krankenhaus Düsseldorf
- Kirchfeldstr. 40
- 40217 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Tel.: +49-211-919 1605, Fax: +49-211-919 3960
- horst.neuhaus@evk-duesseldorf.de

VICE PRESIDENT: Alessandro Zambelli
- Professor Alessandro Zambelli
- Head of Medical Department
- Head of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit
- Ospedale Maggiore di Crema
- Largo Ugo Dossena 2
- 26013 Crema, Italy
- Tel.: +39-0373-280320, Fax: +39-0373-280654
- a.zambelli@hcrema.it

SECRETARY GENERAL: Thierry Ponchon
- Hopital Edouard Herriot
- Dept. of Digestive Diseases
- Place d`Arsonval
- 69437 Lyon, France
- Tel.: +33-4-7211 0146, Fax: +33-4-7211 0147
- thierry.ponchon@chu-lyon.fr

TREASURER: Soren Meisner
- Head of Endoscopy Unit
- Bispebjerg Hospital
- Bispebjerg Bakke 23, Entr. 7B Parterre
- 2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark
- Tel.: +4535313534, Fax: +4535316475
- Soeren.Meisner@regionh.dk

EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Mario Dinis-Ribeiro
- Servico de Gastrenterologia
- Instituto Portugues de Oncologia 'Francisco Gentil'
- Rua Dr Antonio Bernardino de Almeida
- 4200-072 Porto, Portugal
- Tel.: +351 96 176 0991, Fax: +351-96-508-4055
- mdinisribeiro@gmail.com

COUNCILLOR: Maryam Salem Al Khatry
- Head of gastroenterology department
- IBHOH and RAK hospital
- Ras Al Khaimah
- United Arab Emirates
- Tel. 0009717 -2223555 ext 581
- dr.maryam.alkhatry@gmail.com

COUNCILLOR: Dr Tibor Gyökeres
- Chair of Division
- Department of Gastroenterology
- Military Hospital
- Podmaniczky 111
- 1062 Budapest
- Hungary
- Tel. +36-30-20172377
- tiborgyokeres@freemail.hu

COUNCILLOR: Michael Häfner
- Head Department of Internal Medicine
- St. Elisabeth Hospital
- Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 4a
- 1030 Vienna
- Austria
- Tel. +43 1 711 26 28
- michael.haefner@me.com

COUNCILLOR: Dr Tomas Hucl
- Vice-chairman
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Videnska 9
- 14021 Prague
- Czech Republic
- Tel. +420 261364016
- tomas.hucl@ikem.cz

COUNCILLOR: Matt Rutter
- Consultant Gastroenterologist
- University Hospital of North Tees
- Hardwick
- TS19 8PE Stockton-on-Tees
- UK
- Tel. +44 1642 624557
- matt.rutter@nth.nhs.uk

ESGE IM REPRESENTATIVE: Marc Giovannini
- Head of the endoscopy department
- Institut Paoli-Calmettes
- Department of Endoscopy
- BP156
- 13273 Marseille Cedex 9, France
- Tel.: +33 4 9122 3568, Fax: +33 4 91 22 3552
- giovanninim@ipc.unicancer.fr

COUNCILLOR: Olivier Le Moine
- Head of Endoscopy Unit
- Department of Gastroenterology
- Erasme University Hospital
- 808, route de lennik
- 1070 Brussels, Belgium
- Tel.: +32-23873125, Fax: +32-2555 4697
- olivier.lemoine@erasme.ulb.ac.be

ENDOSCOPY JOURNAL: Thomas Rösch
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Zentrale Interdisziplinäre Endoskopie
- Haus Ost (O52)
- Martinistr. 52
- 20246 Hamburg, Germany
- Tel.: +49-40-741050098, Fax: +49-30-450-553 902
- t.roesch@uke.de

