ESGE Quality Improvement Committee
Strategic aims and responsibilities
- To improve the global quality of gastrointestinal endoscopy, the delivery of patient-centered endoscopy services and promote a unifying theme of quality of gastrointestinal endoscopy
- To assist gastrointestinal endoscopy units and endoscopists in achieving these standards in endoscopic practice
- To review, consolidate and/or update endoscopy quality and performance measures as high-level evidence becomes available
- To facilitate the implementation of ESGE QIC aims
- To disseminate quality and performance measures to ESGE member societies, endoscopy sections of national gastroenterology societies, and ESGE individual members
Quality Improvement Committee Chair
Raf Bisschops (Belgium)
Quality Improvement Committee
Marianna Arvanitakis (Belgium)
Pradeep Bandhari (UK)
Helmut Messmann (Germany)
Miguel Areia (Portugal)
Evelien Dekker (The Netherlands)
Dirk Domagk (Germany)
Michal Kaminski (Poland)
Cristiano Spada (Italy)
Andrew Veitch (UK)
QIC working groups
Upper GI
Professor Miguel Areia (Portugal)
Dr Vanja Giljaca (UK)
Dr Roman Kuvaev (Russia)
Dr Philippe Leclercq (Belgium)
Dr Ashraf Monged (Ireland)
Professor Bas Weusten (The Netherlands)
Lower GI
Professor Michal Kaminski (Poland)
Dr Marek Bugajski (Poland)
Professor Michael Bretthauer (Norway)
Professor Monika Ferlitsch (Austria)
Dr Elisabeth Macken (Belgium)
Dr Mauro Manno (Italy
Dr Silvia Pecere (Italy)
Small bowel
Dr Cristiano Spada (Italy)
Dr Cristina Carretero (Spain)
Dr Edward J. Despott (UK)
Professor Goran Hauser (Croatia)
Dr Martin Keuchel (Germany)
Dr Alberto Murino (UK/Italy)
ERCP/EUS
Professor Dirk Domagk (Germany)
Dr Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
Dr John Gásdal Karstensen (Denmark)
Dr Tibor Gyökeres (Hungary)
Dr Ivan Lyutakov (Bulgaria)
Dr Mahmoud Omar (Kuwait)
Dr Ilaria Tarantino (Italy)
Endoscopy service
Dr Andrew Veitch (UK)
Dr George Cortas (Lebanon)
Dr Paraskevas Gkolfakis (Belgium)
Dr Alba Panarese (Italy)
Dr W. Rogier ten Hove (The Netherlands)
Professor Konstantinos Triantafyllou (Greece)
Endoscopy service - S.A.C.R.E.D team
Dr David Sanders (UK)
Dr Hey-Long Ching (UK)
Dr Michelle Lau (UK)
Dr Andrew Hopper (UK)
Dr Martin Keuchel (Germany)
Dr Tibor Gyökeres (Hungary)
Dr Roman Kuvaev (Russia)
Dr Elisabeth Macken (Belgium)
Professor Pradeep Bhandari (UK)
Dr Andrew Veitch (UK)
IBD endoscopy
Professor Evelien Dekker (The Netherlands)
Dr Nass Karlijn (The Netherlands)
Dr Marek Bugajski (Poland)
Dr Cristina Carretero (Spain)
Dr George Cortas (Lebanon)
Dr Edward J. Despott (UK)
Professor James East (UK)
Professor João Pedro Guedelha Sabino (Belgium)
Professor Marietta Iacucci (UK)
Professor Michal Kaminski (Poland)
Dr John Gásdal Karstensen (Denmark)
Dr Martin Keuchel (Germany)
Dr Lowenberg Mark (The Netherlands)
Dr Ashraf Monged (Ireland)
Dr Alberto Murino (Italy)
Professor Helmut Neumann (Germany)
Dr Mahmoud Omar (Kuwait)
Dr Maria Pellisé (Spain)
Dr Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet (France)