ESGE Quality Improvement Committee (QIC)
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
ESGE QIC Quality Check APP
List of ESGE QIC Publications
Quality Improvement Committee Chair
Monika Ferlitsch (Austria)
Quality Improvement Committee working groups
Small bowel
Professor Reena Sidhu (United Kingdom) - WG chair
Dr Cristina Carretero (Spain)
Professor Goran Hauser (Croatia)
Professor Martin Keuchel Germany)
Dr Mark Löwenberg (Netherlands)
Professor João Sabino (Belgium)
Professor Cristiano Spada (Italy)
Dr Edward J. Despott (United Kingdom)
Professor Xavier Dray (France)
Dr Anastasios Koulaouzidis (Denmark)
Professor Deirdre McNamara (Ireland)
Dr Alessandro Mussetto (Italy)
Dr Stefanie Zammit (Malta)
Upper GI
Professor Miguel Areia (Portugal) - WG chair
Professor Raf Bisschops (Belgium)
Dr Shimaa Afify (Egypt)
Dr Pedro G. Delgado Guillena (Spain)
Dr Gianluca Esposito (Italy)
Dr Raul Honrubia López (Spain)
Dr Philippe Leclercq (Belgium)
Dr Ashraf Monged (Ireland)
Dr Alba Panarese (Italy)
Dr Lix Alfredo Reis De Oliveira (Brazil)
Dr Marcin Romańczyk (Poland)
Eduardo J. Ruiz Ballesteros (Mexico)
Dr Hugo Ikuo Uchima Koecklin (Spain)
Dr Jasmin Zessner-Spitzenberg (Austria)
Lower GI
Dr Marek Bugajski (Poland) - WG chair
Professor Michael Bretthauer (Norway)
Dr Marco Bustamante (Spain)
Dr Francesco Buttitta (Italy)
Professor Evelien Dekker (The Netherlands)
Dr Anna Forsberg (Sweden)
Professor Marietta Iacucci (Ireland)
Dr Vadym Korpiak (Ukraine)
Dr Alberto Murino (UK/Italy)
Professor Helmut Neumann (Germany)
Professor Maria Pellise (Spain)
Dr Marco Spadaccini (Italy)
Professor Michael Vieth (Germany)
Dr Elisabeth Waldmann (Austria)
Professor Benjamin Walter (Germany)
Endoscopy services
Dr Hey-Long Ching (UK) - WG chair
Professor Pradeep Bhandari (United Kingdom)
Dr Sara Campos (Portugal)
Dr George Cortas (Lebanon)
Dr Balint Eross (Hungary)
Dr Carlo Fabbri (Italy)
Dr Andrew Hopper (United Kingdom)
Dr Michelle Lau (United Kingdom)
Dr Thomas Lux (Germany)
Dr Elisabeth Macken (Belgium)
Dr Neasa Mc Gettigan (Ireland)
Dr Antonio Mendoza Ladd (United States)
Dr Oluwatosin Oguntoye (Nigeria)
Dr Mahmoud Omar (Kuwait)
Dr Konstantina Paraskeva (Greece)
Dr Jayanta Samanta (India)
Dr Thomas Vasilakis (Germany)
EUS
Dr John Gásdal Karstensen (Denmark) - WG chair
Dr Wafaa Ahmed (United Kingdom)
Dr Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
Professor Dirk Domagk (Germany)
Dr Marcus Hollenbach Germany)
Dr Evangelos Kalaitzakis (Greece)
Dr Jan-Werner Poley (The Netherlands)
Dr Suzane Ribeiro (Belgium)
Professor Andrada Seicean (Romania)
Dr Ilaria Tarantino (Italy)
ERCP
Dr Paraskevas Gkolfakis (Belgium) - WG chair
Dr Tiago Cúrdia Gonçalves (Portugal)
Dr László Czakó (Hungary)
Dr Tibor Gyökeres (Hungary)
Dr Manol Jovani (United States)
Dr Krzysztof Kurek (Poland)
Dr Ivan Lyutakov (Bulgaria)
Dr Mauro Manno (Italy
Dr Christoph Schlag (Switzerland)
Dr Jimil Shah (India)
Dr Christophe Snauwaert (Belgium)
Professor Subbaramiah Sridhar (United States)
Dr Salih Tokmak (Turkey)