ESGE Quality Improvement Committee (QIC)

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

Call for QIC members

Do you wish to become a member of the ESGE Quality Improvement Committee? We are looking for candidates, who are interested and highly motivated to work on revising existing and developing new QIC standards and to promote quality in endoscopy.

In the new term our goal will be to establish standardised reporting system in endoscopy and to work on developing standards for:
- ergonomics in endoscopy
- economics in endoscopy
- cholangioscopy

  • February 15, 2023: Application deadline
  • beginning of March, 2023: Selected members announcement
  • April 19, 2023: Kick-off meeting at ESGE Days 2023

Quality Improvement Committee Chair

Monika Ferlitsch
Monika Ferlitsch (Austria)

Quality Improvement Committee

Miguel Areia (Portugal)
Evelien Dekker (The Netherlands)
Istvan Hritz (Hungary)
Dirk Domagk (Germany)
Michal Kaminski (Poland)
Hey-Long Ching (UK)
Helmut Messmann (Germany)
Cristiano Spada (Italy)
Andrew Veitch (UK)

QIC working groups

Upper GI

Professor Miguel Areia (Portugal)
Dr Vanja Giljaca (UK)
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)
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 Hey-Long Ching (UK)
Professor David Sanders (UK)
Dr Michelle Lau (UK)
Dr Andrew Hopper (UK)
Dr Martin Keuchel (Germany)
Dr Tibor Gyökeres (Hungary)
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)

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