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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 dissimenate the ESGE´s Key Performance Metrics 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 and measure the implementation of ESGE´s Key Performance Metrics.
Join our unique recognition programme ESGE Commitment to Enhancing Quality and receive a certificate
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR

Evelien Dekker

Dept. of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WORKING GROUP: SMALL BOWEL

Reena Sidhu (United Kingdom) - WG chair

Cristina Carretero (Spain)
Martin Keuchel (Germany)
João Sabino (Belgium)
Cristiano Spada (Italy)
Edward J. Despott (United Kingdom)
Xavier Dray (France)
Anastasios Koulaouzidis (Denmark)
Deirdre McNamara (Ireland)
Alessandro Mussetto (Italy)
Emanuele Rondonotti (Italy)
Stefanie Zammit (Malta)

WORKING GROUP: UPPER GI

Miguel Areia (Portugal) - WG chair
Raf Bisschops (Belgium)
Shimaa Afify (Egypt)
Pedro G. Delgado Guillena (Spain)
Gianluca Esposito (Italy)
Raul Honrubia López (Spain)
Philippe Leclercq (Belgium)
Ashraf Monged (Ireland)
Alba Panarese (Italy)
Lix Alfredo Reis De Oliveira (Brazil)
Marcin Romańczyk (Poland)
Eduardo J. Ruiz Ballesteros (Mexico)
Hugo Ikuo Uchima Koecklin (Spain)
Jasmin Zessner-Spitzenberg (Austria)

WORKING GROUP: LOWER GI

Marek Bugajski (Poland) - WG chair
Michael Bretthauer (Norway)
Marco Bustamante (Spain)
Francesco Buttitta (Italy)
Evelien Dekker (The Netherlands)
Bernard Denis (France)
Anna Forsberg (Sweden)
Marietta Iacucci (Ireland)
Alberto Murino (UK/Italy)
Maria Pellise (Spain)
Alessandro Rimondi (Italy)
Marco Spadaccini (Italy)
Michael Vieth (Germany)
Elisabeth Waldmann (Austria)
Benjamin Walter (Germany)

WORKING GROUP: ENDOSCOPY SERVICES

Gianluca Esposito (Italy) - WG chair

Ergonomics Taskforce (TF)
Thomas Vasilakis (Germany) - TF chair
Pradeep Bhandari (United Kingdom)
George Cortas (Lebanon)
Mahmoud Omar (Kuwait)
Michelle Lau (United Kingdom)
Jayanta Samanta (India)

Economics Taskforce (TF)
Christos Konstantakis  (Greece)- TF chair
Sara Campos (Portugal)
Carlo Fabbri (Italy)
Giulia Gibiino (Italy)
Elisabeth Macken (Belgium)
Antonio Mendoza Ladd (United States)
Konstantina Paraskeva (Greece)
Anupam Rej (United Kingdom)

Reporting Taskforce (TF)
Gianluca Esposito (Italy) - TF chair
Hey-Long Ching (United Kingdom)
Balint Eross (Hungary)
Andrew Hopper (United Kingdom)
Thomas Lux (Germany)
Neasa McGettigan (Ireland)
Oluwatosin Oguntoye (Nigeria)
David Tai (United Kingdom)

WORKING GROUP: ERCP

Paraskevas Gkolfakis (Belgium) - WG chair
Tiago Cúrdia Gonçalves (Portugal)
László Czakó (Hungary)
Tibor Gyökeres (Hungary)
Manol Jovani (United States)
Krzysztof Kurek (Poland)
Ivan Lyutakov (Bulgaria)
Mauro Manno (Italy)
Christoph Schlag (Switzerland)
Jimil Shah (India)
Christophe Snauwaert (Belgium)
Subbaramiah Sridhar (United States)
Salih Tokmak (Turkey)

WORKING GROUP: EUS

John Gásdal Karstensen (Denmark) - WG chair
Wafaa Ahmed (United Kingdom)
Andrea Anderloni (Italy)
Dirk Domagk (Germany)
Marcus Hollenbach Germany)
Evangelos Kalaitzakis (Greece)
Jan-Werner Poley (The Netherlands)
Suzane Ribeiro (Belgium)
Andrada Seicean (Romania)
Ilaria Tarantino (Italy)

WORKING GROUP: SEDATION

Reena Sidhu (UK) - WG chair
Ulrike Beilenhoff (Germany)
Giuliano Francesco Bonura (Italy)
Luca Elli (Italy)
Anastasios Koulaouzidis (Denmark)
Bojan Kovacevic (Denmark)
Alessandro Mussetto (Italy)
Arianna Parrella (Italy)
Philip Roelandt(Belgium)
Mohamed Shiha (United Kingdom)
Salih Tokmak (Türkiye)
Francesco Vito Mandarino (Italy)
Jasmin Zessner-Spitzenberg (Austria)


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