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ESGE GOVERNING BOARD

PRESIDENT

Cesare Hassan

Humanitas University
Pieve Emanuele, Milano, Italy
SECRETARY GENERAL

Marianna Arvanitakis

Erasme University Hospital
Brussels, Belgium
TREASURER

Tomáš Hucl

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Prague, Czech Republic
PRESIDENT-ELECT

Raf Bisschops

University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
PAST PRESIDENT

Ian M. Gralnek

Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Emek Medical Center Afula, Israel
COUNCILLOR (MEMBER SOCIETY)

Marc Barthet

Gastroenterology Department Hôpital Nord
Marseille, France
COUNCILLOR (MEMBER SOCIETY)

Torsten Beyna

Evangelisches Krankenhaus Düsseldorf, Teaching Hospital University of Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
P. Bhandari
COUNCILLOR (MEMBER SOCIETY)

Pradeep Bhandari

Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth
Portsmouth, UK
COUNCILLOR (MEMBER SOCIETY)

Mostafa Ibrahim

Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
Cairo, Egypt
COUNCILLOR (MEMBER SOCIETY)
MEMBERSHIP WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Ioannis Papanikolaou

Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Attikon University General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece
COUNCILLOR (INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP)

Deirdre McNamara

Trinity College Dublin & Tallaght University Hospital
Dublin, Ireland
COUNCILLOR (INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP)

Enrique Vázquez Sequeiros

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, University Hospital Ramon y Cajal
Madrid, Spain
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR

Evelien Dekker

Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RESEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIR

Lorenzo Fuccio

S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital
Bologna, Italy
YOUNG ENDOSCOPIST (EYE) COMMITTEE CHAIR

Katarzyna Pawlak

Endoscopy Unit, Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration
Szczecin, Poland
GUIDELINES COMMITTEE CHAIR

Tony C. Tham

Ulster Hospital
Dundonald, Northern Ireland
PUBLIC ADVOCACY COMMITTEE CHAIR

Konstantinos Triantafyllou

UnitAttikon University General Hospital
Athens, Greece
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIR

Jeanin van Hooft

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, The Netherlands
EDUCATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

Theodor Voiosu

Gastroenterology Department at Colentina Clinical Hospital
Bucharest, Romania

Co-opted members of the ESGE Governing Board

PUBLICATION
WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Michael Bretthauer

University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
L. Kunovsky
SOCIAL MEDIA
WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Lumir Kunovsky

University Hospital Olomouc
Olomouc, Czech Republic
Y. Nori
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
CURRICULA
WORKING GROUPS CHAIR

Yuichi Mori

Oslo University Hospital
Oslo, Norway
M. Pioche
GREEN ENDOSCOPY
WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Mathieu Pioche

Hôpital Edouard Herriot
Lyon, France
D. Tate
ACADEMY
WORKING GROUP CHAIR

David Tate

University Hospital Ghent
Ghent, Belgium
H. van Maleinstein
DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION
WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Hannah van Malenstein

University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
P. Siersema
ENDOSCOPY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Jacques Bergman

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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