ESGE Newsletter

The 15th United Gastroenterology Week in France attracted an overwhelming number of participants, and proved how keen the interest in discourse and knowledge exchange on gastroenterologic topics is on an international level. The lively interest in the live video sessions and all of the offerings in the ESGE Learning Area, especially the talks in the Lecture Theatre and the Hands-on-Training on Biologic Models, is rewarding evidence that the ESGE plays an active role in promoting good endoscopy in Europe.

Postgraduate Teaching Programme

For the first time this year the Postgraduate Teaching Programme was developed jointly be ESGE, EASL, EAGE, ECCO, EDS, ESGAR and others. The ESGE was responsible for the endoscopic section of the teaching programme and stages parallel sessions on Saturday and Sunday, with Dr Jean-Francois Rey as course director. They included live demonstrations via satellite from the Hospital Ambroise Paré in Marseille, keynote lectures from leading experts in their fields, and an interactive course on Endoscopic Advances in Stenting and IBD.

ESGE Hands-On Training (HOT) on Biologic Models

The awareness of the ESGE hands-on training on Sunday at the UEGW was overwhelming and shows this activity has established itself as a core offering of the ESGE Learning Area. Here Lászlò Madácsy, Hungary and Brigitte Koch, Switzerland, guiding delegates through the procedures at the hemostasis station.

As in Berlin and Copenhagen the years before, hands-on training was offered in four 90 minute sessions on Sunday of the opening weekend at the UEGW. The ECE Training team from Erlangen, volunteer endoscopy experts from throughout Europe, nurses from ESGENA, as well as technicians from Olympus, Boston Scientific, Wilson Cook and ERBE, joined forces to create a high impact educational event for all the over 300 eager participants attracted to the training centre.

EURO-NOTES Foundation: Olympus Research Fund grant winners

Successful grant applicants at the ESGE General Assembly in Paris where the winners were announced: (left to right): T. Rösch, A. Fritscher-Ravens, P. Deprez, M. Bergström, P.-O. Park, M. Pérez-Miranda, P. Fockens, O. Le Moine

The EURO-NOTES Foundation is a joint undertaking of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and focuses on all activities regarding Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES). Goal of this foundation is to support original research efforts designed to advance the art and signs of NOTES and patients safety.

EAES and ESGE are pleased to announce that the following persons have been awarded the EURO-NOTES Olympus Research Fund grant.

We would like to express our gratitude and thanks for Olympus's generous contribution which enabled us to realize this project.

Twelve of the forty-eight complete applications received grants ranging between EUR 10,000 and EUR 50,00:

Professor W. Bemelman, Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Professor P. Deprez, Clin. University Saint Luc - Brussels, Belgium
Professor P. Fockens, Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. A. Fritscher-Ravens, Homerton University Hospital - London, United Kingdom
Professor K. H. Fuchs, Markus Krankenhaus - Frankfurt (Main), Germany
Dr. M. Hagen, University Hospital Geneva - Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. A. Ibarzabal Olano, Hospital Clinic - Barcelona, Spain
Dr. O. Le Moine, ULB-Hôpital Erasme - Brussels, Belgium
Dr. P. O. Park, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra - Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr. M. Pérez-Miranda, Hospital del Río Hortega - Valladolid, Spain
Professor T. Rösch, Charité University Hospitals Berlin - Berlin, Germany
Dr. E. Vazquez-Sequeiros, University Hospital Ramón y Cajal - Madrid, Spain

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