Keynote-föreläsare
Simon Lal - Hedersföreläsning Bengt Ihre: Development of intestinal failure
Onsdag 20 maj 11.30-12.15
Simon Lal is a Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Manchester and the Clinical Director of one of the U.K.’s two National Intestinal Failure Reference Centres at Salford Care Organisation. His clinical and academic interests include Intestinal Failure, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Clinical Nutrition. He is co-chair of the Chronic Intestinal Failure Special Interest Group of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and has been a member of numerous other national and international committees, including United European Gastroenterology, British Society of Gastroenterology and National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence.
He trained in Gastroenterology in the U.K. and Toronto, Canada, attaining a PhD in Nutritional Physiology from the University of Manchester in 2002, and has been a Consultant Gastroenterologist since 2006. With an h-index of 55, he has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, as well as book chapters and invited reviews. He is associate editor of the current edition of Intestinal Failure, the principal textbook in the field. He holds an honorary professorship at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and has an academic appointment at the Karolinska Institute.
Simon has led or co-authored multiple national and international guidelines in clinical nutrition and intestinal failure. Having been a lead medical advisor to the U.K.’s Department of Health in the national procurement of Intestinal Failure Centres, he also recently led the publication of inaugural quality standards in intestinal failure, aimed at advising international clinical teams and policymakers on the development of centralised specialised services. He has hosted ESPEN’s annual international intestinal failure workshop since 2013, with multi-disciplinary attendance from across the world. As a founding member of the ‘Leading Intestinal Failure Equality’ initiative of the European Nutrition Health Alliance, he is also working with clinicians and patient organisations aiming to improve equity of access to specialised intestinal failure services across Europe and raise global awareness of the ‘forgotten organ failure’.
Giovanni Barbara - "State of the art #1" What is wrong in IBS? The gut, the brain, or both?
Torsdag 21 maj 14.05-14.50
Giovanni Barbara is Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is currently Chair of Gastroenterology Unit and Internal Medicine and digestive pathophysiology unit. He graduated summa cum laude in medicine at the University of Bologna. He subsequently qualified in internal medicine and then gastroenterology at thesame University. He was trained partly in London, UK and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in neuro-immunology at McMaster University, Canada. Currently, he coordinates a large group scientists involved in the fields of clinical gastroenterology, advanced endoscopy, teaching and clinical as well as translational research.
Professor Barbara’s main research interests relate to basic and clinical aspects of disorders of gut-brain interaction and neurogastroenterology. He has authored indexed peerreviewed articles on these topics, published in various biomedical journals, including Gastroenterology and Gut. He is, or has been, a member of the Editorial Boards of amongst others Gastroenterology and Neurogastroenterology and Motility. Professor Barbara has received national and international awards including those from the American Gastroenterological Association and the Functional Brain Gut Research Group.
He is currently member of the Board of Directors of the Rome Foundation, Past-President of the European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (ESNM) and currently Chair of the Gut Microbiota and Health Section of ESNM.”
Eveline Dekker - "State of the art #2" High quality colonoscopy in 2026 - how, where, and when?
Fredag 22 maj 10.15-11.00
Evelien Dekker, born 2-2-1967, is a gastroenterologist and Professor in GI Oncology at the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology of the Amsterdam University Medical Center and at the University of Amsterdam.
She joined the AMC-staff in 2005. She became head of the multidisciplinary clinic for hereditary colorectal cancer and medical director of an expert colonoscopy center linked to the AMC. Besides her clinical work in endoscopy and patient care, she leads a research group focusing on population screening and surveillance for colorectal cancer, quality and new techniques in colonoscopy, and familial cancer and polyposis syndromes.
She has chaired and participated in multiple national and international guidelines, is actively involved in the Dutch national screening program for colorectal cancer and is currently global chair of the WEO CRC screening committee.
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Deadline tidig avgift: 5 mars 2026
20-22 maj 2026 Gastrodagarna i Göteborg
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