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Ana Wilson
Consultant Gastroenterologist, -
Antonino Spinelli
Unit of Colon and Rectal Surgery & Associate Professor, Humanitas University. -
Bruce Jaffray
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Newcastle -
Christianne Buskens
Surgeon, Amsterdam UMC -
Dominic Slade
Consultant Surgeon, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust -
Gabriela Möslein
Professor, Academic Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf -
Gordon Carlson CBE
Professor of Surgery, University of Manchester -
James Kinross
Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Imperial College London -
Justin Davies
Deputy Medical Director, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cambridge -
Malcolm Dunlop
Professor and Consultant Surgeon, University of Edinburgh -
Melanie Gunn
Consultant Gastroenterology, Newcastle Trust Hospitals -
Neil Mortensen
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, University of Oxford Medical School -
Nicola Fearnhead
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cambridge -
Pär Myrelid
Associate Professor, Linköping University Hospital -
Phil Tozer
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Pieter Tanis
Professor of Surgery, University of Amsterdam -
Richard Brady
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle Hospitals -
Steve Brown
Professor of Surgery, University of Sheffield -
Sue Clark
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital -
Talvinder Singh Gill
Consultant colorectal surgeon, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust -
Thomas Pinkney
George Drexler & Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials, University of Birmingham. Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospitals Birmingham -
Tim Hoare
Consultant Radiologist
Ana Wilson
Consultant Gastroenterologist,
Dr Ana Wilson is a luminal gastroenterologist and specialist gastrointestinal endoscopist. Her specialist interests include early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of pre-cancerous lesions and cancer, through colonoscopy, in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and those at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer. Dr Wilson specialises in advanced endoscopic imaging and complex therapeutic endoscopy.
Dr Wilson qualified from University of Oxford in 2002 where she completed her registrar training. Her research into colonoscopy technique at the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy led to MD (Res). She has published on surveillance in IBD and has been an invited speaker on the topic nationally and internationally. Her current research interests includes patient decision making in IBD and dysplasia.
Antonino Spinelli
Unit of Colon and Rectal Surgery & Associate Professor, Humanitas University.
Prof. Antonino Spinelli MD PhD FASCRS leads the Unit of Colon and Rectal Surgery and is Associate Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University.
He dedicates to the development of innovative techniques in minimally invasive colorectal surgery.
He is Associate Editor for Colorectal Disease, Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, JARC, and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Crohn’s Colitis and for Coloproctology.
He is Member of the Scientific Programme Committee of ESCP, Assistant Secretary of ESCP, Member of IOIBD and of ISFGS.
He is Honorary Fellow of the Czech Society of Surgery and Honorary Member of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery.
He authored/co-authored more than 120 Pubmed indexed papers, with an IF > 450 and an H Index of 33.
He dedicates to the development of innovative techniques in minimally invasive colorectal surgery.
He is Associate Editor for Colorectal Disease, Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, JARC, and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Crohn’s Colitis and for Coloproctology.
He is Member of the Scientific Programme Committee of ESCP, Assistant Secretary of ESCP, Member of IOIBD and of ISFGS.
He is Honorary Fellow of the Czech Society of Surgery and Honorary Member of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery.
He authored/co-authored more than 120 Pubmed indexed papers, with an IF > 450 and an H Index of 33.
Bruce Jaffray
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Newcastle
Bruce Jaffray is a paediatric surgeon in Newcastle with an interest in surgery for inflammatory bowel disease in children, and minimally invasive pouch surgery in particular. He has published on the subjects of complications of pouch surgery, the use of minimally invasive pouch surgery and survival after anti-reflux surgery among other areas in children’s surgery. His topic for today will be safe minimally invasive surgery for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in children.
Christianne Buskens
Surgeon, Amsterdam UMC
Christianne Buskens finished her surgical training in 2009. Afterwards, she has been working as a colorectal fellow specializing in proctology and laparoscopic surgery at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, funded by the Dutch Cancer Organization. To combine clinical practice with quality research, she also completed a masters in epidemiology. Since 2012, she is working as a staff surgeon at the Amsterdam UMC. Here, her field of interest changed from oncology to IBD. Nowadays, she is a specialized IBD-surgeon treating this fascinating disease in all its complexity, Her research group focuses on clinical trials directly comparing surgery to medical treatment (LIRIC, PISA, ACCURE), and translational research where she is analyzing the role of the mesentery in Crohn’s disease, and he role of the appendix in ulcerative colitis.
Dominic Slade
Consultant Surgeon, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Dominic Slade is a Consultant colorectal and intestinal failure surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
He graduated from Birmingham University in 1992, and undertook his surgical training in Manchester and the North West. He was appointed to his present post in 2006, where he works as a general, colorectal and intestinal failure surgeon with interests in laparoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, complex abdominal wall reconstruction and emergency general surgery. With his four surgical colleagues he offers reconstructive surgery for inflammatory bowel disease and intestinal failure resulting especially from surgical misadventure. This includes combined gastrointestinal and abdominal wall reconstruction for patients with enterocutaneous fistulas.
He graduated from Birmingham University in 1992, and undertook his surgical training in Manchester and the North West. He was appointed to his present post in 2006, where he works as a general, colorectal and intestinal failure surgeon with interests in laparoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, complex abdominal wall reconstruction and emergency general surgery. With his four surgical colleagues he offers reconstructive surgery for inflammatory bowel disease and intestinal failure resulting especially from surgical misadventure. This includes combined gastrointestinal and abdominal wall reconstruction for patients with enterocutaneous fistulas.
Gabriela Möslein
Professor, Academic Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf
Professor Gabriela Möslein MD PhD EBSQ (Coloproctology) leads the Surgical Center for Hereditary Tumors and Prophylactic Surgery of the Ev. Bethesda Khs. Duisburg, Academic Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf. She is a specialized visceral surgeon and is dedicated to hereditary predisposition to GI cancers and prophylactic surgery.
She trained at the University of Heidelberg and Düsseldorf, spent 6 months working with Prof. Joji Utsunomiya in Japan and also undertook a full time research year at the Dept of Molecular Genetics (Steve Thibodeau) Mayo Clinic Rochester. She is associate editor for Familial Cancer and Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice.
She is current General Secretary of the ESCP, Chair of the EHTG (European Hereditary Tumor Group) and has initiated and is in the advisory board of several patient support groups. Further she has initated an ESC course on continent ileostomies – a procedure that is experiencing a true revival and this will be the topic of her presentation on this day.
Gordon Carlson CBE
Professor of Surgery, University of Manchester
Gordon Carlson is Consultant Colorectal and Intestinal Failure (IF) Surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital and Honorary Professor of Surgery at the University of Manchester. He is lead surgeon at the National IF Centre in Salford. He trained in Manchester and Newcastle, but has held numerous visiting appointments in Scandinavia, where he has been involved in the development of IF services, as well as in North America and Canada. He has published 200 papers and book chapters and was previously national advisor on surgery for IF at NHS England. He represents the RCS on the NHS Cross Systems Sepsis Board and is very proud to have been invited to take over the Presidency of IA this year.
James Kinross
Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Imperial College London
James Kinross is a Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery and a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College London. His clinical interest is in minimally invasive and robotic surgery for colorectal cancer. He was a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer in Surgery and an Ethicon Laparoscopic Fellow in Colorectal Surgery. He was awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England training fellowship during his PhD on the gut microbiome and he was funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences as an early stage lecturer. He is a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and at the African Microbiome Institute. His group is studying how the gut microbiome causes IBD and colorectal cancer and how it may be engineered to improve operative outcomes.
Justin Davies
Deputy Medical Director, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cambridge
Malcolm Dunlop
Professor and Consultant Surgeon, University of Edinburgh
Professor Malcolm Dunlop FRCS FRSE FMedSci
University of Edinburgh Professor and Group Leader in MRC Human Genetics Unit. Since 2000, Chair of Coloproctology and Academic Head of the Colorectal Surgery Unit, Western General Hospital. Active laboratory research program focused around understanding the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer risk. He aims to define the functional consequences and intervene with beneficial effect on survival and/or prevention through gene discovery in human populations and genetic manipulations in model systems. Clinical work focused on cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. The Department is one of the highest volume centres in the UK. The Edinburgh pouch database has ~1000 patients with long term follow up. MGD contributed as member/author of the 2020 BSG IBD guidelines group.
University of Edinburgh Professor and Group Leader in MRC Human Genetics Unit. Since 2000, Chair of Coloproctology and Academic Head of the Colorectal Surgery Unit, Western General Hospital. Active laboratory research program focused around understanding the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer risk. He aims to define the functional consequences and intervene with beneficial effect on survival and/or prevention through gene discovery in human populations and genetic manipulations in model systems. Clinical work focused on cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. The Department is one of the highest volume centres in the UK. The Edinburgh pouch database has ~1000 patients with long term follow up. MGD contributed as member/author of the 2020 BSG IBD guidelines group.
Melanie Gunn
Consultant Gastroenterology, Newcastle Trust Hospitals
Consultant Gastroenterologist in Newcastle Trust Hospitals for 15 years. Specialist interests IBD, small bowel diseases, anaemia and GI bleeding. I sub-specialize in IBD in the pregnant patients, running a combined service over the last 4 years with a consultant Obstetric Colleague.
Neil Mortensen
Professor of Colorectal Surgery, University of Oxford Medical School
Professor Neil Mortensen MA, MB.ChB, MD, FRCS Eng, Hon FRCS Glas, Hon FRCS Ed, Hon FRCSI, Hon FACS
Neil Mortensen is Professor of Colorectal Surgery in the University of Oxford Medical School and has been on the staff of the Oxford University Hospitals since 1987. He is Fellow of Green Templeton College.
He trained in Birmingham, Bristol and St Mark’s Hospital and has clinical and research interests in a wide range of colorectal diseases. He has published over 400 original papers, 35 book chapters and has edited 8 books. He is Past Chair of the British Journal of Surgery Society, President of the Ileostomy Association, and has been Past President of the Association of Coloproctology GBI and the Coloproctology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is Past Editor in Chief of Colorectal Disease. He is Vice President RCS Eng
Nicola Fearnhead
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cambridge
President of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
Co-Editor of 2017 ACPGBI Ileoanal Pouch Report
Co-Editor of 2018 ACPGBI Guidelines in IBD Surgery
Research interest in perianal Crohn’s disease (ENiGMA Collaboration)
Faculty of IBD Patient Research Days
Healthcare Professional Advisory Board of Crohn’s and Colitis UK
Co-Editor of 2017 ACPGBI Ileoanal Pouch Report
Co-Editor of 2018 ACPGBI Guidelines in IBD Surgery
Research interest in perianal Crohn’s disease (ENiGMA Collaboration)
Faculty of IBD Patient Research Days
Healthcare Professional Advisory Board of Crohn’s and Colitis UK
Pär Myrelid
Associate Professor, Linköping University Hospital
Graduated from the Karolinska Institute. Trained in surgery and colorectal surgery at Linköping University Hospital. PhD thesis on immunomodualtion an surgery in Crohn’s disease. Post doc and clinical IBD fellow in Oxford. Previous head of the colorectal unit in Linköping and previous memeber of the board of the Swedish Society of Gastroenterolgy and previous president of the Swedish Society of Colorectal Surgery. Member of the S-ECCO board and president of the Swedish Organisation of IBD studies (SOIBD) and the Swedish IBD Register (SWIBREG).
Phil Tozer
Phil leads the Fistula Research Unit at St Mark’s and has clinical and research interests in anal, rectovaginal, pouch, IBD-related and anastomotic fistula. His work includes complex IBD and post disaster surgery including deep pelvic sepsis and chronic anastomotic failure. He has published widely in anal fistula, particularly in Crohn’s disease.
Pieter Tanis
Professor of Surgery, University of Amsterdam
Pieter Tanis (1975) became a consultant surgeon at the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC in 2010. In 2019, he was appointed as a Professor of Surgery, in particular colorectal surgery, at the University of Amsterdam. His clinical and research focus is colorectal cancer, both primary tumour and metastatic disease, as well as prevention and treatment of complications after pelvic surgery. Furthermore, he is involved in the teams of intestinal failure, gynaecologic oncology, and inflammatory bowel disease. Minimally invasive surgery is an important aspect of his clinical work. He has published over 200 articles in peer reviewed journals and is principle investigator of several trials.
Richard Brady
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle Hospitals
Steve Brown
Professor of Surgery, University of Sheffield
Professor of Surgery University of Sheffield. Interests in IBD surgery.
Sue Clark
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s Hospital
Professor Sue Clark MD FRCS(Gen Surg) EBSQ(Coloproctology) trained at the University of Cambridge, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and in the South West Thames Region, as well as undertaking a period of full time research as an Imperial Cancer Research Fund fellow. She is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, UK and Professor of Practice (Colorectal Surgery) at Imperial College, London. Additional roles include Director of the St Mark’s Hospital Polyposis Registry, Administrative Officer of the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours and Royal College of Surgeons of England Genomics Champion. Her main clinical and research interests are colorectal cancer genetics, polyposis syndromes, colorectal cancer biology and ileoanal pouch dysfunction.
Talvinder Singh Gill
Consultant colorectal surgeon, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust
I am a laparoscopic and colorectal consultant surgeon and colorectal service lead at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust and has been working at University Hospital of North Tees since 2007. I am also Honorary lecturer at Teesside University, Middlesbrough. I am member of Education & Training committee of ACPGBI. I have special interests in advanced laparoscopic including single incision laparoscopic colorectal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, early rectal cancer and surgical training. I have published various articles and written book chapters in my areas of interests.
Thomas Pinkney
George Drexler & Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials, University of Birmingham. Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospitals Birmingham
Tom is the George Drexler & Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials and the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University Hospitals Birmingham NHSFT. He is Director of the Birmingham Surgical Trials Consortium and sits on the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board and the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) West Midlands Panel. Research interests are predominantly in clinical and translational research in inflammatory bowel disease and surgical site infection.
Tim Hoare
Consultant Radiologist
I am a coal face GI Radiologist specialising in IBD, colorectal and acute imaging. I enjoy opportunistic targeted ultrasound, low dose CT and team supported decision making. Imaging is great and your friendly radiology colleagues can make your life easier.
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