Meet ESCP's Executive Committee
Executive Committee members tell us about their careers and what they value about being involved in ESCP.
14 July 2026
Michel Adamina is Chair of ESCP's Education Committee and a Senior Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Bern University Hospital in Switzerland.
14 July 2026
Triantafyllos Doulias is Chair of ESCP's Guidelines Committee, and Consultant Robotic Colorectal and General Surgeon at the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group.
11 June 2026
Zoe Garoufalia is ESCP Assistant Secretary and Chair of Y-ESCP. She is a colorectal surgeon at the Hygeia and Eugenidion hospitals in Greece.
31 May 2026
Frederic Ris is ESCP's President in Waiting. He is Professor of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Medical School.
29 May 2026
Yasuko Maeda is ESCP's Assistant Treasurer. She is Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
28 April 2026
Miguel Pera is ESCP President and Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.
16 April 2026
Pamela Buchwald is Chair of ESCP's Research Committee Chair. She is a consultant colorectal surgeon and Associate Professor at Skåne University Hospital.
13 April 2026
Mehmet Ayhan Kuzu is ESCP President Elect and Professor at Ankara University, Department of General Surgery.
13 April 2026
Rosa Jimenez-Rodriguez is chair of chair of ESCP's Membership Committee and chair of the Regional Events Working Group, and a colorectal surgeon at the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío in Spain.
31 March 2026
Miguel Cunha is ESCP Communications Committee Chair. He is a consultant colorectal surgeon at the Champalimaud Foundation in Portugal.
31 March 2026
Tina van Loon is Colorectal Disease Journal Representative on the Executive Committee. She is a Fellow in GI and metabolic surgery at the Zuyderland Medical Center in The Netherlands.
29 March 2026
Christos Kontovounisios Assistant Guidelines Committee Chair and Director of the 2nd Surgical Department, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece.
11 March 2026
Jan Colpaert is Assistant Chair Y-ESCP and consultant colorectal surgeon in AZORG Aalst, Belgium.
11 March 2026
Dion Morton is Co-Chair of ESCP's Global Reach Committee with Prof. Simon Ng. He is Barling Chair of Surgery, University of Birmingham.
11 March 2026
Antonino Spinelli is ESCP's Past President. He is Director of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital and Full Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University.
11 March 2026
Carolynne Vaizey is ESCP's Secretary and Consultant Surgeon, St Mark's - The National Bowel Hospital.
