Get involved in research activity at Tripartite 2025!
We are pleased to announce a wide range of research activities during Tripartite, with three sessions in the agenda and more opportunities than ever to get involved.
Our international network of active researchers is one of the key attributes of ESCP. As such, we invite members to submit ideas or expressions of interest to present in their work in the sessions specified below.
Tripartite Research Collaborations
Wednesday 10 September ǀ 09:00 – 10:00 ǀ Plenary & Parallel Session 1
Chairs: Thomas Pinkney, Pamela Buchwald, Jim Khan, Karoline Horisberger
- Intro & what has been achieved together in the past decade - Thomas Pinkney
- PROPS - Patient Reported Outcomes after Pouch Surgery - Liliana Bordeianou
- PREDICT - preoperative risk evaluation in cancer treatment - Cherry Koh
- Updating the international playbook on Diverticular Disease - Alex Hawkins
- RESOLVE – Sigmoid volvulus management and outcomes - Nick Heywood
- Ventral Rectopexy Collaborative – an international audit - Will Perry
- Patient-level outcomes after colonoscopic resection of T1 polyps - Jon Lacy-Colson
- Therapeutic appendicectomy for UC – an international registry - TBC
Cohort Studies and Audits
Wednesday 10 September ǀ 16:00 – 17:00 ǀ Parallel 2
Chairs: Ionut Negoi, Audrius Dulskas, Beatriz Silva Mendes, Gabrielle van Ramshorst
- 10 years of ESCP Cohort Studies & Audits – achievements, challenges and where next - Thomas Pinkney
- The CRAFT Study – a federated ESCP project - Stéphanie Breukink & Nedim Tabakovic
- International mapping of patient engagement in colorectal surgery research - Sue Blackwell
- A Framework for the Future: Integrating AI into Colorectal Surgery & Surgical Practice - James Kinross
New Trials Forum
Thursday 11 September ǀ 14:00 – 15:30 ǀ Parallel 3
Chairs: Pamela Buchwald, Thomas Pinkney, Sue Blackwell, Laura Magill, Stéphanie Breukink, Erman Aytac
- New Trial 1: STARTREC-3: Can we save the rectum by watchful waiting or transanal microsurgery following short-course radiotherapy and additional local or systemic treatment for early-stage rectal cancer? a non-randomized, multicenter, phase II-study - Suzanne De Vries
- New Trial 2: Impact of continuous ambulatory monitoring using remote medicine within patient's care pathway following colorectal surgery: The randomized trial CONTACT-GRECCAR 21 - Emilie Duchalais
- New Trial 3: Latitude – lateral lymph node attitude – a prospective international cohort study on the treatment of lateral lymph nodes in advanced rectal cancer - Eva Angenete
- New Trial 4: COALA: Changing Outcomes After Low Anterior resection in colorectal cancer - Hwa Ian Ong
- New Trial 5: The optimal antibiotic therapy duration in Hinchey I/II (< 4 cm abscesses) sigmoid diverticulitis without percutaneous drainage: A non-inferiority phase III randomized control trial - Charles Sabbagh
- New Trial 6: IMpact of PRogrammed traing on ileOSTOMY practice in patients undergoing sphincter saving total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer: IMPROSTOMY Trial - Erman Aytac
- The EuroSurg APOLLO Study - results - Chris Varghese
- ESCP Research - Future directions & new research opportunities - Pamela Buchwald
Research Ideas Workshop
Friday 12 September 2025 ǀ 16:00 – 17:30 ǀ Parallel 3
Following on from the first running of this workshop in Thessaloniki, we will once again be providing investigators with an informal opportunity to discuss a fledgling research idea and obtain advice on how to convert it into a successful study or trial. This may include guidance and input into research design, methodology, outcome measures, deliverability or routes to multicentre engagement.
We have assembled a team of experienced surgical trialists, methodologists and patient representatives to provide friendly input and counsel during this relaxed session.
If you have an idea for a project, no matter how early in its development, please email
The session will be open to the wider conference audience if they want to observe, but presented in a ‘round table’ format, without slides.
Thomas Pinkney, Chair of ESCP Research Committee
James Keatley, ESCP Research Manager: