The Membership Committee is responsible for promoting ESCP and increasing awareness of its values. The Membership Committee work in close liaison with National Representatives to connect with ESCP members on a local level and is also responsible for co-ordinating their activities.
The Membership Committee is made up of one chairman, elected on merit, a Y-ESCP member, and six Regional Representatives, two from each geographic region, who normally have previous experience as a National Representative.
Regional Representatives
- Central: Michel Adamina (Switzerland), Giuseppe Sica (Italy)
- Eastern: Aynur Safiyeva (Azerbaijan), Tomas Poskus (Lithuania)
- Western: Albert Wolthius (Belgium), Rosa Jimènez-Rodrìguez (Spain)
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Frederic Ris Chair |
Frederic Ris (Chair)Current positionProfessor of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and medical school, Geneva, Switzerland Medical schoolGeneva University and medical school, Geneva, Switzerland (graduated in 1999) General surgical and colorectal training
Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2019 Additional information
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Stefanie Devriendt, Y-ESCP Representative |
Stefanie DevriendtCurrent positionGeneral and colorectal surgeon, ZNA, Antwerp, Belgium (since 2022) Medical schoolKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (graduated in 2014) General surgical and colorectal trainingGeneral surgical:
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Main clinical and research interestsI am interested in the broad range of colorectal surgery, with a slight preference to IBD and colorectal oncology, but also functional and benign colorectal diseases. Member of the Membership Committee since2023 |
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Michel Adamina, Central Region Representative |
Michel AdaminaCurrent positionChief of Colorectal Surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur and Professor of Surgery, University of Basel, Switzerland Medical schoolUniversity of Lausanne, Switzerland General surgical and colorectal training
Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2022 Additional information
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Giuseppe SicaCurrent position: Associate professor of surgery and Head of Minimally Invasive and Gastrointestinal Surgery, University and Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Medical school: Sapienza University 1985-1990, 1993-1995 (PhD program; research fellow Harvard and NYU, U.S.A.) General surgical and colorectal training: Tor Vergata University 1998 Specialist in General Surgery Oxford University Hospitals 2000-2003 G.I. Surgery clinical fellow and consultant surgeon Main clinical and research interests: Colon cancer and IBD Surgery Member of the Membership Committee since:
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Albert Wolthius, Western Region Representative |
Albert WolthiusProfessor Albert Wolthuis graduated medical school in 2002 (KU Leuven, cum laude). He became a general surgeon in 2008 and further trained in abdominal surgery with specialization in colorectal surgery. Since 2011 he has been a staff member at the department of Abdominal Surgery (University Hospital Leuven) with special interest in minimally invasive colorectal surgery (NOSE, CME), IBD, transanal approaches (TaTME, TAMIS, Ta-IPAA), reoperative (pelvic) surgery, debulking and HIPEC. He defended his PhD titled ‘New strategies to improve outcome after colorectal surgery’ in 2015. Furthermore, he is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and he passed the European Board of Surgical Qualification exam for Coloproctology and for Surgical Oncology. He is EBSQ-honorary fellow in minimally-invasive surgery. He has been secretary general of the Belgian Group for Endoscopic Surgery, and is board member of the Belgian Society of ColoRectal Surgery. He is a regular reviewer for many surgical journals and is associate editor for the Acta Chirurgica Belgica, for Colorectal Disease and for the European Journal of Surgical Oncology. He (co-)authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters. |
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Rosa Jimènez-Rodrìguez, Western Region Representative |
Rosa Jimènez-RodrìguezCurrent position: Attending at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Professor of Surgery at Universidad de Sevilla Medical school: Universidad de Extremadura General surgical and colorectal training: General Surgery training at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Fellow in colorectal surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA Main clinical and research interests: Colorectal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery Member of the Membership Committee since: 2021 Additional information:
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Tomas Poskus, Eastern Region Representative |
Tomas PoskusCurrent position: Head of abdominal and oncosurgery, Vilnius University Hospital Santara Clinics Director of Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University Professor of surgery, Vilnius University Medical school: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University 1999 General surgical and colorectal training: General Surgery Residency, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University 2004 PhD, Vilnius University, 2008 Clinical fellow, Mayo Clinic, USA 2010 FEBS Coloproctology, 2018 Main clinical and research interests: Colon cancer, anorectal disorders Member of the Membership Committee since: 2020-2023 Programme Committee 2021-2023 Lithuanian representative 2023-2026 Eastern region representative |
