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.
Chair
Frederic Ris (Switzerland)
Assistant Chair
Rosa Jiménez-Rodríguez (Spain)
Y-ESCP
Stefanie Devriendt (Belgium)
Regional Representatives
- Central: Michel Adamina (Switzerland), Giuseppe Sica (Italy)
- Eastern: Mustafa Öncel (Turkey), Tomas Poskus (Lithuania)
- Western: Albert Wolthius (Belgium), Johannes Kurt Schultz (Norway)
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Frederic Ris, Chair |
Frederic RisCurrent 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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Rosa Jimènez-Rodrìguez, Assistant Chair |
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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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:
Colorectal fellowships:
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 positionAssociate professor of surgery and Head of Minimally Invasive and Gastrointestinal Surgery, University and Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy Medical schoolSapienza University 1985-1990, 1993-1995 (PhD program; research fellow Harvard and NYU, U.S.A.) General surgical and colorectal trainingTor Vergata University 1998 Specialist in General Surgery Oxford University Hospitals 2000-2003 G.I. Surgery clinical fellow and consultant surgeon Main clinical and research interestsColon cancer and IBD Surgery Member of the Membership Committee since2023 Additional information
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Mustafa Oncel, Eastern Region Representative |
Mustafa ÖncelCurrent positionChair, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye, since 2012 Medical schoolIstanbul University, Medical School, Istanbul, Türkiye (graduated in 1993) General surgical and colorectal trainingKartal Education and Research Hospital Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2024 |
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Tomas Poskus, Eastern Region Representative |
Tomas PoskusCurrent position
Medical schoolFaculty of Medicine, Vilnius University 1999 General surgical and colorectal training
Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2023 |
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Albert Wolthius, Western Region Representative |
Albert WolthiusCurrent positionStaff member at the Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospital Leuven (since 2011) Medical schoolGraduated medical school, KU Leuven, cum laude (2002) General surgical and colorectal trainingBecame a general surgeon in 2008 and further trained in abdominal surgery with specialisation in colorectal surgery. Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2023 Additional information
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Johannes Kurt Schultz, Eastern Region Representative |
Johannes Kurt SchultzCurrent positionConsultant colorectal surgeon at Akershus University Hospital and Oslo University Hospital, and Associate professor at the University of Oslo Norway Medical schoolGraduated in 2002 at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany General surgical and colorectal training
Main clinical and research interests
Member of the Membership Committee since2024 Additional informationHe defended his PhD thesis 'Surgical aspects of diverticular disease of the colon' in 2018. He has been a certified Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons in Coloproctology since 2019. Since 2021 section editor for colorproctology at the Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, Member of the editorial board of Colorectal Disease. |
