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Tina van Loon reflects on the Women in Surgery Career Symposium 2020

Tina van Loon by banner at Women in Surgery Career Symposium 2020

20 February 2020

Surgical Resident at Elisabeth TweeSteden Hospital (Tilburg) and ESCP Education Committee member, Tina van Loon, fills us in on what she learned from this year's Women in Surgery (WIS) Career Symposium which took place in Tampa, Florida from 14-16th February.

#ESCPGlobalReach – a round-up of our monthly topic for January

19 February 2020

ESCP’s focus throughout January centred around strengthening the society’s global reach as it continues its dedication towards promoting and advancing the prevention, treatment, education and research into colorectal disease internationally.

Save the Date - Thursday 12 March for #ColorectalLive: interview with Gabriela Möslein

Gabriela Möslein

17 February 2020

Next month, ESCP secretary Gabriela Möslein will sit down with consultant colorectal surgeon Richard Brady to film the next in the series of Johnson & Johnson’s #ColorectalLive interviews.

UNIFI trial into the efficacy of ustekinumab as induction and maintenance therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis

6 February 2020

January's Paper of the Month is 'Ustekinumab as Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis' which looks into the efficacy of ustekinumab, an antagonist of the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and interleukin-23.

Report from JSCP Travelling Fellow to Japan 2019, Jasper Stijns

Professor Watanabe and Jasper Stijns

4 February 2020

Jasper Stijns, colorectal surgery fellow at the UZ Leuven in Belgium, reports on his 2019 Japanese Society of Coloproctology (JSCP) Travelling Fellowship.