Board and Faculty
Board of Directors
- PD Dr. Walter Brunner
President GI Surgery Foundation
Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Dieter Hahnloser
Vicepresident GI Surgery Foundation
CHUV University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Christiane Bruns
Executive Member GI Surgery Foundation
University Hospital Köln, Germany - Dr. Otmar Buyne
Radboud University Hospital, Nijmegen, Netherlands - Prof. Dr. Pierre-Alain Clavien
University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Herbst
Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria - Prof. Dr. Daniel Frey
CZO, Zürich, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Ville Sallinen
University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - Dr. Peter Svenningsen
Nordzealand Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark - PD Dr. Peter Vogelbach
Past President GI Surgery Foundation
Cantonal Hospital Chur, Switzerland
Faculty Members
- Prof. Dr. Katharina Beyer
Dept. Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin Institut, Berlin - Dr. Stephan Bischofberger
Dept. Chirurgie, Visceral Surgery, Rohrschacherstrasse - Prof. Dr. Martin Bolli
Dept. of Surgery, Clarunis, Basel - Prof. Dr. Stefan Breitenstein
Dept. of Surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur - Prof. Dr. Dimitri Christoforidis
Chirurgia viscerale , EOC Lugano, Lugano - Dr. Lana Fourie
Dept. of Surgery,Cantonal hospital LUKS, Luzern - PD Dr. Christian T. Hamel
Dept. Chirurgie, Kreiskrankenhaus Lörrach, Lörrach - PD Dr. Karoline Horisberger
Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, University Hospital Mainz, Mainz - Dr. Rebecca Kraus
Dept. of Surgery, KSGR, Chur - PD Dr. Marko Krajlevic
Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital Clarunis, Basel - PD Dr. Christian Krieglstein
Dept. Chirurgie, St. Elisabeth-Krankenhaus, Köln-Hohenlind - Dr. Daniel Kjaer
Dept. Chirurgie, Aarhus Universitetshospital, Aarhus - Prof. Dr. Beat Müller
Dept. Chirurgie, Clarunis, Basel - PD Dr. Christian Nebiker
Dept. Chirurgie, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau - Prof. Dr. Christoph Reissfelder
Dept. Chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim - Prof. Dr. Tom Mikael Scheinin
Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital, Helsinki - PD Dr. Andreas Shamiyeh
Dept. of Surgery, Kepler Universitäts Klinikum, Linz - Prof. Dr. Gerd Silberhumer
Dept. of Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Vienna - Dr. Sebastian Staubli
HPB and Liver Transplant, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - Prof. Dr. Harry van Goor
Dept. of Surgery, University Medical Center, Nijmegen - PD Dr. Benjamin Weixler
Dept. of Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur - Prof. Dr. Christian Toso
Dept. Chirurgie, Université de Genève, Genève - PD Dr. Diana Vetter
Dept. Chirurgie, Universitätsspital, Zürich - Dr. Caroline Williamsson
Dept. General Surgery, Skane Uni. Hospital Lund, Lund
Guest Faculty Members
Additional invited Guest Faculty Members 2024 in the following modules are:
Colorectal Advanced Course
- Prof. Dr. Felix Aigner
KH Barmherzige Brüder, Graz, Austria - Mr. Kamal Aryal
James Paget Univ. Hospital, Norwich, UK - Dr. Cécile De Chaisemartin
Marseille, France - Mr. John T. Jenkins
London, UK - Prof. Dr. Guillome Meurette
HUG, Genf, Switzerland - PD Dr. Heidi Misteli
Spital Uster, Uster, Switzerland - Dr. Andreas Scheiwiller
Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland - Dr. Colin Sietses
Ziekenhuis Gelderse, Vallei, Netherland - Dr. Petrousjka van den Tol
UMC , Amsterdam, Netherland - Prof. Dr. Erwin Rieder
Med. Universitätsklinik, Wien, Austria
Bariatric Advanced Course
- Dr. Jose Balibrea
Barcelona, Spain - Prof. Dr. Dieter Birk
Krankenhaus Bietigheim, Bietigheim, Germany - Dr. Marloes Emous
Medical Center, Leeuwarden, Netherland - Prof. Dr. Moritz Felsenreich
Medizinische Universität, Wien, Austria - Prof. Dr. Mirko Otto
Adipositas Zentrum Rhein-Nekar, Mannheim, Germany - Prof. Dr. Ralph Peterli
Clarunis , Basel, Switzerland - Dr. Urs Pfefferkorn
Kantonsspital, Olten, Switzerland - Mr. Dimitrios Pournaras
Bristol, United Kingdom - PD Dr. Charlotte Rabl
Salzburg, Austria - Mrs. Paulina Salminen
Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
HPB Advanced Course
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Bouwense
MUMC, Maastricht, Netherland - Dr. Maxim Dewulf
MUMC, Maastricht, Netherland - Dr. Jan Philipp Jonas
Universitätsspital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland - Dr. Felix Nickel
Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Hernia Advanced Course
- Dr. Katrin Bermoser
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dietz
Kantonsspital Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. René Fortelny
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität , Wien, Austria - Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel García-Ureña
Universitario Henares, Madrid, Spain - Dr. med. Felix Grieder
Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland - PD Dr. Henry Hoffmann
Zweichirurgen Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Erwin Rieder
Med. Universitätsklinik, Wien,Austria - Dr. Alexis Theodorou
Aretaieio University Hospital, Athens, Greece
Upper GI Advanced Course
- Dr. Urs Pfefferkorn
Kantonsspital, Olten, Switzerland - Mr. Dimitrios Pournaras
Bristol, United Kingdom - Dr. Jan Willem Van den Berg
University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherland - Prof. Dr. Burkhard von Rahden
Universitätsklinikum Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Pediatric Surgery Advanced Course
- Ivo de Blaauw
Netherland - Dr. Floris T.J. Ferenschild
Nijmegen, Netherland - Dr. Jan-Hendrik Goseman
Medizinische Universität, Leipzig, Germany - Prof. Dr. Stefan Holland Cunz
Universitätskinderspital, Basel, Switzerland - Prof. Dr. Kristiina Kyrklund
Helsinki, Finland - Dr. Alessio Pini Prato
Alessandria, Italy - Dr. Carlos Reck
Wien, Austria - Mr. Michael Stanton
University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom - Dr. Alejandra Villanova
Spain
Basic and Intermediate Course
- Dr. Luca Benigno
GZO, Wetzikon, Switzerland - Mr. Simon Bernth-Andersen
Dronning Ingrids Hospital, Nuuk, Greenland - Dr. Susanne Blank
Universitätklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany - Dr. Karin Brunner
Kantonsspital, Chur, Switzerland - Dr. Karolin Dallago
Kantonsspital, Chur, Switzerland - Dr. Alexander Damanakis
Universitätsspital Köln, Köln, Germany - Dr. Davide Frasca
St. Elisabeth KH Köln-Hohenlinde, Köln, Germany - Dr. Benjamin Glaser
Klinik Donaustadt, Wien, Austria - Dr. Elmar Haiden
Universitätsklinik, Tulln, Austria - Dr. Pernilla Hansdotter Andersson
Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden - Dr. Nikolaus Hartig
KH Barmherzige Brüder, Wien, Austria - Dr. Timo Heikkinen
Helsinki, Finland - Dr. Frederik Hvid-Jensen
Aarhus, Denmark - Dr. Martina Jeremiasen
Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden - Dr. Viktor Justin
Klinik Donaustadt, Wien, Austria - Dr. Ingo Klein
Kantonsspital , Chur, Switzerland - Dr. Klas Linderborg
Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - Dr. Johanna Louhimo
Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland - Dr. Rosa Ryt-Hansen
Køge, Denmark - Dr. Gabriel Seifert
Freiburg, Germany - Dr. Thomas Sattler
Kantonsspital , Aarau, Switzerland - Dr. Jan Schirnhofer
St. John of God, Salzburg, Austria - Dr. Marcel André Schneider
Universitätsspital, Zürich, Switzerland - Dr. Matthias Stute
St. Elisabeth KH Köln-Hohenlinde, Köln, Germany - Dr. Stephanie Taha
Basel, Switzerland - Dr. Jes Sefland Vogt
Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Course Organisation
Course Organiser
- PD Dr. Walter Brunner
Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- , Endokrin- und Transplantationschirurgie
Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland - Dr. Lana Fourie
Viszeralchirurgie
Universitätsklinik, Basel, Switzerland - PD Dr. Marko Kraljevic
Viszeralchirurgie
Universitätsklinik, Basel, Switzerland - Dr. Sebastian Staubli
HPB and Liver Transplantation Service
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom - PD Dr. Benjamin Weixler
Klinik für Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie
Kantonsspital, Winterthur, Switzerland
Course Secretary
- Jérôme Ammann (Course Coordinator)
AK-Medizin feat. "cut-away" Ammann
Münchwilen, Switzerland - Brigitte Ammann (Course Administrator)
AK-Medizin - Marianne Bertschi (Course Administrator)
Lupsingen, Switzerland - Niko Vogelbach