ESSO Governance
Our organisational structure is designed to support our mission and ensure effective leadership and governance. Explore our structure to learn more about our leadership, key committees, and opportunities for involvement in shaping the future of surgical oncology.
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Colorectal
WG Representative
Marco Inama
MD Ph D FACS General Surgeon Consultant, Pederzoli Hospital General and Mininvasive Surgery Department, Peschiera del Garda, IT
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Colorectal
President
Geerard Beets
Chair, Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre
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HPB
ETC Chair
Stefan Stättner
Head, Academic Hepatobiliary Centre, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Kepler University Hospital GmbH / Johannes Kepler University Linz
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PSM
ETC Co-Chair
Andreas Brandl
Attending Surgeon, Heidelberg University, Germany
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Breast
Breast WG member
Elaine Borg
General Surgeon with subspecialty in Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
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Breast
Breast WG Member
Nicola Rocco
Breast Surgical Oncologist, Breast Unit, University Hospital Federico II, Napoli
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Breast
Breast WG Member
Pedro Gouveia
Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Invited Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Breast
Y-ESSO Past Chair
Carmela Caballero
General Surgery, Breast International Group, Brussels, Belgium
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Breast
National Representatives Coordinator
Eduard-Alexandru Bonci
General Surgeon / Assistant Lecturer, "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta" Institute of Oncology / "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Melanoma
Sarcoma
Y-ESSO NR Coordinator
Luiza Ohasi de Figueiredo
Professor in the General Surgery course at the Medical Sciences Faculty of Minas Gerais
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Oral cancers
Y-ESSO Research Liaison
Pallvi Kaul
MD, M.Ch. Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical & Health Sciences, and Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital, India
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Upper GI
Y-ESSO NR Coordinator
Johnn Henry Herrera Kok
Assistant Surgical Oncologist, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Palencia, Spain
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Y-ESSO - Research Liaison
Henry Smith
Colorectal Fellow, Associate Professor - Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen
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Colorectal
Y-ESSO - Fellowship Liaison
Eric van der Stok
Surgeon - Fellow Advanced Gastrointestinal Surgery, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Netherlands
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HPB
Y-ESSO Research Liaison
Dana Sochorova
Surgical trainee, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Brno & Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
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Soft tissue sarcoma
Rare tumours
Y-ESSO - Fellowship Liaison
Nikolaos Vassos
Professor of Surgery, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg ǁ Head, Department of Surgical Oncology, Athens Medical Center
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