Geerard Beets

Chair, Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre

Special Interests

• Colorectal

Geerard Beets is Professor in Surgical Oncology and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Maastricht University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. He previously worked in the same Department, moved to The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam in 2015, and now returned to Maastricht. His clinical field of expertise is colorectal cancer, with multidisciplinary research focused on rectal cancer: MR imaging of rectal cancer, outcome research and organ preserving treatment of rectal cancer, and on the use of immune checkpoint inhibition in colorectal cancer. This resulted in many papers, PhD theses and invited lectures. Geerard Beets is President of the European Society of Surgical Oncology, faculty member of national and international colorectal and oncological societies, and member of the editorial team of several colorectal and oncological journals.