Conference President
Prof. Sherief Shawki is Consultant colorectal surgery, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
Samar Alhomoud is consultant colorectal surgeon at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, one of the first Saudi female in colorectal surgery. She is also director of the general surgery residency training program. Honorary Visiting Consultant Surgeon at St. Mark’ Hospital in the United Kingdom. Member of The Ethics Committee at International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) the specialized cancer agency of the WHO. Executive member of Gulf Center for Cancer Control and Prevention, (GCCCP). Regional Editor for The Gulf Journal of Oncology. Regional expert in the field of Colorectal cancer screening & prevention and was involved in drafting several national, international & WHO Regional policy statements and recommendations. She has several publications in the field of colorectal cancer including genetic & screening
Prof. Nasser Al-Sanea is the Head Section of Colon & Rectal Surgery at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also the President of the Saudi Society of Colon & Rectal Surgery, the Chairman of the Saudi Fellowship in Colon & Rectal Surgery and the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Colorectal Surgery and the Annals of Saudi Medicine. He has numerous publications in the field of colorectal cancer genomics, hereditary colorectal diseases, novel surgical techniques in the treatment of colorectal cancer and anal fistulae
Muhammad Imran Aslam, senior colorectal trainee in East Midland Healthcare Workforce Deanery and honorary clinical lecturer at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, is the course director for the ESCP pre-conference workshop the operative techniques for the prevention and repair of parastomal hernia (PSH) in Nice this September. This course ran very successfully at last year’s ESCP annual conference and is already sold out this year
Chair, Scientific Committee of Colorectal Surgery Fellowship at Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) Arabia Saudita
Gianluca Pellino has an M.D. degree. He is PhD in Traslational Medicine at the Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy . He served as 2017 European Coloproctology Fellow at University Hospital “La Fe”, Valencia, Spain. Dr Pellino has studied medicine at the Medical University of Naples and graduated in 2008. He completed the Residency in General Surgery in 2016 and received the ESCP 6-month Fellowship 2016 (Colorectal Surgery, Royal Marsden Hospital, London). He is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS) in coloproctology upon completing the exam of the European Board of Surgical Qualification (EBSQ-c) in 2018. In 2018 he received the status of International Fellow of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons (FASCRS). In 2020 he has received the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He serves as member of the Communication Committee of the ESCP and SICCR. He is co-chair of EuroSurg, National co-Lead for GlobalSurg 3, and local PI of several multicentric studies. He is vice-chair of ItSurg Collaborative
Professor of colorectal surgery consultant surgeon, Mayo clinic foundation, Ohio
Professor of Colon and Rectal surgery Mannheim Germany
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Honorary Associate Professor at University of Exeter Medical School Chief Editor, Colorectal Disease Journal