HYBRID EVENT
1st Endosurgical Course 2026 Athens

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Alexopoulos Theodoros
  Gastroenterologist, Advanced endoscopy fellow, Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother East Kent Hospitals, UK
• Fessatou Smaragdi
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Head of the Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, International Croma Endoscopic Microsurgery Dpt, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Kaltsidis Harry
  Consultant Pancreatobiliary Gastroenterologist at NCA BRO Sector Clinical Lead for Endoscopy Greater Manchester, UK, International Croma Endoscopic Microsurgery Dpt, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Karoumpalis Ioannis
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Director of Gastroenterology Dpt, Athens General Hospital G. Gennimatas, Athens, Greece
• Oikonomakis Aristeidis
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, 251 Hellenic Air Force General Hospital, Athens, Greece, International Croma Endoscopic Microsurgery Dpt, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Polymeros Dimitrios
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Associate Director, International Croma Endoscopic Microsurgery Dpt, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Stasinos Ioannis
  Consultant Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, NIMTS Hospital, Athens, International Croma Endoscopic Microsurgery Dpt, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Apostolopoulos Periklis
  Gastroenterologist, Director of Gastroenterology Clinic and Endoscopy Unit
  417 Army Equity Fund Hospital (NIMTS), Athens
• Athanasiadis Ilias
  Consultant Oncologist, Hygeia Hospital, Director of Oncology Department in MHTERA/YGEIA, Head of MDT meeting, Athens, Greece
• Charalampopoulos Alexandros
  Professor of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Director, 1st Dept of Surgery, Laikon Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Christodoulou Dimitrios
  Professor of Gastroenterology Head of Dpt of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, University Hospital of Ioannina, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece
• Chrysoheris Periklis Iosif
  Consultant Surgeon, Director of 1st Dpt of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Delaportas Dionysios
  Associate Professor of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Third Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Emmanouil Theodoros
  Consultant Gastroenterologist
  Director of the Gastroenterology & Hepatology Clinic
  Metropolitan General Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Karamanolis George
  Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Kofokotsios Alexandros
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Kontovounisios Christos
  Consultant Surgeon, Director of 2th Dpt of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Koutsoumpas Andreas
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, 1st Gastroenterology Dpt, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laikon Hospital, Athens
• Kritikos Nikolaos
  Consultant Radiologist, Director of Radiology Dpt, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Manolakis Anastasios
  Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Greece
• Manolakopoulos Spilios
  Associate Professor of Medicine–Gastroenterology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Gastroenterology–Liver Unit, 2nd Academic Dpt of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Mavrantonis Konstantinos
  Consultant Surgeon, Director, 6th Department of Surgery - Center of Excellence for Colorectal Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens Greece.
  Chairman, Founder NoDE Institute
• Michopoulos Spyros
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Director of Gastroenterology Dpt, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Papaioannou Dimitrios
  Cytopathologist and Pathologist, Associate Director, Pathology Laboratory, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Papakonstantinou Ioannis
  Professor of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Director, Fourth Department of Surgery, Athens, Greece
• Skamnelos Alexandros
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Dpt of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Ioannina, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• Stamou Konstantinos
  Consultant Surgeon, Director of 7th Dpt of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Stavridi Flora
  Medical Oncologist; Director of the 4th Internal Medicine–Oncology Department, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Stavropoulos George
  Consultant Surgeon, Associate Director of 4th Dpt of Surgery, Head of Dpt of Bariatric Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Stefanidis Gerasimos
  Consultant Gastroenterologist Director
  GI Department, Euroclinic of Athens
• Thomopoulos Konstantinos
  Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine University of Patras, Director of Gastroenterology Dpt, University Hospital of Patras, Greece
• Triantafyllou Konstantinos
  Professor of Gastroenterology, Head of 2nd Dpt of Gastroenterology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Tsiotos Grigorios
  Consultant Surgeon, Director of 3th Dpt of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Tzouvala Maria
  Gastroenterologist, Director of the Department of Gastroenterology,
  General Hospital of Nikaia–Piraeus "Agios Panteleimon",
  Athens, Greece
• Vaytimiadis Konstantinos
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Department of Gastroenterology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
• Viazis Nikolaos
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Department of Gastroenterology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece

FACULTY

• Abe Seiichiro
  Staff Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist, Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
• Albeniz Eduardo
  Director of the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Navarra Hospital Complex, Pamplona, Spain
• Anderson John
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
• Bhandari Pradeep
  Professor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, University of Portsmouth; Consultant Gastroenterologist, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
• Bu Hayee
  Professor of Gastroenterology, King's College London; Clinical Director for Liver, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
• Cesare Hassan
  Full Professor of Gastroenterology, Humanitas University; Consultant Gastroenterologist, Humanitas Research Hospital (IRCCS), Rozzano–Milan, Italy
• Fukami Norio
  Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine; Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
• Moons Leon
  Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Noor Mohammed
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Clinical Lead for Endoscopy, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
• Parra- Blanco Adolfo
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
• Ramchandani Mohan
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Director of Interventional Endoscopy, AIG Hospitals (Asian Institute of Gastroenterology), Hyderabad, India
• Saito Yutaka
  Professor of Gastroenterology, Director, Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
• Saunders Brian
  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Professor of Practice (Endoscopy), Imperial College London; and Specialist Endoscopist, St Mark's Hospital, London, UK
• Sehgal Vinay
  Consultant Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
• Suzuki Noriko
  Consultant Gastroenterologist and Specialist Endoscopist, St Mark's Hospital, London, UK
• Thompson Christofer
  Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Endoscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• Vega Roser
  Consultant Gastroenterologist and Interventional Colonoscopist,
  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK