Congress News
15June2023

National IBD Pathways

Pär Myrelid, S-ECCO Chair

Pär Myrelid
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In many countries, cancer patients have had structural pathways for a number of years. Regardless of whether these are called two-week referrals, urgent referrals or cancer pathways, they have improved the care for many patients with a suspected malignancy. In a society with limited access to medical care, however, an improvement like this may come at a cost. Unfortunately, patients with chronic disease may be among those paying the price for the structural pathways within Oncology. This price comes in many different forms, but for our Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients it particularly involves prolonged waiting times for radiology, endoscopy and surgery. Thus the improvement achieved for patients with, for example, suspected colorectal cancer may at the same time represent an impairment for patients with an increased risk of developing the same type of cancer as intervals between endoscopic surveillance sessions tend to increase.

Posted in ECCO News, Committee News, Congress News, ECCO'23, Volume 18, Issue 2, S-ECCO

15June2023

Call for Participants: The 22nd IBD Intensive Course for Trainees


IBD Intensive Course for Trainees
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The 22nd ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees designed for residents, fellows in gastroenterology and junior faculty will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on February 21, 2024, immediately prior to our next Congress. We are pleased to inform you that the preliminary programme for this course is already available.

Posted in ECCO News, Congress News, EduCom, Volume 18, Issue 2

15June2023

Call for Participants: The 15th N-ECCO School


N-ECCO School
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At the 19th Congress of ECCO in Stockholm, the Nurses of ECCO (N-ECCO) will host the educational activity for IBD Nurses, N-ECCO School, for the 15th time. ECCO intends to give nurses, who might be still in training and have an interest in IBD, the possibility to attend an IBD-focused course. The ultimate aim of this programme is to improve nurse education throughout Europe.

Posted in ECCO News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 2, N-ECCO

15June2023

ECCO'24 - Preliminary Scientific and Educational Programmes



The Educational Programme of the 19th Congress of ECCO starts prior to the official start of the ECCO Congress and courses take place from February 21-24, 2024. These activities target ECCO’s different interest groups including young gastroenterologists, surgeons, paediatricians, pathologists, IBD Nurses, dietitians, allied health professionals and scientists.

Posted in ECCO News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 2

15June2023

Call for abstracts for the 19th Congress of ECCO

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN NOW



To submit an abstract for the 19th Congress of ECCO, use our ECCO Portal.

Please also view important information on the submission process and the guidelines for abstract submission.

Posted in ECCO News, Congress News, Volume 18, Issue 2

27April2023

Report on the 12th S-ECCO IBD Masterclass

Pär Myrelid, S-ECCO Chair

Pär Myrelid
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The 18th ECCO Congress and 12th S-ECCO IBD Masterclass provided many of us with the opportunity finally to meet in real life and delivered much new knowledge and numerous new insights. This year’s Masterclass was opened by Christianne Buskens, who in a very distinct manner showed us what kind of effect the pandemic and all virtual meetings have had on us by showing a picture from last year’s virtual meeting (we all looked terribly concerned and sad). This can be compared with a picture from this year’s meeting, where good old friends reunited to discuss IBD.

Posted in ECCO News, Committee News, Congress News, ECCO'23, S-ECCO, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 10th ECCO Ultrasound Workshop – Advanced in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS

Mariangela Alloca, EduCom Member


Mariangela Allocca 
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Finally, after a hiatus of two years owing to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th ECCO Ultrasound Workshop – Advanced in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS took place physically at ECCO’23 in Copenhagen.

Posted in ECCO News, Committee News, Congress News, EduCom, ECCO'23, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS

Mariangela Alloca, EduCom Member and Uri Kopylov, EduCom Member

Ultrasound and MRI Portion


Mariangela Allocca
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Uri Kopylov
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The 4th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop in collaboration with ESGAR & IBUS opened with two introductory lectures on what to look for in intestinal ultrasound (IUS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), given by Christian Maaser (Germany) and Pasquale Paolantonio (Italy), respectively. These lectures introduced the hands-on part of the workshop. Delegates (n=60 in the morning and 60 in the afternoon session) were subdivided into small groups at 12 different stations, where, with the support of expert tutors – one radiologist and one gastroenterologist – they interactively discussed MRI exams and performed sonographic evaluations, employing hands-on IUS simulators on different IBD cases.

Posted in ECCO News, Committee News, Congress News, EduCom, ECCO'23, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

Report on the 21st ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees

Konstantinos Karmiris, EduCom Chair


Konstantinos Karmiris
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The 21st ECCO IBD Intensive Course for Trainees was held on March 1, 2023 as part of ECCO’s educational programme. This is ECCO’s oldest and most established course. This year, a total of 72 participants from 35 countries from Europe and elsewhere attended the course and were offered a comprehensive update on IBD. The course focused on pivotal insights into the management of IBD patients in an interactive manner.

Posted in ECCO News, Committee News, Congress News, EduCom, ECCO'23, Volume 18, Issue 1

27April2023

The 18th Congress of ECCO in numbers

6,754 delegates attended the 18th Congress of ECCO in Copenhagen, Denmark

The 18th Congress of ECCO, Copenhagen, Denmark – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2023, held on March 1-4, 2023, attracted a total number of 6,754 delegates from 100 different countries. Since the inaugural ECCO Congress in 2006 in Amsterdam, at which there were 350 delegates, participant numbers have steadily increased, as shown in the graph below. Despite the COVID-19 outbreak in the beginning of 2020, we are happy that this high number of delegates had the chance to participate in the ECCO’23 Congress in Copenhagen.

  • ECCO Congress participation 2006-2023 © ECCO

    Posted in ECCO News, Congress News, ECCO'23, Volume 18, Issue 1