Meet the Reps

Dear ECCO Friends and Community, In this new episode of ECCO News – Meet the Reps I had the pleasure of speaking with Prof. Juozas Kupčinskas, IBD National Representative for Lithuania, about his role within ECCO and his perspectives on advancing IBD care and research at both national and European levels.

Dear ECCO Friends and Community, It is our pleasure to present our conversation with Armenia’s ECCO National Representatives, Manik Gemilyan and Edmond Baghdasaryan. In this video, we aim to provide an insightful overview of the evolving landscape of IBD care in Armenia, highlighting current challenges, progress, and the aspirations of the local medical community.

We had the pleasure to talk with Raja Atreya and Dominik Bettenworth in a wide-rage conversations covering aspects on the current status of IBD care in Germany, current Research Projects of the German IBD Society and more

Dear ECCO friends and family, It is my pleasure to introduce the ECCO National Representatives of Malta Martina Sciberras and Pierre Ellul. We had a great discussion on a variety of topics such as the challenges of treating IBD in Malta, how working with a small but excellently followed cohort of patients can be a strength, how the Maltese Group of IBD is not only importing all newest developments such as intestinal ultrasound but also paving the way for younger colleagues to train and hone their skills abroad and much more!

Dear ECCO friends and family, It is my pleasure to introduce the ECCO National Representatives of Portugal Helena Tavares de Sousa and Samuel Fernandes. We had an intriguing discussion on a wide range of topics such as the challenges of treating IBD in Portugal, how GEDII their national IBD group helps with clinical management but also research projects, what Portugal is doing right in producing a lot of inspiring figures in Gastroenterology that lead the European Gastroenterology Organisations like ECCO president-elect Fernando Magro, but also for their respective areas of research ...

Dear Y-ECCO Friends, The Y-ECCO Mentorship Forum is an educational event designed to foster networking and prepare the career of young gastroenterologists with a particular interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In June 2023, the second edition of the Forum took place in beautiful Vienna, and it certainly did not disappoint.

Dear ECCO friends, Welcome to this interesting discussion with the ECCO National Representatives of Turkey Nalan Gülsen Ünal and Asli Ormeci. We had a great talk mainly about the challenges of treating IBD in Turkey a country with significant diversity in the circumstances of healthcare but also for telemedicine, holistic care implementation of new developments in our field such as biomarkers and intestinal ultrasound and even more topics! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Spyros Siakavellas ECCO News Associate Editor

Dear ECCO friends, Welcome to this wide-range conversation with the National Representatives of Israel at ECCO Bella Ungar and Ayal Hirsch, where we got to know more about IBD care in Israel and we discussed some hot areas of interest like: diet in IBD, new technologies and the need for multidisciplinary care and much more!

Dear ECCO friends and family, Please join us for the 3rd episode of our podcast series Meet the JCC Authors! It is my pleasure to introduce Mads Damsgaard Wewer from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He talks about the recently in JCC published paper: Disease Activity Patterns of Inflammatory Bowel Disease—A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study 1995–2018. We hope you enjoy getting to know Mads and learn more about his journal article. Enjoy and do not forget to spread the word about our new podcast to your friends and colleagues!