WILLEM BEMELMAN
Holanda


Willem A. Bemelman graduated as a surgeon in 1994 trained at the
department of Surgery of the Academic Medical Hospital, University of
Amsterdam and St. Lucas Hospital in Amsterdam. After his training as a
surgeon, he worked at the department of Surgery at Leiden University
Medical Center being responsible for the benign gastrointestinal disease.
In 1999 he returned to the Academic Medical Center to develop the
Minimal Invasive Surgery further. In 2006 he was appointed as a
Professor in Surgery. His field of interest in patient care and research is
the (minimal invasive) treatment of IBD, colorectal cancer and
complication surgery. Bemelman is a EBSQ certified colorectal surgeon
(Bologna 2005), the former president of the ESCP (2019-2020) and
secretary of ECCO (2018-2020). He has more than 630 pubmed papers,
coached more than 50 PhD students and has a H-index of 72.Currently
he is working in the department of surgery of the Amsterdam University
Medical Centers and as a consultant in the IBD unit of the San Raffaele
University Hospital in Milan.