ESD (Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection) was developed in Japan in the early 2000s initially for gastric cancer, then esophageal cancer and colorectal cancers.
Professor Messmann, the President of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) treated his first patient using ESD in 2003 – almost 20 years ago. He now leads the team at the Augsburg Centre which treats 200 cases a year using the technique, the highest number of ...

Presentation and interview with Professor Francis Mégraud....

What was your personal motivation (family, teachers) for your choice of becoming a doctor? Was there any dilemma or was it a clear decision? Is there a family tradition?

This is not perfectly clear what was the most decisive factor of becoming a doctor in my case. I knew the profession because my father was an internist and a diabetologist and my uncle was working as internist, too. Despite that there was no pressure from my family. My ideas ...

After his 80th birthday we would like to greet our honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology, who supported so many Hungarian gastroenterologists in their postgraduate education at the University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich.

With the kind permission of Professor Classen and the Cook Medical firm, we publish a phantastic conversation-interview made by Professor Peter Cotton (abridged). (40 years of interventional ...

How did your personal background determine your choice of your profession?
The youngest brother of my mother (who is only 8 years older than me) was the first one in the family to go to medical school: he was actually very much influencing my choice, because also in my father’s family there was no tradition at all in medical studies. I took this decision quite early, during the first years of my secondary school....