Speakers | World Pancreas Forum - 06-07 February 2020

The following leaders, experts and delegates from all over the world are in charge of our outstanding and exciting clinical and scientific programme.

The list of speakers of the third World Pancreas Forum will be updated continuously.

The speakers are arranged alphabetically:

A B C d D E F G H K L M N P R S T v V W Y

A

Professor

Mustapha Adham

Lyon, France

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 6 incl. Lunch bags

Doctor

Mohammed Al-Saeedi

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 5:18 pm.

Intraoperative evaluation of the hepatic artery blood fl ow during pancreatoduodenectomy (HEPARFLOW Study)

Professor

Hana Algül

Munich, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:33 am.

Mouse models in pancreatic cancer: what has translated into the clinic

B

Doctor

Peter Bailey

Glasgow, Scotland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 9:09 am.

Profiling on pancreatic cancer and building molecular subtypes

Professor

Marc Barthet

Marseille, France

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 5:00 pm.

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and pancreatic cystic neoplasms

Doctor

Christoph Berchtold

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Presentations of current studies

Doctor

Marc G. H. Besselink

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 11:55 am.

Evidence based minimally invasive/robotic pancreatic surgery

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 6 incl. Lunch bags

Doctor

Manish Bhandare

Mumbai, India

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:50 pm.

Robotic pylorus preserving pancreatico-duodenectomy

Doctor

Martin Bolli

Basel, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:45 pm.

Preoperative use of somatostatin analoga to prevent postoperative fistula

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 2

Professor

Markus W. Büchler

Heidelberg, Deutschland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Surgery of Pancreatic Cancer: Heidelberg Approach

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Whipple procedure

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 5:20 pm.

Closing words & farewell

C

Professor

Mark P. Callery

Boston, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 2

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Chairman of Session # 4

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Surgery of Pancreatic Cancer: Heidelberg Approach

Professor

Suresh T. Chari

Houston, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Early metabolic indicators of an occult pancreatic cancer

Doctor

Jung Wan Choe

Seoul, Korea

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:48 pm.

Fecal microiota transplantation ameliorates an experimentally induced severe acute pancreatitis in mouse model

d

Professor

Martín de Santibañes

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Course

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Session # 7

Professor

Markus Diener

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 1

D

Professor

Martín de Santibañes

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Course

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Session # 7

Professor

Markus Diener

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 1

E

Professor

Irene Esposito

Düsseldorf, Germany

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:00 pm.

Intraoperative preparation of the specimen and classification of the resection margin

F

Professor

Massimo Falconi

Milano, Italy

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 4:15 pm.

Burning issues for the management of functional and non-functional neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:55 pm.

Chairman of Session # 8

Professor

Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo

Boston, United States

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 9:21 am.

Surgery for IPMN: what’s the current evidence?

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:20 pm.

The role of IORT in treating locally advanced unresectable and borderline pancreatic cancer

Doctor

Ines Fischer

Linz, Austria

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:36 pm.

The significance of the subsidiary resection of the residual pancreas, “salvage-pancreatectomy” – preliminary results from a single center

Professor

Helmut Friess

Munich, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Scientific update 2020

Professor

Jean-Louis Frossard

Geneva, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 9:03 am.

Role of microvesicules in pancreatic cystic lesion

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Session # 7

G

Doctor

Lukasz Filip Grochola

Winterthur, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:54 pm.

An integrative functional and pharmacogenomic analysis of a polymorphic variant in the CHI3L2 gene that affects patient survival after pancreatic cancer resection

Professor

Ulrich Güller

Thun, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 10:50 am.

Oncology update 2020

H

Professor

Thilo Hackert

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 2:29 pm.

Personalised pancreatic cancer surgery

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Chairman of Session # 5

Doctor

Melissa Hogg

Chicago, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Presentations of current studies

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Chairman of Session # 4

K

Doctor

Raghu Kalluri

Houston, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:51 am.

Functional role of tumor stroma and epithelial plasticity in pancreatic cancer

Professor

Mikael Karlsson

Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 9:27 am.

Targeting tumor associated macrophages in pancreatic cancer

Professor

Michael L. Kendrick

Rochester, United States

Professor

Jörg Kleeff

Halle, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 11:15 am.

Borderline pancreatic cancer: "Pro surgery or pro neoadjuvant treatment?"

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 1:45 pm.

Chairman of Session # 3

L

Doctor

DongKi Lee

Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

A novel peripheral blood cell population as diagnostic target for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Professor

Matthias Löhr

Stockholm, Sweden

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 1:45 pm.

Personalised pancreatic cancer Karolinska

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 1

M

Doctor

Giovanni Marchegiani

Verona, Italy

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 9:39 am.

Long-term management of branch duct IPMN: Incidence of late malignant transformation and concomitant pancreatic cancer will never be zero

Professor

Christoph A. Maurer

Bern, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Presentations of current studies

Doctor

André Mihaljevic

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:55 pm.

Conventional partial pancreatoduodenectomy versus an extended pancreatoduodenectomy (triangle operation) for pancreatic head cancers – the randomized controlled multicenter TRIANGLE trial

Doctor

Rainer Miksch

Munich, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 5:00 pm.

Vitamin D attenuates activation of pancreatic stellate cells and modulates pancreatic cancer malignancy via downregulating THBS1 in the stroma

Professor

Sascha Müller

Bern, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Embryology and anatomy of the pancreas

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 2:50 pm.

Management of complications in pancreatic surgery

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Parallel Session

Professor

Beat Müller

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 2:46 pm.

The perspective of data driven pancreatic surgery

N

Professor

John Neoptolemos

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 11:35 am.

Adjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer: what’s the recommended first-line regimen and what’s the evidence?

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 1:45 pm.

Chairman of Session # 3

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Surgery of Pancreatic Cancer: Heidelberg Approach

PD Dr. med.

Felix Nickel

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:30 pm.

Endoscopic versus Surgical Treatment for Infected Necrotizing Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Course

P

Doctor

Daniel Pietrasz

Villejuif, France

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 5:12 pm.

Recurrences in Patients with Pathological Major Response after FOLFIRINOX Induction Treatment

Doctor

Pascal Probst

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:15 pm.

Evidence maps of pancreatic surgery

R

Keith Roberts

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:35 pm.

The RICOCHET UK national audit of pancreatic cancer - current practice and areas for improvement

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:48 pm.

Pathway improvements to surgery

Professor

Axel Rominger

Bern, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 1:05 pm.

Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer by novel PET technology

S

Professor

Ashok Saluja

Miami, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 1

Doctor

Marta Sandini

Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:42 pm.

Impaired Pre-operative Glycemia is Associated with Reduced Survival in pNENs

Professor

Markus Schäfer

Lausanne, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Session # 7

Professor

Jan Schmidt

Zurich, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 2:42 pm.

Patient work-up and intraoperative measures for a safe pancreatic surgery

Professor

Bruno Schmied

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 4:00 pm.

Chairman of Session # 4

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 6 incl. Lunch bags

Professor

Shailesh V. Shrikhande

Mumbai, India

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Developing pancreas cancer surgery in a region of low incidence

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 12:30 pm.

Chairman of Course

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Session # 7

Professor

Oliver Strobel

Heidelberg, Germany

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 2:06 pm.

Resectability of pancreatic cancer: Which patients need neoadjuvant therapy?

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 8:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 1

T

Professor

Masao Tanaka

Yamaguchi, Japan

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Chairman of Session # 5

Doctor

Ignazio Tarantino

St. Gallen, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:50 pm.

Surgery of acute and chronic pancreatitis

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Parallel Session

Professor

Christian Toso

Genève, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:55 pm.

Chairman of Session # 8

Professor

Frédéric Triponez

Geneva, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:55 pm.

Management of neuroendocrine tumors in patients with MEN 1

v

Doctor

Laura van Wijk

Groningen, The Netherlands

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 5:06 pm.

Prognostic value of the C-reactive protein to albumin ratio on survival after resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Professor

Charles M. Vollmer

Philadelphia, United States

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Implementation in a multidisciplinary pancreatic cyst clinic

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Chairman of Session # 5

V

Doctor

Laura van Wijk

Groningen, The Netherlands

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 5:06 pm.

Prognostic value of the C-reactive protein to albumin ratio on survival after resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Professor

Charles M. Vollmer

Philadelphia, United States

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Implementation in a multidisciplinary pancreatic cyst clinic

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 8:45 am.

Chairman of Session # 5

W

Professor

Markus Weber

Zurich, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 2:20 pm.

Surgery of pancreatic tumors

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 1:30 pm.

Chairman of Parallel Session

Professor

Jürgen Weitz

Dresden, Germany

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 3:55 pm.

Chairman of Session # 8

Professor

Jens Werner

Munich, Germany

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 2:24 pm.

Centralization in pancreatic cancer treatment

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 10:15 am.

Chairman of Session # 2

Doctor

Christopher L. Wolfgang

Baltimore, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 2:02 pm.

From translational research to clinical care

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 1:45 pm.

Chairman of Session # 3

Doctor

Mathias Worni

Bern, Switzerland

Friday, 07.02.2020 at 4:35 pm.

Update international guidelines on pancreatic NETs

Y

Doctor

Jun Yu

Baltimore, United States

Thursday, 06.02.2020 at 3:01 pm.

Experts In the field of pancreatic tumor

A

Professor

Mustapha Adham

Doctor

Mohammed Al-Saeedi

Professor

Hana Algül

B

Doctor

Peter Bailey

Professor

Marc Barthet

Doctor

Christoph Berchtold

Doctor

Marc G. H. Besselink

Doctor

Manish Bhandare

Doctor

Martin Bolli

Professor

Markus W. Büchler

C

Professor

Mark P. Callery

Professor

Suresh T. Chari

Doctor

Jung Wan Choe

d

Professor

Martín de Santibañes

Professor

Markus Diener

D

Professor

Martín de Santibañes

Professor

Markus Diener

E

Professor

Irene Esposito

F

Professor

Massimo Falconi

Professor

Carlos Fernandez-del Castillo

Doctor

Ines Fischer

Professor

Helmut Friess

Professor

Jean-Louis Frossard

G

Doctor

Lukasz Filip Grochola

Professor

Ulrich Güller

H

Professor

Thilo Hackert

Doctor

Melissa Hogg

K

Doctor

Raghu Kalluri

Professor

Mikael Karlsson

Professor

Michael L. Kendrick

Professor

Jörg Kleeff

L

Doctor

DongKi Lee

Professor

Matthias Löhr

M

Doctor