University Hospitals Leuven / KU Leuven
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, is full professor and Division Head of Digestive Oncology at University Hospitals Gasthuisberg & KULeuven, Belgium.
He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and president of the Belgian Foundation against Cancer.
In 2018 he became doctor honoris causa of the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland and received several national and international awards, amongst which were in 2019 the ESMO Award and the European Awards in Medicine for Cancer Research.
He published extensively on GI cancer: >700 articles in PubMed and more than 1515 according Thomson Web of Science, leading to more than 106.000 citations and an H-factor of 143.
He co-founded and is chair of ESMO GI/World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona, Spain. He serves/served on the board or key committee of ESMO, UEG, ASCO, ENET, EORTC, ECO, ESDO, ESO and of patient advocacy groups EuropaColon (medical director) and Digestive Cancers Europe (DICE; co-founder, executive board).
He was chairman of the governmental colon cancer screening task force in Flanders, Belgium, was/is in Belgium active as president and treasurer of Belgian Group Digestive Oncology and as president/vice-president of Familial Polyposis Association (FAPA).
He is/was member of the Scientific Advisory board for different international hospitals/cancer centers: Institut National du Cancer (INCA), Toulouse & Paris, France; University of Ulm & Leipzig, Germany; Humanitas Hospital, Milan, Italy & Avignon, France and is member of the board of directors of the regional hospital of Halle, Belgium.
Session 11: Updates from Recent Meetings
Thursday, August 3, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:05 PM ET
Thursday, August 3, 2023
1:05 PM – 1:15 PM ET