ESD & POEM - Modernising Third Space Procedures with Adaptive Multimodal Energy

Professor Brian Saunders is a specialist gastrointestinal endoscopist and luminal gastroenterologist. His main clinical interests are the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of intestinal diseases through flexible endoscopy. He has performed more than 25,000 colonoscopies and has a particular interest in therapeutic colonoscopy especially advanced polypectomy; endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).

Dr. Tsiamoulos is Lead Colonoscopist for the Southeast UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, and Director of the Endoscopy Department / Clinical Lead for East Kent University Hospitals in the UK (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, William Harvey Hospital, Kent and Canterbury Hospital). He collaborates with the National Cancer Centre and Mayo Clinic in the field of artificial intelligence and innovative technology (CROMA) for the characterization and excision of colorectal polyps respectively, and for many years has delivered a live National Advanced Endoscopy Training course (the KENT Course) endorsed by the British Society of Gastroenterology.

A consultant gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist with a wealth of expertise, Dr Parra-Blanco leads the popular Upper GI Endoscopy & Training Day and Barrett's Endotherapy Course held annually in Nottingham, UK. Having worked in hospitals in Spain, Chile and the UK, Dr Parra-Blanco has worked under a variety of healthcare models and contributed to more than 200 clinical publications during his career, covering topics including Barrett's Neoplasia, Gastric Cancer, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and ESD.