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Associate Professor of Gastroenterology
University of Padua, Italy

Prof. Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino received his Medical and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria San Martino of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. Presently, he is Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at University of Padua, Padua, Italy. He is mainly interested in neurogastroenterology and immune-mediated diseases, including inflammatory bowel diseases and eosinophilic disorders of the gastro-intestinal tract. He has published extensively (h-index 51, published papers n=421) on gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), esophageal motility disorders, Barrett’s Esophagus, functional GI disorders (functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome), eosinophilic esophagitis, and inflammatory bowel diseases. He received various prizes for his work from UEG Federation, OESO foundation, ISDE, Società Italiana di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia. He is Reviewer for various journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Gastroenterology, Gut, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, and Neurogastroenterology and Motility (NMO).

Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino Associate Professor of Gastroenterology at University of Padua, Padua, Italy. He is mainly interested in neurogastroenterology and immune-mediated diseases. He has published extensively (h-index 51, published papers n=421) on these topics and he serves in the Educational Committee of ESNM, SIGE and UEG. He received various prizes for his work from UEG Federation, OESO foundation, ISDE, SIGE. He has extensive experience in teaching on neurogastroenterology and functional testing, both in person (invited speaker at UEG) and online (webinars / lectures).

Ronnie Fass, MD, is the Medical Director of the Digestive Health Center, Chairman of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and head of the Esophageal and Swallowing Program at the MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland Ohio. He is also a tenured professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Fass did his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he later became a Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California in Los Angeles where he focused on GI motility and disorders of brain-gut interaction.

Dr. Fass has served in leadership positions in many societies. He is the former treasurer of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society as well as the chair of the education committee. The former member of the Nominating Committees of the Upper GI Section and Neurogastroenterology and Motility of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA).  He has served as the chair of the Functional Esophageal Disorders committee for Rome IV, Membership committee of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, Practice Parameter Committee and Audio Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the Publication Committee of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). He has also served as a member of the management committee of the journal Neurogastroenterology and Motility.  Moreover, Dr. Fass has served as a member of many committees in different GI societies.  Currently Dr. Fass serves as a member of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) Guidelines and Publications committee, member of the ACG Digital communications and publications committee, member of The American Forgut Society (AFS) research committee, member of the International Society of Diseases of the esophagus (ISDE), education committee and the ACG GI on demand task force steering committee.  In addition, Dr. Fass has served on the ANMS/EMS consensus group for Refractory GERD and as a core team member of Chicago Classification 4.0. He is currently a member of the EndoFlip experts panel working group, Rome V for functional esophageal disorders and the multi-society guidelines for endoscopy credentialing. (representative of the AFs).

Dr. Fass is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility. Dr. Fass is a frequent lecturer and presenter and is a reviewer for more than 70 journals. He is and has served on the editorial board of 27 journals.

Dr. Fass is the recipient of the American Gastroenterological Association Award for Digestive Sciences in Clinical Research, the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System Investigator of the Year Award, and the International Foundation of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Senior Clinical Investigator Award. He has received the University of Arizona Dean’s Research Award, the Glaxo Institute of Digestive Health Clinical Research Award twice, the American College of Gastroenterology Research Award three times, the American Medical Association Resident-Mentor Award twice, and the American Journal of Gastroenterology Outstanding Reviewer Award. Dr. Fass has been selected as one of the Best Doctors in Arizona between 2004 and 2011, Best Doctor in Northern Ohio between 2012 and 2016, Castle Connolly Top Doctor from 2015-2021 and America’s Top Doctor in 2021. Dr. Fass was named World’s Leading Expert in the research and treatment of GERD (press release 11/2013) and World’s expert in esophageal motility disorders (Press release 7/2019) by Expertscape.com. He is one of the 5 recipients of Mastership in Gastroenterology (MACG) for 2021 by the American College of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Fass has published more than 450 articles, editorials and commentaries in journals such as Gastroenterology, Gut, American Family Physician, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Archives of Internal Medicine, Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Nature reviews Primer. He has published three books and has written 62 book chapters, including 2 chapters in UpToDate.

Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist at Hospital Universitario de Caceres, Spain. Co-founder of the European Group for the study of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EUREOS) in 2013. United European Gastroenterology Rising Star Award in 2015 for research in the role of PPI therapy in EoE. Head of the Spanish Research Group on EoE and eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases at CIBERehd.

Joerg Zehetner, MD, MMM, FACS, Professor of Surgery, is working in Bern, Switzerland since 2015. He is an Austrian surgeon, with an academic and clinical focus on reflux disease, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, hiatal hernia repair, bariatric surgery and minimal invasive surgery including laparoscopy, endoscopy and robotic surgery. After finishing medical school in Vienna (Austria) in 1999, he started his general surgery residency in Bern and Lausanne (Switzerland) and finished in Linz (Austria). He is a board certified surgeon in Austria (Europe) since 2007. He moved to the US in June 2008 for a 2 year research fellowship in the Thoracic Foregut Surgery Division at USC (Los Angeles), followed by a 1 year Thoracic Foregut Clinical Fellowship as well as a 1 year Bariatric/Minimal Invasive Surgery Fellowship as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at the USC Department of Surgery. He continued for 3 years as faculty in the Division of Upper GI and General Surgery at the Keck Medical Center at USC, Los Angeles, and the MIS Division at the LAC+USC Medical Center.  Between 2012-2015 he was the Associate Clerkship Director for Surgery, and the Chair of the Quality Improvement Committee for Surgery at LAC+USC Medical Center. In addition to his academic and clinical profile, he finished the Master of Medical Management (MMM) Program at the USC Marshall Business School (Los Angeles) in May 2011.

Currently he is the head of a multi-practice medical holding group (www.helvetius.life) in Bern, Switzerland including a multi-practice surgical group (www.swiss1chirurgie.ch), the “Center for Bariatric Surgery” (www.zfbc.ch), a gastroenterology group practice (www.ggp.center) and a family medicine center (www.pzbe.ch).