Welcome to the website of our Department, which is designed to inform
you about our activities and especially our workshops, meetings and
training symposia and to give you a tool for better communicating
with us.

The Department of Gastroenterology and Hepato-Pancreatology of
Erasme Hospital has been created together with the hospital in 1977.
It includes several clinics : hepatology, endoscopy, gastro-intestinal
oncology, pancreatology, nutrition and intestinal diseases and liver
transplantation.

Therapeutic Endoscopy has been, since the beginning, one of the leading activities of our Department
which has become highly specialised in the development of new techniques and clinical applications.This
includes all the aspects of biliary and pancreatic endoscopy, with a special interest in the management of
chronic pancreatitis, therapeutic applications in the upper GI tract (stenting, endoscopic treatment of
GERD, management of early neoplasia and treatment of Barrett's esophagus), intestinal endoscopy,
enteroscopy, colonoscopy and all the techniques for tumor resection (polypectomies, mucosectomies).

In this line, we have been organising since 1982, every year, a large international course called now
"Gastroenterology and Endotherapy" and since a few years, we are also organising small "Single Topic"
workshops two times a year devoted to specific problems and also including live demonstrations.

Looking foward to seeing you in Brussels.


Jacques DEVIERE
Head of Department