About ESSAT

United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Week is Europe’s premier meeting where new clinical and basic science research is presented to 13.000 specialists from across the globe. It covers a wide range of digestive disease areas, cutting edge, post graduate teaching sessions, some of the best GI abstracts, posters and simultaneous live streams to a global audience and endoscopic, ultrasound and surgical hands on training. 

ESSAT is the surgical voice with the UEG. During the UEGW, ESSAT organises the Surgical Learning Area.

The member societies of ESSAT are:

EAES

The European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) was founded in 1990 and since then has become a growing and dynamic organisation that continues to play a leading role in Endoscopic Surgery and Allied Interventional Techniques. Aside from organising annual Top Level European Congresses in different European countries, the EAES activities in education, training, research, development, and publication are effected through its various Committees.

Vision:
To promote high-level, safe, and cost effective minimally invasive treatment to patients in Europe and globally.

Mission:
• To become the leading professional organisation of MIS practitioners globally.
• To become an information hub for all practitioners of MIS
• To create a strong, engaged community of all caretakers involved in MIS.

EDS

Founded in 1995, the European Digestive Surgery (EDS) Society promotes general and abdominal surgery by supporting basic clinical and scientific research and postgraduate education. We are convinced that communication and collaboration are the key to highlighting visceral surgery education and research not only in Europe but also in the scientific community worldwide.

Since EDS was founded, the total number of members of the organization has grown to over 1,000. In addition, the composition of our society is becoming more and more international, as EDS now includes renowned surgeons from a total of 62 countries.

More information can be found here: http://www.edsurgery.org/

EFISDS

Our vision is to run a prudent and truly up to date Federation of European Digestive Surgical Society using the latest methodologies taking in account the ever changing needs of todays surgeon and surgeon in training.
Rather than the purely surgical discipline driven approach, the EFISDS prefers to focus more on the disease as a whole, taking in account all the skill sets required to deliver the optimal outcome. This also includes non technical skills such as public relations, understanding of media technologies and the development of educational skills and technologies. EFISDS is all about education and training, supporting and engaging in on-line discussion and collaboration platforms, live surgery web transmissions and streaming video.
The aim is to enhance the dialogue between the focus groups and to stimulate training and education by providing quality on line-mentoring.

ESCP

ESCP was formed in 2005 from a merger of EACP (European Association of Coloproctology) and ECCP (European Council of Coloproctology). ESCP aims to be the professional organisation in Europe for the prevention and treatment of colorectal disease through education, training and research. We are a not-for-profit membership organisation, with an elected Council and Board of Trustees. We focus on: training, research, guidelines, networking, education standards and accreditation, resources