Dr. Mikael Chetboun is a digestive surgeon specializing in metabolic and endocrine surgery and works at the University Hospital of Lille in France.

Mikael was the president of the European Society for Surgical Research 56th Congress 2023 and organised the ESSR annual meeting in Lille-France

After a residency in hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery, his area of research at the University Hospital of Lille (Prof. F. Pattou) aims to optimize islet transplantation in severe type 1 diabetics, through islet allotransplantation and also through islet autotransplantation in patients who are undergoing pancreatic surgery for benign or malignant diseaes.

Endocrine Surgery
University Hospital of Lille
Lille, France
president@essr.surgery

Dr. Vincent Vangelder is a digestive surgeon working at the Department of General and Endocrine Surgery at Lille University Hospital.

Vincent was the treasurer of the European Society for Surgical Research 56th Congress 2023 and organised the ESSR annual meeting in Lille-France

His surgical practice mainly focus on bariatric, metabolic and endocrine surgery. He’s teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of Lille, France and he’s collaborating with a research group at the University of Lille, INSERM U1190, devoted to the clinical development of biotherapies for treating diabetes, part of the LABEX European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID). His research is devoted to the surgical treatment of endocrine and metabolic diseases and focused on cell therapy for type 1 diabetes and metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes.

Digestive Surgery
University Hospital of Lille
Lille, France
treasurer@essr.surgery

Dr. Konstantinos Vakalopoulos is a hand & nerve surgeon based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also organised the ESSR annual meeting in 2019. He has experience in surgical research, and has done his PhD in the field of tissue adhesives and biomechanics in the field of colorectal surgery.
He is half-Greek half-Dutch and has lived in the USA, Greece and the Netherlands before moving to Switzerland.

Hand Surgery
University Hospital of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland