Something Powerful

Professor Andrew Stevenson is a Senior Colorectal Surgeon, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Queensland, past Head of the Colorectal Surgery department at Royal Brisbane Hospital, Honorary Associate of the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, past Chair of the ANZ Training Board in Colorectal Surgery and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Prof Stevenson is the principal investigator for several multi-centre trials on minimally invasive colorectal surgery (including ALaCaRT and the new trial of robotic v. laparoscopic colectomy - RoLaCaRT). He has also been a key member of multiple international consensus boards, including ventral rectopexy, taTME, ICG and complete mesocolic excision. Having published over 100 scientific articles and conducted more than 200 workshops and masterclasses on advanced laparoscopic surgery and robotics, both locally and internationally, Prof Stevenson remains closely involved in developing new minimally invasive techniques and has been one of the pioneers of robotic colorectal surgery in Australia, co-authoring the world’s first series of robotic pelvic exenteration.

Dr Ellen Van Eetvelde is Head of Abdominal Surgery at UZ Brussels University Hospital, Brussel, and is specialised and certified by UEMS in colorectal surgery (FEBS-c). She is a clinical lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her main interests are low impact surgery, robotic colorectal surgery and oncogeriatric care and has performed more than 850 robotic colorectal procedures.

Dr Van Eetvelde is the Chair of the Colorectal Tumour Board and Chair of the Robotic Surgery Council at UZ Brussel. She is the former chair and founding member of the RBSS Robotic Surgery Working Group, the National Society of Surgery in Belgium, which has set up a National Robotic Training Program for general surgery trainees in Belgium. She is an active member of the Colorobotica Group from the European Society of Coloproctology which provides a pan-European robotic training program for colorectal surgeons. Currently she is the European Society of Coloproctology’s Belgian national representative.