Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasound

Evangelos Kalaitzakis MD, PhD, MSc, FEBGH

Evangelos Kalaitzakis is a medical gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist. He obtained a PhD in gastroenterology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden where he also completed his residency. He trained in interventional endoscopy in the University College London Hospital in the UK. He has been working at the Copenhagen University Hospital as an interventional endoscopist with a focus on EUS and ERCP since 2013 and obtained the title of associate professor in medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 2015. He has authored in excess of 100 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of endoscopy, pancreatology, and hepatology and he is an editorial board member of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology and Endoscopic Ultrasound.

Peter Vilmann

Peter Vilmann started as an international recognized pioneer on EUS with linear transducers, as well as a variety of EUS-guided diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. He was the first to perform EUS-guided fine needle biopsy (1991) and the inventor of the first needle assembly for EUS-guided aspiration biopsy. During the years he has published more than 200 publications accepted in peer/reviewed international medical journals, as well as more than 34 medical books or chapters as author or co-author.