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THE EDITOR
Dr. Han C. Kuijpers, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University Hospital Nijmegen St. Radboud at Nijmegen.
Dr. Kuijpers graduated in 1965 from St. Canisius College, Nijmegen, and obtained his M.D. degree in 1973 from the University of Nijmegen Medical School. In 1968, he was an exchange student at the University of Florida, Dept. of Physiology (Prof. Dr. AB Otis) in Gainesville FL.
He was trained in General Surgery at the University Hospital Nijmegen, and received part of his training in Colorectal Surgery at St. Marks Hospital in London (1978, Sir Alain Parks) and at the Department of Colorectal Surgery of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis MN (Prof S. Goldberg) and Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN (1979, Dr. R. Beart).
In 1980 he wrote a these On fistula-in-ano. He was appointed an Associate Professor of Surgery in 1986. In 1989 he was trained in Pancreatic Transplantation at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (Prof. F. Belser) and at the University of Minnesota (Prof. D. Sutherland) and started a pancreatic transplantation program at the UHN in 1990.
Dr. Kuijpers is a member of the Dutch Society of Surgery, Dutch Society of Gastroenterology, Dutch Society of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Dutch Society of Transplantation Surgery, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, and the Deutsche Arbeitskreis fur Proktologie. Dr. Kuijpers has presented over 40 invited lectures at national meetings and over 100 invited lectures at international meetings. He has published approximately 80 papers and has written 28 chapters for 19 surgical books. His current major research interests include Inflammatory Bowel Disease and gastrointestinal motility disorders.
CONTRIBUTORS
W. J. Adams
Research Fellow
Colorectal Unit
St. George Hospital
Sydney, Australia
C. G. M. I. Baeten
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
University Hospital Maastricht
Maastricht, Netherlands
D. C. C. Bartolo
Consultant Surgeon
Department of Surgery
The Royal Infirmary
University of Edinburgh
Endinburgh, Scotland
Karl Mller Bek
Department of Surgery
Aarhus Amtssygehus
Faculty of Medicine
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
Elisa H. Birnbaum
Instructor in Surgery
Department of Colorectal Surgery
Washington University Medical Center
St. Louis, Missouri
John Christiansen
Department of Surgery
Herlev Hospital
University of Copenhagen
Herlev, Denmark
Miguel A. Cuesta
Surgeon
Department of General Surgery
Academic Hospital Free University
Amsterdam, Netherlands
G. S. Duthie
Senior Surgical Registrar
Department of Surgery
The Royal Infirmary
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joachim F. Erckenbrecht
Department of Gastroenterology
Diakonie Kaiserswerth
Dusseldorf, Germany
Ridzuan Farouk
Surgical Registrar
Department of Surgery
The Royal Infirmary
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
R. Felt-Bersma
Gastroenterologist
Department of Surgery
Academic Hospital Free University
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
James W. Fleshman
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department of Colorectal Surgery
Washington University Medical Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Stanley M. Goldberg
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Richard L. Grotz
Fellow in Colon and Rectal Surgery
Department of Surgery
Mayo Graduate School of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Jacques A. Gruwez
Emeritus Professor of Surgery
Department of General Surgery
University Hospital
Leuven, Belgium
Lars Hakelius
Professor
Department of Plastic Surgery
University Hospital
University of Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden
Olof Hallbk
Department of Medico-Surgical Gastroenterology
Colorectal Surgery
University Hospital
Linkping, Sweden
M. M. Henry
