General Assembly

The General Assembly is composed of Members of the UEG and is the highest governing body of UEG.

It has a total number of 59 representatives and is composed as follows:

  • 36 representatives from all Ordinary Member Societies,
  • 23 Representatives from National Society Members.

General Assembly representatives are designated to serve a four year term. They gather once a year, usually at UEG week. The UEG Council reserves the right to summon the General Assembly together whenever needed.

General Assembly Members

General Assembly at UEG Week 2012

Ordinary Members Representatives

EAES
Mario Morino, Italy
Selman Uranues, Austria

EAGEN
Tomica Milosavljevic, Serbia
Jan Tack, Belgium
Zsolt Tulassay, Hungary

EASL
Laurent Castera, France
George Papatheodoridis, Greece
Mark Thursz, United Kingdom

ECCO
Daan W. Hommes, The Netherlands
Severine Vermeire, Belgium

EDS
Dirk Gouma, The Netherlands 
Jan D’Haese, Germany

EFISDS
Mustapha Adham, France
Jakob Izbicki, Germany
Jack Jakimowicz, The Netherlands

EHSG
Theodore Rokkas, Greece,
Peter Malfertheiner, Germany

EPC
Güralp Ceyhan, Germany
Helmuth Friess, Germany 
Peter Hegyi, Hungary

ESCP
Mike Parker, United Kingdom
Giovanni Romano, Italy

ESDO
Ernst Kuipers, The Netherlands
Philippe Rougier, France

ESGAR
Simon Jackson,  United Kingdom
Helen Fenlon, Ireland

ESGE
Lars Aabakken, Norway
Mario Dinis-Ribeiro, Portugal
Thierry Ponchon, France

ESNM
Andre Smout, The Netherlands 
Paul Enck, Germany

ESPCG
Jean Muris  The Netherlands
Niek de Wit The Netherlands

ESPGHAN
Raanan Shamir, Israel
Sanja Kolacek, Croatia
Gigi Veereman, Belgium

National Societies Representatives

Agustin Albillos, Spain
Robert Benamouzig, France
Serhat Bor, Turkey
Gerd Bouma, The Netherlands
Flavio Caprioli, Italy
Pierre Deprez, Belgium
Gian Dorta, Switzerland
Marrti Färkkila, Finland
Tibor Hlavaty, Slovakia
Øistein Hovde, Norway
Arvind Suneil Kapadia, United Kingdom
Angel Lanas, Spain
Charles Murray, United Kingdom
Akos Pap, Hungary
Markus Peck- Radoslavjevic, Austria
Jaroslaw Regula, Poland
Erwin Santo, Israel
Wolff Schmiegel, Germany
Davor Stimac, Croatia
Hans Törnblom, Sweden
Jonas Valantinas, Lithuania
Lars Vinter-Jensen, Denmark
Frank Zerbib, France

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