Prof. Dr. Luc Biedermann has been a board-certified specialist for Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Internal Medicine since 2012. His special focus as a clinician in the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Switzerland, is Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE) and other immune mediated gastrointestinal diseases. Since 2017 he has been head of IBD and EoE within the USZ department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. His main clinical and research interests include epidemiology, natural history and course of disease, environmental factors, intestinal microbiota as well as drug development and clinical trials in IBD and EoE. Regarding EoE, it has been his pleasure for many years to host Prof. Dr. Alex Straumann, who first described EoE in 1994 (simultaneously and independently with Prof. Steven Attwood), for an intensive research collaboration and joint specialised unique outpatient EoE clinic at the USZ.

Dr Sudarshan Paramsothy is a Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist with a subspecialty interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He completed an NHMRC postgraduate scholarship-funded PhD evaluating faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in ulcerative colitis and subsequently undertook post-doctoral Advanced IBD fellowships at both the University of Chicago Medicine Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital New York. He is now based at Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, co-managing their IBD service. He is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and remains active in IBD teaching, supervision and research, involved in collaborative clinical and translational research studies in IBD, FMT and the gastrointestinal microbiota.

Prof Peter Katelaris has had a multifaceted career. He has been a clinical academic gastroenterologist, researcher, teacher and mentor. He has been active in national and international working parties, clinical guideline formulation, clinical governance and collegiate activity over many years. Throughout his career he has also been involved in voluntary work to improve standards of digestive disease healthcare in the Indo-Pacific region.

Professor Katelaris is one of only two gastroenterologists in Australia ever to have been a recipient of the three major career awards of GESA, namely the Young Investigator Award, The Outstanding Clinician Award and the Inaugural Fellowship of the Society.

He is recognised by his peers as an experienced senior clinician, endoscopist, researcher, mentor and educator.