Bas P.l. Wijnhoven MD, PhD

Bas Wijnhoven (born in 1970) went to medical school in Utrecht the Netherlands. After obtaining his MD in 1997 he started a Ph.D. program on the molecular and clinical aspects of oesophageal cancer at the Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. with honor. In the year 2000, he started his general surgical training in the city of Delft and subsequently Rotterdam and was registered as a general surgeon in 2006. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a researcher and surgeon at the Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Center, Adelaide, Australia. Within these two years, he enjoyed a training program in upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery.

Since 2008 he is appointed as staff surgeon and director of surgical training at the Erasmus MC Rotterdam and is a program leader on oesophageal and gastric cancer. His clinical interests are benign and malignant diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract. Research is focused on studies on clinical outcomes after surgery for cancer and the molecular biology of Barrett’s esophagus and oesophageal adenocarcinoma. In close collaboration with other departments within the Erasmus MC, preclinical and clinical studies on neoadjuvant treatment for oesophageal and gastric cardia cancer are another area of great interest. Bas Wijnhoven served as Editor-in-Chief for Digestive Surgery between 2010 and 2012 and is currently editor of the British Journal of Surgery. He has authored and co-authored over 200 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals.