Krisztina B. Gecse MD, PhD

Krisztina B. Gecse is a consultant gastroenterologist in the Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dr. Gecse completed a research fellowship at INRA-EI Purpan in Toulouse, France in 2007 and 2008, and she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2012. She completed her medical training in internal medicine and subsequently in gastroenterology at the University of Szeged in Hungary and at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.

Dr. Gecse has been a consultant first at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and since 2017 in the Amsterdam UMC, where she is primarily engaged in clinical work in inflammatory bowel diseases, which is also the key focus of her research. In 2008, Dr. Gecse was awarded the Ray Clouse Prize by the Rome Foundation (USA) for “best research article in functional and GI motility disorders”. In 2014, she received the Merit Prize from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary for “exceptional research and educational activity” and in the 2015 Imre Magyar Prize by the Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology.