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Personal profile
Biography
Bas L.A.M. Weusten (1967) is professor at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has as graduated from medical school at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has written his PhD thesis on gastroesophageal reflux disease and esophageal perception from 1992 to 1995. After his traineeship in gastroenterology he became a staff member at St Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands in 2002.
In 2011 he became professor of Innovative GI Endoscopy at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam. In 2017 he moved to Utrecht, where he became appointed as professor of GI Endoscopy at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He chaired the Dutch society for gastrointestinal endoscopy for many years.
His main focus in both clinical work and research is on endoscopic management of early neoplasia of the upper GI tract. He leads the endoscopic esophageal research group in the RAKU (Regionaal Acedemisch Kanker Centrum) collaboration. He has been involved in several national and international guidelines, and chaired the ESGE Position Statement on the Endoscopic Management of Barrett’s Esophagus.
Side activities
2009-2010: Member Dutch Guideline Committee Gastric Cancer
2010-2018: Chair section Digestive Endoscopy NVGE
2012-2020: Member Scientific Advisary board St Antonius Research Fund
2014-2015: Member Dutch Guideline Committee Barrett’s Oeosophagus
2016-2017: Chair ESGE Positition Statement on Barrett’s Oesophagus
2016-2019: Member ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Research Upper-GI Working group
2016-2018: Member ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) WG QIC Performance measures upper GI endoscopy
2017-2018: Member ESGE European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) curriculum WG on ESD
2017-2020: Member ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Guideline Committee
2018-2019: Member UEG (United European Gastroenterology) guideline on Achalasia
2018-2020: Chair ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) position statement on endoscopic management of GI motility disorders
2019-2021: Member Medical Advisary Board ECM Therapeutics
2019-2022: Member organizing committee ESGE-days 2020-2021
2021: Member of DSMB of SPHINX-study
3 Feb 2022: speekers fee Pentax Medical (lecture on cryoablation therapy for Barrett's related neoplasia)
28 April 2022: speekers fee Pentax Medical (satellite symposium on EGSE days)
31 May 2022: speekers fee Pentax Medical for lecture on training day for sales representatives
2022: Concultancy Pentax Medical
2022: Chair ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) guideline (revision) on Barrett's esophagus
2022: Chair ESGE (European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) curriculum working group on esophageal cancer
Reviewer for several international journals
External positions
Chair ESGE working group Curriculum Esophageal Cancer - opstellen van Europees curriculum over imaging en behandeling van slokdarmkanker - ESGE
2 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 3999
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Research output
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Applications of cryotherapy in premalignant and malignant esophageal disease: Preventing, treating, palliating disease and enhancing immunogenicity?
Boer, L. S., Nierkens, S. & Weusten, B. L. A. M., 15 May 2025, In: World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. 17, 5, 18 p., 103746.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Endoscopic sphincterotomy to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis after self-expandable metal stent placement for distal malignant biliary obstruction (SPHINX): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial
Onnekink, A. M., Gorris, M., Bekkali, N. L. H., Bos, P., Didden, P., Dominguez-Muñoz, J. E., Friederich, P., van Halsema, E. E., Hazen, W. L., van Huijgevoort, N. C., Inderson, A., Jacobs, M. A. J. M., Koornstra, J. J., Kuiken, S., Scheffer, B. C. H., Sloterdijk, H., van Soest, E. J., Venneman, N. G., Voermans, R. P. & de Wijkerslooth, T. R. & 14 others, , 17 Jan 2025, In: Gut. 74, 2, p. 246-254 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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The Gastroscopy RAte of Cleanliness Evaluation (GRACE) Scale: an international reliability and validation study
Esposito, G., Dilaghi, E., Costa-Santos, C., Ligato, I., Annibale, B., Dinis-Ribeiro, M., Areia, M., Arantes, V. N., Bergman, J., Bisschops, R., de Jonge, P. J. F., Matteo, F. D., Ebigbo, A., Ferlitsch, M., Giljaca, V., Hassan, C., Hucl, T., Kuvaev, R., Leclercq, P. & Matysiak-Budnik, T. & 31 others, , Apr 2025, In: Endoscopy. 57, 4, p. 312-320 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Treatment of Boerhaave syndrome: experience from a tertiary center
Kooij, C. D., Boptsi, E., Weusten, B. L. A. M., de Vries, D. R., Ruurda, J. P. & van Hillegersberg, R., Apr 2025, In: Surgical endoscopy. 39, 4, p. 2228-2238 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Computer-aided diagnosis improves characterization of Barrett's neoplasia by general endoscopists (with video)
Jukema, J. B., Kusters, C. H. J., Jong, M., Fockens, K. N., Boers, T. G., van der Putten, J. A., Pouw, R. E., Duits, L. C., Weusten, B. L., Herrero, L. A., Houben, M. H., Nagengast, W. B., Westerhof, J., Alkhalaf, A., Mallant-Hent, R. C., Scholten, P., Ragunath, K., Seewald, S., Elbe, P. & Baldaque-Silva, F. & 11 others, , Oct 2024, In: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 100, 4, p. 616-625.e8Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Activities
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Endoscopic management of GI motility disorders
Weusten, B. (Speaker)
26 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
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Barrett's Esophagus
Weusten, B. (Speaker)
10 Feb 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
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Endoscopic management of GI motility disorders
Weusten, B. (Speaker)
14 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
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Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Weusten, B. (Speaker)
Oct 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic