Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Baukje van den Heuvel (1981) finished her surgical training at the VU medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2014. She continued her surgical career in minimal invasive abdominal surgery and started her current job in Radboudumc in 2017. Baukje implemented the Fit4Surgery program throughout all surgical departments and runs the largest trial on multimodal prehabilitation throughout the world. Baukje’s research focus is primarily on optimizing health within medical treatment. She is a member of the ‘Werkgroep Prehabilitatie’ from the Dutch Surgical Society (NvvH) and chairwoman of the foundation ‘Fit4Surgery’. Baukje is a frequently asked speaker and has public impact being involved in Dutch national radio and television. Baukje lives in Amsterdam on a houseboat with her husband and three children.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr. Ioannidis studied medicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated at 2005. He received his MSC in “Medical Research Methodology” in 2008 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in “Surgery of Liver, Biliary Tree and Pancreas” from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2016. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for his thesis “The effect of combined administration of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in ulcerative colitis. Experimental study in rats.” He is a General Surgeon with special interest in laparoscopic surgery and surgical oncology and also in surgical infections, acute care surgery, nutrition and ERAS. He has received fellowships for EAES, ESSO, EPC, ESCP and ACS and has published more than 130 articles with more than 3000 citations and an H-index of 28. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
