MD, The Mount Sinai Hospital, NY

Dr. Sylla is the Principal Investigator of SafeHeal’s multicenter pivotal study of Colovac. She has been a leader in minimally invasive approaches to the surgical treatment of colon and rectal cancer. Dr. Sylla pioneered taTME (transanal total mesorectal excision), a transanal endoscopic approach to perform rectal cancer surgery, and performed the first case in a human in 2009. She has since been actively engaged in training surgeons in this technique and organized clinical trials to evaluate the long-term outcomes of this approach.

MD, PhD, Amsterdam UMC

In 2006 he was appointed as a Professor in Surgery. His field of interest in patient care and research is the (minimal invasive) treatment of complex IBD, rectal cancer and complication surgery. Bemelman is a EBSQ certified colorectal surgeon (Bologna 2005), secretary of the European Crohn and Colitis organization and president elect of the European Society of Coloproctology. He guided more than 30 PhD students, has more than 460 peer reviewed papers and a H index of 57. He is currently working in the Amsterdam University Medical Center location Meibergdreef with his colorectal co-workers Roel Hompes, Pieter Tanis and Christianne Buskens.

MD, PHD, SAINT ANTOINE HOSPITAL, PARIS

Prof. Lefevre is the European Principal Investigator of SafeHeal’s multicenter pivotal study of Colovac. He is a digestive surgeon in the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, one of the top academic departments of surgery in France. He is Professor of General surgery since 2015 at the Sorbonne University with a specialization in colorectal surgery. After one year as Gold Medal of Surgery of Paris, he completed his medical degree in 2008. He spent one year as Fellow in Oxford before his PhD in Physiology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2012. His main research areas are colorectal cancers, especially the familial syndromes, and inflammatory bowel diseases.