Advancing endoscopy together: skills, innovation & best practice
Thursday 10 December 2026 | Brussels
Join us for a day combining hands-on training, ethics, guidelines, and practical expertise in gastrointestinal endoscopy. The symposium brings together endoscopists, trainees, nurses, and industry professionals for a full day of learning and collaboration.
The morning starts with hands-on endoscopy devices manipulation, organised in collaboration with industry partners, followed by interactive parallel sessions: a dedicated nurse track covering ERCP room preparation, endoscopic emergencies, and cannulation techniques, alongside the BygGIEs session, dedicated to trainees, exploring state-of-the-art innovations in everyday endoscopy, including GI bleeding management and AI in endoscopic practice.
The afternoon plenary session focuses on hepato-biliary-pancreatic care, opening with ethical dilemmas in HBP practice and interactive clinical cases, followed by the latest guidelines on biliary stricture management. The day closes with a practical “How I Do It” session on difficult biliary cannulation, therapeutic EUS, Mirizzi syndrome, and gallbladder drainage.
Event details
When: Thursday, 10 December 2026
Where: Brussels
Language: English (subtitles in Dutch & French)
Accreditation: Ethics, Economy – Gastroenterology
Registrations
BSGIE member: 50 € | Physician non member: 95 € | Trainee: 30 € | Nurse: 20 €
Program
08.45 WELCOME & REGISTRATION
09.15 ENDOSCOPY DEVICES MANIPULATION HANDS-ON
Organised in collaboration with companies, great interaction between nurses, doctors & industry reps
11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Questioning routine: state of the art and innovation in everyday endoscopy
Chairs:
- What every endoscopist should know about GI bleeding and endoscopic emergencies: state of the art and innovations
Alan Barkoun (Montreal) (Remote) - Beyond AI: innovations every endoscopist should know. From detection to advanced resection
Lynn Debels – UZ Brussel - Navigating the AI Era: opportunities and challenges for the modern endoscopist
Pieter Sinonquel – UZ Leuven
BygGIE
Comprehensive topics dedicated to endoscopy nurses
Chairs:
- How to prepare an ERCP room – Practical principles, scope flow, ergonomics, accessories
Tom Moreels, CU St-Luc Brussels - Emergencies in GI-endoscopy: What nurses need to know– all the ins and outs you need to know
Caroline Haenebalcke – UZ Gent - Tips and Tricks for successful cannulation
Camille Dutronc – Basel, (Remote)
Nurses
13.00 LUNCH
PLENARY SESSION
HBP: Highlight from biliary stricture management guidelines, hot HBP Ethical topics, practical tips
14.00 Ethical question in HBP
Chairs: Maridi Aerts – UZ Brussel, Youssef Mourabit – CHU Charleroi, Stefan Van Langendonck
- Do we need to perform an EUS before earch ERCP for suspicion of CDB stone
Pierre Deprez- CU St-Luc Brussels - Is it ethical to perform ERCP without PEP prophylaxis?
Henriette Heinrich – Basel - Pregnancy in ERCP (pregant patient/pregant endoscopist
Hannah Van Malenstein – UZ Leuven - Clinical case & interactive quiz
BAST / BygGIE representatives
15.00 Highlights from the guidelines
Chairs: Tom Moreels – CU St-Luc Brussels, Philippe Leclercq – CHU Liège, Jean-Baptiste Zeevaert – CHR Verviers
- Case (indeterminate biliary stricture)
Highlight from the guidelines: diagnostic of indeterminate biliary stricture
Abdenor Badaoui – CHU UCL Namur - Case (benign biliary stricture)
Highlights from the guidelines: benign biliary stricture management
Andrea Tringali – Gemelli, Roma - Case (malignant biliary stricture) Amélie Bourgeois
Highlights from the guidelines: benign biliary stricture management
Arnaud Lemmers – HUB Erasme
16.00 BREAK
16.00 How I do it?
Chairs: Pieter Dewint – AZ Oostende, UZA, Pierre Eisendrath CHU St Pierre, Christophe Snauwaert – AZ St Jan Brugge
- ERCP techniques for difficult biliary cannulation
Sara Teles de Campos – HUB Erasme - Therapeutic EUS for ERCP failure
Michiel Bronswijk – Imelda Bonheiden - Mirizzi syndrome
Joachim Tengam – AZ Sint Jan Brugge / UZ-Leuven - Gallbladder drainage
Pieter Hyndrickx – UZ Gent
17.30 General Assembly
Pieter Dewint – BSGIE president
17.45 CLOSING REMARKS