🚀 Don’t forget to register for the next @e_mips Course on April 17, 2026 ⏳ Deadline registration: December 11, 2025 ✅ Endorsed by @EAHPBA @Abuhilal9Abu @MarcBesselink @RawinAmiri @BasGrootKoerkam @HoggNDMD @jhatjhmi1 @PatricioPolanc0 https://t.co/iOdkhzM3b8

Submit your work 💻 today for @IHPBA 2026🇸🇬

Nationwide🇳🇱 outcomes of 1000 #Robot 🦾 #Whipple resections across 4 learning curve phases, improvements seen for: ✅operating time (despite large (!) variation between centers, based on approach, training fellows) ✅conversion rate ✅ DGE grade B/C ✅ reoperation rate ✅

Wonderful 2nd BCIPCC meeting #Lisbon 🇵🇹 ⏩️ https://t.co/rWjnhLv6dI Today included @ISGPS_news and #Robot #Pancreatic #Surgery sessions: ✅#ISGPS is working on improved and simplified definitions for DGE and PPH ✅#ISGPS developed a post pancreatectomy mortality definition

What happens when you merge two high volume centers for #pancreas #surgery? Birth of @amsterdamumc ❌❌❌ 😃 500 vs 500 Whipples (pre-vs post merger) ✅ 30-day mortality: 2.0 to 0.4%, P=0.02 ✅ failure-to-rescue: 4.9 to 1.1%, P=0.04 ✅ major morbidity: 41 to 35%, P=0.037 ✅

#Rise of the #Robots 🦾 in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 GI surgery @AnnalsofSurgery 😳 How does this compare to your country? Data? Nationwide use 🦾 per organ among 77,361 resections (2014-2023): ✅ pancreas 1% to 33% ✅ thoracic 3% to 11% ✅ colon 6% to 14% ✅ rectum 19% to 45% ✅

🆕Online today: Neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX versus neoadjuvant gemcitabine-based chemoradiotherapy in resectable #pancreaticpancer (PREOPANC-2): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3 randomised trial @BasGrootKoerkam, @MarcBesselink, Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group https://t.co/K2NvN4mzx0

Nice graphic of landmark trials for pancreas cancer by @jhatjhmi1 from Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.

Distribution of the NCCN stages of #PancreaticCancer ? 16,412 pts (2017-2022) 🇳🇱 👉23% primary resectable 👉 8% borderline resectable 👉 11% locally advanced 👉 58% metastatic ⏩️ https://t.co/xpiQbjn4rR

New Impact Factors are out! JAMA Surgery 14.9 BJS 8.8 Annals of Surgery 6.4 BJS Open 4.5 Dis Col Rectum 3.7 J Trauma 3.7 Ann Surg Oncol 3.5 JACS 3.4 EJSO 2.9 Surgery 2.7 Surg Endosc 2.7 Colorectal Dis 2.7 WJS 2.5 Hernia 2.4 HPB 2.4 JGIS 2.4 Langenbeck’s 1.8 Scand J Surg 1.8

Surgeons Cup 2025🇳🇱 a big success! 🏑All 7 university medical centers (incl their teaching centers) playing against each other in soccer, field hockey, rowing, volleyball, archery tag, tug of war etc. “chirurgencup”. 🏐 Organised by Amsterdam this year. 🚣 Longstanding

Congratulations to @MarcBesselink & team for an impeccable organization! @AAFretland @AmerZureikatMD A. Paniccia @Gio_Marchegiani @HalletJulie @julia_menso @Walrawashdeh @OliverStrobel @Miha5ric @PittSurgOnc &many other

Pleasure to attend and present at #EAHPBA2025 Dublin incl the ongoing #DIPLOMA-2x2 trial and @TROPANCregistry. Wonderful meeting, talks and colleagues! @EAHPBA @paniccia_ale @PatricioPolanc0 @AmerZureikatMD @carolouisebruna @nine_degraaf @Abuhilal9Abu @MarcBesselink

Had a great time at the @EAHPBA meeting in Dublin presenting our research, discussing robotic pancreatectomy & learning from global leaders in HPB surgery. Also a wonderful opportunity to connect with new and old friends from #HPB surgical community @AHPBA @IHPBA

🇮🇹CASSANDRA TRIAL🇮🇹 Phase 3 RCT: Neoadjuvant PAXG vs mFOLFIRINOX in resectable/BR #PDAC 💥PAXG shows: ✅⬆️EFS ✅⬆️Path response ✅Suggestion of ⬆️OS ✅Same toxicity PAXG superior to mFOLFIRINOX? @IHPBA @EurPancClub @EAHPBA @OncoAlert @OfficialPCA @Oncoinfo_it @hpb_so

Vincent van Gogh

Hora est! 🎓 PhD cerimony in 🇳🇱 is just something different… with two ⭐️⭐️ like @ammar_asrar and Joe Habib then it’s glorious! Thank you for having me in this fantastic IPMN journey between 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺 Looking forward to the next steps (and to be as tall as @MarcBesselink 😂)

Peach Trees in Blossom, 1888. Vincent van Gogh

#HoraEst @ammar_asrar 🇺🇸 #PhD ceremony @amsterdamumc @nyuniversity @Panc_pals @DPCG_official on #PancreaticCancer ⏩️Amazing work!! #Thesis https://t.co/8KjqL88Psi #PhD team: Chris Wolfgang Jine He Lois Daamen

Initiation visit @hopkinssurgery @JohnsHopkins for DIPLOMA-2x2 #RCT #robot vs open #Whipple for cancer in #pancreas head 🇪🇺🇺🇸🤖 Thank you @jhatjhmi1 Special to be back and proud to continue our collaboration! @carolouisebruna @nine_degraaf @Abuhilal9Abu @MarcBesselink