ECP 2018 Final Programme

10 ECP 2018 · Bilbao Keynote Speakers e Han van Krieken (The Netherlands) Han van Krieken is a pathologist with special expertise in the fields of haematopathology and the pathology of the gastro- intestinal tract. He was Professor for tumour pathology since 1999, Chair of Pathology 2004 – 2015 and Head of the Depart- ment of Pathology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Med- ical Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. From 2009 on he was the Chairman of the Radboud University Centre for On- cology, which evolved in 2015 to the Radboudumc Centre for Oncology and had 50% position as chairman until he became Rector Magnificus of the Radboud University in May 2016. He was the Treasurer / Secretary of the European Association for Haematopathology 2000 – 2008 and Treasurer 2003 – 2011 and President of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) 2013 – 2015. Furthermore, he was the chairman of the Working Group of Digestive Dis- eases of ESP 2003 – 2007 and directed the external quality assurance program (2009 – 2015). He is (co)author of more than 500 papers in peer reviewed journals, has written chapters in books on pathology and oncology, is chief editor of a Dutch textbook on oncology and the En- cyclopedia of Pathology. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, was managing editor of Virchows Archiv (2009 – 2015) and the Chief editor of the Journal of Hematopathology (2007 – 2017). Since 2011 he is member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and since 2014 member of the Academia Europaea and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology.