Locations
The Program Committee is responsible for the selection of the RFA-Academia Training Centers, which should fit the following requirements:
- Tertiary referral function for early gastrointestinal neoplasia;
- Participation in European multicenter studies on RFA, or extensive RFA hands-on training;
- Expertise in HALO 360 (>10 cases);
- Expertise in HALO 90 (>10 cases).
To apply as a Training Center, click here.
Currently, the following Training Centers are part of the RFA-Academia:
- Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Jacques Bergman);
- Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Erik Schoon);
- Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Rome, Italy (Alberto Larghi);
- Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (Horst Neuhaus);
- Klinikum Rechts de Isar, Munich, Germany (Alexander Meining);
- Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany (Oliver Pech);
- UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Raf Bisschops);
- Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain (José Miguel Esteban);
- Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain (Adolfo Parra Blanco);
- Elisabethinen Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria (Rainer Schoefl);
- Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden (Hanns-Ulrich Marschall);
- Center of Gastroenterology, Hirslanden Clinic Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (Stefan Seewald);
- University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (Peter Bauerfeind);
- University College London Hospitals, London, UK (Laurence Lovat);
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK (Grant Fullarton);
- Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK (Krish Ragunath);
- Istituto Oncologico Veneto, University of Padova, Italy (Giorgio Battaglia).