Since its creation, OESO has represented a unique joint endeavor, and its multi-disciplinary approach has given to this network a particular place in the international community.
By its original, multi-disciplinary nature, by its international assembly of leading specialists from 19 disciplines, all interested in a single organ, the esophagus, OESO has gained a particular place as a body for clinical and fundamental research, and this Organization has progressively attained the status of a world reference in the domain of esophagology.
The OESO-SEMPIRE Platform, set up with the University of Stanford, is a unique initiative, grounded on the OESO global network of 30 Pilot Centers Centers of Excellence scattered over the five parts of the world.
The goal of the Platform is to provide qualified training and expertise at the highest level in Esophagology, benefiting from the stamp of prestigious Institutions representing exceptional references in this domain.
Created for exchanges of surgeons or practitioners, whether they are experts or trainees, the OESO-SEMPIRE Platform has been equipped from the outset with state-of-the-art facilities for effective training, theoretical and practical, in the Pilot Centers belonging to the network.
The programs are designed to encourage and maintain interactive exchanges between clinicians, researchers and technicians from the five parts of the world.
This unique, joint endeavor henceforth renders tangible, and directly useful in daily practice, the very specific achievement of a network of excellence bringing together, in each discipline, many of the most prominent representatives of gastroenterology in the world.
The OESO congresses (see www.oeso.org)
Since the first one, each of the 15 OESO congresses already organized has owed its success to its innovative character,
Polydisciplinarity, bringing together clinical and fundamental disciplines at the
highest level,
the in-depth dissection of a subject through 5-minute answers to several hundreds
questions developed in the various disciplines,
the international nature of these congresses, with participants from 40 to 60 countries.
The number of participants reached 4,200 at the 15th congress in Beijing, but never less than 400 to 600 registrants in the preceding ones.