Prof. Philippe Ruszniewski
ENETS Chair from 2010 until 2012
Philippe Ruszniewski works in the Department of Gastroenterology-Pancreatology in Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France. He is Professor of Gastroenterology at Université de Paris and is currently Dean of Paris University Medicine Faculty since 2015. Professor Ruszniewski has been involved in NET research since the 1990s, is a founding member of ENETS, was a former ENETS Chairman, and currently serves as an Advisory Board member. He is the leader of one of the six original ENETS Centers of Excellence, which was accredited in 2008. His main topics of research include the early diagnosis of functioning and non-functioning NETs and the development of new therapeutic modalities for patients with NETs. He has been particularly involved in trials with somatostatin analogues, chemotherapy, targeted therapies, and locoregional treatments such as (chemo) embolisation. Professor Ruszniewski has authored more than 460 papers, the majority of these in the field of neuroendocrine tumors.