Prof Peter Bossuyt

Dr Bossuyt studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and graduated magna cum laude in 2004. After completing his GI fellowship in 2009, he took up a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam. Between 2010 and 2015 he was a consulting staff member at the University Hospitals of Leuven. He obtained a PhD entitled “Value of endoscopic scoring and imaging for the prognosis and follow up of IBD” at the University of Leuven in 2021. His research focuses on clinical and strategic trials in IBD and the definitions of endoscopic and imaging targets in IBD. His clinical works focuses on e-health tools in IBD and quality improvement projects. He is currently international principal investigator of 3 clinical trials in IBD and endoscopy. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, past-president of the Belgian IBD Research and Development Group, past-board member of ECCO’s Clinical Research Committee, ClinCom and past-board member of the Belgian society of gastrointestinal endoscopy, BSGIE. He won the Belgian IBD research price in 2011, 2021 and 2025, the ESGE Innovation of the year award in 2018 and the ECCO IIS award in 2025. He published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in the NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Gastroenterology, Gut, Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, JCC among others (H-index 48).