Coloproctology / European Manual of Medicine (PDF)

Professor O'Connell is Specialty Editor of the British Journal of Surgery, Associate Editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and sits on the editorial boards of Colorectal Disease and Techniques in Coloproctology. He is a referee for several prestigious international journals including the Lancet, Gastroenterology and the Annals of Surgery. He has published widely in the areas of inflammatory bowel disease, pelvic floor physiology, continence and colorectal cancer (in excess of 200 original papers, abstracts, editorials and book chapters). Professor O'Connell has been invited to jointly edit the 25th edition of Bailey and Loves' Short Textbook of Surgery.

Paul-A. Lehur is professor of Digestive Surgery at the University of Medicine in Nantes, France. His affiliated hospital is the "Hôtel-Dieu" de Nantes. He is a member of the "Institut des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif" of the University Hospital of Nantes. He is Medical Director since December 2005.

His main clinical and research interests concern colorectal surgery with a special involvement in the treatment of functional disorders of the lower gastrointestinal tract. He is a member of the French "Académie de Chirurgie" of the European Association of Colorectal Diseases, and Fellow of the French chapter of the "American College of Surgery".

Professor Lehur received his training in Paris and Nantes. He spent one year as senior resident at the University of Medicine in Sherbrooke and at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal (Quebec-Canada) where he specialized in colorectal surgery. He was successively Assistant and Associated Professor of Surgery and Anatomy in Nantes from 1985 to 1994 before becoming full professor (Digestive Surgery) in October 1994.

Since 2003, Professor Lehur is a member of the Board of Regents of the teaching hospitals of Nantes Medical University and the Director of the Department of digestive diseases in this institution. He is also the President of the Ethics Commitee of "Pays de Loire no2" situated in Nantes.

Professor Klaus E. Matzel is Associate Professor at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen/Nürnberg and Head of the Section of Colorectal Surgery and Proctology. He received his training at the same University.

He spent one year at theUniversity of California, San Francisco (Postdoctoral Fellowhsip). He has certifications as General Surgeon (Bayerische Landesärztekammer, Munich), in Coloproctology (U.E.M.S.), a European Board of Surgical Qualification) and as Proctologist (Bayerische Landesärztekammer, Munich).

He is Visiting Professor at the Royal Hospital of Woman, Melbourne and Epsworth Hospital, Melbourne.

He published more than 250 original papers, abstracts, editorials and book chapters in the areas of functional disorders, continence and colorectal cancer. Professor Matzel was invited to more than 70 lectures.