MICHEL KAHALEH

He is world renown endoscopist boarded in Europe and the United States. He is the CEO of Foundation for therapeutic and interventional endoscopy. A major focus of his research is on preventing and treating complications of advanced endoscopic procedures. Another area of investigation for Dr. Kahaleh is understanding and preventing biliary and pancreatic cancer. The objective of this area of research is to develop new diagnostic techniques for reducing the mortality associated with those cancers, by detecting them earlier and treating them using novel therapies such as laser therapy and radiofrequency ablation. He is pioneering minimally invasive procedures involving therapeutic EUS , ESD and POEM locally and internationally. He is also teaching those techniques across the globe.